The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-09-20
ELY GOLDF|ELD
ROAD POSSIBLE
Proposition Receiving Favorable
Consideration by New York
FinancierS.
FORMS LINK IN BIG CHAIN
Would Make Part of An Independent
System Between Denver And
San Francisco.

Ely is to have another railroad,
which will form the connecting link
on short line between Salt Lake
and Goldfield, and probably will form
one of the last links of chain of
Independent roads between Denver
and San Francisco.
The road which is now proposed
has the endorsement of a large num-
ber of the greatest combinations of
capital in New York, and the financ-
ing of the proposition is well under
way.
Inc new road, which will put Ely
into direct touch with Goldfeld, will
be $50 miles in length. It's cost as
now estimated will be $4,000 per
mile, or $1,S00,000. The line will
probably be almost parallel with that
of the proposed Nevada e Utah rail-
road, the survey of which was COM
pleted some time ago. The grade
covered by this survey is light and
there is but one range of mountains
to pierce That is the Hot Creek
range, which is cut by number of
low passes, which would offer but
slight and unimportant problems to
the engineers.
The matter of the construction of
road between Ely and Goldfield
was taken up with number of emf
nent financiers and railroad mag
mates by Tex Rickard on his recent
visit to New York. He has been
averse to making a statement con-
cerning the project, but admitted to
the News last night that he had dis
cussed the matter with these men,
and that they had taken kindly to the
proposition.
A number of representatives of the
railroads and of the Guggenheim in
terests, it is said, will reach Ely
within the next few weeks to go over
the ground carefully and arrive at
more definite conclusions.
One of the reasons that has been
given to these men, to convince them
that such a road would be a good in
vestment, is that the smelters at Nc
Gill will require great tonnage of
silicious ores in their treatment of
the low grade copper ores of this
district
There are millions of tons of low
grade ores in the Goldfield and Bull
frog districts, which at this time can
not be smelted nearer than at San
Francisco The road to Ely will be
but 180 miles in length, which would
cut off several hundreds of miles that
the ores would have to be carried if
handled at San Francisco.
The part that sucn a road would
play in the development of Ely and
of Goldfield and .he tributary dis
tricts, is most important. Such a
road would make marketable the vast
tonnages of low grade ores in those
districts, and would be the means of
giving employment to thousands of
miners and workmen of all classes.
The payrolls would be increased en-
ormously.
For Ely the building would be
equally important, as it would throw
to this camp this enormous tonnage
for treatment in the smelters, and
would make Ely the greatest smelt-
ing camp in the entire country, if not
in the entire world.
Another important feature. which
would be of great. of almost meal
culable value to Ely and the district
at large, would he that the town
would be on the line of an indepen-
dent transcontinental railroad sys-
tenn.
The Moffatt road, which is now
employing thousands of men in its
construction between Denver and
Salt Lake, is nearing completion.
This road will be completed within
short time, and the distance be-
tween these cities will be decreased
by nearly 200 miles. The Moffatt
road has completed traffic arrange
ments from Denver through to the
East
The construction of the Western
Pacific from Bews to Salt Lake is
being pushed forward at record
rate, and steel is being placed at a
rate that has seldom been paralleled
in western railroad building. This
road has completed traffic arrange
ments with the Nevada northern rail
road between Bews and Ely, and will
begin to run it's trains into this town
within the next few weeks Traffic
arrangements could readily be made
between the Moffatt road, the West
ern Pacific, the Nevada Northern and
the Ely & Goldfield road, which
would give direct line from Denver
to Goldfield by the shortest route.
At the present time the distance
from Goldfield to San Francisco by
way of Reno, thence over the South
ern Pacific, is about 700 miles.
AS the crow flies, the distance from
Goldfield to San Francisco is no
more than $50 miles. 1t would bf
but small matter to finance roat
over the shortest path from Goldfielt
to San Francisco, which would thel
give a short line from Denver tt
Goldfield, saving many hundred mile
of travel.
In the event that a road were con
structed from Goldfield to San Fran
cisco, it would have no effect on th'
smelter industry here, the difference
in distances between the two point
being so great that they could no
he overcome and the ores would nat
urally gravitate to Ely for treat
ment.
81 have had assurances while il
New York. said Mr.. Rickard las
night, that low rate would be Civ