The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-10-02
ELY IS SCENE Of
BIG CELEBRATION
Salt Lake Delegation Given a
Rousing Reception by
Neyadans.
uTAH'S SHOWING CREATES
FAVORABLE IMPRESSION
Pathos and Comedy Strangely
Commingled as Last Spike
Is Driven.

Much enthusiasm prevailed at the
exercises which marked the passing of
another old mining camp, and which
now makes Ely, New, a part of the
active world; bound by the long, shin
Ing, twin ribbons of steel, according
10 the reports of those who went on
the excursion, and returned Monday
morning. Utah, especially from Salt
LAKE LAKE and Ogden, was we'll represented,
fplly 400 people going from the two
places. The Salt Lake delegation i'm
pressed every one Of the Ely people as
being an energetic set of people who
were there as guests Of the Elyites,
and who were there to help make tho
celebration a success; there. III fact,
as one Of the prominent business men
Of Fl, Ely pvt it, Ito help forge the last
INK In Ely's prosperity, sincerely glad
of her progress, and earnest in their en-
deavors to help in any way possible
the onward march of the town.
Ogden had a good representation,
and the delegation from that hustling
town showed the usual business fore
sight and energetic enterprise that al
ways characterizes delegations from
that place.
The train bearing the hot, dusty and
tlred excursionists arrived in Salt Lake
City at the Oregon Short Line depot
at $3.50 Monday morning, but few
minutes behind the schedule time.
Every person Oh the train was loud
IN his praise or the reception at Ely
and every man was proud of the fact
that the Salt Lake train was the first
to pull into the town, which is destined
to play such an important part IN the
commercial and financial affairs of the
lntermountain States, the whole West,
Ia fact. ''That the opening OF the
Nevada and Northern railway into
Ely was a success, goes without say
ing said one business man of the
party, "but no one who was not there
can even imagine the magnitude Of
that success. -
What Harris Says
Fisher Harris, the secretary of the
Commercial club, and one of those to
whom credit is due for having worked
up the interest displayed In the ex-
cursioD, was in his usual happy vein,
and he expressed himself as follows;
"Time. Times Why, man alive, we
haven t had such a time since old
Father Adam was boy, Every one
of those people tried TO outdo the
others in showing the Salt Lake dele
CATION all the courtesy and attention
possible. They fed us, they banqueted
US on roast OK at the barbecue, and l
verify believe they would have clothed
us had we not have been clothed. Yes,
we bad the time of our lives. The one
thing which struck me above all others
was the curious mixture Of pathos and
comedy, happiness and sadness, that
characterized the passing Of the old
mining camp, and its birth as a new
city of the world and a power In the
affairs OF the country. Our train fol-
wheels bearing the Salt Lakers pas
sing over the steel as fast as IL could
be spiked to the ties. When General
Manager NJ. l., Requa drove the copper
spike which finished the work, great
shout went up. Old miners, men who
had seen the town grow from a few
tents to the importance it attains to-
day. shed tears aud clasped hands.
Their old camp had departed leaving
a new dignity, new Importance, as
its heritage to its child, the city OF
Zone old lady standing beside me,
turned, aud with the tears streaming
down her face, said she had waited
for generation TO see that spike
driven, The drama could not have
been more complete.
A Coming City.
''There is no question about the fact
that this new city will have q popula'
tion Of 10000 people within the next
two or three years, end some idea OF
its Importance will be gained when one
considers the vast multitude Of dol.
lars in the form OF minerals, hidden
away in those hills, Millions of them.
millions Of them. And another point
T.. - ha .itD tbo foyt
that only water is needed to make it
one OF the great commercial ceutere Of
the West. They have the finest kind
of land up there for crops, and 1t Is
coming country around that town.
The business, OIL AT least the major
portion Of it, will come TO Utah. The
Elyitcs are friendly to the last degree
toward Sult Lake and other Utah cen
tcrs, and they will make connections
with these points that viii be OF the
greatest mutual advantage. Even as
Il is many of those who went from
Salt Lake made deals that viii assume
great value as the years roll or and
Elv becomes move prosperous.
In speaking Of the speeches and tho
programme generally, Mr.. Harris
voiced the sentiment of the cntire par
t. when he said; Without preludlGe'
I think there is no question about the
fscf that Of the entire programme, the
hest speeches were made by Judges
G, $. Varis1 and c, c. Goodwin, of
salt Lake Their addresses were lis
tened 10 with the greatest attention
ard sGpTe't,i55Gnb t5 gsbd and We eNh had TGo tGc time
~ our lives, We witnessed scene
that no man who accompanied this par
fy will ever have the chance Of seeing
again. perhaps. and We arc al tired,
happy and s2tis6ed-three 'rah5 2nd