Deseret Evening News | 1906-11-03 | Page 2 | Salt Lake to Tonopah

SALT LAKE TO Line Is I s lIt it I iii If present nt plans are curried out omit Salt Sail Lake hould be In direct railroad corn com with Tonopah 10 ev ere many months have passed A s already set forth C W V and assocIates of at thin city have hae planned to bulk build u a alight light road from Irem Salt Lake to EI Ily ev while the Snit Juke Lako Route has haR Its eye on n a project of oC extending ending n a branch line IIno Into th the Deep Creek country Now comes the statement that Pres of at the Railway company has hns taken up the mutter of oC es en connections with his line IIno at 11 liy While PrelImInary have havo been run Urock Drock denies that the tho road Is In progress of oC organization It I Is stated how however er that several of at attil oftie til tie mining men In pimia un l southern Nevada are con consider considering ing the tho seriously With the proposition nn an all as fact lart und and ho Tonopah built to El EI the between Ton anti and alt Take Lake will be materially trimmed tn In fact It would be the most direct line to central Nevada points Thor Then of at course the Pacific will he be a factor hint will cut heavily In Into into to the tho earnIngs ot of the lie Southern on oil and tra traffic tile To date dato the Pacific has the tho advantage and is III pu pushIng its lis lIne IIno across the tho desert the tho desert ts IS now flOW being pushed nt at the rate rolo ot of 1 a mile 1 o da day The l be country covered I in nil as level nil as the proverbIal billiard table and amI there Is no grading to tobo tobe bo be done dolls the ties being laid usually on time sand land and Ind the road roadbed bell will be formed by dumpIng ballast In and raising the tracks A gang of oC 00 men Is now workIng pushing this line west while supplies can nn now be loaded on the cars carsIn In III Salt alt Lake Inko arid transported to the Ide Cd ot of the desert