The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-10-30
DAVIS HAS PRAISE
FOR THIS DISTRICT
DECLARES CONDITIONS ARE SUR
PRISING AND FUTURE OF
CAMP is BRILLIANT.

Sam p. Davis, chairman of the state
committee on publicity and indus
! tries, who recently visited Ely, and
who has returned to his home in the
western part of the state, has many
good words to say of Ely and this
part of Nevada.
Il have simply been astonished
with the conditions throughout the
sections of the state which | visited,
he says in an interview.
Farmers harvesting big crops at
higher prices than they had ever be-
fore realized. cattle and sheep nearly
double what they had been in former
years, and mines all over the state
shipping ore and realizing heavily.
"The miners favor the law which
was defeated in the last Legislature
compelling all mining companies SELL
ing stock to publicly account for the
disposition of the money. The men
who helped defeat that bill in the
last Legislature have had hard time
explaining their vote to their con-
stituents.
81 first visited Churchill county
and was astonished to find mines
there paying dividends whose names
l had not even heard of before.
I'm order to verify some state
ments relative to ore shipments from
Fairview and Wonder | went to the
firm of Kent e Co., and their books
showed that during the previous
month they had paid out nearly $19,-
900 to teamsters who were carrying
ore from the mines to the railroad.
Men are running mines in Churchill
who are realizing splendid profits and
not asking any one to buy share of
the stock.
LAS one mining man put it, We
are too busy here shipping ore to find
any time to incorporate
"But Ely astonished me most of
any section l visited. The Guggen-
helms are erecting a smelter and lay
ing out new townsite. They are
planning for city of $4,000 inhabi-
tants. 1t is on gentle slope with
hundred miles of level valley stretch
ing away toward Cobre, where a new
railroad, costing a million and a half,
is built almost on dead level, with
out a single cut in the whole dis
tance.
1.-The smelter is to handle the i'm
mense deposit of copper which lies
back of the old town of Ely, which
has suddenly become one of the most
thriving towns in the state. 1t was
dead and sleepy a few years ago and
is now becoming a modern city. The
two towns, the new and the old, will
rival any city in Nevada in a few
years, with the possible exception of
Reno. There is a copper belt back of
it which stretches seven miles along
the range and will average 100 feet
in width.
"There is one crosscut which does
not hit either wall. The Guggen-
helms on the strength of what their
expert first saw, ordered plans for
their smelters and the plans cost
800, 900. After the experts had TAX
en- second look and reported, they
tore up the plans and ordered new
ones on more extensive scale. They
are now building smelter which
will cost ten millions. They have
hundreds of men working on the site
and a city of tents and houses has
sprung up around this stupendous
undertaking.
"This will handle 1 900 tons day
and upward, and there is enough ore
in sight to run them twenty years.
"They are doing a thing unprece-
dented in mining. They are clearing
the ledge with steam shovels and
after they have stripped off the
ground they will loosen ore by blast
ing and handle it with steam shovels
and with the cars running right along
side the ledge.
''If man wants to have conf
dence in the future of Nevada let him
go over the state and look at the
activity in mining everywhere. I
have not visited half the counties
yet, and will have to take another
trip to see the rest, but any man who
has seen what I have in the last two
weeks will not bother about the con-
dition of the banks or the stock mar
ket.