Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1907-10-13
TONOPAH MAN
Opens new CAMP
r.. l.. FLETCHER WILL BUILD
TOLL ROAD REDUCING
DISTANCES.

defeat the purposes or the promoters,
there will be open for traffic, first |
class toll road between the mouth of
North creek, in Spring valley, and
Ely. which will cut off fully fifty |
miles from the distance between |
these points, and will reduce the |
grade through the mountain pass so
considerably that it will be an easy |
matter to transport the heaviest
loads at all times of the year between
the points affected.
The Importance of this toll road to
Ely, cannot be overestimated. 1t will
bring Muncy creek, which is now
eighty-seven miles away, to dist
ance of thirty miles; Orem, now nine
ty miles distant will be but forty
miles from the camp; other distances
to be reduced will be as follows:
Trout creek, Utah, now 40 miles, to
be ninety miles; Tibbetts, now 10
miles, to be seventy miles; Deep
creek, Utah, now lao miles, to be
ninety miles.
This road will make all of these
districts directly tributary to Ely and
will make this point the supply sta
tion and shipping point for all of the
! great mining areas that will be open
ed by the road.
The road will make Ely the ship
ping point for all Muncy creek min
ing district ores, to the smelters at
Salt Lake. 1t will also afford an out
let, by way of Ely, for the ores that
are mined in Siegel, Tibbets, Silver
Mountain, and all districts in the
Spring creek range and the tributary
ranges.
These districts are especially rich
in lead, silver and copper, and the
tonnage that can now be shipped
from the mines will aggregate $12,-
900 tons per year. The districts
have been seriously handicapped by
treason of the inaccessibility of the
country, and the lack of means of
transportation. The long freight
haul to the railroad here, has mill
tated against the development of the
country, but now that this haul will
be cut down by fifty miles, and that
, the grade will be materially reduced
, the development of the country af.
: fected will be greatly facilitated.
1t is conservatively estimated thai
within year from the time of com
pletion of the road, the output to tht
/, smelters, coming from that territory
and passing through Ely will be no
a less than 10000 tons.
o The road will also place the stool
raising and agricultural belts trav
6 ersed, fifty miles closer to the marke
: and fifty miles nearer a shippin:
!. point. The value of these interest
cannot be overestimated.
4 The project is one on which E. L
4 Fletcher, prominent as promote
and mining man in Tonopah, ha
n been carefully working on for sew
u eral months. Mr.. Fletcher has re
n gently acquired extensive interests il
4 the Muncy creek country, where b
has large area of EXCEPTIONAL
promising copper property which
already producing a high-grade c
the ores; he has acquired the Cam
eron estate and the Noe estate, wit
their valuable water rights; the Si
lie yer Mountain group near Orem, an
!; the Grand Deposit group north {
] Muncy creek.
ie 1t is his intention to develop thcs
y extensive holdings as rapidly as po'
y sible and for the purpose of creatin
determined to bull a new road I
Ety. To make the road pay for itsel
in so that he would not be placed at til
in enormous expense consequent upo
it it's building, he has determined
lgl make it toll road, with low tart
ry on travellers and freighters
rs w Hll0 IuS tdIlllS IudJ Will y
p charged upon traffic have not all bee
r. arranged, it is understood that the
o, will be moderate, not more than
lg for siX-horse team for the rour
trip from end to end.
is The fact that the present route
r. 1876 per cent grade as general ave
is age, and that for a distance of b
lie tween one and one-half miles and tv
en- miles at Shellbourne pass the graz
at is fully BIZ per cent, while the ne
,e, route will have an average of 1
ne per cent, and at the heaviest will n
re run more than 3 per cent, and th'
Ig- for only comparatively short dis
nd ance, will make the road popul
ed with heavy freighters. The shorte
It'll ing of the haul by fifty miles will al
DIV add greatly to the popularity of t
is road. The pass through which it W
es. traverse is 200 feet lower than She