The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-02-01
F|Tz MAC TELLS
OF ELY WONDERS
Earlier Predictions Are JuSti-
fled by Developments of
Great Copper Camp.
NEVADA DESTINED TO
BE COPPER CENTER
Gold-SiIyer Developments Will
Be Considered Very Small
in Comparison.
Special to Tho Tribune

past az n producer OF silver; II is hayInl
a great present as a producer OF gold
but L think, after long and careful study
of the situation, that nothing is riskcd bS
the prediction that 1t is approaching O
future as a producer of copper before
which It's splendid record on gold and sill.
Ver Will eventually look small | believe
it Is destined in the near future TO be-
como the greatest copper producing State
| In the Nation. as our country Itself is
the greatest producer OF copper I'm the
| world-thc greatest by long odds among
| Individual nations. and somewhat greater
than all other countries Jumped together.
United States Produces Copper.
In other words. the United States pro-
| duces considerably more than half the
| present copper output OF the whole world
about % per cent OF the whole At pres
| cnt prices Its cash value exceeds the
| value OF the annual gold output OF the
| country by about forty millions
Utah Well in Front
Montana, Michigan, Arizona and Utah
are the four greatest copper producing
states and rank, al present. In the order
named. with Arizona pushing rapidly for
the front and Utah getting into line 10
contest for first place Up to the present
Nevada production of the red metal has
been Insignificant, and her rank In cop
close TO the foot OF the line Therefore
to venture the prediction that Nevada is
probably destined In the near future to
lead the country as producer of copper
"a statement 80 unexpected by the gen
eral mining public and therefore so in
crediole-requlreS that | should state the
srouhas OF my oellet so that the reader
may judge If my faith Is warranted
World Did Not Credit Ely.
Several months ago l wrote an article for
h. It'll -.
at Ely White Pine county. New. that
came very near getting me laughed at
all over the country as n reckless eXag-
gerator. because l mentioned Ely as the
greatest copper camp on earth | sent
the same story Din substance, not in the
same form) to good many other papers
over tho country with which / have a
connection or course / handled the sub
Ject as newspaper writer giving news
and desiring to give II cmpha atically and
make IL us entertaining and attractive as
truth permitted. But some OF the wise
ones when they saw It were afraid II
would impress the country rs merely
sensational eXaggeraton. Those wise
people who knew that the facts l stated
were true but they probably had not con-
sidered what the facts proved.
Ely Is an Old Camp.
Well, that copper at Ely has been
known for forty years. Much OF the
ground has been located and abandoned
over and over several times since then
IT was abandoned for the best of reasons
because II wouldn't pay TO work The
camp has never yet. so far as | know,
produced any metallic copper nor ton
OF ore that would bear the cost Of ship
ment and treatment Consequently. it has
not attracted public attention, and when
/ pronounced II the greatest copper de-
post known on earth there was a dispo-
sition ut nrSt to give me the horse
laugh as II had uttered q story that no
one could or would believe Yet all the
facts that | stated were we'll known in
the camp and also to a few shrewd In
Vostors outside the camp-they simply had
not been assembled before and placed In |
the striking and picturesque light to make |
their just and proper impression. Local |
newspaper men could not do it-they sell |
dom can. because the facts grow so slow
they do not seem impressive They be- |
come too familiar with the harassina de-
lays and disappointmcnts of the develop |
Inent stage OF mining to be able to realize |
how astounding the actual facts when |
assembled to show at a single view, Will |
look.
Sensational, but True.
or course, my story was sensational l
knew II would be. because IL stated a
most astonishing truth-a truth that was
bound TO command very serious attention
among the leaders OF one of the great in
1ustries OF the world. if It was believed
Some few who knew II was true feared it
wouldn't be believed
| stated (as an opnion) that Ely, in
White Pine county. New was the great
est copper camp on earth, / also men
toned. as probability. that It contained
In sight practically In sight as a
yeologlst would speak, not In the precise
sense In which an experts report would
be expected to state the matter 10 q COM
1any of prospective purchasers who hnd
employed HIM more copper values than
I'll the other copper camps OF the world
Jumped together. OF course. I didn't state
"a Y a ht1f n nm Inf Ip,,
ability
Public Must Be Entertained.
You see was the first outside news
,aper man 20 visit the field or course
he local papers had written up tho de-
'clopments piecemeal ably cnoueh-really
fcy had not assembled results and point
d out the astonishing Significance Of the
aggregation. And also. Of course. edu-
atcd experts who have within the Inst
our or five years been sent there on prJ- |
a:e commissions have contributed somo
ot very luminous nor readable stories
ponsible technical papers as the Engl-
eering and Mining Journal Of New York
'ut these had not commanded public at ]
ention and could not do ii In q thousand |
ears-too dull. too unattractive to GET {
cad. The public has TO be entertained or {
won't read.
World Knows at Last.
Ny story in The Tribune was copied all
yer the country in hundred newspa- 7
crs and many Of the mining Journals :
nd now the world knows whore Ely Is q
nd what 1t has got 10 talk about, and by s
ext spring all the big Journals will be Z
ending their representatives In to write y
up 1t knows that Nevada contains | I
ne greatest copper camp on earth-a a
amp that has never produced a ton OF | \
oppcr, but has got the ore in sight 10 |
rove Its claims. for three or four strong
able to put down the money
nd walt for results have been devclopInc 4
for the last Ave or six years, and by /
ext summer tho railroad from the South. r
m Pacific to Ely will be finished and h
reduction will begin, +
Simply States the Truth. /
In my wrte-up of Ely | stated no fnot /,
mt had not been stated before repcatod | q
In the local papers or was otherwise re- | I,
)onsibly Vouchcd TO me | simply made e
picturesque and striking asscmbIage OF =
cts admitted by all but never before A
ought together nor their logical indica- Il
ons followed To summing up. The con p
usions were astounding. and many good a
1t oVer-cautious friends o{ the camp 81