The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1908-11-19
HAzEN FOR TERMINAL POINT
10 the Logical Place. CONNER
cial Club Working to Land
the Plum for That Town

The most important topic that
is interesting the people of the
State of Nevada at this time is
the terminal point question of the
Southern Pacific. Nevada is the
only State in the I'm on that has
no distributing point and it has
come to a time when we must
have one. The railroad, itself,
lees that it is necessary and they
are now making preparations to
establish one in Nevada. Some,
especially the people Of Reno,
want it in that city, but the ma
| jority of the people of this State
want it at some point more GEN.
trally located.
The vital question is, WHY
NOT MAKE HAZEN THE TER
MINAL FOR THE STATE OF
NEVADA? Hazen is the logical
place for a terminal for one rea-
son it has a larger scope of coun-
try to work for. Take it as a
location there is not another rail-
road point in Nevada that is more
favorably located for the termin-
al than that town. In as much
as it is the junction for the Tono.
pah & Goldfeld road, the branch
of the Fallon- -Hazen line and one
of the most important stops on
the main line of the Southern
Pacific, 1t 10 much the better
place for a terminal than a city
nearer the State line.
In locating the terminal point
at Hazen it would not only affect
that town, but just think what
benefit it would be to the great
est mining camps in the country
-Goidfield, Tonopah, Yerington,
Fairview, Wonder and Rawhide
and also to the farming COM
munities of Fallon. Lovelock,
Winnemucca and Elko. These
towns would have lower freight
rates and could compete with the
cities in furnishing all kinds of
supplies and work.
Another reason why Hazen is
the best location from railroad
standpoint of view is that they
own land near that town on
which to build the extra tracks
needed for a terminal point and
would be at no additional expense
in purchasing land to make the
necessary Improvements. The
railroad company was the first to
see that Hazen would make
good location for a city and in.
duced the people to establish
homes at that place and now
they are going to see that the
welfare of that growing little
town is advanced if it is in their
power to do so.
Monday night the Fallon CON-
mercial Club met in special ses-
sion to consider the question of
a terminal point and, as a body
of citizens, heartily endorsed
Hazen for the terminal point in
Nevada. A letter was received
from a business firm in Hazen
showing the reasons why that
place is the logical point for a
terminal and asking US to lend a
hand and help them sesrlre it.
Inc clup passed resolution
approving Hazen as a terminal
point and instructed the secre-
tary to send copy of them to
the officials of the Southern Paci-
fc and to the commercial clubs
in the various towns that would
be benefited by the terminal loca-
ton at Hazen.. |. H. Kent, of
the |. H. Kent Co.; Thomas H.
Means, engineer of the Reclama-
ton Service, and Abe L. Rosen-
berg, Of the Rosenberg Co, were
appointed as a committee to draft
resolutions favoring Hazen as
the terminal point for Nevada.
Following are the resolutions.
November, l6. 1908.
Southern Pacific R. B. Co.
Freirht Traffic Dent.