The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-04-15
MEN WHO ARE SPENDING MILLIONS
IN ELY TAKE BROAD LOOK AT FUTURE
Arrival Special Train With ess E Thompson and other NOabes
Geater Ely Be One Ey Hope Of Nevada NOhernS President
Mr. Thompson Preds 10000 ton Smeer, 10000 population by
the First of Next Yea and $4,000 in Three Years.

/ ton to Ely but Gum was the bigsest
factor at first.
when Gum first told me about
Ely three years ago | tried to get in
touch but | was little too late. Wish
could have got in then he said
letrospectively. as his eyes smiled
just little, lit could have all been
had then for mere song.
Then when the Nevada Con was
formed | got in operation and inter-
csted myself and my friends in that
Then ! Joined with Gum and others
and with these and the Guggenheim
interests the Cumberland Ely Copper
company was formed.
Later the Gnggenheim interests
had their attention directed toward
une Ne ada Con. own more Nevada
Con. and Cumberland Ely than ever
before. he said with a chuckle. land
intend to hold on to it. too, You can
bet
ThOmpsOn's Prediction.
"After the 0uggenheims made en-
aminations they found such enormous
ore bodies here that they could mot
see n small plant for their handl ny.
They started Q 5000 ton unit. That
would not have paid, they discovered.
as the. ores of Fly can only be ham
died nj II proper profit on a really big
scale. The result of these investiga-
tions Is the plant they are now build
ing--the largest in all the world.
~ PREDICT that five years from
now these cOncentratOrs will handle
20, 900 tons of ore per day.
~ look To see Ely, Greater ElS,' II
You please, the commercial and in
tIustrial center of Eastern Nevada, if
not of the entire state within the next
five or six years. Thousands of men
how many thousands | cannot tsti-
mate-will be employed in the mines,
in the conccntrators and smeltcrs and
in the subsidiary organizations which
will be necessary To care for them,
their families and their interests. The
future of Ely is today the brightest
of any. town i'm the entire west.
II expect that there will be 10000
people here by January |. 1908. In
three years from now there will be
$4,000 PEOPLE living here and we will
have modern city. There will be an
/ abundance of city water, as pure. as
can be found anywhere. in the coun-
TRY. There will be electric lights on
all the street corners. There will be
/ all the conveniences' of civilization
and progress that can be found in
any city of 1000 in the country.
I'VE are working toward these
ends steadily. We are pushing the
water system as rapidly as the work
can be performed. But as for Ely,
Just watch her grow and develop.
That's all.
w. s. Mccormick, who visited Ely
/ for a short time one year ago, eX-
pressed himself as being completely
surprised at the wonderful progress
made by the camp in that time
Il WAS all turned around he said,
"and il took me an hour to gel my
bearings Don't know what the town
will be in another year if it keeps up
like it has been doing.
The members of the party will de-
vote the next few days to inspecting
their interests here. They will visit
the great mines of the companies
I they represent; they will inspect the
water works, the electric light plant.
lhe townsite at Ely City. and the big
smclter at McGill.
1t is altogether likely they will re-
main until Thursday or Friday "fer
which they will go to other points 10
look after other interests in the state.