The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1921-03-12

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According to the Commissions
report the distance from Farrell via
White House TO Carlin is 80 miles.
and Shoshone Point Is a half mile
east of Farrell; the report also men
! lions the construction OF the road
from Shoshoner Point to the White
House as being about one mile. thus
leaving 80 and one-half miles from
the White House to Carlin.
Commenting on the construction OF
this one mile Of work. or particularly
to the portion extending across the
railroads and the river, we wish to
call attention to the fact that the
| County records show that the Grant
of Way over this piece Of land calls
for the installation of not less than
seven gates and two underground
ways for cattle. We assume that
this does not include the gates which
will probably be required by the two
railroad companies-two at each road.
which would make a total Of eleven
in a short distance of q mile. This
will be handy for tourists.
The report does not state how deep
a fill 1t will require across this mud
bottom--but we imagine a twelve or
fifteen foot fill will be required, and
it is doubtful If any fill will stand any
length of time II it is built up on a
mud bottom base.
The water at the present writing
between the Southern Pacific grade
and the bridge just erected will swim
a horse for a good part of the dis
lance, and it will be impossible to
conine all this volume of water un-
der one bridge.
At the point of divergence of this
favored project from the railroad
grade. the first road to be crossed is
the Southern Pacific, and 1t approaches
the Shoshone Point around sharp
curves so the approach Of trains
would be difficult to see by the tour
lists and much harder for trainmen to
see the tourists. For this reason the
railroad may justly ask for an over
head crossing, which would mean a
22 foot clearance for the trains-the
north side of the track being the riv-
er bottom is naturally very low and
the enormous expense of the over
head crossing ian readily be seen.
We might mention also that owing
to the watered condition of the river
bottom at this place, it is quite appar-
ent that most Of the filling from Sho-
shone Point across the river bottom
will have to be hauled in.
Having shown the big expense in
Cured in getting across the railroads
and the river at Shoshone Point as
compared with the small expense in
crossing at Beowawe, and considering
the time required for each project,
we wish to draw attention to a com-
parison of the continuation Of the
two routes:
According to the report, White
House is 80 miles from Carlin and
the first eight miles is over a semi
alkali fiat and will have to be grav-
eled in order to hold up under con-
slant traffic. We will not comment
on the amount of construction work
required over this section of eight
miles and Of that through the Wei
che's Canyon other than to say that
it certainly has not been underesti-
mated by the report, but we do say
that the sentiment of the people gen.
erally-of those who are thoroughly
familiar with both routes-is most
decidedly in favor of the Emigrant
Canyon route.
And where the report states that
the amount of snow fall on the Emf
grant Pass summit is such as to rem
der 1t an ~unfavorable route as com
pared with the route adopted by the
Commission, we can reliably state
!, that the comparison is absolutely
false and can prove by numerous wit
nesses that just the reverse is true
huge banks of snow pile up on
Weiche's and Richmond summit and
the road becomes impossible from
snow during any normal Winter. We
can prove that the Emigrant Canyon
summit is open when the other road
is closed. and hence we doubt the
statement that the former summit is
higher than the latter.
We might also mention here that q
tourist st uck in the mud or in a
snow bank in the vicinity of Welche's
summit-or even laid up with a brok-