Show CLARK RAILROAD NEARS GOLDFIELD New Rates Attra Attracting ting Nevada Business Says J Ross Clark OIL FIELD INVESTIGATION ION INDICATES FUTURE OF DISTRICT IS STILL UNCERTAIN J Ross Clark president of the Las Ye Ve Vegas gas Tonopah raIlroad Is In the city on railroad h He reports construCtion tion work on the roads extension from Beatty Into Goldfield progressing well considering the difficulty of getting con construction men man manOur Our DOur grading to GOldfield le Is about done said Mr Clark and if we have good the rails ought to be laid Into the camp some time next month Our track Is now laid hall half way between Beatty and and crews are at work finishing up as fast a as possible Traffic along the line has been very good and with the rates we put in recently Salt Lal Lake e Is getting a good deal more of oC the Nevada business For Instance one oneat of at your flour men want in after we re reduced reduced the flour rate In July and sold siX carloads as a starter The passenger business too has been surprisingly good and the country Js Is developing so rapidly In the territory to the new newline newline line that the outlook Is most encouraging All the camps are doing big develop development development ment work an and the production of the Nevada eada minea for tor this year Is going to astonish tile the country Mr lr Clark sad the railroad interests had had an Investigation made of the oil oilfields fields but the experts were not ready to pars the future of the field until some flome wells have been put down and the nature of the find is better understood Our mar mal said Mr Clark reported the indications very good but said the amount of oil so tar far ought b up hardly justified an accurate conclusion as to the extent ot of the Its permanency or its possibilities Geologically the surround surroundIngs surroundIngs Ings are favorable and the one well bored Is said to be developed good capacity it remains however for fOT more extensive operations to stoW whether the sanguine predictions made by some of the pros prospectors prospectors wilt will be realized or not It If they are there will be no difficulty about find finding ing a market for the oil or getting facilities ties for shipment eit eiter r by pipe line or orby orby by rail Mr Ir Clark will bl be in town until this evening and will probably have a confer with Mr II Harriman during the Pacific magnates visit here |