The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1912-10-12

There are SO many Salt Lake dollars
wrapped up in the mines of the old Eu.
reka, Nevada, mining district that the
report just received to the effect that
the Western Pacific Railroad Company
may secure the Eureka g Pslisade rail.
road line on q lease is of especial interest.
This report comes from the coast, and
while no official confirmation has been
received that either q lease is sought or
has been secured, there is q disposition
locally to believe that the Eureka g. Pail.
SADIE line would be a decidedly import
ant feeder to the Western Pacific system.
The Eureka camp and neiRhboring
territory, the home of innumerable
mines, has beer thu down tight as wax
since the Eureka & Palisade railroad
line was destroyed two years CT more
ago by . heavy cloudburst. The road
was reconstructed several months ago
and the line was taken over by western
interests from the hands of the United
States Smelling, Refining and Mining
Company. which had secured the road
at Sheriff's sale.
Complaint OUer Rates
Since the completion of the road the
anticipated r~ejuvenation Of Eureka and
n~eighboring districts has failed to ma
terialize. the operators making the COM
plant that the owners of the road re.
fused to grant railroad freight rates that
were low enough to admit of the ship
ment of the low grade ores of that part
Of Nevada. Repeated effort failing to
bring about a readjustment of the rate
schedule, complaints are at the present
time in process of preparation for sub
mission to the Nevada State Railroad
Commission. also to the Interstate Com.
merce Commission. by the shippers of
that section.
1t is generally conceded that should
the Western Pacific Company secure a
lease on this property, such action would
be for the sole purpose of securing bust
ness, and those interested in mines in
that camp are of the opinion that ade-
quate freight rates can be secured from
the Western Pacific without any diff
Guilty.
Big Mines Closed Down
In the Eureka camp are such mines
as the Richmond. Eureka, owned by the
United States Company, in which is a
great tonnage of low grade iron ores the
United States Company would begin
shipping Immediately to its Salt Lake
smelter with equitable freight rates. 1t
is understood also that the Diamond
property, owned by the Mcintosh estate
Of Utah, has been closed down, and
that a readjustment of freight rates will
be the signal for this mine being again
placed upon the active list.
Should the freight schedule be re-.
adjusted as hoped for. in the Eureka dis
trict and in neighboring regions within
easy reach of the line, there will be
work for not less than 400 men, while
the demands for supplies OF all sorts for
mining, and which must be brought in
via the railroad, would open a large
freight and passenger business that is
not now available, while the impetus
such would give hat entire country can
readily be appreciated. In that vicinity
is the Hamilton lead mining district, a
section whose proper development is
being retarded by existing conditions.
and near the road is the Buckhorn mine
owned by George Wingield.
Historic Old Producer
The Eureka district has one of the
most interesting histories imaginable,
the prominent features of which are as
well known out West as the location of