The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-05-24
MAY MEAN BUILDING
CUTOFF VIA PAlISADE
Southern Pacific Engineers Have
Established a Camp at Coal
dale In Nye County

Tonopah Bonanza: Engineer Cooper,
chief Of the field engineering force of
the Southern Pacific construction de-
partment. has established headquarters
at Ooaldale, 35 miles north Of Tonopah.
He is accompanied by a lusty staff of
clean limbed, bright eyed young stall
warts who can keep in fine fettle with
out resorting to a gymnasium at the
end Of their days work. The staff has
raised q tented city adjoining the
weather beaten and neglected railroad
station built in the days when the T..
& G. was declaring dividends from the
earnings Of every trainload Of passen-
gers, says the Tonopah Bonanza OF
Monday.
Mr.. Cooper has installed himself in
the frame building designed for the
accommodation of a station agent aud
has surrounded himself with all the
panoply of permanent and peaceful oc-
cupation Of the country. Mr.. Cooper is
affable and courteous. and when you re-
frain from talking shop he is a trifie
more genial than a Bafin's bay glacier.
The Sphinx is garulous compared to the
chief engineer of the E-pee. who. it is
Inferred, is here OF a mission.
Talk Of construction is in the air but
the nearest approach to an explanation
vouchsafed is that the toters Of theo-
dolites and stringsrs of chains are deep
ly immersed in the profundities of q per-
manent and final survey for the pro-
posed short line from Basalt to Palisade
On the main line Of the Southern Pacific.
But this report is contradicted by facts
that are about as eloquent as a circus
poster. In the first place il Is not Gus
tomary on the opening of the hot Sum.
mer season on the desert. to seek seclu-
sion in frame houses. especially if the
corps is to keep moving constantly with
a weekly change of base to facilitate OBJ
servations. Moreover, one of the first
inquiries of Engineer Cooper vas with
reference to the nearest permanent sup
ply of water for immediate use. He was
told hat the Darms Coal Company,
three miles away. had q surplus which
President Herman Darms would cheer
fully sell.
This information led to a visit and in
spection of the water supply available
from the Darms property.
II need a supply of water that will
keep a two inch pipe running full "a
hours a day and l need it at once" the
engineer is quoted as saying.
From this remark it is inferred that
the camp at Coaldale will remain there
for some time and that the opening of
construction headquarters may be the
next move on the railroad chess board.
The former survey through Fish Lake
valley has been abandoned and it is
officially stated that the chosen route
will be through a draw in the White
mountains which would bring the rails
to Basalt without the cost Of boring a
tunnel.
President M B. Gutter Of the Tono-
pah & Gold6eld railroad arrived in
Tonopah this morning and rumor has
it that an important conference il
scheduled at the headquarters of the
company in Goldfeld this afternoon
Whether or not this bears any relation
to the plans of the Espee engineers. it il
known that MIR. Gutter has ordered thai
the field forces of the big trunk line b.
given every facility for conducting theil
operations in this territory.