Show THE RAILROAD TO PIOCHE at last it looks as if the wand grand old camp of pioche in lincoln county nevada is to have railroad communication with the outside world as it is stated that the contractors have already begun work on the grade while it is a well known fact that a large amount of building material has been assembled at caliente the point at which the branch line will leave the salt lake route for this home of great mineral producers only twenty eight miles distant what a quickening effect the acquisition of railroad transportation will have upon the mining industry of pioche and surrounding districts a region that is an empire ampire within itself and whose mines in the past have produced many millions in silver and lead mines which have made fortunes for hundreds and a camp that was in the heyday of prosperity at the time that the comstock lode of virginia city was a veritable mint from which the world at large drew a large portion of its circulating medium A generation ago pioche was more widely known than are the splendid camps callips ot of tonopah and goldfield of this day and age pioche was the wonder of the day with its marvelous raymond ely its meadow valley and other magnificent producers railroads in those days were out of consideration as far as this rich but isolated camp was concerned but a man could well withstand the hardships of a long overland ride when he knew knew that he would land in a bonanza camp where wages were high and where he had a chance to make a fortune within a few months freight rates were high but what cared the mine owners of the camp for this when thousands of tons of thousand dollar ore was as easily obtained as building material from a stone quarry and what need to stand aghast at a long wagon haul from toano boano on th the southern pacific when two men coul could dwor wort abreast on a face of ore into which the could drive their picks to up the e eye ye i in 11 horn silver and chloride ore whose values value ran several thousand ounces in silver to the ton pioche in the past when men of nence in mining affairs of today were still in short clothes wa was s a camp of several thousand inhabitants it was a wide open place and money was as free as water and whisky was more so two or three daily papers kept interest keyed up to the high est point a telegraph line brought in the news from the outside and the streets were lined with people day and night in 11 the regime of the camp the bandit was an ail im I 1 factor and bullion wagons were so frequently held up that a repetition of buchl such events caused but a ripple of excitement among nien men who were daily taking fortunes from the mines pathetic indeed has been the history 1 of the camp since the crime of 1873 when wheal silver was practically de and iti it was not long afterwards before the town torn and camp degenerated almost into oblivion the few inhabitants remaining realizing year after year that they were deniz enss of a place that would outrival sleepy hollow the very solitude of which would invite dementia or brainstorm of late years however pioche has been coming into its own again and with the completion of the railroad bids fair to even eclipse its brilliant past at the presena presenta presen tj time gigantic mining enterprises have gained a foothold there and some of the grand old mines of the camp whose real wealth in the precious and baser metals has been only conjectural conjectural will doubtless duplicate if not excel their production of fl i the past while new mines bonanzas in in e em are showing up most encouragingly as development work progresses like an echo from the past we are now hearing j more of districts surrounding pioche old bullionville Bulli onville is once more the scene of ac jackrabbit Jack rabbit gives every assurance of of again becoming a great producer bristol has the call to the copper world and highland the home of several famous prodoc i ers holds out an inviting and wel welcoming welcomed I 1 hand to the mine owner the capitalist ant and the investor j the present outlook for pioche is most alosi encouraging and more it is especially at the camp has reached the stags stage of rejuvenation and we all glory in the fact |