Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-23
NEW ROAD WILL
HELP Los ANGELES
GIVES FIRST DIRECT LINE TO
G0LDFlELD
Local Merchants VIII Have to Hustle
to Keep San Francisco from
Getting All Of Beatty's
Trade

Final arrangements for the railroad
celebration at Beatty were made yes
terday when Manager whitmore of the
Alexandria hotel shipped to Ed Hoyt
of the Montgomery hotel, Beatty, many
thousand carnations and other blos-
SONS to be used in making tho desert
ito blossom as the rose"
With the flowers went also eight po-
licemens helmets for which the force of
the Alexandria secured the town. The
telegram did not give any intimation
as to the use to which the helmets are
to be put and great wonder was ex-
cited. Whether the mining camp Is to
have a new force of policemen to up
hold the dignity and preserve order In
Beatty has not yet been made clear, but
there are some who are looking to see
a policeman on every corner.
The helmets were finally procured
from q local costumer and have gone
on their way to Peatty to make glad
the hearts Of? well, that's the ques-
toni OF whom?
A special train of ten cars will pull
out of the Salt Lake depot at o'clock
with all aboard bound for Beatty. The
train will carry a diner and the cars
will be sidetracked at Beatty, to become
the home of the visitors during their
stay there.
Benefits Los Angeles
The opening of the road between
Goldfield and Beatty means much more
than the spanning Of seventy-three
miles of desert 1t means that there Is
now a third direct road between San
Francisco and Los Angeles and 1t means
that for the first time the people of
Goldfield, Tonopah and other of the
more northern camps - come to Los
Angeles without taking either an auto
mobile or stage trip. The mining
camps Of Nevada are now joined to-
getker by railroad and 1t links them
to the two great cit of California,
Sa. Francisco and Los Angeles
When the Los Angeles delegation
pulls into Beatty at o'clock tomorrow
afternoon it will be Joined by delega-
tions from San Francisco, Goldfeld.
Tonopah, Rhyolite and other camps Of
Nevada
Reports from other districts, espe-
cially San Francisco, seo.n to indicate
that a greater interest is being taken in
the excursion by the merchants of those
places than by Los An reles merchants
The apparent indifference of Los An
geles wholesale men regarding the
trade of Nevada has long been a thorn
in the flesh of the mining men and they
have many times threatened to ignore
Los Angeles in their ders and to go
to Salt Lake and San Francisc4 for all
their machinery and other needs.
Must Fight for Trade
The direct road to San francisco will
make this possible and 1t is believed by
mining men that Los An: .eles will have
to fight hard now for the Nevada trade
If she wishes to keep it.
A. A. G. Ames who las cl.-r6e of the
local end of the excursion has made
every effort to insure th> pleasure of
the passengers on the rip, and he says
the visitors will be -7ell ta--en care OF
when they reach the other end.
Thursday will be railroad day and one
of the great features of the day will be
a banquet of more than 400 covers at
Miners hall This will be followed by
a ball and Friday night second ball
will be given. Twelve automobiles have
been engaged so that the visitors may
see the nearby mines and man. other
vehicles will be pressed into service.
Side trips will be made to Goldfeld, to
Greenwater and to other points.