The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-06-16
Home Owning the Live
Idea With Many in the
District---Takes Hold
For PrOtracted Stay
MUCH GOING ON IN EAST ELY
UNDER INsTALLMENT PLAN
AND A GREAT DEAL MORE
COMING UP-ENCoURAGING.

The home building fever is on In
earnest in East Ely. catching and
spreading every day. The music of
the hammer and saw takes none
from the virulence of the visitation,
which is apparently here for a con
tinuous performance from now on.
Six houses are now in course of
erection In East Ely. Yesterday
there we're three more added TO the
number who own lots there and will
build at once. Contracting car
penters are busy with tools and
pencils. and East Ely looks better to
them as a business proposition to-
day than 1t ever did before.
Much interest Is being taken by
McGili and mine workers as we'll as
East Ely and Ely people in the in
stallment plan of the Ely Securities
Co., which is responsible in large
part of the building activity that has
suddenly commenced. A number OF
sales of lots for home building pur~
poses have been made by the com
pany since announcement of this
plan, while the mail and personal in
quiries which have been received
have been surprisingly large, leay
! ing no room for doubt but that the
plan meets with big need in the dis
trict and it highly appreciated.
i. From the next pay day on. there
is every reason TO expect that build
ing of homes in East Ely and pure
chases of property there will be much
more extensive than at any time In
the past and that 1t will distance all
previous records in the district, even
those of the tent erecting era of Wild
boom days in the early history of the
camp. number of men at both the
mines and smelter and also many
railroad men are planning to take
advantage of the opportunity to stop
rent payment and commence The ac-
tual acQuirement of property of their
own through the payment of 500.
down on the next pay day. The
fever has taken hold strong and IL Is
to be the fad for a long time to
come TO get a home of ones own.
Practically every house in East
Ely is now occupied. Many more of
all classes could readily be rented
If they we're up. There have been
numerous applications during the
month that have had to be turned
down. Many of the applicants are
turning around to build for them
selves. Besides those wishing houses
there have been number of ap
plicants for furnished places, not one
of which could be filled. Everybody
living in East Ely is contented and
not desirous of leaving, so there are
no furnished homes for rent.
Meantime the Cumberland hotel Is
the busiest place in the district, its
many rooms practically all filled.
The Larson hotel is crowded and the
several lodging houses all well
patronized. The Steptoe hotel Is do
Ing bigger business every month
and is adding steadily to its transient
patronage. aside from that included
in the patronage of the big mining
men and machinery house rep
who come to the camp
and all of whom make their head
quarters at the Steptoe.
In another week the new creamery
which will make a material reduc-
tion In the cost of butter in the dis
trict and is destined to quickly be
come an important industrial enter
prise will be going in East Ely. The
machinery is now all in the Phillips
building and is being erected as fast
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