Salt Lake Herald | 1904-11-21 | Page 6 | Southern Mineral Belt

SOUTHERN MINERAL BELT Colorado Paper Kits G bod od Word For Country Along San Pedro Denver Ores and Metals Only about miles or of the San Pedro Los Angeles Salt Lake railroad con connecting Salt Lake with Los Angeles Angelos re remain I main maln to be completed and when the gap I is 18 built a new country will have been opened to the world It is a section rIch richin r In mineral resources but which has hus boon been held back by reason of lack of transportation tion facUlties facilities for Cor the movement of oC ma machinery machinery chinery to the mines and the ore to the tho reduction plants in the tho Salt Lake valley vaHey The completion or of tl this s line Is most im important Important Passing through the copper belt of southwestern Utah it enters the great I mineralized section of southern und and south southeastern eastern Nevada and crosses a mineralized section or of southern California and the camps along iong the tho line or of Its 1 right of way tay I are to have an outlet to the markets of the world Goldfield and lie but buta a short distance northwest ot of the road I and that it will ill be constructed to those ne new and Important mining districts there Is i every reason to believe giving them a short and more mor direct route to the cast And the west than is the case at th pr present sent time The greatest minIng an ac has followed the advent ot oC the road as it has been beon forced through southwest Utah the gap now being built ma may be said to be through the section I of country the line will open up to the world The completion of the tho line Jan an 1 wIll be most gratifying to the operators along its route