Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-10-19
TONOPAH Man
OPENS new CAMP
Il. l.. FLETCHER WILL BUILD
TOLL ROAD REDUCING
DISTANCES.

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 viii rednee 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 oyerestimated. 1t will
bring Muncy creek, which is now
eighty-seven miles away, to a dist
ance of thirty miles; Orem, now nine
ty miles distant willie be but forty
miles from the camp; other distances
to be reduced viii be as follows:
Trout creek, Utah, now 140 miles, to
be ninety miles; Tibbetts, now 10
miles, to be seventy miles; Deep
creek, Utah, now 40 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
reason of the inaecessibility of the
country, and the lack of meal 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 that
within a year from the time of com
pletion of the road, the output to the
shelters, coming from that territory.
and passing through Ely will be moi
less than 10000 tons.
The road will also place the stock
raising and agricultural belts trav.
ersed, fifty miles closer to the market
and fifty miles nearer a shipping
point. The value of these interests
cannot be overestimated.
The project is one on which e. L
Fletcher, prominent as a promoter
and mining man in Tonopah, has
been carefully working on for sew.
eral months. Mr.. Fletcher has re.
Gently acquired extensive interests In
the Muncy creek country, whore he
has a large area OF exceptionally
promising copper property which IL
already producing a high-grade OF
the ores; he has acquired the Cam
eron estate and the Noe estate, with
-
their valuable water rights; the Sill
yer Mountain group near Orem. and
the Grand Deposit group north OF
} Muncy creek.
: 1t is his intention to develop these
extensive holdings as rapidly as pos.
sible and for the purpose of creating
a new and better outlet for the ores
determined to bull a new road tC
Ely. To make the road pay for itself
: so that he would not be placed at the
enormous expense consequent upor
its building, be has determined tC
make 1t a toll road, with a low tariff
on travellers and freighters.
While the tariffs that will be
charged upon traffic have not all beer
arranged, it is understood that they
will be moderate, not more than s.
for a six-horse team for the ROUND
) trip from end to end.
The fact that the present route I.
} 1.95 per cent grade as a general aver.
) age, and that for a distance of be
tween II and one-half miles and two
miles at Shellbourne pass the grade
is fully 3R per cent, while the new
route will have an average of IL
} per cent, and at the heaviest viii moi
run more than 3 per cent, and Their
I for only a comparatively short dist.
ance, will make the road popular
) with heavy freighters. The shorten,
! ing of the haul by fifty miles will also
add greatly to the popularity of tn,
road, The pass through which it will
shipments of high grade ore before
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