The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-07
WORK PLANNED
FOR 'DONALD-ELY
Operations on Large Scale
Will Be Started After
First of Year.
SUCCESS NINE WILL
ALSO BE DEVELOPED
Title to Both Properties Has
Now Been Satisfactorily
Established.

spent several days last week in the Ely
district in looking after his interests
there, especially the McDonald-Ely and
the Success properties, returned to Salt
Lake, Saturday night, and Sunday
evening in company with David Keith,
Mr.. Kearns left for Los Angeles Mr..
Kearns was accompanied to Ely by {.
+. Allen. manager of mines for the
United States Smelling company, and
j. Fewson Smith, engineer for the
same company. According to reports
from Ely the members of the party
were all highly pleased with conditions
in that section, and they predicted ex-
tensivc developments in the future.
In an interview with representative
OF the White Pine News, Mr.. kearns
is quoted as saying: >,
81 am one Of the pioneers of The
district. and / am familiar with most
of the workings, but I want TO take
another look over the entire camp,
Is Permanent Camp.
''Outside one hears a great deal of
Ely, and it is the one place in Nevada
that is regarded with favor by all
classes Of investors as permanent
camp. 1t does not require great deal
of intelligence 10 grasp a situation like
TINS, for we know from the develop
ments already that Ely will be a ship
ping camp for a generation to come,
It is manufacturing proposition in
Ely, and there is no doubt in my mind
that it viii eclipse Butte, that it will,
in fact, be the greatest copper camp
in the world.
''The new railroad coming in here.
the Ely.Goldhcld, if it is to come, will
be of the greatest benefit to the com
mupity Of Ely, as well as the entire
district. 1t means the placing of Ely
on a transcontinental line and that
means the making OF the camp. We
are in need of more railroads in this
section. We should have better con; con;
nectlons with Salt Lake. IT rs absurd
that it should take nearly twenty-four
hours to come here from the Lake.
Then. another thing. the western roads
are congested with freight, and this
condition means almost coal famine;
not that there is not coal enough, for
there is plenty to be had, but that
there is scarcity of cars to haul it,
Country Is Prosperous.
"Of course the congestion Of freight
means another thing. and that is that
there has been a tremendous increase
in business of all kinds, for IL is bust
ness needs that create the congestion
of traffic. Freight is moving both
east and west, and this applies to all
kinds of freight, so that there is no
doubt in the world Of the prosperous
condition of business and trade affairs,
] look for the greatest era OF pros
peritY that the country has ever
known. and | look for il right away.
Next year will be a banner year. in all
directions, with regard to business. We
are in the beginning Of the prosperous
era right at this moment.
''Of the future of Ely district there
can be no doubt. 1T is the camp of the
lowest cost copper produced in the
world. and that, there is an abundance
of ore here is being shown every day,
both in development work and in the
actual production of copper. I am go
ing to the Success mine, if the roads
permit, and Mr. Allen and Mr.. Smith
are going with me. They Will look
over the situation there and determine
whether our ore can be handled, Those
gentlemen are here also to look over
the district as well as our properties
want to keep abreast of the times, and
they want to know what is going on
here. -
Development Planned.
After Senator Kearns, with Messrs.
Allen and Smith. and Mayor d. C. Nc
Donald of Ely, who is also one of the
heavy interests in Mcdonald Ely, had
visited the mine he informed the
News that it is the intention to prose
cute the development of the Mcdonald
Ely, and also Of the Success mine
on Duck Creek, on an extensive
scale after the first of the year
Work will be prosecuted with all
possible vigor after the first of the
new year on the Mcdonald Ety." said
Mr. Kearns, 90 and. while we will only
work n comparatively small force dur
ing the winter months, operations on
a large scale will be the programme at
the Success mine on Duck Creek in the
spring.
"The reason the development work
on both the MeDonald-Ely and the
Success has been comparatively slove in
the past is due TO the fact that we
have been perfecting the titles TO both
properties / believe in establishing
thorough title to ground before going
too rapidly with development. This has
been done in connection with the Me
Donald Ely and the Success Their
titles are absolutely perfect, and it i:
our intention 10 now work them to the
limit