A mining magnate from Denver, Isaac G. Blake, in April 1892, with an interest in the silver mines in
Sagamore Canyon in the
New York Mountains, built the Needles Reduction Company mill, in the town of
Needles and then in December 1892 began building the
Nevada Southern Railway, toward those silver mines and the gold mining town of
Vanderbilt from the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (ATSF) station at
Goffs, completing to a rail camp with a post office, named Manvel, then later built it on up nearer the mines and a pass through the mountains, to a rail camp named
Summit which was renamed
Manvel when the post office relocated there, in July 1893. Manvel renamed
Barnwell was the nearest railhead for nearby mining camps, including Vanderbilt,
Goodsprings and the mines at
Searchlight, Nevada. In early 1902, the Nevada Southern Railway completed a extension over the New York Mountains, past Vanderbilt, into the
Ivanpah Valley, to a railhead named
Ivanpah, to serve as the shipping point for the Copper World Mine. Several months later, the ATSF bought the Nevada Southern Railway and renamed it the California Eastern Railway. ==Abandonment of the line==