The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-01-28
NO.. 81
ELY UP TO DATE
Contributed by a Tenderfoot)

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poets to find many things and go up
against several features of mining
camp life that are the same as expert
enced in every camp of like nature in
the country. But for some reason or
other it always seems that they do not
take this place for what it is really
worth and what they are later convinced
it is going to do.
In the first place the fastener comes
here convinced, or rather with pre-
conceived idea that Ely is a new spot
on the map and that someone came
along here few short months ago and
found that there was mineral in the
ground and consequently causeda boom.
Right here is where the first surprise
comes and when it gradually begins to
dawn on the visitors mind, as result
of talks with old-timers, that Ely and
its mineral resources are not newly
discovered thing; that it has been
known for years that there were vast
deposits of copper ore in the district
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with capital to invest to develop the
immense ore bodies. About this time
the newcomer wonders why he didn't
come sooner, or at least didn't hear
something about the place.
No matter what were his earlier i'm
pressions of the camp and its possi-
bilities, man with common sense can
not fail to see, and for that matter
also hear, that Ely is destined to be-
come city-not little, measly, strug-
Cling city, that gains its only right to
the title because it was incorporated
as such, but city with vast army of
workingmen, business men and pro-
fessional men, who will all draw their
various incomes from the mineral re-
rources of the district.
This idea of a large, permanent
metropolis is further strengthened by
the optimistic talk with which new
conner is greeted on every side 1t is
impossible for man to be in the camp
week and hear the resonant whack
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thing that seems to have been left out
of the makeup of Ely's population
''the knockers"
Everybody seems to have made
money; and furthermore-an that is
where they catch the newcomer-begin
to tell about how many thousands more
they are going to make in the next
thirty, sixty or ninety days. Naturally,
as every one that comes here doesn't
come for the sake of the scenic beauties
of Ely or for that delightful trip from
Cobre down, but rather for the purpose
of gathering in good measure of the
''root of all evil" this optimism has
it's effect. No one would have the
presumption to say that Ely is beau
tiful spot, or possessed real moral
tone, or in fact administered in any
way to the cultivation of the aesthetic
side of mankind's existance, but as for
all that it would take good long
search throughout the length and
breadth of the United States to find
HlIlIlR camp tlaI 10 do iiSSiJ oituoISo
and as we'll conducted as this same town,
of Ely, and as to what it will be when
sewer systems and waterwork systems,
and street railways, and city hospitals
and all those public institutions that
go in the makeup of modern city arc
installed, anyone can surmise.
Another feature that strikes the
visitor from the east as peculiar about
Ely is the fact that although it is an
old town, it has never incorporated as
municipality. incorporation is now
under way in the State Legislature,
yet there are those who are opposed to
the project because taxes will be higher
and nothing may come Of the scheme
until next year, they tell me.
All in all newcomer is impressed
with the possibilities of the can p to
degree that makes the minutes seem
like days until he has made some in
vestment in the camp and stands
chance to win, as everybody else seems
to be doing.