Bisbee daily review., 1907-01-30
BERT WILSON |S PLEASED WITH
 NEVADA
Believes Ely Will Become a Second Butte When Mineral Resources Are Developed As They Should Be.

BUTTE. Mont, Jan 2S-Bert VII. son, formerly well known in Butte, 2 graduate of the school of mines, is now at Ely, Nev. In a letter to | Butte friend he writes interestingly about the new camp. saying in the course of the letter:
 T wish you could see this country after being in Butte. You could not help saying that Ely will be another Butte. When l first came in here. heard all kinds of stories about the great mineral wealth. but could not imagine one-half of 1t to be true. While in Salt Lake I found an Ely man at the Knutsford hotel, and he told me one mine had nearly s200.000,o00 m copper blocked out at the present price of copper. That seemed large to me, and since coming here believe I can stretch the story bit myself.
 The ore here lies in huge deposits rather than In veins. as found in Butte which hss been enriched. Al the Ruth mine. belonging to the Nevada Consol- dated, there is supposed tc be more than i0.0o0,o00 tons of ore blocked out. which ia to be mined by tho chving system. as used at the Mime. suta iron mines. Then at tho Copper Flat. or the Eureka mine. belonging to the same company. they have more than 100000 tons of ore developed and intend using the steam shovel. The ore in this locality lies near the surface and can be mined very easily by stripping few feet of the surface. These are really the only two mines that have development work far enough advanced to safely judge the ore bodies.
 ''rhe Girsux company has . great deal of work done on It's property, which Is the iarges. in acreage in the camp. They have five shafts with good showings in each.
 The Butte & Ely Joins the oirsux. and it also has some very good rock. At the present it is sinking. but be. fore long will be crossoutting and de. velopIng the ore body. One might say that more than 100 feet of the Butte < Ely shaft Is ia ore, hct the assay values l know nothing of. Mir. WI loughby, who was formerly with the Granite ni-MetaiiIc company. has charge. I go up there quite often. as Mr. willoughby and I came in here together.
 "The Cumberland.Ely company, which joined hands with tho Hsvads Consolidated. has good Ehowings and probably the richest orc in the camp fn what is known as their Veteran shaft. This Veteran property adjoins the Girzux on the west. It has an other group noar Lane C!tp. four miles from Ely. which has proved to be ysry vsinabie.
 T could 90 on and mention several more real good companies that are certain of suecess, while scores of 4others that arc mere prospects. l be iieve after inc new smelter has been completed Ely will figure well up in the production of copper.
 The smcltsr Ia to be built fifteen miles from Ely sownsite, st . plscs called McGiiiis. As planned, the snelter viii he fully ss large as the Washo<e in Anscon6s. The Eesadk Northern railroad reached Ely Sept. go, when the people here had 2 grsa. celebration. had the pleasure Of sec. ing a great number of people that had never seen a railroad train. It cer tainiy made the oid-timers happy. after living here % many years in the wilderness. as they might have termed It.
 'Tt Is rumorod that Clark intends building here from Piochs, ninety miles south of here. The Western Pa eific will come within fifty miles and will undoubtedly run . branch line in hero. There is also road 10 be run from here to Tcnopah and Gold field. Ely viii in time Dc the railroad center of this part of the Southwest