sentences:  Most of the mining claims had been consolidated into one company called the Manhattan Silver Mining Co. and they desperately needed a railroad.The secretary of the company, M. J. Farrell, became state senator for Lander County and managed to get a railroad line approved, with a bond of $200,000, due to expire in 1880.The proposal was to run a narrow gauge line ninety three miles along the Reese Valley to connect Austin to the Central Pacific main line at Battle Mountain.