| Show SANTA FE AFTER NEVADA TRADE index san bernardino gala cala the santa fe railroad company is taking the final step to get control of the mineral traffic which will come from death valley and that part of the Amar gossa desert which is close to the sink negotiations are reported to be now in progress progress for the acquisition of the so called brock road by this means the santa fe will have a line ex tending through the new copper and borax belt from ludlow to hazen it w will 11 tap greenwater Green water beatty rhyolite and the goldfield and tonopah districts borax smiths railroad is building on to beatty it is uncertain whether smith owns the santa fe road or the latter owns the smith road the interests of both are identical and intermingled the smith road taps the borax deposits which charles M schwab is now developing about green water the brock road is coming from the north it leaves the southern pacific at hazen nev and goes through the tonopah and goldfield country to beatty its ultimate destination was to have been the greenwater Green water country and now a deal is said to be progress to tie up the two roads the smith and the brock lines together er from both a mining and a railroad standpoint the deal is an important one it means the control of a great mine and smelter traffic aside from the tonopah goldfield traffic there is to come the copper and borax freighting in the funeral mountains during the fall the schwab people will build a smelter at ash meadows the smith road would reach the smelter as would also the brock road the combination of the two gives to the santa fe the present control of that traffic john brock is himself an important figure in the mining development of the desert while borax smith was building his road to get at his own borax ledges brock who had bought the schwab treasury stock in the big greenwater death valley mines was starting the other road to get to this mineral belt as well as to other districts in which he is interested the reported purchase of the brock road by the santa fe if the report is true will mark the first entrance which the transcontinental line has made into the mineral fields of the amar gossa country it is expected that there will be more spur building by the southern pacific and salt lake interests |
