The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1906-11-16
BUYERS Who Seek Ely City Lois Dis.
lurhed by Wild kumors Of In
roads Of Spectators
SALT LAKE HAS CHANCE
Unit! Manager CoTbett Gets Back
Lots Can Be Had in Only Three
Of the Residential Blocks

Sales OF FIy City realty have
been suspended pending sh- re-
turn OF General MANAGE = orbett
from Salt Luke. The reo pie OF
Ely had the first pick OF Rae lots
and now ilr. Corbett is giving the
business men OF zion, and oY
Butte, Seattle and Portland a
chance.
Grading OF streets in ely City
began today. the company having
purcia sed forty two fine horses
and "a complete grading outfit.
wiie !, vas b .&n in uSe Oh Tin rail
roaI grad. in Robinson Canyon.
ripas are to b. laid ii.;me diate~
Iy 10 supply Ely City with water
and srOu.,d was broken tod ny for
the n4w hote, which i~ 10 be
erectse at Eleventh, and d.
streets.
Persons who went yesterday to the
office of the Ely Townsite Company in
the Telephone building to buy Ely City
lots were disappointed to find that the
sale here had been temporarily sus-
pended, except in three blocks in the
residential district. There was much
anxiety about this suspension of local
sales, reports spreading through Ely
that San Francisco and Seattle specu-
lators had snapped up nearly all of the
lots that had remained unsold
These rumors were untrue. The
sale here was closed because it was
necessary for A. G. Corbett, manager
OF the toWnsite company, to go to Salt
Lake in response to numerous urgent
messages from business men there,
who had been promised an opportunity
to buy lots from time to time during
the summer and fall before the town
site property was placed upon the mar
ket There are a number of Salt Lake
business men who have planned various
enterprises for Greater Ely, and the
sales Of townsite lots in the Utah me-
tropolis, judging from the flood of in
quiries from that place, will be as large
as the sale in Ely
For this reason, it was decided that
1t would be impracticable to continue
the sale in Ely while the sale in Salt
is going on, simply because the great
No.ume of business handled might invite
perpleXing and yeXing complications ir
transactions, even with an expensive
checking system by wire, which the
townsite people will not hazard
Of course, when Mr. Corbett returns
there will be fewer lots on sale thar
when he went away.
On Mondays and last nights trains
there were persons who had come to
Ely to buy townsite property, and they
were greatly concerned over the ru-
mors that lots in Ely City could nc
longer be had Even after learning
that these reports were untrue, they
were somewhat anxious about the in
roads that will be made upon the lots
at the Salt Lake sale.
There is no foundation for the re-
port that San tranciscofand Salt Lake
speculators have bought all the remain
lng Ely City lots said James p.
GaSkill, of the townsite company. "lt
probably originated from the fact chat
It has been necessary to suspend the
local sale while the Salt Lake sale is
going on
''It has been Mr.. Corbett's policy to
deal fairly with the people now in Ely
and that is why the sale opened here.
ppr people have had several days in
which to pick and choose from the en-.
ire towasite and if there is anyone
Nho has failed to take ADVANTAGE OF
the opportunity it was not because the
chance was withheld. Mr.. Corbett wa:
compelled to open the sale in Salt Lake
70 keep promises made before he
was ready to place the townsitc prop
e.rty on sale to persons who were anx
lous to buy lots
For the same reason, it will doubt
less be necessary to have similar sale:
70 nd IL