| Show TOWN TO BE OUT probability THAT WHOLE TOWN OF WADSWORTH WILL MOVE TO RENO will follow the prospective removal of the shops work now in progress leaves wadsworth afi the tracks the great improvement work now going on along the southern pacific seems to indicate the history of that state BO far as towns are concerned the contracting firm of kilpatrick brothers which did lucli of the reconstruction st work on the union pacific is now engaged in building a cutoff cut off that is designed to do away with the heavy grades in the neighborhood of wads and for some milea to the eastward it is this big and cosely improvement that threatens the existence of wadsworth for the new line will pass two miles to the southward of the present town and the railroad company is planning to change the division terminal from wadsworth to aeno and remove the wadsworth chops to that place C E higbee one of Kil patricks foremen who has been at the reed several daya said last night officials in the general office of the southern pacific display no hesitancy in admitting improvements improve menta now in progress will leave wadsworth two miles or more away from the future main line of the central pacific and that the railroad shops will be removed to keno but they are somewhat secretive about the future plans of tho company the new line it is explained will leave the present main line some miles to the westward of wadsworth and follow a more advantageous route to the southward of the truckee river the present line is north of the river wadsworth s at present the junei tion point of the sacramento and salt lake divisions and there are located the division roundhouse car repair shops and machine shops As a division lera minal it has grown into a town of con sid erable proportions since the central pacific was first opened fot traffic which event marked the dawn of its existence the census of 1000 gives it a population of and the entire population directly or indirectly owes ita living to the railroad the great bulk of the population is made up of railroad em aloyes and their families many of whom have built pretty homes in the imme alte vicinity and surrounded them with trees and flower gardens thus lending an air of prosperity and importance to the j settlement and making of wadsworth j a pretty oasis in a prairie waste the j other inhabitants are mostly tradesmen I 1 tavern keepers and others who cater I 1 to tho domestic necessities of the rail j road community with a few indians and cowboys to add a local coloring to the picture thus the town is entirely dependent on the railroad for its very existence and lyhun tue community is denuded of its population of railroad em aloyes as it will be when the shops are removed to aeno and reno becomes the division terminal wadsworth will be deprived of its only excuse for the tradesmen saloon keepers and others who have lived prosperously on tho patronage of the railroad employed emp loyes will it goes without saying join in the general hegira from wadsworth all the people of wadsworth except those in the railroads employ and their families are much concerned about the impending fate of the now prosperous community the railroad employed emp loyes it is learned have been given to under stand that they will not suffer any losa through the change while the officials of alie company profess to habte no knowledge of the matter and decline for obvious reasons to discuss the com banys intentions it is understood that those employed emp loyes who have invested their earnings in homes in wadsworth will not be made to suffer any loss through the deterioration of realty values the southern pacific lias acquired a tract of acres of land in the eastern outskirts of reno of which 40 acres were purchased or transferred on mondoy of this week these holdings are to ba augmented by other purchases until the company has a sufficient acreage for its new railroad yards shops and building sites for those of its employed emp loyes who will soon be compelled to abandon their homes in wadsworth such at least is the assurance given to the employed emp loyes most interested the southern pacific officials while admitting that the changes on alic central pacific necessitate the removal of the wadsworth shops to reno sooner or later profess to know nothing about the real estate it ial understood that during the last few months while tho company has been perfecting its big schemes of improvements everything possible has been done to discourage disco the idea that reno was destined to attain the importance of a division terminal an official announcement that the entire population of wadsworth Wada worth would move into reno and that the division shops would be established at that point would la voi provoked a boom in real calato not entirely to the railroad companas comp anys liking in eplite of the secretive methods of the company however a few aco yle who apparently had better in forma kioa than the majority oi residents are reported to have made big investments in aeno real estate during the last few months with prospects of profiting greatly in the little boom that is now breaking out in the jovn |
