White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1911-04-09
GILL TURNS ON
BRIGHT LIGHT
SOUTHERN PACIFIC REPRESEN-
TATIVE TELLS OF GREAT FU-
TURE OF NEVADA AND OF
THIS WONDERFUL DISTRICT.

John A. Gill. travelling freight and
passenger agent for the Southern Pa
cific company, with headquarters at
Reno, was a visitor in the district
during the week, making his usual
periodical trips, partly on business
and partly TO call upon his many
friends, giving the glad hand here
and there and assuring everybody of
the good times knocking at the door.
Mr.. Gill has been with the South
ern Pacific these many years, spend
ing most of his time in San Francisco
where he was known as the full
moon of optimism, and where there
always awaits him the most gracious
welcome from all railroad men and
from newspapermen of all classes.
The smiling Gill visage is sufficient
to dispel the gloom of a March
blizzard. his beaming presence is the
April shower preceding the May
flowers. He sees great improvements
in the immediate future, and he sees
a great future in this district.
"On all hands are the indications
of better times" said Mr.. Gill: good
times are already with us. The rail-
roads are on the dawn of great
constructive policy, follwing the lead
of the Hartman system; and other
industries are awakening to the signs
of the times. The great west is COM
ing in more and more from the con-
sideration of the east; and the i'm
provements in the railroads are going
to have a tendency to bring more
people and more money out here.
Nevada has been going ahead.
making haste slowly, and all that is
needed is greater publicity for the
state to put her where she belongs.
Her mines have given her a world
wide reputation as mineral state,
and there is plenty of money to be
had for the development of proper
ties with merit. AT that, the people
who best know Nevada's mineral re-
sources, agree that the country has
not been more than scratched on the
surface, and without doubt there re-
main to be developed more Mohawks.
more Goldfields, more Tonopahs,
more Comstoeks and more Elys.
I'm this district | see the march of
Improvement every time | come here.
There is a greater output from the
wonderful Copper Flat pit of the
Nevada Consolidated; the approach
to the ore of the Giroux is closer; the
Ely Consolidated has more ore, and
the mines in Ely are looking better.
There is no doubt of the big future
of this district; and the work being
done here will be more noticeable
just as soon as the first advance oc-
ours in the price of the copper metal.
On the outside one hears more OF
Ely and its mines than you do here;
and 1t is rated as one of the big and
most successful copper camps in the
United States.
'All this is fine as a magnet to
attract and rivet the attention of out
side capital, but there is something
more that Is being done for the state
which is going to have much great
er effect in its upbuilding. and its
permanent growth. This is the plans
which are afoot for the reclamation
of its lands; and the lands to be dis
tributed under the Carey Act. 1t
has been demonstrated that where
water is to be had in the state, there
is to be propagated the greatest OF
agricultural soil. Nevada. now for
the greater part of its immense area,
and arid state invites thousands,
hundreds of thousands of homeseek-
ers.
"It has been shown what irriga-
| ton will do for the arid wastes in
Fallon. where there are being raised