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Show ELY-GOLDFTELD RAILROAD. I Tho Tribuno yesterday morning reprinted re-printed a dispatch from San Francisco which spoko of the connection of tho Tonopa'h & Tidewater railway with tho West .crn Pacific 1)3 the construction of a track fnun Goldficld to 33Iy. Tho dispatch dis-patch discussed this connection in somo detail, and stated positive- that .railway .rail-way surveying parties wcro at work between be-tween Goldfield and ly, presumably with a view to tho construction of such a track. We do not know what thero is in this present talk about a railway from Ely to Goldfield. But there has been talk from timo to time of such a road, and also of a road from EI3- to Tonopnh, which would perhaps be a part of the same gcnoral scheme. Whatever thero may bo in the story, it all tends to the ono point that thero is nocd of somo railroad building out i that direction. The connection of tho Tonopah & Tidewater Tide-water railroad with EI3- by way of Gold-field, Gold-field, would open for tho Western Pacific Pa-cific a direct line to Southern California. And would givo it a close connection either at Los Angeles or somo other const point at tho south, with the sea. But there is another and quite different, dif-ferent, and perhaps more important, fea-turo fea-turo of this proposition of a railroad from Goldfield or Tonopah to Ely, and that is that such a link would be an important im-portant feature in the most direct possiblo pos-siblo lino from this city to San Francisco, Fran-cisco, With a road from ThiBtle Junction Junc-tion or from St. John in Tooele count3', over to Ely, as promised by Mr. Clark, thenco to Tonopah or Goldficld. thence through tho Sierras at the lowest; pass known to it, Mono Pnss, thenco to Sonoma and Stockton, then to Oakland, would bo by considerable tho most direst di-rest and shortest route to San Francisco from Salt Lake. It would savo a good deal of distance as compared with cither tho Western Pacific or tho Southern Pacific Pa-cific linos. It would have bettor grades, and would probnblj- bo able to mako better bet-ter time than cither cf tho old roads. Wo consider as a certain thing that somo timo such a direct lino will bo built between this city and San Francisco. Fran-cisco. And tho link between Ely and Tonopah or Goldficld will be a part of that trackage. Wo aro glad to seo this railroad talk for that part of Nevada, because it all fits in wonderfulb' well with the direct-line project indicated, from this cit3' through Mono Pass direct to Tho B:y. |