Show SHOULD COME THE DIXIE WAY prominent railroad locating engineer says line should have come this way in first place there 13 no occasion for rivalry between pioche and st george in relation to the probable change of route of the san pedro road said a prominent locating engineer who spent some time going over the ter antory below the meadow valley wash country just before the great flood came which destroy cd more than 60 miles of the railroad track railroads are built and operated to make money bogli the pioche mining region and the st george agricultural and mining country are capable of furnishing a large amount of freight and pas nger business for any railroad that hlay reach some road is certain to pene arale these districts before long why should not the salt lake route bo the first to build and secure the business of both st george and pioche one lying south and the other north of the iron mountains and pine valley range of mountains A glance at a railroad map wall show that the original lines are in good condition from lund to barclay and from near caliente to pioche and that only a short piece of line between barclay and caliente was destroyed by the recent flood reconstructing this destroyed stretch on higher ground between barclay or crestine and some safa point in the pioche branch would enable people to continue shipping ore to the shelters smelters sm elters and getting their supplies from salt lake city as before the washout it must bo borne in mind that no part of the pioche district has ever been on the main line of the salt lake route and that its people will be as well off on a branch line from lund as on a main line from caliente with the northern country thus provided with transportation facilities the through line could as it ought to have been in the first place be built from lund or thereabouts to the east end of the iron mountain thence passing near the coal fields and the virgin oil held to st george thence down the virgin or across the spur aa ing west of santa clara creek to near on the virgin nver and chinco down that stream to st thomas near the mouth of the muddy this would quadruple the local traffic of 1909 and bring the road in contact with both coal and fuel oil neither of winch is found on or near alio line originally built from st thomas to a connection with the salt lake route track the route would be determined by surveys and good judgment some critics object to following up the muddy on the ground that alie waters of meadow valley wash find their outlet through that drain ago and that a railroad on the muddy creek would be in danger of floods like alio recent one there is little in that criticism for the muddy valley being wide would afford ample room for nearly any amount of water to pass off without noticeable effect on the railroad rail roid A line could 1 built to moapa on either side of muddy creek on ground high to insure absolute lafity but is it to build to moapa that station is of little importance aside from being a shipping point for alie products of the muddy valley and como othir station say at the crossing of the muddy valley at or near st thomas would be even preferable as a shipping station for the truck farm ing region up and down the virgin ind muddy valleys buness will probably show that it is antt necessary to connect the new line with alio old at moapa for is ii strong presumption that nrc advantages in crossing the judth valley near st thomas and lunning chenco tt esterly to a connection the line of the salt lake route somewhere between and las at a point the topography invites nea tf i f |