Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1906-02-14
OLD ELY
An Old Eastern Nevada Mining camp
Looming Up and Giving Promise
of Reward.

Looming Up and Giving Promise
of Reward.
Alfred Chartz, who recently return
ed from a trip to Eureka, Nevada, in
forms the Appeal that on his way
to Eureka from Palisades he met
gentleman named Bidleman, who has
been the general manager of New
York corporation operating copper
mines in Cuba for great many years,
and who has been ordered by mis-
corporation to go to Ely and inspect
mines owned by that corporation
there with the view of installing four
unit furnaces-a unit furnace having
the capacity of reducing 1000 tons Of
ore per day. Mr.. Bidleman appears to |
be a thorough-going business man,
without brae or buster. and informa- I
ton came in the ordinary course Ct
conversation; in other words, he did
not advertise himself or his business, |
and never mentioned the stock OF the
corporation or values, but necessarily
sought information, and by far prefer
red to listen than to talk, presumably
believing that he could learn more
by listening than by talking.
Four unit furnaces to be installed
within a few miles of Ely means
running capacity of 1000 tons per day,
but according to the informant's fig
ures it means about 1000 tons a day
as furnaces need repairs. and in act
1ial operation 80 percent are cold and
so per cent hot. To run 1000 tons
per day would require at least 2002
men, and at five per family that means
10000 inhabitants directly supported
by the industry, and as many moro
Indirectly supported. The COmstOc3t
had about 10000 people when. there
We're less than 1000 miners employed,
and all other camps in Nevada hayc
maintained populations in proportion.
But Ely and its neighborhood has
greater promise than that. There ar
other and larger corporations inter
ested in mines in its neighborho03
which corporations will certainly fol
low the leader if it is successful.
The ores of Ely and neighborhood
are low grade and yield about three
per cent copper Such lOw-grade or
requires an immense amount Of rOcl
per day to be handled to make a fair
ly renumerative profit. The ore res
erves or measures are simply i'm
mense, and inexhaustible so far as tn,
present generation is concerned.
A bread gauge railroad is beins
built from Wells, on the line OF tn
Central Pacific railway, and it ha'
been graded a distance Of over siNt
miles, and track laid over most O
the grade, and it is believed that tn
engine will foot its horn in Ely .
next July.
1t is not known where the railroa
will have its depot, and there is muc
speculation in Ely about that sui
Ject. Some OF the mines are as niue
as nine miles away and the secrl
as to the terminus rep0ses in tn
directors of the railroad company, az
the business men Of Ely are NATURAL
very much exercised about it.
The prices of houses and lots ma;
tain very high speculative vain
The accommodations are about {
fair as can be expected considerir
the situation of the camp, and pric,
proportionalIy reasonable. The di
lance from Eureka to Ely is about
miles and made by stage. At pres
it is very, very rough trip; but Il
roads will soon be in a good conditir
for travel, when better service "
be given. The stages are now bair
almost monopolized by travelling ms
and their sample cases and goods.