The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-26
THINKS" AND COMMENT

to be, and what many shrewd men
predict they will be, the resultant
effects will in many ways be an i'm
mense gain to Utah, says the Salt
Lake Telegram.
1t will make necessary the build
ing of a road to that region. The
natural route to the oil fields will
necessarily skirt the great coal and
iron deposits and bring the former
in close connection with Salt Lake
City and the smelters here.
No estimate can be made of the
advantages that would accrue by
that arrangement. 1t would not only
supply the needed coal here, but al
so to eastern Nevada, and that would
mean several trainloads daily Then
the time is almost ripe for the work
ing of the iron deposits of the south.
Our belief is that could but one deep
shaft be sunk there, something would
happen that would electrify southern
Utah, for men whose judgments are
most sound firmly believe that not
withstanding the unparalleled sur
face showings of iron in that region,
the iron after all is but an immense
cap; that deep explorations will de-
| monstrate that the real mines will
prove to be copper, with fair by
products of silver and gold. What
would a new Bingham fifty miles
long down there mean to Utah?
When Tonopah was discovered, at
tention was directed anew to south
ern Nevada. See what has followed.
Goldfield yielded 100000 last
month. A new great 100-stamp mill
is being rushed at old Silver Peak,
and next month those stamps will
begin to drop Several million tons
of perfectly free gold quartz are
exposed there. And the grade is
such that a monthly dividend of
large proportions is figured out for
years to come. True, Silver Peak
is no new camp. Its wealth has
been known for years, but it was a
long way off; the expense of getting
machinery and water there was great
and then to go there was like making
a trip to the north pole.
But Tonopah was discovered; lat
err Goldfield and the other camps,
and when the road was fin1shed 10
Goldfield, it passed within twenty
miles of Silver Peak; that was but
an hours ride by automobile, and
then the capital was swiftly found TO
put the great camp in motion. Then
Manhattan, Lone Mountain, Fairvlew
Wonder, Yerington, Rhyol1te ana
other camps were but resultant ell
fects from the discovery of Tonopan.
Well, suppose great Oil neld Is
opened in southern Utah. There
will be the usual rush and prospect
ing will take on new proportions.
Just over the line in Nevada are the
great mines. There may be others:
So it is quite possible that the oil
discovery may be the entering wedge
to transformation in southern Utah
But, if nothing more comes of 1t TO
outsiders than the building of road
down by the coal and iron deposits
it will result in great advantage
to thousands of people whowill have
no interest at all in the oil.
Excepting Robinson district, White
Pine county is yet in the crudest state
of development, but the day is fast
approaching when that condition will
change and White Pine will take on
new dress throughout it's length
and breadth. The day was when
Cherry Creek, Ward, Taylor, Hamil-
ton, Osceola and Schelbourne were
centers around which were gathered
men and women in an endeavor to
make for themselves and children
happy homes, but the depression that
began in the '70's shifted the scene
and those camps dwindled away
almost died-to mere hamlets con-
tanning but few people and, indeed,
cox,orol IF thom went off the man al
together. Many, very many, OF the
people sought new fields in which to
fight the great battle of life. The
boys and girls of those days are now
in middle life, and scattered to the
four points of the compass. But re-
Gently the old camps have been tick
led by capital and are now awaken
ing from their semi-sleep and are
now on the road to higher develop
ment.
Ely in those days had not stepped
out on the stage of activity and when
the town first started there was not
much in sight to make it town OF
any considerable Importance. The
county seat was brought from Mamil-
ton to Ely and for several years all
the people had to look forward to
was court week." There was not
enough in sight to cause the restless
world to even halt at Ely's gates
while Ely was creeping along from
the cradle to youth AS time went or
copper as a metal became more val
liable and brave men began the de-
velopment of a Greater Ely. After
more than thirty years spent