The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-25
LAS VEGAS BRANCH
REACHES JOHNNY
Temporary Passenger and
Freight Station viii Con-
meet With Daily Stage.
J. ROSS CLARK VISITS CITY
DISCUSSES SALT LAKE ROUTES
MOVEMENTS AND PLANS.

\lcc-PreSIdenL J. Ross Clark OF the Salt
Lake Route is in Salt Lake. He Will visit
/ local officers of that company until Sat
Urday. and viii then so to Butte on bust
ness matters. Mr. Clark has made sew
eral trips through Nevada during the past
few months, watching the work being
done in that state.
THE Las Vegas branch is completed for
a distance of Sevcnty-seven miles, he
said yesterday This takes the track two
miles above johnny siding Johnny siding
( is Seveuty-five miles north Of Las Vegas.
1 At the siding a freight and passenger
station viii be installed and used as
| terminal until the road is completed into
Beatty An operator, agent and other
men viii be placed in charge Of the John
ny station. \ depot and warehouse will
be erected TO accommodate passengers and
freight The trip from Las Vegas to Be
atty can now be made in one day. and
thirty miles of stage ride has been elm
mated.
a passenger from Salt Lake can spend
the night at Las Vegas and leave for
Beatty and that territory at noon next
day. A stage service will be operated
regularly by the kimball brothers of Salt
Lake. a stage viii be in waiting at john
ny to meet trains from Las Vegas and
viii land the traveller in Beatty in the
evening Returning. the traveller viii be
taken TO Johnny in the stage by noon and
viii land in Las Vegas in the evening
Freight viii be carried through in Quick
time Ore will reach market much more
quickly from now IN, as the wagon haul
occupied three or four days heretofore.
Nevada's Future Bright.
The state of Nevada will advance won
derfully within the next year or SO Min
ing camps are SpTlngIug up IN different
sections Of the Sagcbrush state, and those
which have been in existence for some
time are now respectable permanent
towns The people of the state are feeling
more than COntented with the outlook.
Much interest Is manifested in the work
col on q mol &
general opinion prevails that, with the
completion OF this road, Nevada viii forge
right ahead. Many mines VIII be shipping
heavily when rails are laid into the Rhy-
olte and BulIfrOg districts. The distance
to Beatty is about III miles, and We ex-
pect 10 nave our line into that district
bout the first week in July. From Be
atty TO Rhyolite some heavy grading viii
have to be done, adding another month to
the approximate time to be consumed in
building the entire branch
-"Our material is all well in hand for
the completion of the entire branch. All
the rails have been delivered except about
go tons, which have been shipped. the
ties. which have been scarce are all in
sight. and the DeaI-MendenhaU constrT,.-
ton outfits are on the heavy work for
the short distance between Beatty and
Rhyolite.
The station called johnny siding is
about ten miles from the johnny district
This is a highly mineralized territory. and
is coming to the front. Many persons are
gong INTO the dlSl-icI ana are preparing
TO remain there. As the distance between
the district proper and the railroad is
short, people feel encouraged and believe
their locality Is to be greatly benefited
For the time being any ores shipped from
that district viii be hauled to the station
at johnny siding While the work of Law
ing track is going ahead nicely. no at
tempt is being made to rush the work on
the road toward completion.
Labor Is Scarce.
Labor is scarce and il is difficult to
obtain men enough to hurry rail-Iaviug
We are mana ging to lay about one mile
each day, although there arc days when
greater stretches than this are covered
THE chief Improvement under way for
salt Lake is the union depot This will
be an elegant structure, and with its
Continued on paue ?,