The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1906-07-17
A GOOD PROPOSITION.

Under the caption, ''Now Build That
Road to Ety." the Salt Lake Telegram
says
Speaking of this new machine for
digging trenches in this city for gas
mains, it is clear to see that the same
machine, a little widened out, would, at
the same speed it is running here and
making three foot ditch, grade mile
of the Salt Lake G. Ely railroad every
two days, working ten hours day. and
do the work well.
In the estimate we have made of the
cost of grading we have placed it at
81, 500 a mile This machine would re-
duce that quite one-half. because there
is not except about twenty miles of the
roadway that the machine could not do
it's twenty miles every two days. Very
much of the way it would not have cut
over foot deep, and probably the
speed could be doubled; in that case it
would do it's mile a day and get to Ely,
if started now, by the 18th of October
The rich men of Salt Lake arc losing
the chance of their lives in not pushing
that road to completion. 1t is easy
to pick out thirty men in this city who
could put in 800 apiece and not ono
of them know next morning that he had
made his check; and, with that money
for A starter, they could build the road
and own it, pay off the bonds in three
years, have an income of ono and one
half millions annually, double the value
Of real estate in Salt Lake. and make
this the foremost city between Omaha
and San Francisco bay. and at the same
time make il the most beautiful city
between the seas.
There is moro than that toit Ii they
neglect this opportunity, the trade of
Ely and Of all eastern and southern Ne
vada will 60 TO California. II they will
take map and sit down ten minute
and study it, they viii sec how The ar
rangemcnts are being made to draw all
that traffic west instead of letting il
come its natural way. cast. This is 50
manifest that We would think the
American Smelling company alone
would undertake building the road.
Eastern Nevada three years from today
will be using, certainly, 1000 tons 10
5000 tons Of coal day; Ely district
will be giving up 300 tons Of ore a
day; the districts this side viii certainly
be yielding, as soon as transportation
reaches them, somewhere from one TO
three thousand tons of Gre day.
A great city is to be built at Ely, per-
haps as large as Butte IS now. and tie
rich men of Salt Lake, with all this be
fore them, are afraid TO start on this
enterprise We def them to dismove
figure we have made. They can add
to the business outlined, if the road is
put in; but they cannot take away any
thing from what we have stated. The
road would command the trade Of half
dozen great mining districts, with the
biggest mining district in the world at
the further terminus. 1t would COM
mand the passenger trade between this
city and Ely and the other camps; it
would command the trade of eastern
Nevada.
1t would bring whole lot of families
here, where homes could be obtained
and good schools for their children; and
if one of these strong men does not
move in the matter and induce others
to join him, on all the grave-stones Of
our rich men, when they die, should be
recorded the following epitaph:
God Almighty was kind to this man
and helped him to make a good fortune;
but God Almighty himself could not
give him the discernment to sec how he
could double that fortune and, in so do
ing, confer vast benefit upon his fell
lew-men,
AS postscript to the foregoing we
may state that Mr.. Clark has already
expressed his determination to continue
his road to Phoebe and from Phoebe to
Ely and has declared his intention to
turn all that trade to Los Angeles.
There you have it,
The next two years will be important