Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains/ICC valuations/Death Valley Railroad

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The Death Valley Railroad Company, hereinafter called the carrier, owns and operates a three-foot narrow-gauge railroad from Horton, Calif., on the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad Company, to Devar (or the new town of Ryan), Calif., a distance of about 17 miles. In addition to this, under agreement with the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad Company (a standard-gauge road), it has laid, at its own expense, a third rail on the right of way of the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad Company, to enable narrow-gauge cars to be operated along the portion of the tracks of the Ryan branch of the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad Company from Horton to Death Valley Junction, Calif., over which it operates. It has a similar arrangement also with the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad Company over a portion of that company's tracks at Death Valley Junction. Including these two pieces of third rail, the carrier operates over 20.405 miles of main track and 2.665 miles of other track, or a total track mileage of 23.070 miles. The road is all in the State of California.

Corporate history.—The Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad Company undertook to extend its Ryan branch as an outlet for the borate mined on the east side of Death Valley, Calif., but the California Railroad Commission refused the company a bond issue for that purpose. Thereupon the carrier was incorporated as a separate company by the Borax Consolidated, Limited, of London, England, to serve the same purpose. Both the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad Company and the carrier are controlled through stock ownership by the Borax Consolidated, Limited. The incorporation of the carrier with the right of succession for 50 years was perfected on January 26, 1914, under the laws of California. Its principal office is at Oakland, Calif.