The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-01-01
Mr.. PeaIe Has
aDeniaI In the
Butler Matter

The matter OF the Butler addl-
ton. taken up some time ago by the
news. has reached the Offices OF k.
H peale & Co. Mercantile Annex,
Salt Lake. from where comes denial
of conclusions thai reading Of the
PAMPHLETS of Willetts 4 Co. brought
about locally. The letter of Mr..
peale is here reprinted at face value.
II follows
Editor White Pine News:-I have
Just been shown your Two articles
published In your paper of the ION
and 18th of this month. in which YOU
state under large head lines that
SEEMING SWINDLE NEEDS IN
VESTIGATION BY POSTOFFIGE DE
PARfMENi OFFICIALS, referring
10 the Butler addition 10 the town
of Ely City Nevada.
originally owned this Butler adj
dition 10 Ely City, Nevada, and re-
Gently sold IL To h. K. Willetts d Co.
of this city. The title to this land
is absolutely perfect. | located this
land originally with Santa Fe scrip
and received patents therefor from
the United States government. All
the notices of publication were adj
yertised in your paper. Further
more this plat was surveyed, staked
and approved by your county COM
missioners. aud for the life Of me /
cannot understand why You people
knock proposition that is trying TO
boost Your town. Every man that
buys lot and goes over 10 Ely City,
means SO much more III yonr pocket
| personally own several thousand
acres around Ely and | am the man
that located all of that land at the
Smelter with scrip. besides this Mr..
J. T.. Noble. one of the clerks in my
Office was the man who wrote all of
those letters around Ely inquiring
about the Butler addition. We sim
ply wanted 10 gel the opinions of the
residents of Ely in regard 10 this ad-
dition for our OWN use, aud with one |
or Two exceptions the majority OF
them were knocks. IN fact several
people wrote i'm stating there was no
Butler addition 10 Ely City. They
offered lot OF information that a
child might offer Int did not take
the trouble 10 find out If there was
such a plat as the Butler addition
filed in the county recorders Office.
Among some of the mis-statements
in your article YOU state Among
the inaccuracies the postal acthor-
tiles should wish explained is that
the map which accompanies the
pamphlet indicates that the reduction
plants of the Steptoe Smelling 4
Mining Co. are about mile and "A
half from the Butler addition and
that street car line operates be-
tween the addition and the smelter.
Kindly let me know where You con-
ceive the idea that this bird eye
view shows that the Butler addition
is only a mile and half from the
smelter Also ii YOU had looked at
this personally YOU would have seen
that the pamphlet did not state there
was trolley line in operation at the
present time. The birds eye view
distinctly shows that there is pro-
posed trolley line. If you had read
the literature published by h. II.
Willets & Co you would see they
state emphatieally there was a pro-
posed trolley lnie.
You also state: Also the postal
authorities should have explanation
of the statement OF Willets & Co.
to the effect that the principle resi-
dences of East Ely. or Ely City. as
Is termed in the pamphlet, are be-
tween the railroad track and the
Butler addition" Where You get
that idea is more than | can under
stand as there is nothing TO sub
stantiate it, either in the birds eye
view or in the literature of Il. Il.
Willets & Co. This in itself is a
rank misstatement.
You further state: But is hap
pens that the lots are very near two
miles in an air line from East Ely
and the railroad track, and several
miles out by the road. Also they
are not in the direction of the smelt-
err but rather further from it than
East Ely. which means something
more than II miles.
This is rank misstatemeut on the
face of it,