Salt Lake Telegram | 1913-11-12 | Page 4 | Freighting to Mining Camps

I 4 Freighting M to Mining Camps Within a few fe months after the Comstock w vas a s d discovered f i Aurora miles south was found and was at first believed to tobe toI be a rival rial of the great lode But after two or three years the thc I surface ores' ores were worked out Repeated efforts were made to f find pay ores in the depths and vast sums w were re expended in the se search but without avail For a quarter quartel of a century the camp i was looked upon l as practically dead though the outcrop th there re i is splendid But it seems a great lower ore body h has s been found f und und and the News of Carson reports that a mighty struggle is going on to get in the he thousands of tons of freight needed before the 4 4 winter storms set in that big teams and motor trucks are emi employed em em- i but the roads are so cut up as to be almost impassable I The rhe roads there are as a rule on first class ground for roads andI and I i the sensible thing to do do even cven now would woud be to put scrapers anc and I I I heavy rollers roBel's on the roads an and when repaired repaire to keep them then I sprinkled The jam of teams cannot compare compare with what was seen in the i early carly Comstock days but the roads did not wear out ouI then The i road from Genoa on this side of the thc Sierras to Placerville or on 1 the other side was kept smooth by constant rolling and by bT r t sprinkling its il whole le length every da day though the traffic averaged aver aver- aged d big teams daily b besides sides the stages and th the small teams 1 Auto Aulo trucks cannot be successfully navigated on cut up roads But what a state that old Nevada is Think of the new newt t bonanzas in Aurora