Show RAILROAD INTO THE GOLD FIELDS Borax o x Mine Owners the Moving Fac Factors Factor Factors tors tor in the Project TALK WITH J ROSS CLARK BENEFITS TO ACCRUE TO SALT S L T LAKE ROUTE FOUTE Special to The Herald lerald I US ANGELES Cal March arch 21 Tho L lOS L bargain ba ol was practically cinched to today to today tos day for a railroad to connect Salt Snit Lake Luke and Los Angeles with wih the gold goldfields goldfields fields felds of Nevada It I is the Salt Luko road roud that will wili wi be the Inlet to this re to region 10 gion gioli ion rich with ore Vice President J JRoss JRoss Ross Ro Clark of or the tho Salt Lake system stem stated today that negotiations arc ar In pro progress progress progress gress for a deal d ai with wih the owners of or tho the Deth Death Valley VaU borax mines who are pro proa projecting I JeUng a railroad Soda Lake fu tb l heath Death Valley Vale The owners of the borax bor read r ad seem to t be very much in earnest about this thi line Un I rOam am convinced that that It will nihl wi go through h Ae We e have negotiations well wel under way wa looking looking toward tow rd their connection with us u aid said Mr 11 Clarke Cl tk We will wil haul haul their supplies and freight from Los Ls Angeles or Salt Suit Lake and deliver It to them at Soda Lake for transmission On other oUter hand to o the tho gold old country the they the will wi deliver their ther oro ore ears cars to us at Soda Lake to t be taken to points of ot con consignment For the present said md Mr 1 Clark Clarl tile the borax people are arc are only planning to build buida a railroad to their own mines These arc ro rc located at th the tho edge cdS of or Death Valley vane I 1 understand the tho surveyed ed road is about ISO miles long I believe they do not intend mie to build on Into the Bullfrog country at nt once The he completion ton of or the road to the Death Deth Valley mines however would make a a comparatively short haul to Bullfrog In lb 11 time I suppose they the will wi build on from Death Deth Valley Valey Into these theoe gold fields The Tho route into Death Val Valley Valle Icy ley le Jold is felds so situated as to make of the line Une into Bullfrog a D very easy matter malter ton We Yo shall certainly c welcome w l ome this branch road as a a feeder that that Will wl en enable enable enable able able us roat to set got a into the heart of ot this country countr The people behind tIns this railroad arc the surety for its it earnest purpose Their financial standing is or of the strongest The Tho borax concern Is very rich Its Is head if the Borax Borax Smith of or Oak Oakland Oakland land The money comes mostly mos y from a syndIcate s of or rich Englishmen |