Lovelock tribune. (Lovelock, Nev.) 1898-1912, 1907-05-10
MUST LOOK TO
OUR LAURELS
Good Roads Necessary to Continued
Growth.
Bad Roads to and From Mining
Camps May Drive Trade That
Rightfully Belongs to Love-
lock to Other Places.

Several instances have been brought
to the attention of the TRIBUNE man
this week, wherein the condition of
the roads from Lovelock to Adjacent
mining camps will cause trade that
rightfully and naturally belongs to
Lovelock, to 60 to other places.
l.ovelock is the natural center of
many adjacent mining camps, some
of them old producers and many of
them new ones, just springing into
activity. This is the nearest and
natural supply point and railroad
station for Vernon, Mazuma, Seven
Troughs, Stone House, Spring Valley,
American Canyon, Boyers, Bernice,
Cottonwood, Wilson's, White Cloud,
Antelope. White Plains, besides the
nearer camps of Goldbuttes, Trinity
Peak, the Antimony mines, and 9TH
ers that may not occur to US at pres
ent.
In the case of some of these roads
there are some mountain divides to
be crossed, none of them so high but
that easy grades can be constructed
over them and roads made, at CON-
paratively small cost, which will &C.
commodate all freight and passenger
traffic. In other cases the difficulty
is not in the mountain passes, but in
the roads right in this Valley and
which the ranchers here should see
that they were kept passable for the
hauling OF hay and other products of
their fields to market.
case in point is the road from
town south through the Valley. This
is the shortest road from Lovelock
to the White Cloud or Copper Reid
mines. During the past year the Ne
vada United mining company have
had thousands of tons of freight to
haul from Lovelock over this road,
out to their mines. The expense of
getting this freight out, hence of
operating their mines, has been al.
most doubled because of the condi-
tion of this road. This deplorable
condition is due chiefly 10 the over.
flow of water from irrigating bitches
and so is kept up during the entire
irrigating season. Many times the
roads through the vallev are so bad
that the rural mail carrier can hardly
get through, to say rothlng of a
heavily loaded freight team. Yet
our ranchers VIII wade through these
mud holes year after year, running
their stock and their vehicles, rather
than get together and remedy this
deplorabe condition of the roads.
1t is high time something was done
The irrigators should be made to take
care of their waste water and see
that it is confined in the bitches car.
rying il to the fields and not allowed
to food the County roads and make
them perpetual mire holes. The
r anagement of the Nevada United
mining company is getting thorough
~ disgusted with freighting supplies
out under these adverse conditions
and are thinking seriously of making
some other town, which they can
reach without having to pull through
such horrible roads.
Another Case in Point" is the
road from Lovelock to the camps
east. Just at present work is being
started on large enterprises in Am
erican Canyon. In going by the pres
ent road there is first fiye-mile pull
over a heavy sand ridge, then there
is the summit and grade at the head
of American Canyon that are almost
impossible to a heavy freight load
and meanace to the life of stock
and drivers. The men who are op-
Grating at American suggest that a
road can be built through Coal can