Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-06-22
SAN FRANCISCO AND THE NEVADA TRADE

A cry Of warning has gone up from the mining camps of southern
Nevada to San Francisco. If the merchants and business men of this
city do not awaken to the call, they are going to lose the great trade
of that section.
A number of the leading business mn Of Los Angeles have Just
paid a visit to the southern mines of Nevada. The names and standing
of these men show who they are. They did not send boys upon the
errands of men. The visitors were leaders in every sense men of means,
of standing in the financial and commercial community; men of energy
and enterprise; in short men who know what they want and know how
to get it.
Now, the proposition Of an excursion from Salt Lake is IN the tapis
The business men there are awakening to what they deem the encroach-
ments of southern California, and they think that the time is ripe for
them to be up and doing.
The recent advances in railroad construction in the southern part
of Nevada has given to both Los Angeles and Salt Lake advantages in a
commercial way that they did not possess before. The Clark road is
nearly completed through the Bulfrog country into Goldheld. and is go
ing to be pushed right on to Some other point, does not matter as far as
the trade of southern Nevada is concerned.
The Santa Fe with its Borax Smith connection. win be into Rhyolite
the camps OF southern Nevada. And the business men of southern Cali
fornia are looking forward to that time, and are making preparations for
it. A regular train leaves Los Angeles every day for Tonopah. and an
other leaves Tonopah for Los Angeles.
Meanwhile, what is San Francisco doing? Practically nothing but
leaning upon the friendship that has always existed between this city
and southern Nevada. San Francisco had its excursion, and what came
of it? The people, like everybody else who has visited southern Nevada,
were deeply impressed with all they saw, and they made great promises
of what they were going to do upon their return. They were going to
try for better rates and better service. There have been reductions, but
lust 10 there is a embargo Of freipht to Tononab and coldeed from
San Francisco and eastern points by the Southern Pacific. 1t makes
little difference what the rates are if there is no hauling being done.
There is no embargo on any freight from Salt Lake Or Los Angeles.
There are two railroads from each point, and there is always a chance for
competition. Is it any wonder that Salt Lake and Los Angeles can make
bold bids for the trade that should from every viewpoint be ours?
San Francisco wants to get very busy on her railroad connections,
1t is more to the business interests here than to those of southern Nevada.
mere Is no uoupt MAJ southern Nevada "a a kindly Keeling To- san
Francisco. The people from these sections are built on the same lines
They re congenaI which is moret than can be said regarding either Salt
Lake or Los Angeles.
San Francisco is the natural stock market for the securities of
southern Nevada, and always will be. Other places have tried for the
market and have failed to make good. The stock markets of Salt
Lake and Los Angeles have been small affairs at best; and southern Ne
vada does not want to deal with any points which bring no returns. That
is the feeling of southern Nevada but there are new people getting in
mere every day ave nc sentiment or local pride. They are there
for business, and they are going to get their goods where they are to be
had the cheapest.
With transportation facilities against us, where is San Francisco GO
ing to reap any benefits unless the railroad men who were o the excur-
sion last December keep their promise and provide better rates and facG-
tiles? San Francisco has no little task ahead of her to retain what she
has thus far enjoyed. If she wants the trade of southern Nevada she
must go after it and go after it with vigor-sau Francisco Journal of
Commerce.