The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1906-12-25
CHRISTMAS News
HAS Big Sale,
Demand for the Holiday Number
CompeIs Issuing Of it Two
DAYS Ahead of Time
EAGERLY SEEK COPIES
Entarprisins Newsboys Reap a Har'
vest in Selling Papers TO
the TownspeoDle

The big Christmas number Of the
WHITE PINE NEWS is out. 1t is al
ready being read by thousands ard the
mail trains speeding in every direction
are carrying it to thousands more, who
will read with interest the stories that
tell what Ely really is.
The holiday number was completed
on Friday night 1t was the intention
of the News to hold the edition until
yesterday morning for distribution, but
this plan proved impracticatle. 1t
became known throughout Ely that the
edition was ready and there WIS an
immediate and insistent demand for it.
This demand could not be denied,
and the result was that the Christmas
News was circulated two full days
ahead of schedule time.
Hundreds OF copies were sold on Fri
day night in addition to those ordered
weeks ahead, and this sale continued
without abate on Saturday Sunday and
yesterday.
The overworked clerks in the post
Office were literally swamped with
copies of the NEWS, and no doubt will
be glad when the last copies are dumped
into the mail sacks and started away
with their message to the friends ana
relatives of persons who are now in the
field and have used the Christmas
NEWS as a means of telling others who
are far off ,shat they would like to
know about the camp.
The big edition, among its other gooc
purposes in the world, will save lot
of letter writing. The facts about
Ely's mines and Ely's men it contains
were carefully gathered, and conser-
vatively told. And the result is that
there is scarcely a man in the camp
who has not bought copies to send
away.
In addition to the heavy sales in THE
News office, there were many cope's
sold upon the streets of the town by
the boys, some of whom reaped pockets
full of Christmas money through their en-
terprise. The more energetic and in
telligent of the newsboys made substan-
tial sums.
One little fellow in particular did ex-
tremely we'll. He was new recruit
to the NEWS staff of newsboys but
had apparently seen how the boys sell
newspapers in larger cities, for he
started out with a display OF lung
tower in calling attention to his wares
that would have done credit to the fog
horn voiced champion neWsboy OF San
Francisco or New York. The result
was that he was in for new supplies
and out again with celerity Which
argues well for his future success in
life, and which brought him an immedi-
ate reward which made him one Of the
happiest boys in town.
1t would be mere repetition to publish
all. the pleasant things said about the
Christmas edition by the people of Ely
Without exception those who pur-
chased the paper expressed delight
"Splendidl" THE best newspaper
ever produced in Nevada." ''Fine!'
"a credit to Ely' and similar ex-
pressions were heard on every hand,
and it was agreed that THE NEWS had
"made good its promise of a holiday
number that would be worthy OF Ely,
its people and its resources.
Those who have neglected to obtain
copies of the Christmas number should
do so at once The orders from out of
town are increasing rapidly and the in
dications are that the edition will be
exhausted much sooner than expected.
Copies are on sale at THE News
Office, ready for mailing, at rs cents
each. The postage to any point in the
United States or Canada is cents.