The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-30
BY w. r. DUVALL.
Special to The Tribune

Special to The Tribune
ELY, New, Sept. 29,-Nevada is
awakening OF that there is no doubt
The new life IS not confined TO one or
at most a few isolated sections OF the
State, as was the case i'll her palmy
days of old, when the great Comstock
lode poured forth its wealth to build the
splendid city by the Golden Gate. On
the contrary. the magic thrill now
reaches every portion of the State from
the northern to the southern and from
the eastern TO the western boundary.
From the barren hills about Goldheld
and Tonopah. from the new y-Wstercd
and now fertile plains of Lyon and
Churchill counties, from the valley or
the Humboldt with its wealth OF MIN
eral lands on either side, from the sun
baked Amargosa desert and the sandy
wastes of Lincoln county, from the
rock ribbed hills of old Phoebe and Ely,
and even from the seat of departed
glory, the region of the old Comstock
itself, come evidences of increased ac-
tivity. of renewed prosperitys OF great
mineral discoveries or growing agrlcul-
tural developments, and of increasing
population.
That the State has more than doubled
in wealth and population IN The last
three years is undoubted. In the twelve
wears previous ii had actually declined
in both. Three years ago the ground
on which now stands the city doing the
largest postofiice business in the State
was barren waste aud the country
about II for hundred miles in every
direction was practically without popu-
Iation. The pail of silence and decay
that overspread the State for twenty
years has been dispelled, and Nevada,
battleborn and glorious in her early
day. but long neglected and despised, IS
coming into her own.
If YOU have believed that the great
est recent mineral discoveries were in
the new gold camps OF the southwest
and that there would gather the largest
community of new population you need
TO revise that opinion. The greatest
mineral discoveries are in White Pine
county, and in 3 few years from now
the largest city in Nevada will be
right here at old Ely. True, 1T viii
have to flow out OF its present compare
lively small site over the benches on
either side and down the canyon into
the valley, but 1T will still be Ely and
IL will be q hummer.
Direct Line of Railroad.
Then this region will get what it
ought TO have now, direct line Of rail
road from Salt Lake City which would
secure to that city practically the en-
tire trade of all this part Of Nevada,
While The recent astonishing copper de
velopment of the Robinson Canyon dis
trict, in which Ely IS situated, is what
is now turning the eyes Of the country
In this direction, it must be remembered
that the geld and silver workings
which built populous camps all through
this part of Nevada in the early days
are not by any means exhausted. Under
the stimulus of better general condi
tions and improved methods of mining,
transporting and reducing ores, these
old mines are now ready TO pour forth
untold hundreds Of thousands of tons
of ore. most of which would find its
way either as virgin ore or rs conceD~
trates TO the Salt Lake valley for re-
duction If there was a reasonably direct
line OF road and correspondingly low
freight rate, Such road through the
Deep Creek country to Ely would, for
most Of the distance, penetrate very
rich mineral district now remote from