Show PROPOSED EXTENSION TO TONOPAH sentinel eureka nevada edward G tilton a civil engineer and surveyor arrived in eureka tuesday the object of his visit is to examine into two proposed routes for an extension of the eureka palisade railroad from eureka to tonopah To he left here thurid thursday ay in in I 1 company with R E A laird who is thoroughly acquainted with the country south of eureka and goes along with mr tilton to guide him over the rou routes tes on which it is proposed to build a railroad to tonopah To one or of these routes is said to be by way of tybo and the other a shorter route takes a different drevlon cLon when M L requa president of the eureka palisade railway passed through eureka last week on his return from a ten days visit in white pine county he is reported to ha have ver said that an extension of the eureka palisade to the copper flat mining properties near ely was quite probable after a careful examination of these copper properties mr requa was convinced of their merit and if negotiations with the eastern owners of the properties can be satisfactorily arranged the early extension of the eureka palisade railway to the copper flat mines near ely is assured it is rumored in a quiet way that eureka is the point most favorably looked upon at the present thre a as s the place to locate a large smelling smelting sm elting 9 plant this selection is no doubt favored because of the well known inex inexhaustible baus t supply of flu xina ores to be obtained in eureka aad white pine mining districts products necessary for the reduction of the rich ores of tonopah To |