The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-09-26
WOMAN GIVES
FIRST VIEWS
Illusions Vanished When Train
Entered Greatest Camp
on Earth.
EXPECTED A BARREN WASTE
Smclters Excite Admiration and
Well Dressed Men De-
light.

tBY KATHERINE FALL PETTY
Don't laugh at my ignorance, but
tell me was it old Billy Shakespeare
who said, WHATS in a name?" Just
as if there wasn't a great deal. Apro-
pos of this, some one asked me the
other day what were my first i'm
pressions of Ely. They were many
and Kaleidoscope, but the primo
thought aroused in my mand when
first | heard the name was one OF
distaste. Contributions In mining
camps | have been accustomed to
where women gowned in silks brush
ed their dainty skirts against the
garb of Heterogeneous mass of hu-
manity standing on the corner OF In
front of some thriving saloon; men
in the garb of miners. cattlemen.
gamblers, up-to-date brokers. and
merchants of high priced and neces-
sary wares. / was prepared for con-
tradictions, so | thought, but the
word has heretofore been but half
understood in my vocabulary.
AS the train wound its proud way
into view of Ely, / settled back Ia
II
while to look at the same old pic
ture OF dreary, dust-covered desOla-
ton of which most of the mining
camps had left too vivid an impress
sion.
Some one called my attention first
to the smelter-that stupendous af-
fair that will bring these wonderful
copper treasure houses before the
public and startle even the old sated
money kings into appreciation. At
the first sight of this enormous plant
began to sit up and take notice.
The old friend of my childhood. Alad-
din with his magic lamp, was but
third rate wonder worker after all.
Here on the desert lyon see how per-
sistently l cling to that desOlats
word, when l should in all truth
fulness say in the fertile Steptoe val
ley) the Guggenheims, wisest OF wise
guys, are putting up the most enor-
nous smelter in the world, the mag
nitude and expense of which every
resident of Ely knows. My wonder
began then, nor has it ceased yet.
The next thing that attracted my
amazement (aside from the pleasant
surprise the beautiful situation OF
Ely gave me) and now l approach Z
the feminine delights. was an array
of Gage hats. genuine Cages, with
all this New York artists faithful
ness to the latest creations.
Then | went to a club dance, and
saw such a coterie of we'll dressed
men, manly men, not the insignificant
strugglers hanging on the fiutterins
skirts of prosperity, but men who
do things financially; and when ! saw
the goodly number of daintily clad
women, not only just well dressed
women, but gentle women every one
of them, refinement expressed In
their voices and manner, | had to
in a way agree with Mr.. Billy Shakes
peare, If it was AS nibs, and join
the Tilt of his lay, What's in a
name?'
1t isn't the name that is to make
the town, but with all due respect
to the intrepid prospector who bore
this discordant cognomen. the town
will make the name. This winter.
when all of the world will have
heard of Ely, when the citizens OF
the town have laid aside every YES
tige of petty jealousy and are work
ing together for the good of the EN-
tire community, Ely" is going to
sound decidedly euphonious. sung as
it will be to the accompaniment or
the jingle of coin in ones jeans, it's
oily twang will have disappeared, and
every one, even those upon whose
ears the sound Ely still falls un-
pleasantly, must of necessity join In
the chorus or else be relegated TO
the ranks of the ALSO Rams.