The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-30

After forty years of trial. toll and
struggle, the old mining camp of Ely,
New, has thrown off its lethargy and,
with the dawn of 1907, stands forth in
the limelight of copperdom like an I'M
trained, untutOred giant fully con-
Ecious of his power but incapable of
exercising it. A mighty change has
been wrought during the past few
months. however. and it will not be
long till the whole world will be made
TO realize what the word of Ely stands
for. Until ninety days ago Ely was
over 100 miles from a railroad. On Sept,
20 the last spike was driven that con-
neoted the camp with the outside world,
and the glad tidings were sent broad
cast that a new era had dawned; that
the mighty deposits of copper-bearing
ore were then within the power of man
to handle. And man Immediately pro-
ceeded to get busy. There had been
considerable maneuvering for several
months previous and q number of min
ing operators who had foresight enough
10 discern what was coming, and
among them quite a number Of Salt
I.akers, managed to get good footholds
before the rush
Before the railroad from Cobre on
the Southern Pacific to Ely was COM
pleted, the value of the Nevada Con-
solidated company's properties and
those OF the GirouX and Cumberland
Ely were pretty well understood In the
west, and to some extent in the east,
but it remained for the hundreds of
men from all over the country who In
vaded the camp after trains were run
ming, to cut the thongs which had held
the boom in check, and everything went
then with a rush.
EIy's Boom Is Legitimate.
No camp has ever experienced more
legitimate boom than Ely. The sub
stance is there, the life Of the district
Is beyond computation in years, and the
day Is coming, and coming as quick as
men. money, machinery and brains can
hasten II, when camps like Butte will
have to figure hard to keep up with it.
There was much said about all the
good ground in the camp of Ely having
been gathered in by the big corpora
tions named before the merits of the
district became generally known. Those
who talked that way in the beginning
have changed their tune. 1t is now rec
ognized that only a small fraction OF
the great copper bearing zone had been
covered by the corporations mentioned:
that there were hundreds, yes, thou
sands of acres Of just as good Territory,
# not better, to be had. 1t is well that
IL turned out that way. As a result in
In the camp, there is now sure founda-
ton for a dozen. possibly fifty, big,
strong. money-making corporations,
corporations that can be depended upon
to accomplish precisely the same re-
suits that must follow the operations
OF the Nevada Consolidated. it's half
brother, the Cumberland-Ely and the
Giroux. This feature OF the camps
greatness viii be touched upon IN the
proper place.
Ely now has one Railroad It wants
mora, needs more and Will have more
during the next twenty-four months.
The Western Pacific will be in there
within year or SO; another line will
cut the district from the Tonopah re-
gion, and there is every reason to be-
lieve and expect that the San Pedro,
Los Angeles & Salt Lake will build I'm
there either from this side or from
Phoebe.
Mil, Smelter and Town Building.
1t is quite certain, also, that several
great milling plants and probably one
or two smelters other than that to be
erected by the Nevada Consolidated.
VIII be erected in the district. 1t is Just
as certain that the district Will boast
four or more towns, where now there is
only one. There will be Lane CITY.
right in the midst Of the mines; there
VIII be the present town OF Ely; the
new city of Ely, a mile or two below
and another across the Steptoe valley,
at the mouth of Duck Creek CANYON.
where the smelling I'D milling works
of the Nevada Consolidated have Deen
located.
There is also a probability of another
town springing up at the Albert Heus-
ser ranch, north Of Ely and on the west
side of Steptoe valley, where the Fed
eral-Ely company recently bought the
6OO-acre ranch for the water it con-
tanned and the admiral site it provides
for mills or smelters, or both. And
there is still another chance or two for
new towns in that section.
The McDdOnald-Eiy company one of
the most powerful concerns in the
camp, has secured magnificent water
rights and over 300 acres of land eight
miles south of the camp. for precisely
the same reason that prompted the
Federal-Ely company to take the
Heusser ranch. There is no question
but that the company viii build a great