The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-28
UTAHNS GOING into
BUSINESS At ELY
Local Firms and Individuals
Not Letting Great Chance
Slip Past.
Special TO The Tribune.

ELY, Sept. 27.-lC is enough TO make
the average Salt Laker's heart ache 10
realize what q miscarriage of fate
brought the railroad into Ely by such
roundabout way 1t is 3l7 miles from
| Ely TO Zion by the new road. Had the
| railroad been swung around either way
east or wcst-the distance would have
| been shortened fully forty per cent and
| instead Of helping few districts 1t
would have been the means of giving
| 10 the world the vast mineral products
| OF q score of camps, making of Salt
Lake City the clearing house for untold
millions. Tho future greatness OF Ely
is no longer problem, Her location
is ideal. 1t uestles at the mountain s
foot IN the mouth of q canyon broad
! enough and long enough TO accommo-
date population OF thousands. 1t has
an ample water supply, and is located
midway between the mineralized zone
and location OF the mills and smelters
now actually under construction, III
makes dizzy the modest citizen who
stops 10 think of the millions OF money
these mining companies have expended
for mining properties, IN the construc-
tion Of railroad 100 miles long, for
water rights aud in the building of
these gigantic mills and smelters, 1t s
astounding.
It NAV be imagined that the whole of
the mineral belt has been absorbed by
these monster companies. Not so. The
Belt, so-called, covers too great terri
tory to be monopolized by two, three
or even a half dozen concerns. Captain
Duncan McEickie has been In camp ex-
amiuing properties for the HeinZe inter
ests. as / am informed, and what his
conclusions arc or may be, your CORES
h,H - l4@
The Captain don t carry his - findings
of facts upon his sleeve. Capt. Daw-
son. of Butte, accompa MED by Mr.. En-.
NETT d. Boyle, as reporting engineer
are also on the ground examining prop
critics for Gufy aud Gaily, Of Pittsburg,
Pa. These people are going carefully
over the camp as a whole but more par
ticularly making examinations aud re-
searches for their principals. Mr..
this camp are simply wouderful-be
cause Of its extent and the continuity
OF the ore bodies
And there are others. \ squad OF
men from the copper districts of Mich
igan are here scouting all over the
camp. They are deep miners. and If
they can Z md what they want IN the
belt Of changed mouzonite they will
take chance in lime and 90 TO the
deep. From q business standpoint the
town itself seems prosperous and GER
tairly looks promising. Prices of front
age in the business district range from
$50 TO $3.50 per foot $4,000 was the
price paid by Ricksrd, Elliott & Steph-
ems for the ffty-foot corner upon which
they now have nearly completed three
story building covering the whole front
age and running back one hundred feet
The first floor viii contain four store
rooms-three al the front and one at
the rear facing on z side street. The
second 6oor will he given up 10 business
Offices, while the third will contain
twept ptvoue bachelor apartments It is
certainly a handsome structure; is an
exact counterpart Of the Nixon Wing
held building, al Goldfeld, and would
be q credit 70 auv Western city.
The church facilities seem to have
been neglected, There is but one
Catholic-hut no regular services are
held. Miss Hays. the pioneer merchant
ess, mine and land owner of Ely, tells
me that Father Kyh9 of Salt Lake will
be here next Sunday to hold services,
and very shortly thereafter they will
have resident priest. Quite a contin-
gent Of Salt Lake people are here on
the ground and apparently in the swim.
but for many years principal of the
Collegiate Institute, Salt Lake, is here
establishing local insurance agency.
Mr.. George w. Dalney. representing
the Strevell Patterson Hardware com
panv. is here and reports business in
his line Ttraordinarily good Mr.. NJ.
j. Kennedy is looking over the camp
with view Of establishing himself in
business. Mr.. Kennedy was the pro.
pretor OF several restaurants, in Salt
Lake, In the old boom days. Three of
Salt Lake S erstwhile ATTORNEYS have
fully established themselves in the law
practice in old Ely; viz: C.. !. Nc
Fadden, Graham H. Putnam and J. D.
Boyer.