The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-07
A GREAT YEAR FOR NEVADA.

When tho Goldfield boost committee
starts out on it's missionary tour to
the East, to point out the wealth and
opportunities in Nevada IS mines. it will
havo ample material TO work upon. For,
surely the developments Of the past
three years in that State have been Of
tho most spectacular kind. And the
astonishing feature of it is that the
riches are so widely diffused. The
present series of mighty discoveries
began at Tonopah, which is still a
wonder then spread almost Immediate
ly to Goldheld, then TO Bullfrog; and
then they came so fast and were so
good and so widely scattered that the
whole State seemed filed with them.
All the time, too, there were the mag
pificent old camps Of Ely, Cherry Creek,
Phoebe, and others, which were we'll
known, but by reason Of lack Of trims
portation facilities had not been able
TO take their rightful place among the
great producers, These lacking faciIi
ties are now in part supplied, and the
old camps are coming 10 tho front as
strongly as the best of the youngsters
Of more immediate luster.
These tremendous mineral discoveries
are added TO and supplemented by the
grcHt reclamation projects, through
which. by the aid and under the super
vision of the National Government, all
the waters of the Carson and Trucl1ee
rivers are made available for irrigation;
the combined reservoir and distribution
service being among the most exten-
slvc of all the reclamation projects, and
calculated TO foster and sustain agri
cultural operations In an area large
enough to form fair. sized European
principality.
All these great operations bring in
their train railroad building and relief
in transportation charges and facilities.
First came the branch from the Carson
and Colorado above Candelaria. TO Tono-
pah and Goldfeld, which is SAID to have
more than paid for itself the first sixty
days of it's operation. And now the
Clark branch, leaving the Salt Lake
route at Las Vegas, is building north
ward through BuIlfrog (Which it has al
ready reached and passed) to Gold6eld
aud Tonopah, connecting r string of
bonanzas unequaled in the world 8 his
tory. Another arm from the Salt Lake
route is to branch of at Caliepte and
run north TO Phoebe aud the rich camps
beyond Still another will branch off
from the Salt Lake route at Tintic
Junction and run to Ely, serving the
extensive and rich Deep Creek mining
region on the way. The Nevada North.
ern, an independent line, was completed
last year from Cobre on the Southern
Pacific to Ely, tapping the rich Cherry
Creek and Duck Creek mining camps
on the way. The Western Pacific
Gould S new transcontinental line
building directly westward from this
city), has its track laid TO the Nevada
State line and within the next sixty
days is scheduled to connect with the
Nevada Northern. This connection will
give us Il reasonably direct railway line
from this city to Cherry Creek and Ely
camps.
1t goes with the construction of these
lines of railroad, that telegraph com
munjcatlon is established TO and from
these great bonanzas, and all interme.
diate points; Also the telephone. And
President Clarence Mackay announces
that his company, the Postal Telegraph
is about TO push new line through
direct from this city to San Francisco,
by the way of Ely, Manhattan, Tono-
pah, and Gold6eld, to San Francisco:
and he also announces the putting in
OF extra wires eastward from this city
to New York and southwark from San
Francisco TO Los Angeles Thus the
Nevada mining discoveries are directly
responsible for lines of telegraph that
lie in large part entirely outside of
that State.
Those camps of Nevada which are not
now, or in the immediate future likely
TO be served with railway facilities,
have and enjoy a service that is the
next best thing, tho automobile lines,
which have for the first time in history
played an important part in the early
communications between remote mines
and the great avenues Of transportation.
The automobile of the Nevada desert
has been the messenger of progress aud
communication, inferior only to the rail
way train itself, 1t has been the speedy
messenger through which discoveries
were reached and great deals cousum-
ated, 1t has played a great part in the
opening Of new mining regions OF
Nevada, and played 1t we'll,
Prior to the new era Of discovery.
Nevada appeared TO be a declining
State. But those who knew of her
great possibilities were never discour.
aged on her account, They always had
faith in her vast resources. And that
faith has been splendidly vindcated BY
tho events Of the past three years. The
State is on steep up grade, No other
is gaining so fast in population and
wealth. Instead OF the 1855 popuIe-
ton given by the Federal census of 1900
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