The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-10-13

is fairly representative of those com.
ing day by day.
One OF the features of the awaken.
ing in Nevada in the past three years
has been the extensive use OF automo-
biles by mining men, and Tor the trans
portation ot passengers on regular
lines. In many places the chug wa CONS
have practically displaced stage trans
portatioD. j, 9. GLADDEN., salt Lake
man, has been running a big thirty
five horsepower Pope-Toledo car into
Ely for the past four months. At hrst
he ran from Wells, on the Southern Pa
ci6c, a distance OF l60 miles, making
the run when loaded In seven or eight
hours, and on one occasion In six hours
and thirty'eight minutes. Later he met
the Nevada Northern train, first at
Cherry Creek and then at Shepard S,
but now this line, as we'll as the auto
line which has been run from Ely TO
Nevada Northern stations by Charles
Gilmer or Salt Lake, has been discon-
tinued. There are several other auto
mobiles here, the most notable one be-
ing the very large fifty. horsepower
touring car OF General Manager Requa
of the Nevada Consolidated.
Business Personnel.
In Ely OF the olden days it was chief
ly California men and capital that car
RED Oh mining and general business OPP
eratlons. but IN tine dawning or her new
and bTiguter day these arc almost en-
tirely displaced by Utah and Eastern
men and money, Much Salt Lake money
is already invested here, and Salt Lake
and Park City men are numerous.
As this letter has already overrun
its intended limits no attempt will be
made here TO speak of the many Salt
Lake mining investors In this district.
al ga,1 SDlt
Lake men, have recently opened large
furniture store here, and are doing a
big business.
Il. &. Hill. formerly In the real es
tate and insurance business, with an or.
fee on West Temple street, about where
the Telegram was recently, IS running
a tent rooming house here, with sleep
ing accommodate Tor forty or hrty
persons. and is making money. He is
Duck creek, and IN 200 acres OF min
eral land lust out of Ely, and bubblipg
over with good health and the enthusi-
asm OF the development boom that now
euvelops this camp, be is beginning to
feel that he is an lneiplent millionaire
There are two banks here, with Salt
Lake capital interested in both. The
Bank of Ely is a branch OF Mccormick S
bank in Salt Lake, while Frank Knox,
president Of the National Bank OF the
Republic, is interested with Pbeby
Bros, recently Of Goldfeld in the
White Pine County bank Both are said
TO be doing an excellent business.
The Greeks OF Salt Lake and vicinity
will be pleased TO know that Alexander
Bros, who formerly conducted saloon
on First South street, are running a
restaurant here, and doing we'll In
short time they will move into fine
new room in the busiest portion of the
street, where they will have $50 sittinga
in one of the finest restaurants to be
found IN 9 town of this size anywhere
in the country,
+. H. Brown, who has been living at
400 Third street, Salt Lake, came here
IL September to take q position as ste
nographer with the Cumberland Ely
Copper company. in their Office at Lane
City, three miles up the canyon from
Ely.
R. J. Casley. now with the New York
Life Insurance company and located in
Los Angeles, is here on business trip.
He was FOR many years a resident of
Salt Lake and for some time principal
of the Collegiate institute. His wife
is a daughter of DR.. Wishard, the wide
" known Presbyterian minister.
While Utah mechanics, miners snd
prospeetors predominant in this aud
other camps in this section of Nevada,
the people as whole are cosmopol,
tan, the portions of North America rep
resented extending from Ohio TO Cali.
fornia and from Canada TO Mexico.
Your correspondent has met several
persons here with whom he became ac-
duainted in the Snake river valley in
| Idaho, ". f. DUVALL.