| Show REBUILDING LNE LINE T PROFIT PICHE Cutoff to Pioche Branch Wi Will Give Early Access to Calente Caliente While the Pioche mining district Is auf suf fering temporary Inconvenience on ac account account count of the of the Salt Lake Route and while tose those who are inter interested Interested ested In the camp are not seeking gat grat gratification In the misfortune of the rai rail railroad road company no doubt appears that Pioche wi will be materially benefited by the get great Meadow Vale Valley wah wash disaster ThIs benefit wi will resul result from the exigencies of the situation forcing the building or of the new camp main lne line of railroad much nearer the Within the lat last few tew days for fora a large force ot of railroad builders have been ordered with stipulation for de delver delivery lver livery at some point on the Salt Lake Route near between Uvada and Crestline That Is taken to mean that the surey survey made several years ago for a cutoff lne line from a short die dis distance tance below Uvada through Sheep Spring pass to a point near Panaca has been adopted a as the first section ot of the new newman main line lne man Whether for tor the remainder of the dis distance tance the route wl will be by way of Brie Bris Bristol tol pass or by way of Bennett Springs pass remains to be determined The Bennett Springs pass route would be the shorter of Spring the two and I it Is believed that It would be just as feasible as the other I It would pass through Delamar and Dr Dry Lake valleys opening a great extent tent ot of new agricultural country countr where water Is said to b be plentiful and I it would also afford greatly improved transportation facilities for several mining camps which could assure large tonnage tonnages of ore are I It would permit of making connection with the present maln main lne line In the vicinity of Moapa where considerable countr country has already been opened while the Bristol pass rute route would hardly strike the old lne line above Las Vegas I I Cutoff to Be Rushed The cutoff lne line from near Uvada wU wIll strIke the Pioche branch near Panaca in about 20 mies miles That Its building wi will willbe b be rushed wih with al all possible speed Is evi evident evident dent from the fact that It will give ac access ces cess by way of at the tho Pioche branch to Calente where Is ted tied up a great amount of roiling stock and material of various kinds The building ot of the lne line that far can be accomplished much easier easler and at tar far less ex expense ense I It Is said than could the repairing of the main lne line from Uvada to Calente be accomplished there bing being some 16 or 17 bridges In the wash that have been demolished while the cut cutoff cutoff off takes an ca easy grade In an open coun countr country try tr The buIlding of the new main lne line by byway byway way or of Panaca wi will take I it within three or four mies miles of the mines on the Prince side of at Pioche camp with a good wagon road an all the way I It wi will do away with the necessity ot of building the proposed branch lne line of at nine mies miles around the mountain to the Pince Prince mine and wi will perit permit not only the mines on the Prince side but the Consolidated and others of at the old camp to start shipping on a large scale a as soon as the new lne line Is In operation |
