Show the southern survey surveyor R E collier of the utah engineer corps is at the white house having returned to salt lake from the southern party which will be home by november ast 1st mr collier says his party located two lines between kane springs and the atlantic pacific road and one line from the springs north and east to freiburg summit the first line begins at hinckley on the A P road sixty miles east of mojave and starting east by north runs through black water forty five miles from hinckley and on to leaches point forty miles further then the line passes through death valley via the owl hole summit and striking the amargoso amargosa river continues through ash meadows and the borax country to kane springs miles from hinckley chenco to freiburg summit is 98 miles where the two surveying parties met the second and much more advantageous line parallels the first line varying in distance from it 20 to 30 miles the party started south from kane springs and managed to lay the second line so as to shorten the distance by about 45 miles furthermore while the first line grades were as high as 3 per cent the new line reduced them to a maximum of feet to the mile with curves at C deg maximum the approaches to the summits were also made lighter and the proposed road is brought where construction and maintenance of road bed will bo easier so the chances are that the first survey will be discarded mr collier says tho country is no good for agriculture he did not see over three ranches down there and these had hard work to keep up and there seems to be very little water with not much chance to get any unless the little snow that falls in southern nevada cabbe corralled in storage dams as it melts butr the entire country is rich in mineral wealth and already because of the movements of the surveyors prospectors have begun coming into the country to locate claims expecting with the older miners that the union pacific will push through there next spring and give them a show to reach the shelters smelters sm elters tribune |