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Show BUSINESS iENl MIISHET BUSyf No Utah Hustlers i Gold fields, I Trade Can Be Secured byl Our Jobbers for (Vlere. til Asking. Such Is the News Brought by C. L, I Marsh, Who Has Freight Line I Ready to Start. I Vl "If Sail Lake. Ogden and Provo manu.: factnrcrs, merchants and Jobbers really doflrc to extend their Held of operation '' If they would acquire new Holds and ex tend their present territory. If they caret' to double or treble the present ;mnuM volume of their business, if they be 7 llcvo Utah should bo tho emporium for)-the for)-the surrounding and lesr-clevoloped StatM among which Is Included NcvniJa, they? 1 should lose no time In getting their ren. i resentatlvcs Into tho new mineral fields P that are being opened In southeastern and? southwestern Nevada " fr' This was the remark of C L. Marsh r who returned yesterday morning from .4 some exhaustive work In Goldlleld and J other new Nevada camps In trying to ill. i vert the source of trndo from San Fran-1' Cisco to Utah lown3 Mr. Marsh has 3. h demonstrated to tho merchants of Gold- i Held and Bullfrog that their goods can bo S Inld down cheaper out of Salt Lake lhan I! from San Francisco, and the evidence of r this Is that already Goldlleld merchants it-have it-have begun placing their orders with SaVtiC Lake and Ogden wholesale houses. M'AflHj Marsh Is at the Wilson, and after ln.Hl arrival here yesterday morning rccclvodjW a communication from a Denver cigar1!? factory, stating that already that house had shipped Into Goldfleld, la Callente sjr 50.000 cigars. W Cnliente Is Aroused, W According to Mr. Marsh, the people ofajle Callento are fully aroused to the fact 'ill that tho future' of the town Is already mr1-assured mr1-assured as a Junction and forwarding point. While he, himself, has been the 1'. moving spirit In demonstrating that a wagon road from Callente to-Goldfleld and' j Bullfrog Is the cheapest and quickest ', route for the transportation of merchan- ' dlso. the Callento Commercial club has not been far behind. Last week It petition! i the commissioners of Lincoln county to f. expend a suitable amount on the roads i-from i-from Callente to Sand Springe, which Is , west of Illko, and the petition not only met with a favorable response, but assur- ; nnces - were received by tho Commercial " club that at the next meeting of the -board, which will be the first Monday In ' April, an appropriation of not less than $1000 would be made for this purpose. Utah Houses Not Represented. Mr. Marsh states that the greatest tllf- Acuity he encountered In trying to brlnt; S1, the Goldlleld merchants to consider this 5 as tho market they should buy In was 1 the oft-repeated statoment that they "had t nover yet seen a representathe of a Utah 1; business house." The California men had K been there and as there wero no others g they were perforce compelled to buy from f California "it Is not saying too much," ft said Mr. Marsh, "to assert that all of It the territory south of Tonopah can bo secured for I' tab Jobbers by the mere ; asking." Mr. Marsh gave a minute description of i the route and the distances from Callente to Goldlleld. Tie has selected Callente ns ', the shipping point, in preference lo Lis ' Vegas, for the reason that there Is a 1 stretch of sand extending thirty miles '( from Las Vegas, and that the water sta- i lions from there to Uullfrog are not less ' thnn forty miles apart. From Callente to Bullfrog Is a tiille longer than from the Vegas, but It can be made In lew, i time than from the latter point, on account ac-count of the better character of the J roads, which are of a gravelly formation, ; which does not wash. , Route ns Perfected. The route, as he has It outlined and perfected, Is from Callente to J llko. a dls- : lance of forty-two miles, and thence over Irish mountain to Goldlleld. Ill miles further. The only difficulty m this route I Is the ascent of Irish mountain, hut this Air. Marsh has overcome by building a r new road around the mountain for a ill"- tance of four miles. At one other point. A west of Irish mountain and practically at 4 Its base, he has constructed a cUt-off I which not only eliminates a bad stretch ft of road, but materially shortens the dls- V; tance ! Ills average distance between water 'stations 'sta-tions on the whole route Is twelve mile?, t which makes It entirely pr.ir ticable for forwarding purposes. Many of the water sources are such as nature made, but .' where provision was not made Mr Marsh ' bus developed water," and In nlno places along the route he has opened water ; supplies that did not formerly exist IH.-J, road building nnd changes havo shortened the old road from Callente to Goldlleld by thirty-eight miles. ; Three Hundred Teams Ready Working In conjunction with Mr Marsh Is the manugomont of the Salt Lake Route, and land has been offered .it Cn- ; llonte at a nominal rental for corrals, i stabling space and storage room Three j hundred teams, ranging In capacity from : six to twenty-four animals lo the team, are at his disposal for the overland haul. Mr. Mnrsh will be here the greater portion por-tion of this week and today will meet r with members of the Commercial club, with the merchants nnd shippers, and with the traffic officials of the San Pc- ; dro. Los Angeles & Salt Lake railroad ', |