The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-02
RAILROADS and
NEVADA'S FUTURE
II. s. WOOLEY, OF WOOLEY EX.
PLORATION COMPANY MAKES
REMARKABLE STATEMENT
GOOD STORY FROM new YORK
Still Biting OFF Big Chunks of Ne
vada's POssibilities-Facts
Mixed With Hot Air

II. S. Wooley, who has bonded so
much property in and around Osce-
ola and Black Horse, is in New York.
A press report from that city under
date of July 9th, reports an inter-
view with WOoley in which he is re-
ported as saying:
Nevada railroads pay their cost
of construction inside of one year.
The railroad connecting Goldfield
and Tonopah paid for itself inside of
six months, while the railroad built
from Sodaville to Tonopah paid for
has been paying over 100 per cent a
year in dividends ever since"
What do you think will be the flu
ture Of Nevada's railroads."
II expect to see a railroad built
up every valley running north and
south in Nevada during the next five
years, and number of lines built
running east and west.
Nevada is,
AS you all know, the greatest Sec
ton of mineraliZed territory in the
world. The whole state is practically
one mineralized zone of gold, silver,
copper, lead and other metals. New
camps are being discovered every day
so to speak, while the old camps are
being rejuvenated, so that Nevada is
getting ready to pour out into the
world the greatest flow of wealth
from any state in the union, and
from any section in the world.
Now, these new camps, as well as
most of the old ones, need two es-
sential things. The first and fore
most is transportation facilities, and
the second is fuel.
A Railroad
Will solve both. OF course, water is
generally an essential, but that ques-
tion is solved either by the advent of
the railroad or in some other way.
No matter how rich the camp is, it
is always essential for large profits
to have a railroad. If the camp is
composed of medium or low grade
ore, railroad Is absolutely neces-
sary to bring in fuel or machinery to
treat the ore on the ground, or to
take the ore out to be treated else
where. Hence, however, camp is
discovered, railroad must come,
sooner or later. Take
BullfrOg
With it's tremendous reserves of me-
dunn grade ore. Three railroads
have built into Bullfrog, and all of
them will pay better than 100 per
cent profit year.
1.-The great question which must be
solved in the Nevada camps is the
fuel question. Solving the fuel
question also solves the TRANSPORTS
ton question. Today it is necessary
to haul coal over 1,O0V miles to land
it in either Tonopah or Goldfield.
Now, If we could cut that haul down
to 200 or 800 miles, it would make a
big difference, wouldn't 1t?
The Coal Fields
Of western Utah are of immense size
and extent and the character of the
coal is of the finest grade bituminous
and semi-anthracite. I have formed
an operating company which has Sc
cured leases on thousands of acres
of these coal and iron lands, together
with valuable mineral lands in Ne
vada, and we have secured franchises
and rights of way to build railroad
from the coal fields of Utah to the
build our
nOdu W
Phoebe, Tonopah, Goldfield and the
intervening camps. New camps will
also spring up within short distances
of the railroad, which will rival any
of the known camps.
"Take the camp of Ely, for in
stance. Ely is undoubtedly the great
est copper camp in the world, and
it should be producing more copper
in few years than any of the other
camps. The Guggenheims are build
ing 5,O00-ton daily capacity smelt
er now, while the first unit of the
Giroux Plant
Is about ready to go into commission
In time the Ely Consolidated, the Ely
Central and the other operating com
panies at Ely must put up their Owr
plants. 1t will be impossible for the
Nevada Northern railroad, which is
now practically finished, to bring in
enough coal to supply all these plants
to say nothing of the immense guam
titles of machinery and supple!
which must be brought in. Ely needs
other transportation facilities and We
will supply her with all the coal she
needs. Further, all the coal which
is hauled into lily over the Nevad;
Northern railroad must go over 60t
miles to get there. With our rail
road we can land coal into Ely will
less than a 200-mile haul"
"But won't the fact of the man.
smelters at Ely bring in silicious or,
from the surrounding country"
I'VE can haul coal from Utah at