The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-30
Nevada Copper Camp Now Con-
nected by Railroad With
the World.
GREAT CELEBRATION IS
HELD; UTAHNS PARTICIPATE
Judge Goodwin, Orator of the
Day, Reviews Development
of Nevada.
Special 10 The Tribune.

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ELY, New (By Phone to Cobre,
Ncy..) Sept. 29.-rhis is Ely's day of
days The railroad for which she has
been waiting and watching for thirty
years is reality. The rails are down
clear through the town and Ely is
happy; a,.. -,
jngS that the rails would not get into
the town, az Just before entering the
town some unlocked for snags were en-
countered. But these troubles were
overcome about . o'clock, and at $3.50
p. III. the first rail inside Of Ely was
laid. By dark the center of the town
had been reached, and Saturday fore
noon the rails were carried on through
the town, where they will stop for the
present until some Of the other heavier
cuttings, grading and tuuncling now
in progress IN the canyon arc COM
pleted.
Ely has been filing up for two or
three days with people coming in for
the jubilee. 1t is "A general holiday
in Ely and all the surrounding country
with its whole population is here.
Salt Lakers Arrive.
As the rails were pushed RAPIDLY
through town last evening and this
morning, interest and hum Of sup
pressed excitement permeated tho
crowd This reached the climax when
the Salt Lake excursion train pulled
up at the court house Of II noon after
having to wait fifty minutes one half
mile below town while the spike-driv-
ing gang made the newly made
track safe for the heavy train,
which consisted of eleven cars drawn
by two locomotives. The Ogden train
was late, owing TO the engine breaking
down, and the programme was deferred
until its arrival. Meantime Senator
Newlauds, acting as chairman for tho
occasion. announced that dinner was
ready, and those who had arrived on
the train were invited to the tables
spread with barbecued dinner the basis
of which was Ave beeves and three
hogs. After the appetites of the Wis
itors had been appeased the general
crowd was accommodated at the long
table on the court house grounds.
On the arrival of the Ogden section,
consisting Of Elk coaches and baggage
cars, at 2:i5 p. m, the formal eXer-
cises of tho day were held IN front Of
the court house where a handsomely
decorated speakers stand bad been
erected and seats provided for the or
Copper Spike Driven.
The exercises began with the driving
Of the copper s ike in front of the
courthouse by Manager NJ l.. Requa,
who then, standing with barred head in
the bright sunlight, declared tho Ne
yada Northern railway was now com
plctcd TO Ely, and ready for business,
His announcement, made in q few
words, was greeted with a great shout
by the assembled multitude,
The first speaker was Thomas Rocker
well, who was 'introduced as a
"pioncer OF pioneers, Hc briefly
reviewed the mining history Of White
Pine and Eureka counties, and was
followed by William ilasmann, of Og.
den. who had brought carload OF
Utah peaches and melons for free dis
tributiou at the close of tho exercises.
Manager NJ. l.. Requa spoke briefly,
saving that enough was already known
of the great mineral deposits of Ely to
make sure Of work on a great scale
that would last beyond The life Of the
prcseut generation,
GOV. Sparks spoke briefly of Ne.
vada Is past and present, and, speaking
of the great general development Of
progress predicted magnificent future.
Senator Newlards referred to General