The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1909-12-04
OF THE new RAILROAD
Ely-G oldfeld's New Rates Will
Make Possible Treatment OF
Low Grade Ores


Just as many men as eau be found
will be given employment or the %line."
is the announcement of W. r. Alberger.
made In Ely regarding his plans for the
construction of the proposed Ely-Gold-
field railroad.
1--WE fear that our greatest difficulty
will be to find O sufficient number Of
men to rush the work ahead as rapidly
as we wish. The matter will be ham,
mered at from the day the first pick is
struck into the ground until the pas
senger trains are in operation.
"An army will be given employment.
There will be thousands Of work ami
mails required, and every man and every
animal that can be procured in the ter
ritory tapped by or adjacent to the line
will be employed before outsiders are
sent in.
Connections At Coidfied
"At Goldfeld the new road will CON-
meet with the Tonopah-T idewater. which
will make connections at Ludlow with
the Santa Fe.
cit is understood that efforts will be
made to secure traffic arrangements with
the proposed Deep Creek Line, which
will make to this district with its Ne
vada terminal at Salt Lake City. This
will give Salt Lake City two routes to
Los Angeles. and will give the Ely-Con-
solidated road the benefit of the through
traffic.
VIII Greatly Shorten Distances
The Importance Of the Ely route to
the passenger and freight traffic with
| either origin or destination between
Ely and Los Angeles is shown by q COM
parison of existing conditions with those
that will be in effect when the road is
completed between Ely and Goldfeld.
The distance from Ely to Los Angeles
by way of Salt Lake is now 1896 miles.
The Ely road will reduce this to 657
miles.
From Ely to Goldfeld by way OF the
| Western Pacific, whose passenger SER
vice is not yet fully installed, is 63l
miles. The new route will cut this to
$50 miles.
From Ely &C Goldfeld by way of the
Nevada Northern, Southern Pacific and
Salt Lake route. and to Goldfeld by
way Of Las Vegas, is 959 miles. The
new road will save 700 miles.
The maximum grade attained at any
part of the road will be in Robinson
canyon. the gateway to Ely, where il
will be III per cent.
Profits From Lou Grade Ore
"At this time no ores running lest
than $40 a ton in gold values are being
milled in southwestern Nevada" said
Mr.. A~lberger. sores running $40 Oh
more to the ton in gold are successfully
and economically handled in the mill'
of that section. Ores OF. less than $40 Q
ton in gold values are either shipped te
the smelters at Salt Lake or are put or
the dumps to await an outlet. 1t is mol
profitable TO ship to the Salt Lake val
ley smelters ores that carry much less
than $50 a ton. All lesser values are
left on the dumps.
"With the construction Of this road
completed. these ores, do n to a valua'
ton as low as IS q ton, will be available
for smelling in this district.
i Smelling Center
with the possibility of securing the
handling and smelling of this enormous
tonnage Of ore here, and with the open
ing of the way for the Goldfeld and
southwestern Nevada ores to this dis
trict. there is no reason why this should
not become the center for an enormou
smelter industry.
81 feel safe in making the prediction
that many hundreds Of thousands o
8 tons of low grade ores. ores that can no
Q be milled proitably, will be carried int
9 this valley to be treated. The ores tina
Q are now going to the Salt Lake Vale
smelters will be naturally diverted t
. this section by reason Of the low freigh
cost"