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Show LINE FROM CALIENTE TO PICCHE ASSURED, SAYS COL BROWN OF NEVADA ... . Col. "Jim" Brown, editor and proprietor pro-prietor of the Caliente Express and the Las Vegas Times, pioneer, raconteur, promoter, rood fellow and protagonist of reform in Lincoln county. Is up from Nevada for a few days, and brings the interesting: information that Pioche will soon "be connected with the outer world by a. branch line from Caliente.. This item of news. In connection with other railroad work that is planned for Nevada, Ne-vada, is important to the many persons who have interests in either the newly-discovered newly-discovered gold fields or the old and rejuvenated camps.' "Pioche," said Col. Brown - at the Southern hotel yesterday, "is taking on some of the airs It had twenty years ago and promises to become a booming camp again. . The old silver mines are being worked and new ones ..developed, and with silver going up the way It is, there should be a lot more money made In this district. Outside capital Is being be-ing invested and mining men are showing show-ing every confidence In the section. Branch Lin to Be Built. - "I have received Information from a source that cannot be questioned, that a branch line will be built from Calient Cal-ient to Pioche and at an early date. As a starter, some of the light steel on the Salt Lake Route that is being replaced re-placed by heavier rails, will be employed em-ployed in the construction of the line. This road will mean much for both Caliente Cal-iente and' Pioche. . "Of course. Caliente Is sure to be a good place anyway, as the recent gold discoveries there have panned out as well as ai expected. Indeed, there has been a pietty extensive excitement there Even the town itself has been located for mining ground. The character of the rock discovered promises great things. Los Vegas Well Located. "lias Vegas, wriere I am running the Las Vegas Times, Is coming along nicely nice-ly and we expect to have a city there in a short time. It is the best located 'of any of the towns along the route. The announcement that a branch line will be built from that point into the Tono-pah. Tono-pah. Bullfrog and Goldfleld districts has Imprested every one with the future fu-ture of Las Vegas, as it .will undoubtedly undoubt-edly become th outfitting point for the gold fields in the interior. Things are certainly looking bright downwur way. It's no temporary boom and we plo-r.eers plo-r.eers expect to grow up with the country." coun-try." Col. Brown Is largely responsible for the reform movement that has recently recent-ly swept over Lincoln county. Two of the officers have been indicted by the grand Jury, and oth?r prosecutions are to follow. It is a-lmitted that the county coun-ty has been robbed right and left for twenty years. Starts Eeform Crusade. The people had pretty nearly grown reed to the corruption when Col. Brown arrived from Butte f-nd started his paper. pa-per. He immediately began a fight on the grafting officials that has turned things upside down. The county borrowed bor-rowed $168,000 twenty years ago to build a courthouse. Neither Intsrest t or principal has been paid on this debt and It now amounts to $650,000. The oeople who have bfen religiously paving tholr taxs have received no accounting p.nd there Is nothing to fchow for their money. The rottenness was exposed by Col. Brown, and there promises to be a change In the regime, with a number of the corrupt offlclals brought to Justice. |