| Show THE M3VADA SOLTHEKA IntNcltu tttutcntciit 1y an OOleial Of the Rotul Ono nf the officials of the Nevada Southein now pushing its way toward Utah from the south has just written a communication to the Iron county 3ecord giving a history of the com pan > The statements are of general interest and make the following story I am pUd to see that the people in t ht Mni y of Cedar City and through nut Iron cirutilv are arousing and tale ig steps to eal the attention of the utiiie world to the marvelous natural natu-ral ivsoji le5 and great mineral wealth t < f that country and the establishing 01 a mn paper is the most thorough agency Known to accomplish this rs suit I hop > your paper will meet with abundant encouragement from the pep Ie in y iur vicinity and that it will < lso obtain a wide circulation outside J your < ount > I was quite interested in reading the various items concerning our road There were some Inaccura IcS tn thC statements concerning it liarcirulaiiv from the article which you copied from the Mt Pleasant Pyramid 1 there01 e lake the liberty of giving > u fom ol the facts of the history and the present condition of our road 81 that in the future these inaccuracies inaccura-cies may be avoided In the first place S > ur road is named the Nevada South em Railv company and has nothing whatever to do with any scheme known < s the California Nevada Southern railway or the Utah Nevada t California railway neither of which Fohemes art I believe incorporated Our road was chartered Dee IS 1S92 Mid immediately surveyed a route 1 rom Gnus CaIn to Good Springs Ntv whkh is in the heart of the jrrrat Yellow Pine iead mining district i Id not far from the Keystone gold Jiilt Work was prosecuted vigorously as was evidenced by the fact that the first section of twentyfour miles was placed in operation on April C 1893 and in June an additional six miles wit placed in operation A daily trainS train-S rice both ways has been extended < > ver this road and the company has a ne Baldwin locomotive of the latest model and especially adapted for the i hmsie and water supply having been built especially for this company com-pany They have also a pass pas-s > ngrer car built at Dayton Ohio which wa designed especially f jr our company The operations of the road have been successful and a large amount of ore has been hauled from the Gladiator mines in XeW York district and from the various gold properties prop-erties at Vanderbilt Besides this the Keystone gold mine which is at the present about fortyfive miles beyond our present terminus and the lead mines in the vicinity of Good Springs and Keystone and flourishing Potosi lead mine have made considerable shipments of ore We are now at work grading eight miles of heavy rockwork rock-work just bevond our present termi jnu This will carry us through the town of Vanderbilt and down into dry lake valley beyond and we hope to complete to the new town to be called Newton near the state line between 1 California and Nevada soon and later to Good Spring Two stamp mills are j now being erected at Vanderbilt and ala a-la g stamp mill is also projected for Needles AF you are probably aware the people who are interested in the railroad are already running a Bryan mill at Needles The Keystone mine which is just across the Nevada state J line and somewhat southwest of Good Spring has been operating a 10stamp I null since the 16th of last September anti their oie is very high grade They I HIP just now putting in a gasoline hji t and expect thereafter to larguty I < 1urease their production and also contemplate i con-template adding an additional ten i stts to their mill j I Vlieu tho committee appointed by l I S the late irass meeting in your town < prepares their report of the resources i upon Irtn county etc I hope to ie i dye a copy of the sam I will be I u1 usistan to us In our future raiI i 1Jac negotiations and I will do all 1 I can besides that to get the uata published i pub-lished in some of our papers and thus advertise ti the resources of the coun iI i I i lasr understand also that the NeI 1 vada Southern Railway company is an ndepeadent company that it is not II a part of 1 the Atlantic Pacific railroad road company or the Santa Fe system I Th priu < pal stockholders are the residents resi-dents of the ciy of Denver and so far the road has been built entirely with I Colorado capital and it has been largely II Colorado capital which has been invested I in-vested in the reduction works at Needles Need-les California and the Gladiator mines i and in the Keystone mine and other property at Good Springs Great credit I < duo however to Messrs Patton TogRart of Los Angeles > for the de j Xilopment and growth of the town of anderbilt Allen Greene Campbell off of-f l Laic is also a leading public spiri I i iff iiiizen of the district and is largely Inieiested at Vanderbilt and in the i ginn around Good Springs The of iWr of the Nevada Southern Railway company are Isaac B Blake bred o > nt n G Scofield vicr resident of the Pacific Coast Oil con > my and residing re-siding in San Francisco is the first it epresident Mr Robert S Siebert an experienced railroad man is second i epresidont apd t 3neral manager and has his headquarter at Manvel California fornia the present terminus of the road George C Manly is secretary Charles B Mason auditor and W L j Eeardsley treasurer reside at Denver Colorado The assistant treasurer lives in New York and the third vicepresi S dent in Brooklyn Mass I furnish you this information that you may not be deceived by people who claim to be interested in our road but who have no interest therein |
