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Show 'its glory departing Town of Wadsworth Will Soon Be Thing of Past. LEFT OFF RAILROAD MAP The Southern Puclflc Reconstruction Leaves the Town A'vay Off on the Side Tralna Have Begun Running Over the Now Stretch of Truck Which Cuts Down long Heivy Grades New Ho id Saves Time, Although Al-though Nine Miles Is Added to the Distance Water (Jrado Followed. Iteno Sev Oct 1 The Southern Paein. tnda) began operating llfty-slx miles of new ttnik ror the tit nt time This stretih nf truk tepresents pirt of the te. onstrtn Hon nf Central Ptcl-tli Ptcl-tli rnr which President Hnrrlmnn Is S en ling i few millions It lies be tween Wndsworth arid Hrowns Htnlion In N'eiada. The distance hy the new route between be-tween Wndnwotttt nn 1 Bruit ns Is about fifty six miles Tint oter the old It was only fortt-seten Hut whnt a dlrter-enie dlrter-enie there l Imtiteeu the two' The old win oter hills and wound like n sntke around th. can)ons The new Is a perfeitlt level water grnde and there are but four curies In slit) miles I tert trelght train had to double nr hate a helper at scleral points on the old and iven Ihe passenger engine had nil tbet could dn to pull eli,ht con.hes oter the White Plalni summit There will be a great sating In time oter the new roadbed eten though nine miles was added to the distance A the new tond dellects n little below Hrowns station It makes a stnlght shoot ror near) ten miles till It mniet to the point below Sa) s rnnch Then there li n bend tn the south out on to the Ungtown desert Next thete Is a xllRlit ittrte to the wet and then almost al-most n straight shoot to the banks of the Truckee, u mile nnd a half south of W .Klnworth WADSWORTH I KIT OCT The town of Wndsworth will soon be n thing of the past Here Is a town of fifteen htindtid people a llfteen tlintisind dollar school house ilt wall wa-ll r woika anl ebcttl. light plant and It will be prictlcallt wiped off the map. nt least as far is being n rillroad point Is concerned The new Hue misses It nbout a tulle and a half In n direct line and It will be about eight miles up the Trttikee whete the new road will connect with the old which will now be maintained as a branch Into Wadsworth GLORY HAS DKPARTHD The town will nlwn)s he something of a place There are the mines at Ollnghouse ind the Ptramld reserta-Hon reserta-Hon Hut the glory of Wudsworlh li departing Assessments this ear were rut In hair nnd will be cut In twain ngiiin next )car but It will be a )ear or more before the lallroid gets nut of Wiidsttnrlh anl Into the new shops at Iteno Wadsworth will no longer be n dltlslon point and the home of tinln crews It will grndu-illy go down Prnpett) Is npl 11) losing value und the Insurance (ompanlea hate withdrawn nil risks finm thnt town 1'ATi: WAS INHVITAHLI, Such n fate ttas Inetltnblo W ids-worth ids-worth was built In a hole. It Ii deep down In the tnllo) of the Truckee wheri the rnilrnid irossed the rlter and entered Ihe desirt Ttalns had to be hel id up the hill out of Wadsworth Wads-worth anl Hum was a bid mrto that mudi It dangetous foi trainmen entering en-tering the town Only a few da)s ago in engineer Inst his life on this curie 1. 1ST UIIADrroR HOD The new roadbed keeps south of the town and high up on the mountain side nboie the rlur Thus the road runs borne ten or twett. miles up the Trui-kee Trui-kee bcrore It begins to illmb and ill-together ill-together thete Is a ter) eas) grade nil the way up the ilur to the Truckee tntudoits This Is known as the desert des-ert grade and the muxlmum Is nbout twent) tict to the mile citoii:i itivui! hi: vex tlmi:s 'flu maximum on the old line between be-tween Wndswoith und Iteno wus about clMit) ftet nnd thete wne mull) bad tunes The mw line ciossis tlte liter sit en times In about llfteen miles and miks ii (.oiniJiiatlvel) straight loud bed The foundations for these brldgts mo all In but the steel Is not ct on tin ground It will take but a shott time to put the bridges up when It nrrltes and piobabl) befote tho tlrst of the vent the Southern l'ultli villi bo lielng n complete in.it line betttten lliowtiB nnd Itmo Htery foot of the wa) la being n built Tho total Increase In-crease In dlstume Is about six miles WONDKH Ol' KM'RY THAVHLKH There Is a sating of Unco miles In ciosHlng tho Tru, kco meadows nnd this hi lugs up a question that has been the wonder of etei) trnielei The oil toad keepi around the meadoits near the foothills to the north and makes a big bend Kter) one hns wondeted why when it w is appatent that It could hute kept straight across the lei el meadows wheni It la now being built Mlbl.D TL'Li: SWAMP. Hut when the load was built nearl) forty tiais ago. the Titir-kee meadows were one tast title swamp The en gineers intild not get thtnugh It eten to make a surtey and It was thought aln ost Impossible tn build a roa 1 across It So the) nalttriill) built ninund It Hut cultltntlon or the meadows has dtalned the land and left It hl(,h and dr) MOUNTAIN fillAnn The mountain grids finm Iteno tn Trtnl.ee begins about three mile eust of Iteno Ilete Is where the railroad shops will be loialed and at th point Ihe mountain engines will be put on V town is bilnk built here known as Kast Iteno Hut It will ill lie inc town Q NOW ItHNO IS AMIR H And now comes the news of another move which has set the people of Reno astir It la reported that the Southern Puilfle contemplates changing Its mini inrougii ueno tn the south side of the rlioi fiom the Insane asylum a mile east of town to the Tohn i-iitks rinch lite m 'a up the rltrr The local press published this week ac counts of the new nine) for this ihange 'Ibis would make a I ettet grade and do away with mani had curtes CHNOK NOT LIKHLY But it hardly aeems probible in Men of the tact that the South. in Pacltic eompan) ha Just put In i bid to build a tubiia under their ttaiks at their Intersection with Mtglnln street a offers to do this work for J6H00, the lount) to hear half the exi mse nnd the tallioad the other Inlf It would not need this stibwa) it the line Is ihunged to thi south si le or ihe rlter Ihe change would m ikf u gieit dif feienre to business hous and i roptit) holders "NT 1 A( t np.ocaiiT 01 1 Th new in . b tiiedi Hrown nnd R' io u it lllu trillion of the f rt utat the road was uot built In the I first ptinc fi the sake of tre land grant subbid) It his been (harged Hi it the lominnt built the road to get mileage and lt pa) from the C.ovcrn-tiient C.ovcrn-tiient Hut It Is hard to understand In uny evint tth) It did not built by I thi wa) of Ragtown Here It could hate gotten more mileage and Fallon Is but twelte mlhs distant with some ur tin best ugrlcultutnl lands In the State at that point. t HANOH A W 1SL ONI! Instrud It chose to go by wa) of Hot Ml lings while theie ttas not a foot of good land In foil) miles, and the I grading- wua vet) exiensltt Not only this but the cost for helpers and fuel oter the Hot Springs route would hate built the road b) the wat of Ragtown seteinl times It has cost practical!) nothing to grade oter the desert on the pew line, and the eompan) Intended to lay new steel In nn) elint to the change has been a wise mote ROAD IIHD TlIU ULS1 TJie eompan) Is sparing no expense to make the road be I the tot) best This Is shown by the work at Hiowns hill Fonnerly the road climbed oier this hill ninety-lilt feet high Vow It mikes through this hill the biggest cut on the whole ststem It is 1100 teet long nnd the maximum depth In the center Is about 90 teet The company com-pany made this enormous excavation when b) simp!) going about u mil' flintier south It would hate had a cut iilrend made b) the tltir wlildi dtnlns Ilumlinldt lake lint this would hate made n bad curve and dittos ate to be molded as tnuih us grades So It was first ditet mined to tunnel tluough Ihe ljjll but when the stntted Ihe work Ihey found the mat n loose t,ntel ro unstable thit the cut was made to the surfs re WILL HH MlANpnVED There was no business on lite ol 1 line between Wndsworth nnd Browns ex cept the Leete salt works These it ill probahl) hate to I e abandoned and also al-so the station and po'nrH. e nt Irfete There Is the P. hmldl salt works at While Plains, but the new rood will be still more contenlent for Hies, w orke NKW STATION TO RE BUILT The new road will be much nearer the great (arson rlter valle) and an Imtortatit station will be established on the desert for the accommodation of the pool le or Chut chill (Oiinl) The jeople of this count) ate also making stieiutoiiM efforts foi a liiamh line to Pillon, will, li will probahl) be the new county sent of Churchill und hate raised u large subsid) to Hits end CARSON AND COLORADO And now we come to the most Interesting Inter-esting Hpeculatlon of all It Is but twent) -three miles on an air line acioss from the new loud near Ragtown to l'ort Churchill on the Carson rlter whete tho southern l'u tie company owns Ihe Cnrson ,v. lolotado narrow guage What (ould be more natural than that It should mike a connection j 'between the two7 Huslness will de I inaml thnt this lie mide Ahead) I large ore shipments are , omlng out i oter the Carson A. Color ido for Silt I Lake Clt) This ore now goes around b) the tin) of Mound House where It li transferred to the Virginia cv. Truckee thence tn Reno The distance fiom Port Chutihlll to Reno Is about sixty miles and to the Ragtown desert another sixty miles Here Is n haul ot 120 miles over ten hai) grades and two trinsfrrs when thete Is a perfectl) letel country nf nnl) twntt three miles seiuratlng Port Churchill und Itagtnitn C.OINO TO I OS ANOBLFS The detelopments or this lntermotin-tnln lntermotin-tnln cottntr) In time will lead to the ' extension of Ihe Cat son ,v i olorido to Los Angeles It now stops nt Keeler on the shore of Owens like nnd It will requite nnl) nbout 100 mllea to connect tilth the roids Into Los Angeles This connection would sue the long Inn! of fruit trains by tlte wa) of sicramento ot er the Sierras A ghnte nt the map shows that Los Angeles Is nhout due south of Wlnnemucn anl thus the loule by Sacramento Is setenl hundred miles longer with u high mountain range to cross than the wa) by Port Churchill ' IUSTICH TO UNOINULRS It should be said In i losing that to do Justice to the idrly engineers when Hie-Centra! Ptilllc wua built acioss the White Plulns and Hot hpilngs hills the deseit by itngtowu was a swamp and Hooded with wntir ettr) )cur Thete ' was an otetllow from the Humboldt lake every spring and It was next to rnpoHlblo tn iross the -loughs below , It. Utit now the cultltntlon of the ' ranches on the Humboldt uses up the water and It his ptobably been more ' than twent) )curs since the Humboldt I lake ovcrllowed The sloughs In the deeert dried up and it wus an easy matter to build across them and the travelei villi now wonder at the bridges across these dr) rlter chtnnils |
