Show along the salt lake route in southeastern nevada for twenty years or more it has been the fond dream of salt lake to have a di I 1 and all rail connection with los an geles to connect by steel bands the city of the saints with the city of the angels at least a dozen times during this period railroads on paper have been projected project eil el with the object of bringing about a realization of this long desired condition and in the railroad to los angeles became the topic of conversation on the street or in the hotel lobby but it is often that the unexpected happens even when hope long deferred had made the heart sick and it is because of the trying experience that has attended the effort to connect salt lake with southern Cali fornias chief city that we all f feel eel the it is hardly more than two years now since the above named railroad company came into existence but these two years have been crowded with stirring events for the company and during this period wonders have been accomplished and serious obstacles have been overcome in the building of a road through mountain fastnesses fast nesses and through a desert and desolate country 7 ar 2 urn war 77 n J I 1 i MAIN STREET TOWNSITE LAS VEGAS ARMOURS ICE PLANTS IN COURSE OF ERECTION W higgans photo by corydon each instance the salt lake public has been beai disappointed I 1 for the roads have never materialized and nothing was ever done in their construction other than the running ot of several surveys and the grading of a few miles of roadbed road bed indeed so repeated were these failures after columns column s upon colons of hope inspiring articles had appeared in Q the newspapers ers of salt lake and los angeles that the subject came to be regarded as a standing joke among the peo ale e and the chestnut bell was rung when more rejoiced over the fact that it will be but a few short weeks now before metropolis and an d los angeles are joined uri in one common bond before the conductor conduct or at salt lake will call out all aboard for los angeles while a similar announcement will echo back from the beautiful city nestling so close to the great san pedro harbor whose existence is no mean feature in incon connection with the benefits to be derived by zion upon the completion of the san pedro los angeles and salt la lake ke railroad 17 in extending the path of progress and civilization and in making it possible to establish thrifty towns and mining camps in places formerly the home of the coyote and in localities almost unknown to the world worl dat at large in the beginning but slow progress was made and the preliminaries were so long in their form formation aaion that more than once th the 0 statement was made by doubting ones that it was not the intention of t the he company to build more than a few miles of road and that what was being done was more in the way of a bluff than anything else but as mile after mile of road was pushed out into the desert as numerous tunnels were bored through the mountains as the roadbed was of the very best and finely equipped and when heavy work was begun on the california end of the line confidence was slowly restored in the legitimacy of the project and when the two ends of the road were r M tz t tt tf u A w A 91 t t w A if K tv r y 4 f i w V s 1 t pi pi acie W ff rt k 16 N P VL i U if tou T aa V 11 f iff i 7 a f f aa W U ag rf A ss 2 alao at r C me C re AM 1 i v WN fitz 1 boyd 1 1 ts t s S 7 1 re N u s J f H S ss AVs 1 v b ff ea comm I 1 p q 9 rf S p X fa f i v k ir 5 1 oj 11 I 1 dap 0 t I 1 Jyo V f A oye N r S ate y w w f r 0 o S s A A ga GOLD az CENTER T 9 R U k f ii 41 1 f li sf 1 1 chaw lu u 0 cr 5 U w 4 F 4 tb r if ti f T t f Z ios 4 0 N p 7 t m I 1 sa s1 1 9 MOARA MO r ij is lw dewy S cia pl 1 vf n ISS 5 iw y ea o ta H ADOW radow r S 4 L oft f WIT ki vt nitea ww cw i y oa 07 3 Wl oAf cyz i la SW w LAS S VEGAS ft f W an s jbf 1 byj e 1 i A buso so r i sf as z A 4 r colwy trl sw s V gara rcy v j tso Z effi v A rk m f afo X fyd i 1 y s 0 fea n awa Jw a i J vy V y 9 yx 1 l c yo t tf yos nearly met and when a loop was run around to effect a temporary connection a thrill of joy tingled the being of every enterprising and prominent citizen both in salt lake and in los angeles for the hope and aspirations of a quarter of a century were about to be realized already salt lake is beginning to feel fee the benefits resulting from the building of the san pedr 0 road although it will be a month or two before through traffic with the coast will bring our people into close touch with the land of oranges and with the busia ness men at tidewater in nevada several stirring and progressive towns have sprung up like a gourd in the night just over the utah nevada line a score of miles or more is the thrifty town of caliente which is environed by a stretch of country that is rich in its mineral indications and which is already the outfitting outwitting out fitting point for several prominent mining camps including pioche and delamar further down the road is las vegas a town of mushroom growth that already gives promise of growing into a substantial metropolis of the desert and which will in time become the commercial of a vast stretch of country and the out fitting point for the many new camps now springing up in the isolated mountain ranges of southern nevada already arrangements range ments are being made for the regular shipment of ores over the salt lake route to our valley smelters shelters sm elters and already the travel southward is on the increase and hundreds are seeking the mineral bearing fields of this land of wonders over the new line dropping off at points along the road in order to penetrate the interior while from the most southern point in nevada even at the wonderful camp of searchlight a reawakening is being manifested and ores are being piled on the dump preparatory to shipment to the salt lake smelters shelters sm elters which heretofore were consigned to denver or to the selby works near san francisco or which could not stand the freight charges to these far distant markets hope and courage has been infused into the country along the line of the salt lake route and its near completion predicates an era of progress and prosperity that will add immensely to the greatness and proud fame of a section that is even now the object of absorbing interest in mining commercial and financial circles the world over |