The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-10-25

Will G. Higgins. editor of the Salt
Lake Mining Review, who recently
visited the camp. writes of 1t in his
journal as follows:
Those who are familiar with con-
ditions at Ely. Nevada, two years OIL
more ago. would hardly know this
prosperous section now, were they to
revisit this great copper camp today
and make comparisons with the past
Two years ago Ely was in the
speculative stage. Money was plenti-
ful and the town and district were
crowded with investors, spectators
and the stranger who is ever present
when the" boom" is on. Now, how
ever, the boom period is a thing of
the past. a fragment of ancient his
tory, and in its place, an era of solid
substantial and permanent operation
has settled all over Robinson Mining
district, and over the horizon of the
majestic mountains which environ
the great copper producing sections
of the camp, the approach of years of
continuous and unparalleled pros
perity and progress is seen TO be
headed this way
Two years ago the circulation
medium of Ely came from the
pockets of investors, and thousands
upon thousands We're expended in
acquisition of property but, nothing
was produced. and the wage Garner
was in the great minority. Now,
however, thousands of tons of ore are
being daily transferred into copper,
and thousands of men. in mine. smell
ter and mill. draw down small
fortunes, monthly. in the coin of the
realm, and this, in turn, goes a long
way towards stimulating the general
business of the district; for it is the
wage Garner who gives to any place
any locality. the healthy tone which
calls for investment in real estate in
home building or in industrial or
mercantile pursuits.
IL is estimated that the Nevada
Consolidated, and associated COM
panies, have expended in the neigh
borhood of twenty millions in Robin
son district in the requirement of its
vast holdings, in the equipment of its
in railroad building, in the in
stallation of eoncentrator and smelter
and ii is well known that the great
scheme is well rounded out and carri- |
ed on to completion. The Giroux Con-
also. has expended great
sums of money in mine aquisition, de-
and equipment The |
Cum berland Ely can also be credited |
with an expenditure of a mint of |
and this has all been in the |
way of an investment from which |
IN
Other mining companies, too. have
acquired valuable and extensive hold
ngs, the purchase. development and
of which have called into
general circulation large amount of
money, much of which has gone into
ne hands Of veteran claimholders
md pioneers nf III. III camp. and who !
n turn have displayed their conf |
renee IN the future of the district by
keeping the money at home. mas
much as they have built costly and
beautiful homes here. and have made
of most substantial
nature.
Hardly more than five years ago
Ely was one of those almost desert
ed and depopulated western mining
camps one hears about so often.
With one of the greatest mineralized
sections TO be found anywhere in
the world at their very doors. the
people of Ely were virtually h e,,.,c-s
because of lack OF means for mine
operation. and a lack of transporta-
ton facilities even If able to produce |
A heavy tonnage of ore from nearby |
At that period men sat |
on street corners watching for the |
herald of progress, for the courier |
bringing news of the coming of capt. |
tai; of a railroad company having
the temerity TO head CONSTRUCTION
::ahiis way. Day after day the watchers
their post with nothing
more exciting than dog barking at
a burro to relieve the growing mon
otony of their vigils. Finally Giroux
came. and hope was revived. Later
on the Nevada Consolidated began
its gigantic undertakings. the camp
and district began to fill up with
strange faces. and IL was not long
before the Nevada Northern began
the construction of its road from
Cobre, on the Southern Pacific rail-
road. TO Ely. Then the boom began
in earnest, and since then towns have
sprung up in the mountains, in the
canyons and on the foothills, all the
way from McGill, (Smelter) on the
east TO Veteran on the west. a dis
lance of about twenty miles. and
these are connected together by the
suburban and highlines of the Ne
vada Northern road.
A FEW FACTS AND FIGURES.
Ely has no boom TO wrestle with
today, as something more substantial
has taken its place. Ask business
man of the district how matters are
progressing. and he will take out his
pencil and submit the following data:
At the Copper Flat mines OF the
Nevada Consolidated there are 29s
men on the pay roll.
At the Giroux there are eighty
five.
At the Steptoe smelter there are
1850 men on the payroll.
At Veteran the %.
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