The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-02-02
The Big Southern Camp
Soon to Have Railroad
Connection With the
Outside World by
Clark Road
BUILDING A NILE EACH DAY
Indian Creek Will Be Reached by First
Of May and Jnbilant Bullfrog VIII
Hear the Welcome Engine
Whistle About the First
Of June

Bullfrog will be connected with the
outside world by railroad, not later
than June Is. This is the outside limit
and if nothing happens to interrupt the
rapid progress now being made, the
road should be in Bullfrog by june
first.
This is cheering news for Bullfrag
and all Southern Nevada, for with the
road extended to that camp, there is
little doubt but what it will be pushed
further north until it reaches Goldfield
and perhaps Tonopah, and possibly the
new and booming camp of Manhattan.
Track laying on the Las Vegas and
Tonopah railroad began at Las Vegas
on the Clark road on January t.
Track material for rs miles of road is
now at the yards of the company at
Las Vegas, and hundreds of graders
and track layers are along the route
pushing construction work with the
utmost rapidity. Eight days after be-
ginning work ten miles of track had
been laid, thus averaging IA miles per
day.
The first point of any prominence to
be reached along the line is Indian
Springs, some 40 miles from Bullfrog.
When that point is made it is the inten-
tion of the railroad management to
establish a line of freighters, to handle
the business of the district temporarily,
and also to maintain passenger auto
mobile line. Withing 60 days, possibly,
the freighters will be hauling between
Rhvolite and Indian Creek, and it Is
promised that the rate on general
freight will be two cents per pound,
which is a reduction of ] cent over the
rate that has prevailed for some time
from Las Vegas to that point. This of
course will be an appreciable saving to
the district but when the road is COM
pleted the saving will be much greater.
Give Clark Banquet.
| j. Ross Clark is expected to visit
Rhyolite between the 10th and 18th of
February, and the citizens of
that ambitious little city are planning
to give him rousing welcome. A ban
quet will be rendered Mr.. Clark and
other courtesies shown, as an evidence
of the appreciation of that community
for his enterprise in pushing the rail
roo1 +bro,,pb +o q cnccaSSfu1 isSup The
people realize that it required the
hardihood of the most daring railroad
promoter, to undertake line of road
| I20 miles in length, across barren
waste of sand, sagebrush and cactus to
reach mining camp from which as yet
not more than 800 tons of ore have
been shipped. But Mr.. Clark appar-
emily did not think it hazardous ven-
ture. He was thoroughly informed on
the conditions and prospects of the
Bullfrog district, and knew from his
experts that by the time the road was
completed to Bullfrog and ready for
business, there would be sufficient tom
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While the tonnage already shipped is
insignificant, it is no indication that
the mines are few and the production
slight. Freightjng rates have been al
most prohibitice heretofore, and mine
operators preferred to stack their ore
on the dump and await the cheaper
rates that a railroad would insure.
There is no question about the immense
tonnage that If bound to result from
the mining activity that will arise,
stimulated By the building of the rail
road BrilfIos IS one of the greatest
mineralized zones in the state, and the
fact that three railroads are winking
at the district speaks volumes for a
camp that is not yet more than year
| old.
| What the next move on the part Of
the railroad will be after reaching Bull
frog, is a matter of deep concern to this
camp, but there is every reason to be-
| lieve the road will be continued to
Goldfeld and Tonopah and that dirt
will be fving on this division within
very short time.