The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1910-08-11
PROPOSE TO BUILD RAILROAD
Churchill County 10 be Ira
versed By New Line
of Railroad.

sources of the expanse bounded by the
county lines, a section larger than some
of the states of the Union, are aimed
at in each instance. First of the large
undertakings was the government irri.
gation enterprise that is even now re-
claiming substantial portion of the
Great American Desert; this initial eff.
fort cost Uncle Sam four millions oi
dollars. Then came the hardy seekers
for mineral and when the scramble was
over dozen mines had been uncovered
in various parts of the county, CHIEF
of which are the Nevada Hills at Fair.
view and the Nevada. Wonder at Won.
der, either of which are even now en-.
gagged in campaign that will mean
the eventual expenditure of a greater
sum than Uncle Sam let loose in this
valley, a valley even now recognized
as the granary of the adjacent mining
sections
And now the Sand Spring salt deposit,
which by the way is one of the won
ders of the west, where a saturated So
luton of the purest salt bubbles from
the earth over large expanse of
ground, leaving an annual tonnage of
the pure product that reduced to cold
figures is almost incomprehensible, is
the objective of efforts that when COM
pleted, will in all likelihood have built a
standard gauge railroad between Fal-
Ion and the Sand Springs salt deposits
and erected a chlorination plant
at some point in the county. Be-
hind this endeavor stands Otis j. ORA
per, a New York millionaire, who has
been interested by C. w. Kinney, the
locator Of the salt deposits.
AS some men plan to devote their
lives to the practice of law or medicine,
so did Mr.. Kinney plan, when he first
perfected his right to the salt deposits,
to devote his life to the development
of these deposits and make them yield
their natural wealth to the use of man
kind. That so prominent man as
Otis J. Draper should come to be inter-
ested in Nh. Kinney's enterprise speaks
well for the New York capitalist s
p ,wer of discrimination, and is conclu-
sve evidence that Mr.. Kinney has a
property of merit. During the latter 5
last trip to New York, arrangements
we're completed between Messrs. Dra-
er and Kinney, whereby the former
agrees to build line of railroad be-
tween Fallon and the salt deposits, %
miles distant, providing Mr.. Kinney
would by preliminary surveys demon
slrate the feasibility of the route and
secure the necessary rights of way.
This task is even now well under way,
and crew of nine surveyors are at
work running lines and carrying levels
over the proposed route. The work of
the surveyors has already demonstrate
I'd easy grades, with a three per cent
maximum, over the Sand Springs
range of mountains.
This is the story in brief of Mr.. Kin
ney's efforts to date. His future ac-
tions will be governed largely by cir
cumstances. The route now under
consideration for the proposed railroad
traverses some of the valleys richest
agricultural land. In treating with Mr..
Kinney on the rights of way question,
owners of lands should take into con-
sideration the wonderful utilitarian
features of a railroad within easy
access Of their farms and the conse-
quent increase it will give farm values.
With the completion of the beet sugar
factory now building, the proposed
railway will itself have added value, in
asmueh as it will serve a great many
thousand acres of fertile beet produc-
ing lands.
The plans for the future include the
erection at point convenient to the
salt deposits of clerination plant.
Formerly when silver mining in Nevada
was the states principal industry,
many thousands of tons of the natural
salt were hauled away by teams from
the Sand Springs deposits to the min
ing camps of the state, where the
crude salt entered into the smelling of
refractory ores. Later when silver's
selling figure dropped to what old sill
yer miners consider a ridiculously low
selling figure, it was no longer possible
to use so expensive method in treat
ing these ores. With the installation
of chlorine gas manufacturing plant,
the desirable qualities of salt for ore
treatment can be condensed many times.
Already, the state of New Jersey has
two chlorine gas manufacturing plants,
Utah one and Colorado one and they
are serving an admirable purpose anc
returning profit to the men behind them.
In speaking of his salt deposits, Mr.
Kinney compared them to the oil wells
and orc veins carrying precious metals