Show THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC ALREADY HAS A CORPS OF SURVEYORS IN THE FIELD SURVEYING A NEW BRANCH proposed line will be the shortest to the tonopah districts and will open up a rich country to be tributary to ogden there is to be a new route to the tono pah mining district and it will be the shortest on for travel from central or northern utah and for travel from the east or north it will be many miles shorter than any route that can be covered over senator clarka road and besides this advantage it will present less desert travel and tap a richer country in all ways than any other route the new line is to be built by the southern pacific and will be the means of making tonopah and all the rich country surrounding and north of it directly tributary to ogden this line will leave the present line of the southern pacific between elko and carlin nev and will trend south toward eureka there are many fertile valleys along and near this line especially east of it in the ruby mountains that are well cultivated and there is also a prosperous cattle ranching business carried on in that section the mines near eureka nov will also take on new life with a shorter and better route to outside business center hitherto its only communication with the outside world has been by means of a little narrow gauge road the trains on which are run irregularly the new branch will continue a little west of south to tonopah To and form a direct line that will be the shortest into the new mining district that the southern pacific means business and realizes the importance 0 tapping the new districts before a rival is evidenced by the fact that they have already a corps of surveyors in the field and they are working donth sonth from the proposed junction point with the present main line in nevada with the new line to tonopah To ogden would be made the distributing center for another one of the richer districts of the went |