The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-30

crosses the whole of White Pine county
from north to south.
Today the little camp 10 parting
from past Of long-endured poverty
and squalor and miserable hopelessness
and wedding herself 10 q future bloom
ing with every promise OF the highest
industrial dignity and of wealth be-
yond the dreams of avarice.
Profoundly realizing from the first
that she was born TO be the greatest
,heiress of all the ages in the history
Of mineral wealth, Ely has scorned TO
though she has a good climate and
picturesque position, with strong and
constant stream of fine water flowing
through the center of the town, If you
are hunting for beauty YOU will have
to excuse Ely today. Her glad rags
haven't arrived. But she II be fixed
all right before long, Already the old
buildings and she has electric lights
and is talking of street cars and things
and is getting ready all round for a
long future of substantial prosperity,
BY the next census year she Will
have Il population of 3j.0O0-they are
bound TO come; she can't have less.
The mineral wealth is there, the work
is there and with the railroad finished
the population will rapidly assemble.
If you have got any money planted in
Ely real estate you needn't lose any
sleep over your investment. Don be
in a hurry TO sell it, Just freeze TO
it. 1t will double in value every year
for the next four years.
Great Copper Deposit.
The great copper deposit doesn't lie,
just at Ely, but up IN valley IN the
interior OF the Egan range, beginning
two or three miles west of Ely. deep
and narrow box canyon leads directly
from Ely to the great deposit. That
canyon constitutes pass over the
Egan range and for forty Years has
travelled roads Of White Pine county,
The presence of the great copper de
posit has therefore been known for
forty years-couldn help but be; tho
blue and green carbonates of copper
on the surface told the story to all
who passed over the road, and on the
seventh of April next year 1t will be
exactly forty years since one Thomas
Robinson and others organized and re-
corded according TO law the Robinson
Mining District, which covered and
still covers Ely's great copper deposit.
All the locations i'll the camp had been
abandoned and relocated over and over
again for gold and silver before any
one got wise TO the fact that the real
wealth Of the camp lay in the copper.
Development has proved the great
deposit to have an east-west length or
at least seven miles and varying
width exposed that averages about
5000 feet. Erosion has exposed the mln-
erel-bearing rock over practically the
whole of that area The mineral bear
ing rock is a monZonlte-an eruptlYe
TINT may derive from the fusion Of
either granite or syenite. This Is a
granular, loosely cemented, porphynltlc
rock that crushes easily and carries
the metal values in small grains and
thread-like seams pretty uniformly dis
seminated through the mass. 1t is ali
mineralized but not all equally min
eralized This exposed eruptlve is To-
cally called "the porphyry,' but there
seems to be no doubt that it Is q true
monzonite, a rock IN which the larger
deposits of copper everywhere are
mostly found The exposed eruptive
area has an east-west strike and is
nanked on both sides by limestones
OF the carboniferous age as determined
by Prof. Lawson of the University OF
California. who studied and reported
on the district for the Nevada Consol-
Idated company.
Apex Of Vast Laccotite.
The exposed eTuptiye was at first as
sumed to be the outcrop of a vast dixie,
but later opinion regards it as more
probably the ridge or apex of vast
iaccotite. and if future development
proves this theory correct, it viii prob
ably be found sloping out under the
lime on both sides, thus greatly eX-
tending the already known mineral
area of the camp Ny own impression
from the first has been that the richest
ores in the Ely district viii be found
under the lime close TO its contact with
the monZonlte,
About Nevada Northern.
The corporation name of the new rail
road is the Nevada Northern. 1t ex-
tends from Ely northward 10 q
connection with the Southern Pacific
system at a junction named Cobre (the
Spanish word for copper, IN Elko coun-
~. NeY.. 1877 miles west from Ogden,
Utah. The precise length of the rail
road from Cobre to Ely Is 1903 miles.
1t follows the Steptoe valley all the
way. which, in q manner of speaking,
is as level as a floor. IT was a cheap
road to build and it will be q cheap
road to operate, 1t was conceived and
| built by Mark Lawrence Requa of San
| Francisco. but since the earthquake and
! fire resident of Salt Lake. Through