The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-03-02
CAMP OF ELY IS
HIT BY A BOOM
Men From All Parts of Country Are
Now Pouring Into This Cop
per District.
TOWN PROPERTY SOARING
BIG MINING CONCERNS COB.
BLING UP GROUND.

/ boom has hit Ely, New. and hit
/ 1t hard. The cheapest thing in the
place is money. Residents of the camp
/ who were dead broke ninety DAYS ago
are now sporting diamonds and eniov-
\ ing all the luxuries of life. Accom-
mcdatiOns for strangers are at a pre-
MUM There is not a stick of lum-
/ Der or other building material to be
/ had in the town and, according to @.
F. BOreman. the well known mining
nan and broker of Park City, who has
just returned from the big conner
/ camp, man was bOasting Monday
morning that he had just purchased
/ The last six bottles of beer to be had
in the place
I left here on the 20th of Febru-
ary,' said Mr. Foreman during the
afternoon, and, while the trip was a
rather rough and cold one, I am any
thing but sorry that l went The town
IS booming now and things Will fairly
| hum within d few weeks. ] expect
to go back again soon and shall prob
ably remain, for that is going to be-
good country in which to make
money.
Travel Is Heavy and Rates High.
"An travel is now by way of Eu-
reka, to which point you go by way
of the Southern Pacific and Eureka a
Palisade railroads. From Eureka to Civ
the distance by stage is about ninety
miles, and so COngested has traffic be-
come that it is hard to get accom-
modatiOns. Millionaire Investors. ex-
perts and agents of operators from all
parts Of the country: men from New
York, Boston, Philadelphia. San Fran
cisco, Los Angeles Tonopah. Butte in
fact everywhere, are rolling into Eu-
reka every day and paying all kinds
OF money to get special accommoda-
tons and facilities with which to reach
the camp Of Ely. The scenes both at
Eureka and Ely are electrifying. to say
the least.
There is a telephone line between
Eureka and Ely. but no telegraphfc
service. Messages received at Eureka
are telephOned to Ely. while messages
sent out from camp are ali teIephoned
TO the telegraph Office at Eureka and
from there forwarded to their desti-
nation. And, while there is not much
privacy in doing things that way. it
is simply astonishing to see how men
jostle each other to get a chance to
send communications of moment Tons
and tons Of freight are piled I'D at
because there are not half enough rigs
and horses to handle the business. F,x-
press matter is accommodating at rate
that suggests no end Of confusion for
the future. Men are Offering S45 a ton
to have freight moved into camp, but
their business cannot be done
No Lumber at Camp.
And lumber, sayl If a man had A
sim Of a
right now he could make a mint of
money He could sell every stick at
the rate of $50 to 800 per 1000 feet.
1t viii not be long till other supplies
are just as scarce at camp for II is
simply impossible to get anything In,
The stage men and owners of rigs are
making too much money handling pas
sengers to bother with anything else.
Men without money to pay the fancy
prices for riding on the stages-and
they charge anything they please
either have to remain in Eureka or
walk. A great many are walking.
L was told while at camp that the
Nevada Consolidated company expects
to have its railroad completed from
CObre, the Southern Pacific terminal.
tC a point within seventy-1ve miles
of Ely by April 1. Then a station will
be established and freight and pas
sengers wifi be handled to that point.
An effort is to be made to have the line
completed into camp by July ! and. as
work has been resumed on the line.
and the distance to be covered is eaSv
to build the impression at camp IS
that the line will be finished by ths
time stated.
Real Estate Values Soar.
Town lots and business property in
Ely have about trebled in value since
the first of the year. AS a matter Of
fact. business locations that were sell
ing at S1.500 six weeks ago are now
bringing 5000. Residence lots that
were held at $500 are now bringing $500,
and SO it goes. Men who were ekines
out an existence and earning hardly
enough to pay taxes on their properties
a year ago are now counted among the
rich men of the community. And as 4
rule, they are a fine. hospitabIe class
of men at that Nothing is too good for
the stranger in that community.
a great many men who have bean
hanging on to mining claims for years.
men who have been counted as ground
poor are now realizing on their labor
and dogged tenacity of purpose, and
everybody has money. Properties re-
mote from the camp are beginning 10
attract attention and looks TO me that
the boom will spread over large arsa
of territory before the year is Over
There is a great deal of good country
tributary 10 the new -ailrOad and
much of il will come into market with
the completion Of the line L saw gold
quartz that came from a property near
Cherry Creek that would run S5e GOO 30
$4,000 per ton. Good lead and silver
are also to be had and thu
men who know the country declare that
Ely will not be the only camp to prof.
by the big enterprises that are being
rounded out there.