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Show TI1K EASTERN NEVADA RAIL-IS RAIL-IS O AD. It was feared by some of the friends of the enterprise that the narrow-gauge narrow-gauge road would sutler a backsot at. the hands of the Central Pacific company. com-pany. The Central might, if its management had been narrow-minded, selfish and short-sighted, have based an unfriendliness upon three circumstances circum-stances to be considered. 1st The Central is a wide-gaugo road, and would naturally prefer its tributaries to bo oi' a like pattern, for convenience of transhipments without breaking bulk. 12nd The county of Elko was authorized author-ized by the Legislature to advance aid in bonds to the amount of $ 150,000 toward to-ward furthering the construction of the narrow-gauge, aud one-half this amount must oome out of the Central Pacific, as it owns - one-half of the taxable property iu that county. 3rd The Central is by many considered grasp-iutr. grasp-iutr. pvoftinp, int-.rijMiiny and unsympathetic un-sympathetic toward the best interests of the country traversed by its lines; and, without these qualities in an exaggerated ex-aggerated form, the company might have been expected to have some direct di-rect influence and interest in the management man-agement of a proposed tributary road, which in this case it had not. But the men who put the Central through the snows of mid-Sierra are ' not of that sort to oppose their own interest and the interest of the communities com-munities and of civilization for the sake of saving a lew dollars at the moment. President Stanford signed the petition to the Elko commissioners, commission-ers, asking them to pass the ordinance which guarantees the couuty bonds. jianioru gave tue urawiers iu amor-; nia a lesson in that. They have said! that the railroad men are in favor of subsidies where they are to bo made up of taxes on the poor Ibr the ag i irandizeruent of wealthy monopolists; : but that it would be different with them if they had to go into their own ponkots. The Central goes into its own pocket to take out $75,000 to help construct a road which it will not own any stock in a road which will do I more than all that has yet been done. 1 toward opening up the Great East of; Nevada the rich agricultural and i grazing lands of the Great Basin, ribbed wit,h mountains containing stores ' of silver and gold. j The Elko commiasioners have passed the ordinance pledging that county to J the issuance of the bonds. This may i be taken as a complete assurance of the success of the road, aud is so re garded in K.lko, where the people in- dulged in rejoicings over the consum-1 matiou. It is thought doubtful whether or not the petition would re-! ceive the required signatures of1 tax-payers and property own-, ers severally in that county. In j this county, the petition meets scarcely j any opposition. All the leading busi-1 ness men and tax-payers, with but a! very few factious exceptions, are cor-! dially in for pressing: the work forward with all possible energy, at whatever cost. They recognize in the promised road the opening of a new era of larger prosperity in this portion of the State. The required signatures of tax-payers will soon be secured. The required two-thuds of the taxable property of the couuty was long ago subscribed. The commissioners, being business men and owners of property, naturally feel a lively interest in the work, and will enact the ordinance just as soon as the assessor's lax-roll has been so nearly completed as to justify. Meantime, a commissioner on behalf of the board of directors is in San I Francisco, conferring with tho agents j of eastern capitalists, who propose to j advance funds for commencing the I work of construction. Iu any case, the i work of grading will be commenced on i the first of August. 'hitc 1'iue 1 iVeic. |