The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-04-20
GROWTH OF ELY.

In an article on THE Growth of
Ely" the Mining Review says
From mere hamlet to a city Of
size ana commercial Importance al
most within a year, is the history OF
Ely, in White Pine County, Nevada.
And still this remarkable progress
has not been OF mushroom growth
for all of the improvements made, all
OF the buildings erected are of a sub
stantia character and the aim with
all has been permanency; the perma
nency that great low grade copper
camp always promises and always
fulflls.
Ely was "A thriving and progress
i've camp before the advent of the
Nevada Northern railroad; since then
it has grown wonderfully and yet
this growth is nothing compared to
what will take place there as soon as
the great reduction and smelling
plants Of the Nevada Consolidated.
he mills and smelter Of the GirouX
-oascld3tsd are completed and in
..s.a-l.lasiop; nothing to the wonder
Is change which will take place
a4a Jle scores Of other mining en-
a.5cIsss. ia this section ale CO the
guar pro3aeiAg list.
Ely has been a marvel, q wonder III
the Transformation that has taken
,,1,ar rr;t1,;r a. cpt,;,r,, IA, an to ,.-i+bjp
the past is mo4ths-a brief period
for the building OF a really metropoi-
itan city. One could hardly believe
in its rapid progress without seeing.
And yet here one will now find SPLEEN
did business structures, beautiful res
licences, large mercantile houses, sew
eral banks, and almo very line OF
business represented tlat one would
expect 10 see in town OF $4,000 In
habitants while three or more able
newspapers contribute to the upbuild
ing OF the town and Of the great min
eral district they so ably represent.
But if Ely is growing by leaps and
bounds what will its progress be
when actual and heavy production
takes place; when fortunes come out
OF the mines instead of going into
them in the way of development and
equipment?
The life OF Ely so far, the source of
its growth and progress, has largely
come from the millions that have
been paid TO penniless claim holders
and prospectors for the many claims
now comprising the holdings of the
various 3 mining companies which
have invaded this wonderful copper
camp; the activity in real estate, in
building circles, and the business thai
has been created i'll all lines and oc-
equations by the great influx of III
yestors, capitalists, laboring men and
home seekers.
This life, this activity, could net
last for long without a solid and sub
stantial foundation, and this founda-
ton rests on the practically mex
haustibe copper deposits of Robin
son mining district, upon the marvel
Gus ana almost unreasonable bodies
OF ore which extensive development
has proven to exist in 4 district the
bound lries of which have as yet been
hardly ascertaned
Men We're wise who first secured
foothold III Ely mines; they were
wise when they decided to embark
in business in this promising camp
and they woro wise when they put
their money into real estate, in water
power projections, in telephone SER
vice and in the generation of electli
cal power.
There was time, hardly less than
two years ago when man could
sit on the curb of an Ely street and
wait an hour before anyone would
pass along. Now there is a stream
of travel from Ely to Lane City and
on to Pilot Knob; from Ely to McGil
where the Nevada Northern is con-
its big plants. No one gets
lonesome in Ely now; the only fear
being that one will have an attack al
heart failure in his endeavors to keep
up with the procession; for Ely is
on the move and of the hot foot" va
riety