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Show NEW RAILROAD TO BULLFROG DISTRICT CALIENTE. Nev., March 23. Hon. Warren S. Fairbanks and son and MaJ. B. S. Gordon, formerly of tha Queen's Own, a crack British regiment, and members of the English syndicate syndi-cate which owns large holdings In the famous Death valley borax works and mines of which "Borax" 8inlth Is the head, pasmed through town yesterday en route to their mines. They will visit Los Angeles before returning and are representing the Knglirh syndicate In the matter mat-ter of the building of a railroad from their mines to connect with tha Salt Lake Rout at Soda Lake. In an Interview had with these gentlemen. MaJ. Gordon stated that while they were aome-what aome-what unfamiliar with the exact condition of tha trail over which the projected road was to be built, they are fully satisfied that there would be no bitch In the negotiations now under un-der way for the building of a railroad from the mines to Koda Lake, where their project would be turned over to the Rait Lake Itoute. He stated that the suneyed road was about 17ft mile long and that with this road completed they would be In close touch with Bullfrog and that it was only the matter of a few months before their road would be continued to Bullfrog, In which ramp as well as In Goldfield and Tonopah, English capital was finding Its way. The gentlemen came through Canada en route here and said that Canadian capital was reaching out Into the Western gold fields of Nevada and that within the next six months southern and western Nevada would be overrun over-run with mining Investors and. experts from Canada and England. |