The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-11-21
MUCH TESTIMONY HEARD
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ate from one or two lead tracks, and
should properly be connected at each
end, to properly handle the business
The necessary area would be from
$50 to 800 feet wide and from 1000
to 1900 feet in length, if it could
be reached at both ends from the
main line
What property has the Nevada
Northern in the corporate limits of
the city of Ely?"
THE principal piece is 249 feet
long, where the passenger station is
located This is all occupied but
three lots. 1t is occupied by the
passenger station, the Office of the
chief engineer. and by 80 foot right
of way. On Garden street, ! do not
believe we have any There are two
or three parts of lots on Block V,
acquired for the right of way on
Garden street. The company owns
lands over which tie ore lie passes.
This is hillside land, and the line
is series of cuts and hills. In the
operation of freight and passenger
trains in Garden street, we have 10
hold them down to three niles an
hour. The normal number of trains
to pass over that line from tbs mines
tc the smelters and return, when the
road reaches the expected maximum
of ore traffic, will be 20 trains pei
day in each direction. This Will he
in addition to the regular commercial
business
1.-The question of grade has much
to do with the question of freight
yard facilities. Such yards must be
level. If the main business portion
of Ely were bereft of buildings, it
could be made into good freight
yards. but this would entail the de-
struction of virtually every building
in the business district.
Law suits have been filed against
the company to recover damages al
legged to have been caused by the OPP
Grafton of trains on the Garden street
line I understand that other suits
will be filed if these suits come to
a successful issue for the plaintiffs.
THE Nevada Northern Railroad
company has no interest in the Ely
Townsite company TO my knowledge.
To my knowledge, the Nevada North
ern is not financially interested in
that company.
Mr.. Thompson has never ordered
or discussed the propriety of doing
this or that in the interests of the
Ely Townsite company.
LAS a general railroad proposition.
| do not know of any freight depot
in any siZeable town near the retail
district. The freight depot is about
1.600 feet from the corporate limits
There is no discrimination against
the patrons of the road in the old
town, in favor of those in the new
town.
"Reverting to the alleged inferred
compact said Judge Lindley,
doesn't the Ely Townsite company's,
if it has any, arise from its topo-
graphical condition."
Yes"
In the natural course of events,
if the old town grows and expands
as it is believed it will, in which di-
rection will this growth and expan-
sion naturally be?'
ITO the east
I'm the selection of sites for per-
manent depots and freight yards
does the direction of natural and log
zeal expansion enter?"
Very largely. In my Judgment
when a new country is opened and
freight depots and other buildings
are constructed, they are not neces-
sarily permanent, though it is not
the custom to install a new depot
with every change of center of pop
ulation. AS a matter of fact, freight
depots and yards are not desirable
for residence neighborhoods, and
usually, where these neighborhoods
are in the vicinity of these yards and
depots, the neighborhood changes to
a warehouse district"
Mr.. Cannon then enumerated a
number of Ely business houses that
have constructed warehouses in Ely
City, and said that all those who have
warehouses there do business in the
old town, and that it is impossible
for them to have their warehouses in
the old town.
Please state the present facilities
for handling freight at the George
town depot?"
I'VE have a freight depot 425 feet
long. Mr.. Cannon's memory was not
good as to the exact trackage facili-
ties. He said many improvements
and extensions were contemplated or
under way. and that it would be more
within the province of the chief en-
gineer of the company to answer that
question. He was thereupon excused
from answering
Has your company ever enquired
or has there ever been an effort on
the part of your company so that
you could make a deal between the
Townsite company and your COM
pany, to keep a freight depot at Ely
City and deny one to Ely perpetual
ly?"
Nothing of the kind, for the rea-
son that the citizens of Ely absolute
ly refused to have a freight depot in
this town.
Commissioner Shaughnessy then
took the witness, and asked:
Do you furnish freight and pas
senger service through Ely to Copper
Flat?"
Some freight, but no passengers :"
will you later?"
AS to freight, yes, and | imagine
that some day we will operate stub
trains up there at least
DO you know what amount of
freight is coming to Ely in less than
car lots?"
Il have seen as many as 10 or II
cars at once, but the average is from
three to four cars daily"
what about the car lot business?'
ut is a hard proposition to an
swer that question. l have seen 125
cars being unloaded at once"
rs the freight at Georgetown
taken away promptly?"
Usually So"
''Do you find delay in taking
freight away from the warehouse?"