The San Francisco call., 1907-02-19
Gossip of the Doings
of Railroad Men

w. R. Alberger, traffic manager of
the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad,
left last night for an inspection of the
line and will be absent till the end of
the month. Regarding the new road,
Alberger said: 1T will be one of the
most notable railroads in the country
because it will run through an exceed
ingly rich mineral belt that is daily
growing in Importance. Our road COM
mences at Ludlow on the line of the
Santa Fe and twenty-six miles north
at Crucere it crosses the Salt Lake
road. Fifty miles north of Ludlow
lies Silver Lake, which is the point of
departure for the famous Crackajack
mining district owned principally by
Salt Lake and Los Angeles people.
There is an automobile line to the
mines that makes daily runs. The dis
tance is 26 miles.
''Sperry, which Is seventy-eight miles
from Ludlow, is the present terminus
of the railroad and trains are running
to that point daily. Sperry is in the
Amargosa Canyon. About eight miles
remain to be completed in the canyon.
Then the road will be out on the des-
ert, and track can be laid at the rate
of mile or mile and a half daily.
From Sperry automobiles connecting
with our trains are run out to the
famous copper mining region of Green
water and there are twenty-five eight
mule freight teams hauling freight to
Greenwater from Sperry.
AT a point about 120 miles from
Ludlow a branch line will be built to
the Lila c borax mine, where there is
probably enough borax to last the
world for one hundred years. This
same branch will be extended to Green
water.
THE terminus of the Tonopah and
Tidewater Railroad will be BulIfrog
and Beatty, which will make the line
16S miles long. The road has been
surveyed from Beatty to Goldfield and
Tonopah. but it is problematical as
yet when 1t will be built to either of
the towns.
''On the line of the road and at the
northern end of the Amargosa Canyon
is the Tecopa lead mine and Just across
the Nevada line is the new copper dis
trict named Lee which is attracting a
good deal of attention. There is a big
mineral development on both sides of
the line from Ludlow to Beatty and
new locations are being made con-
stantly.
Northern in Hillsboro, N. D.. arrived
here last Sunday with his small son
on a pleasure trip. George W. Colby
escorted them out to the park and the
boy was lost in wonder. He wanted to
know if it was summer in California
while it was winter in North Dakota
Watts says that no one can realize what
the people of Hillsboro have suffered
For a time there was no fuel in the
city and the wretched inhabitants had
to work hard in order to save them
selves from being frozen to death. Ev-
erything in the shape of fuel was
burned.
Fortunately a few cars of coal ar
rived on Saturday and all that night
and all Sunday 1t was doled out i'm
partially The railroad people did all
that they could to clear the track of
snow. great snowplow would be
driven through and all the trains that
could be assembled would follow in
its wake; yet within an hour the track
would be impossible again. Two weeks
ago there were from thirteen to four
teen feet of snow on the surface, and
in some instances cars on the side
track were completely buried. Condi-
tions are by this time much improved.
however.
Watts concluded his narrative with
the comment: II think that you are
living in a paradise. What does it mat
ter If you have a little mud and dust?
Our people would gladly give our snow
in exchange for your mud and dust"
r. III. Countiss of the freight trans
continental bureau announces that ow-
ing to representations made by the
st. Louis and San Francisco road the
present rate on soda ash and caustic
soda in same groupings makes it un
profitable to haul 1t and cancellation
has been ordered from eastern defined
territories served by the Southern Pa
cific.
G. N. Koeppel, Pacific Coast passen-
ger agent of the International Mercan-
tile Marine, has returned from a busi-
ness trip to New York While east he
consulted with his chiefs as to opening
offices In this city, and was directed to
have them on the ground floor and to