Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-09-04 | Page 6 | Railroad to Contact Camp is Significant

Ill ' ' f 9 f ' RAILROAD TO CONTACT g !; f : tel fj ,; CAMP IS SIGNIFICANT ! A' il- f o Mi Local circles who are Interested in the !,i j rC O : ' Contact mining district of Nevada are p: j , J ' "A-f . , watching tho extension of the railroad fe ' 1, yj from Boise City to Wells. New, with much JJ- Ikl pr Usfr l ' interest. Contact has a world of copper fc 7 j ' ' IV ! ore right on the surface, while what work Si m . , k ' has been done at depth has shown tho f. ' ' mhH continuity of the resources. The camp ( Il ' I iligei now ls sixty miles from a railroad point, ' I ' r lt I J and that has retarded development nat- K 1 ( h Ik r urally. Tho Boise railroad ls expected ,to mv l t it1 t he extended into Ely at the earliest pos- Hi' : I 'Ik f 5 f slble moment, and then Contact shippers ! ; ' i l R a 1 w111 lia" a ready market for their prod- H- fl rf ft 1jat. and without expensive, railroad haul L . j H ' 8 t0 say nothing of being relieved of trans- H' - 'j f i porting their product some sixty miles bv ' H f S0"-