The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-03-20
cOLDFIELD'S NEW RAILROAD

HE talk of an Elyaadasd railroad has crystauzsd into action
Today, the engineers are in Gcldhed and tomorrow will start o n a
trip Of recognizance, and it is promised that the road will DC completed
and trains running between eodaed AID Ely. by the nc o. the present year
Thus will be connected by a direct line + railroad, the greatest gold camp
en- Garth, AID what is desi-ed to be tn greatest copper lamp on earth.
Ely is now the cen.ar of interest in the copper world. During the past few
years, tie ouggenheims and the Groux have been quietly at work exploiting
the copper deposits of Ely and it has become now that at Ely is Dcated the
n..+at noiss, ~ cenrer r,oun 70 mining hat can b e handled at a cost reck.
med il cents. And as a result, til largest copper smdter in the world is
bling erected at that place. Several nts o this monster smster IRE now in
operation and thousands of tons of orea are being put through daily at a cost
SC lew Is to atonish the mining world. So large IRE the ore bodies al Ely
and so cheaply can the ore be mined and treated, that the calculations of tn
copper market have all been upset and a revolution in the copper industry is
imminent. Heretofore Montana and Arizona have been the centers # the
copper industry. Hereafter Nevada will be h chief center
The new railroad to Ely opens VI a future for Goldfed whose horizon
cannot be circumscrrbed.
In the FIRST place, IL gives coldheli a direct inc . the east and shortsns
tie time to Utah inc eastern po nts by at least IL hours A railroad
mi from Ely to connect with the Southern Pacific. This road has been
bou st by the westen Pacific, a Gould road, ant a connecting link will be
built coanec ing the two. Thus the GoldheldE y road will have two eastern
outlets.
MOREOVER te aoldaeld Ely road is being built by the ne of tn Tono-
rah ana Tidewater railroad, whose nor .hern terminus at present is Goldfeld.
Behind the ronopah and ridewater is tie Santa Fe The building of the Ely
link will give a drect rou from the ca via Cobre to Los Angeles and be-
tween these W. Godhhd will be n most important point Travel % and
from the southern coast will go through Goldfeld and, Of COURSE the fame If
this great mining camp will make this a Stopping point for a large part Of
The travel, fr a period, Al least. AS it r, it's a days journey and great incon-
venencc to make the side trip; but under thu new conditions through travel
will be brought to or very doors.
What is more important han this we is he change in industrial COZ
diuons that tbs ew road wl bring about.
The time is coming when aoldhela will be a smelling camp. The evil
denceso of this are unmtstakab Copper Is coming ID ~ OPP ores OF goM
ors with a considerable percentage OF copper. cannot be miled to advantage.
They must be smdtsi. 0ohhed is lot a smelling point. There is not enough
watsr at this time, at least and while water might be developed in tn nss
within cur radius, il is doubtful whether it would be a practical proposition to
supply he quantities necessary or large smelling plants 4 is desirable
therefore If indeed net absolutely necessary to the future II 0odhed, that
this camp a easily available smelling points.
But Goldheid Dress re a. necessary to Ely IS the Ely smeNers to Gold
field. Copper shelters need slcious ores in their processes for a hux Gold
field onsrsj just such ores and OF all the ores of Nevada nne others are 50
suitable. Therefore each camp is tho complement Of the other; each has
what the other lacks
This was what the Ely aoldhsld railroad promoters had in mind largely
hey determine to conaect up the " camps Ely would be 0oldheld's
s--ring point, with q haul II only 100 miles. n a large tonnage in onse
quence
This neu railroad will work q revolution in GoMfed mining. The freight
rate to the Ely smeters promise to be low. Treatment charges also. promise
u b low because Of tn dsMrabuhy of tn ores Scores o prospects will
uow into mines under this stimulating innusnce. An ores II medium grade
IN 4 come bae that nw ans 10 m tn dump unmarketed. viii b . avail
able fr working capital In two years ooldhsids working population should
eoub1a
Altogether nothing that could happen y tn camp h Of III importance
Of the Ky and 0odAsd railroad. and Ito our friends in Ely upon this auspicious