The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-30
ELY JOINED TO
OUTSIDE WORLD
Last Spike of Nevada Northern
Driven Amid Scenes of
Great Enthusiasm.
MANAGER REoUA'S SPEECH
EXCURSiONISTS WILL VISIT
MINES TODAY.
Especial to The Heraldl

Ely, New, via Cobre, New. Sept. D
Ely's isolation from the world ended to-
day. when thousands gathered from the
surrounding country to celebrate the
completion of the Nevada Northern rail-
road line, 40 miles Iong, that connects
what seems destined to be the greatest
camp of copper in the world with the
throbbing marts of trade into which the
output of its mines will enter. En-
thusiasm knew no bounds. About three
hundred people from Salt Lake $50 from
Ogden and 100 from Nevada towns along
the Southern Pacific made speeches and
offered congratulations, helping in every
way to make the day one never to be for
gotten.
M. l.. Requa manager of the Nevada
Northern road and the mine of the Ne
vsda Consolidated Copper company, was
the lion Of the hour, and he was cheered
TO the echo when he barred his head and
explained what the driving of the last
sI1ke meant, and later, amid the cheers
of the multitude, raised the hammer and
sent the last spike-one of copper-intO
place. Judge Goodwin was given an ovaz,
ton when introduced. and also at the
close of his happy address
The town is wild tonight. The mines
VIII be visited Sunday. and the visitors
leave at night. Everybody i'm the camp
Is on the reception committee.
The barbecue was a great success. and
multitudes were fed. Hed's band won
great applause.
MIR. Requa's Speech.
Mr. Requa, in the course of his ad-
dress, said:
The building of the Nevada Northern
railway. coupled with the experience of
the past twenty years i'm the copper
mining camps of the west has solved a
problem that has been confronting the
Robinson mining district ever since the
Ilrst prospector drove his pick into its
copper-laden rocks.
The railway was started in SeDtem-
Der of last year and built. as YOU know
through country singulary adapted to
railway construction over which our.
maximum grade is but seven-tenths of
one per cent. OF engineering difficulties
We have had none, although the unprece-
dented severity of last winter rendered it
necessary TO suspend operations for a
considerable period
We have today completed the line
into Ely and will soon have il completed
TO the smelter site and to the mines, and
ere another year rolls around. we hope
to see complete the reduction plant with
a capacity of five thousand tons of ore
per day.
Work Just Begun.
Our work has Just begun: we have
linked this remote territory to the outside
world by bands of steel and have made
possible rapid and economical transpOr-
tation of passengers, supplies and ore
without this, the rest would be of no
avail. but with it / can see I'm the years
to come a population of thousands with
happy and contented homes; not noma-
die like the inhabitants of so many min
ing camps. but more akin to the popula-
ton of agricultural and manufacturing
towns, content with the knowledge that
their means of livelihood will continue be-
yond their day and generation. and if !
can Impress upou you that the life of
TINS mining camp Will not be ephemeral,
L believe l shall have done you and the
district a good turn.
Future Bright With Hope.
1T is not the fortune of many men to
see large city grow in the wilderness,
and to have part in that growth. and
am deeply conscious of the responsible
ties that rest upon the shoulders of
whomsoever may be representing this
railway and mining company. There will
be many problems that cannot be light
ly settled, and il cannot be hoped that
he will at all times please everyone. NV
endeavor, however. while 1 remain among