The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1912-11-20
STATE RAILROAD BUILDING
Southern Pacific Plans Further
Extensive Additions to its
Lines In West.

That the Southern Pacific COM
pany is about to commence building
q railway from Palisade to Soda
vile, connecting the main line with
the Los Angeles road from south
western Nevada, and placing Man
haitian on a transcontinental line,
seems by concrete facts locally OBJ
served, to be certainty which
will rapidly develop into a reality.
Twenty Southern Pacific men en-
ployed in the engineering depart
been located at Darrough springs,
26 miles from Manhattan, in Smoky
valley, and are known to be at work
either making q preliminary or final
location of the route. A force of
surveyors, they stated were working
south of there, are supposed to be
creek, which is ten miles from Man
haitian. The men at Darrough
springs are in charge of c. e. Coop
81 an engineering official of the
Southern Pacific, whose exact title
is not known here. The men there
are Office employees of the engineer
ing and draughting department
few minutes an dthe following day
The presence of the railway locat-
ors at the springs was made known
N Manhattan by John A. Moore,
owner of Moore's ranch, a couple of
miles this side of there, who has
been selling them supplies. 1t was
Mr.. Moore whom they inform d
that the surveying party was ap-
preaching from the south, and
among other. things Cooper inform
ed him, Moore, that he expected to
be located in that vicinity and at
work there for the next Is months
without, however, stating for
what purpose or the nature of the
work.
It is believed that the railroad
viii traverse the valley few miles
westward of Eureka. coming from
Palisade almost ON a bee-line to
Manhattan. If 1t does not come in
to the upper portion of the camp,
It at least will skirt the foothills
and come up close to the mouth of
Manhattan canyon and run a spur
into town. In such event it may
make a big town at the mouth of
the canyon and will be boom for
the whole district long dreamed of
By those who have been here since
the first. A main line will be of so
much greater benefit to the camp
than a local line, such as the Tono-
ing Tonopah and Goldfield with the
Southern Pacific at Nina and en-
failing an additional cost of freight
that the difference will cause this
city to surpass them in the race for
commercial supremacy. Instead of
Tonopah being the entrepot for this
pace the oiludllOn " q SSi taih Ca
tent will be reversed.
The line from Sodaville to Keeler
is being broad guaged and with that
from the mouth of Owens river to
Los Angeles, along the line of the
aqueduct, being in operation. Man
haitian soon will be on a trunk line
between Los Angeles and the great
cities of the east.-Manhattan Post.
The Oregon Short Line will
build at once from Twin Falls, Ida,
to Wells, this state, where it will
connect with the Southern Pacific,
according to statement made by
| w. H. Bancroft, one of the high o,
| S. L. officials. Mr.. Bancroft is
now in Twin Falls, together with F
H. Knickerbocker, his assistant
and they are looking over the re-
ports of engineers, who have been
making the survey to Wells. The
extension will touch the mining
camp of Contact.
According to the announcement
sent out from Washington there viii
be no cold weather in this part oi
the country for another week a
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