Show tI ORAX S SMITH ROAD OPENS NESt V COUNTRY Expects to Compete Strongly With Clark and Harriman Harriman Harriman Har- Har riman Lines MAKE HIM RICHEST MAN Great Deposits Depots of Borax Are Mint of Wealth for for Owner Rhyolite Nov Nev May IS Tue The for Bor ax Smith extension of ot tho the Santa Fe Fc which Is Is building north from froni rom the district with as asan asan an an 11 objective rn point not only will viii make the he potential millions of Borax Smith a reality but will vill open up an entirely new country countr one that has been practically a sealed scaled book h by I reason of the ot of the southern end of Death alle valley ailey Chief Engineer Ryan of or the Borax Smith railroad who is now looking over the time ground for Cot tho the terminals ter ter- tere ter- e of the road and who ho has been with Smith in his enterprises es for lot the time thelast thelast last 30 years ears dl discussed tho the opening I of the thc new country and anel Borax Hot Smiths Smith's l Ideals c als franlel frankly to together ether with the results that tho building of this road toad will wIlI have h upon tho the southern countr country Won Ol Oll Ilace Huce For FOJ Claims I r T havo been with Smith since he lie henr nr st t conceived the proposition of or the time borax company said Engineer Eng Ryan Han I r know the truth of the time stor story that the tho only season reason that Smith now controls controls con con- trois tho the Lila Llla C. C mine and ond other great deposits was because he won out In Ina a race for or tho claim by travelling night as well as day a while his rivals camped camp camp- ed d along alonE the thc road 11 The story is a atrue atrue atrue true one ono When the tho great wagons wagon with their theil mulo twenty teams first began to haul out the borax it took 35 days lays to make mako the he round trip from flom the mines to the tho railroad and Smith constantly fretted the elas over CI delays It was as as fat far back as the first ship ship- mont nent of or borax that this roa road wac va planned an and amid at that time tin we never conceived the idea of gold mines The Tue discovery ory of gol gold in the Dull Bul- frog trog rog district brou brought ht the tilt question of the he road to 10 a head an and amid Rh Rhyolite was picked out as an objective point Thc Tho road load now is nearing Ing comple- comple tion lon Within thin DO 90 days the last ast tie and rail will be he laid antI an and l trains will wiil bo ho I J UY au I I and Los Angel Angeles s. s r 1 Expect to 0 Haul Hanl Much Juch Ore OC I We c are expecting to do 10 an ams im immense un- un I mense amount of freighting to and ami from tho southern Nevada a mining country The opening of the line will give a short roa road to 10 Los Angeles an anSan and San Francisco and ancl we will ivill be able to put goods into Rhyolite In a way to compete strongly with the Salt Lake Route and Southern Pacific and will also be In the field for the freighting of or ore especially after aHer the building of the smelter in Los Lo Angele Angeles That there will vill be plenty of ore and borax to haul goes bOOS without say say- ing Our engineers who have ha been through ough the country thoroughly re report report report re- re port more than titan worth of or orore ore blocked out In the Bullfrog dl district dis 11 triet alone Besides that there are the mines of Greenwater of Leo and of the Death valley vaHey country In this I r have not counted our own borax There Thero Is 15 more than a billion tons ton of borax In the valley that be belongs belongs belongs be- be longs to Smith and every ton of or it is worth May Bo lie World Richest Man It is this supply now that that ho has the means of ot marketing it readily that makes maltes Borax Smith the tho richest man in the tho world for cor ho not miot only can control tho the borax hora market at any anytime anytime time but his supply is practically in In- In exhaustible I It was the Immensity of these borax deposits Hs that mado made it possible for him to make the tho cuts an and amid fills in tho the Greenwater country countr that he did did In In some Iome places at the cost st of more than a mile for grading alone will be the distributing point for tho the line for it is here that tha the junction with the tho other roads louds Ii In iii Inthe the state will be made and amid m from here most of or the distributing orders to I Lo Los os Angeles Salt Lake an and the East Eat will wll come |