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Show The Deep Creek Road. .) Salt Lake is growing. Since the last election -Mi realty, has advanced quite $1,000,000; trade is lJ good, the merchants are doing well; despite tho ', i advanced prices of material and in the wages ot -j mechanics, an immense amount of building is go- ing on; tho mines are yielding superbly; it is fair ''''jfK to say that the season is generally prosperous. t Yet at the risk of seeming tedious we again , 'v'l warn tho proporty owners that thoy are neglect- .j ing a wonderful opportunity in not moving to ' "I build the road to Ely. Tho work is now in full progress to divert the trade of Nevada to Call-fornla. Call-fornla. That Is what the road from Cobra to Ely means; that is what the Clark road will mean ' ' when it Is extended to Ploche and north of Piocho. If it is successful rt will mean that tho trade of Salt Lake will be restricted to Utah. n'i Either of a dozen men could put this project of building a road to Ely into form. If some gen- if tleman who has money and tho confidence of his I.,' fellow citizens there are many such would head r a subscription with a fair sum, say ?10,000, and , '. ji start out in earne"st to solicit his neighbors to :.'' HHHHHHHHHMMWHnMMHK I join him, wo think he would get subscribed from: Three men or firms, each $50,000 From thirty more, each 10,000 From twenty more, each .... . 5,000 From twenty more, each 3,000 From one hundred more each 1,000 That would be over ?700,000. A small portion of that would make a preliminary survey and obtain ob-tain contracts for hauling the ore from Diigway, Granite, Fish Springs, Gold Hill, Deep Creek, Kearn, A.urum, Munsey and two or three more mining districts. Not one of these at present is near any road or contemplated road. There would be money enough left to push the road out to Dugway and give the credit 'to extend it to Granite. That ak q would secure a revenue of $600 per day freight on 200 tons of ore at $3 per ton. Stock would be taken for part of the grading grad-ing and steel. Then to complete it to Ely, with heavy rails and full equipment, probably $1,700,- 000 more would be needed. With such a showing and with a guarantee of the Interest being paid until the road was finished, would there be any trouble in floating 5 per cent bonds to that amount at par? . Not much. Reaching Deep Creek, there would be more freight for the road. Then as the road progressed" Aurum and Munsey would swell the freight on ore to 1,000 tons per day. Reaching Ely, the people peo-ple would need everything in the way of lumber, hardware, groceries, clothing, coal everything used In building up and running a mining camp. There would be a large passenger service, probably prob-ably 100 each way dally. The camps this side of Ely would require much material. The road would be the difect line between two permanent points. From Ely by automobile it would be but a daylight ride to Bristol, Ploche, Manhattan, Goldfield, Bullfrog, Silver Peak or Tonopah. It would add to the trade of Utah the trade of all southeastern Nevada, and the road would, more than half the way, be on the great mineral belt that extends from Deep Creek to beyond Tonopah west, and to below Ploche south. There should be added to it another 100 miles to the coal fields 'south or to the coal and timber east as might be determined upon, unless the roads now centering here or the Moffatt road would do the fair thing about coal, for the consumption con-sumption of coal and coke in eastern Nevada is going to be something immense. It is of vital interest that the property owners of this city consider this matter. They would make money faster by mortgaging their realty for half its value and putting the money into this enterprise than they can in any other way. The road would pay their mortgages off In two years after completion and pay them as much more every two years all their lives. |
