Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-03-20
GOULD PROJECTS
Line TO TONOPAH
is NOW SEEKING A DIRECT
ROUTE TO LOS
ANGELES.

pointed out a great possibility in
railroad construction between this
city and the Pacific Coast and today
there remains but one hundred miles
of track unlaid in the proposition.
This story is not one of the Western
Pacific, that road figures in it, but
it is in reality the story of second
Gould line for the coast from this
city.
With conditions as they are at
present little is heard in railroad cir
cles about any thing other than re-
trenchments, etc. George Gould has
had a line or two go into the hands
of a receiver because of combina-
ton of unfortunate circumstances.
Were not luck or whatever it is with
some people, a number of lines
would be in receivership. George
Gould, however, is not losing grip.
No better proof of this would be
wanted than the hiring of large
crews of workmen in California to
work on the Western Pacific a few
days ago
Gould is saying little but saving i
lot of wood. When the time is ripe
it will be found he has not only the
Western Pacific to San Francisco
but another short line to Los An
geles And as explained but 100
miles of connections remain undone
in this chain. The line has been
surveyed and rails are to be laid on
the blank stretch without delay. 1t
must not be understood that Gould
has bought the various links in the
| big chain outright, for here and
there he has purchased, it is COM
monty reported, but other links are
independent roads; no one knows
who owns them and as they size up
alone, it is mystery why they are
built
DuI lHS WHY tHiuS 10 olHIplS
when the ground is gone over care
fully. Here is the proposition in a
nut-shell
Miles
Salt Lake to Battle Mountain
(Western Pacific) ....... 29(
Battle Mountain to Austin,
Nevada CentraD ...... 8;
Austin to Tonopah (not built
but surveyed) -. ....... 100
Tonopah to Ludlow (Tonopah
& Tidewater) -. .... 81;
Ludlow to Los Angeles (Santa
Fe) .............. II;
Total length ..,..i,. 93i
Length of Southern Pacific to
Los Angeles L 20.
Hartman is not sitting by idle, b.
any means. Word comes that h,
has commenced work on the Mojave
Keller line, which will connect thos
two points. Keller and Mojave ar,
80 miles apart, and when the gap i
filled the Southern. Pacific will hav
much shorter route to Los Angeles
Keller is the present terminus of tn
Hazen branch and Mojave is in Cali
fornia and on the main inland lin
running from Sacramento down Il
Los Angeles. Instead of having t.
go to the first named and then drop
ping south the Los Angeles-boun,
traveller travelling on the Southern
Pacific will in the future turn to tn
southwest at HaZen and get to Lo
Angeles in about half the time an
distance of the present route fror
Hazen. The town of Yerington
New, is indulging in high hopes tina
: the Espee will build through Maso
l valley and abandon the present rout
} from Nina to Keller. This porto
} of the Hazen branch is declared to b
: a white elephant which has neve
!. paid owing to the White Mountai
. pass and other costly features.
: The apparent determination of tn
{ two railroad giants, Hartman an
b Gould, to bring the Pacific Coast an
: east as close together as possibl
: means more for the west than can b
t 1 grasped at once.