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Show ;;).D TO ELY. 0 tjc::t that some Rio Grande official call r. C :uU's attention to the fact that f rom Tintic it i j t cna hundred mile-s to the Nevada line; that ire: 1 that point there would be absolutely free sail-i sail-i ever a country that perhaps would not require : :re tl. ui 1C00 per mile for grading; that seventy iil:3 Lcyond is a district where there is going to be a city built. -. - k , : , ; '.. ' .-. Give Jlr. Gould a knowledge of the cost of grad-1: grad-1: a railroad and he does not need any further information in-formation regarding the cost of the road complete ia good form and fully equipped. This official can tell Mr. . Gould also that if he would build that 170 miles of road it would bring ! Lim in a bigger revenue than any other 170 miles of road that he controls in any spot .in the United Htates. It would give him command of a region i that is filled with resources. It would enable him ; to penetrate the very center, of the great mineral bt It of Nevada. . . V ' It is possible he could reach the same point nearer from some point on the contemplated route I of the Western Pacific If he could, so much the I better, although he would miss one or two districts i that the other road would pass.7 - If the official will write him that there are ore bodies developed in Ely district which will supply a consumption of J5000 tons of ore a day for twelve years to come, he will, understand that before that ore can be mined and reduced, a great many men will have to be employed and the houses needed for those men, and for the business of supplying those ' '. men, will make a city a city'perhaps as big as j Butte now is, perhaps as big as Virginia City and ; Gold Hill combined were in bonanza days. . We suspect his cherished dream is to rush the .Western Pacific from San Francisco to a connection ( with the Bio Grande here, but he should not neglect . wide issues, especially when one of said issues would i l-e more to his road than twice its length built any-r any-r .where else through the State of Nevada. ' BHiMHBlBSSBSSSBSSSSeaSlSSMSaSBSSSiSSSSSSMSSSSMSSSSMSSMSMSMHBSBBSBBSBJSHBSSSSSSSSSSk |