The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-11-18

went to the trouble and the expense
of examining this ground and had its
engineering corps prepare estimates
in order that it might be ascertained
if it were practicable to give the
people of Ely the service they asked.
They found that it would cost
OVER A HUNDRED THOUSAND
DOLLARS
to grade the proposed site and put
down tracks and that then they
would not have a yard in which bus
mess could be handled except on
stub sidings, making the cost of
switching largely in excess of what
it would represent with proper yard
tracks open at both ends.
the freight depot, which the railroad
commission is asked to compel con-
struction Of Citizen" puts it at a
"few thousand dollars" and the total
cost inclusive of necessary yard
tracks at $4,000. The Nevada
Northern is paying
OVER TWENTY-FIVE THOUS-
AND A YEAR
for conduct of it's freight Office in
Ely City alone, to say nothing of cost
of yard crews, and with the freight
Office and yards demanded at Ely
would be obliged to expend at the
very least $25, 900 a year additional
for that service. Your outside es-
innate of total cost therefore, Mr.
Citizen, does not more than cover OPP
Grating expense for one year of the
depot you ask, while it falls short of
covering the initial cost the Nevada
Northern would be put to in order to
set cars in Ely for you, by
MORE THAN $15O,OOO,
considerable sum of money these
days. We will add that in the fig
ures given round numbers have been
used and that they are under what
they might be fairly put by anywhere
from $4,000 to 100000.
Now then, as to the yell the I'm
postor has been keeping up and
which you repeat, Mr. Citizen, about
the Nevada Northern paying for it
self in its first year of operation.
Construction expenses since the
road commenced getting in money,
to say nothing of construction and
equipment expenses previous to that
time, aggregating more than one mil
lion dollars, have exceeded the
earnings of the first year by
MORE THAN A HALF MILLION
DOLLARS.
And while on this subject it may
be we'll to call your attention to
! where some of the money spent in
| excess of earnings has gone. More
than 100000 of 1t went into the
building of little more than a mile
| of ore line track in order that Ely
| might not suffer the damage to its
property interests and the danger to
| its people that operation of ore trains
through the town would have occa-
stoned. You were glad to get that re-
lief and you found the Nevada North
ern ready to give it, yet today you
turn about and DEMAND TRACKS
IN YOUR TOWN WHICH YOU
WANT KEPT BUSY WIT H
FREIGHT TRAFFIC TO THE DAM
AGE OF PROPERTY AND THE
DANGER OF LIFE, THIS BEING
TRUE NOW AND CERTAIN OF BE-
ING MORE ALPHABETICALLY TRUE
AS YOU GROW IN THE FUTURE.
Now, after you have received all
from it that you have, you come
along and demand an investment of
something like quarter of a million
dollars more, which it would aggre-
gate before the work was disposed of.
For what?
A freight depot and tracks in your
door yards to GUST them from where
you would be fighting tooth and nail,
through damage suits, within a
month, and be declaring louder than
you did when you were asked to let
passenger station into your town