The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-09-14
SOME GOOD ADVICE
BY A. NONYMOUS

The News has been requested to
publish quite few articles lately
which have been received through
the mails anonymously 1t is not our
policy to give space to such matter
without knowing the source from
which it originates.
We have accidentally learned the
author of the following article, and
as there are some good points con-
tanned therein we give it space in
our columns:
Boost, Don't Knock.
Stop just Il moment and think !;
link just once, if you never thought
before and never do again. think now
and quit knocking. You go right up
in the air and get wild when anyone
predicts that lily will drop out of
sight, you bring all the arguments
at your command to convince a man
that he is a fool when he makes the
assertion that Ely City will eventual
ly be the town and when anyone
mentions the Nevada Northern you
are ready to fight. fight for 1.-THE
good of the town. for the preserva-
ton of Garden street. You are, in
in your own estimation, the chief
booster of the town, the great guar
dian of 1.-The peoples rights but if
you will just step off three yards
from yourself, turn around and take
a good square look at yourself, you
will see the worst knoeker in town.
You are the fellow that every time
You meet anyone on the street, says
'How's business things are awfully
quiet now and when the other fell
low says business is very fair and he
looks for better times soon, you as
sumo that colicky expression peculiar
to infants-and others-and solemn
ly assure him that we will have aw-
fully dull times till the new smelter
| is completed and that it will take
two more years TO do that. Now, Mr..
Knocker, if you have the time and
ability to think just a moment take
a look at the other side. Every time
you insist that things are very quiet,
you help convince yourself that they
are in terrible shape, and finally you
get at the point where you live in a
perpetual cloud. This would not be
so bad, for no one cares particularly
for you personally, but your remarks
are very often overheard by others,
perhaps strangers, who, not knowing
you, think conditions are really bad
and perhaps advise friends and bust
ness associates to go slow and keen
out of Ely. Can you tell why you
are sore at the Nevada Northern
railway? As a matter of fact. do
you particularly care whether Gar
den street is used by a railway or
not? Have you any property in Ely
that will either advance or decline
on account of the line up Garden
street? Or do you yell just because
the crowd yells. You want the rail
road to make certain concessions,
build depots. sidetracks, etc, but
still you have your big stick ready to
swat them tie moment they COM
mence to do anything. Where do
you want the freight depot? On
Garden street? No; You are going
to tear up the tracks there, or if no
quite that radical you will never per-
nit them to build a siding-did you
ever hear of freight depot without
siding?
What was Ely before the railway
came here? Just little plug of a
mining camp, too dead to skin. Then
the railroad came and your $50 lot
jumped to $4,000 or $4,000 and
that gives you the right to kick. Now
as a matter of fact we all know that
Ely is not on the dead jump like it
was last spring; that the merchants
are not sitting up nights studying
how to get in goods; that people are
not sitting up because there are no
rooms to be had, but did it ever
occur to you that there are more
stores than there We're, more hotels
and rooming houses, more division
of business and better facilities for
getting freight in?
Leave Ely for a short trip; 60 to
any of the other towns in the state
and see what's doing; go to the cities
and you will hear the same thing.
quiet Isn't it always quiet in the
summer time? Do you really think
there is any reason to be alarmed?
If so, for Heavens sake get out of
town and stay out. If not. don't try
to make things worse by continually
croaking about how quiet it is. AS
a matter of fact we have one of the
pO"t Twins out VI uooIS, one Inere
is always something doing; everyone
doing some business; all looking for
ward to the time when we will have
good-sized city.
Brace up, boost, don't kick; smile
don't look glum; talk cheerfully and
hopefully or forever shut up; don't
make it point to hail a man three
blocks away to ask "how's business"
and then insist that its dull.
Now this little Dutch Uncle talk
is meant for YOU, and YOU ONLY.
not for the other fellow, he don't
knock; you are the only knocker in
town. Take nice quick tumble to |
yourself and cut it out Now, all to-
gether, three cheers for Ely the best
town in the state.
NONVAInJrc