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

BY F1TZ-MAO.
Special to Tho Tribune.
ELY. New, Sept. 2S.-Today Ely is
celebrating the completion of her first
railroad with a big barbecue and
everything running wide open to enter
tain the several thousands of guests
invited to participate in the occasion
20 joyous to her and SO full of hopeful
significance to her future-for Ely
stands today on the threshold of what
appears with certainty TO be the
greatest. tho longest and the most
substantial future that ever opened be-
fore an American mining camp.
Ely possesses a low grade copper de-
posit carrying some silver and some
gold. which in volume and aggregate
value appears with certainty to be the
greatest known today in all the world;
so much tho greatest that it seems
fairly probable it may prove on de-
velopment greater than all tho others
known in the world today Jumped to-
gether.
Can't believe that. can you? We'll,
there is this pleasant thing about 1T,
you don t have to believe 1t If you
can't. You will not be eternally
damned for doubling it. The best [
can do for you is to give you the facts
in the case that have influenced my
Judgment, and let you draw your own
conclusions.
Aud presently I will marshal the
facts for you in orderly array That
is the limit Of good faith, don t you
thinkl Some people never can be-
heve strange thing till they hear
IL reiterated q good many times, no
matter how conclusive the proof
Other people are so saturated with
eo1r r.i1l Ibiply
it can't be 'truo or heaven would have
taken some means Of letting them
know about IL before.
Can't stop this swift story to argue
the matter with such people today
this most rushing, joyous, hopeful
momentous, epochal day IN the history
of Ely. Only Just time as we run
TO drop for the benefit of such
doubling Thomases the pregnant hint
that newspaper man who is onto his
job, ism I generally hunting for a
chance TO make public ass Of himself
by uttering absurd lies or exaggerating
admitted truths.
Great Day for Ely.
In the obscure and iguominious his
tory of Ety. today is a day comparable
to the day on which the treaty of
peace was signed by England in the
war for American independence-the
completion OF the railroad. by opening
the markets of the world to her stu
pendous wealth OF copper, gives her
independence and assures her long
career of industrial leadership and
opulence. She is celebrate ting today
the completion of the railroad that
she has hoped for, prayed for, shouted
for at the top of her anxious and i'm
patient voice for thirty long years.
She II get other railroads, of course,
-I,1
ready projected. and she II get a
fourth before she s through yelling
Always that way in Nevada-never
rains but it pours.
She II need every one Of the four
TO operate her vast copper deposits up
10 the limit when things get to going
full blast, which won't be tomorrow
nor next day, nor even next year, but
pretty soon. And she'll be glad, of
course, to see the new railroads COM
ing, but she II never be able to well
come the second or the third or the
fourth with Just the same abandon
ment Of JOY that she is today welcom-
ing her 6rst-born, the Nevada North
ern.
The completion Of this railroad is
en epochal event in the history of
Ely, 1t marks the, close of one long
era of hardship and poverty and hone
deferred that maketh the heart sick.
and the beginning Of new era of
swift achievement and opulence that
maketh the heart glad,
Location Of Big Camp.
Ely is the county scat Of White
Pine county, New, situated near the
geographical center Of the county.
forty-fve miles west of the Utah
border, latitude 80 degrees, Is minutes
north; longitude lis degrees west, in
township l6 north, range 63 east, Mt.
Diablo meridian. Altitude. 6400 feet
above sea level Area Of the county,
$500 square miles-same as the whole
State of Massachusetts. Water pure
and plentiful for all domestic and in
dustrial purposes Wood for domestic
purposes plentiful on adjacent noun
tains, All the saw timber that will be
needed for years ahead on the two
north-south mountain ranges between
the camp and the Utah border
The haggard and ragged little shack
town of Ely lies pleasantly in the
Steptoe valley, close up against the
east base Of the Egan range, which