The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-09-07

| OF C11e SdlQ CITY between twenty
five hundred (2500) and three thou
sand 10000 bona fide inhabitants;
that said city contains, and has for
a long time contained many business
houses, stores, shops, manufactures
and other business institutions,
churches, hospitals, court house,
United States postoffice, and other
public institutions, and that the COM
mercial business of the said City of
Ely during the past six co months
has amounted, as your Realtors are
informed and believe, to at least the
sum of $250,000 per month.
V.
That the respondent Company owns
and operates its said line of road
through the entire length of the said
City of Ely, and that the said Com
pany has been for some time, and
now is, engaged in the construction
of side track or other line which
connects with the said main line of
road at the easterly and westerly
ends of said city, making two lines
practically extending through the
entire length of said city.
VI.
Your Realtors further aver, that
said City of Ely is and during all
| the times said railroad has been in
| operation the chief and most i'm
| portant place where said Company
has done business with the public on
| its said line of road; that it built, and
| has ever since maintained within
the said City of Ely, for the accom-
mediation of the public, and in order
to reap the profits from it's said bust
ness, a passenger depot, where said
Company has daily put off and taken
on passengers for hire.
Your Relators further aver, that
| said respondent in violation of its
duties to the inhabitants of said City
of Ely, and in violation of its legal
obligations to the public, has, ever
since the construction of said road,
and does now, persistently refuse to
| furnish, equip or maintain at any
convenient place within the said City
of Ely, or any place therein, a de-
pot for the purpose of delivering and
receiving freight; but in continuous
violation of it's contracts of ship
ment, the said respondent Company
has, ever since it commenced to op-
crate the said road down to the
present time, and now does, in viola
ton as aforesaid of its contracts with
the public, disregarding its lawful
duties and obligations in the prem
ises, has discharged, and still does
discharge and unload all of the
freight which is consigned from va
rious cities in the United States to
the people of the said City of Ely,
at point some two CD miles distant
from the said passenger depot and
from the business portion of the said
City of Ely, at place called ELY
City," hereinafter more fully re-
ferred to.
That during all the times since
the construction and operation of the
said road, the citizens and business
men, firms and corporations deal
ing in merchandise and other COM
modities in the said City of Ely, in
order to transact their business and
to get possession of their goods and
merchandise, have been forced to
haul the same by wagon from the
said point where the same have been
so wrongfully discharged and un-
loaded, to the said City of Ely; that,
as your Realtors are informed and
believe, the amount of merchandise
consigned to the business houses of
the said City of Ely amounts to at
least 500 tons per month, and that
the consignees thereof have been dur
ing all of said period, and still are,
unjustly compelled to pay at least
two dollars ($2.OO) to two dollars
(Coptipnod on popa civ