White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1913-06-22
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WESTERN PACIFIC SPECIAL IN
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FICIALS TO SMILE.

News last Sunday, party of West
ern Pacific officials arrived in Ely
Sunday evening. and remained for a
short time looking over the business
conditions of the camp. The party
came in a special train hauled by the
Western Pacific Locomotive No. 101.
and included the following:
c. II. Sehlacks, first vice presi-
dent and Mrs. Schlaeks; G. NJ. Levy,
second vice president and general
manager; II. NJ. Adams, freight man
ager; G. V Derrah, general freight
agent; b. +. Neyin, general live stock
agent. Monday was devoted to visit
ing the points of principal industrial
interest at McGill and the mines.
General Manager Lakenan and Busi-
ness Manager jenkins of the Steptoe
company. and Superintendent Dud-
dleson of the Nevada Northern rail-
road assisting in extending eourtesies
to the visitors.
First Vice President Sehlacks and
wife with a portion of his party left
on the special. Monday evening, for
San Francisco, Messrs. Adams Der
rah and Nevin remaining until We'd
nesday, FOR further opportunity to
meet and become acquainted with
business men and business conditions
of the district.
Whatever the object of their visit
here. they certainly found conditions
fairly prosperous in Ely. and all ex-
pressed their retaliation of this self
evident fact. As they stopped nights
in their car that was side-tracked in
the East Ely yards. they had oppor-
tunity 10 discover that the Nevada
Northern railroad is busy little
proposition and that its trains go
right on running night and day. One
of the party stated that when he
awoke during the highland he was
aroused a good many times-the
train racket made him think he was
in Chicago
OF course, the visit of these Of
officials from an outside road, started
''rumors. and more rumors, includ-
ing one that the Western Pacific was
on the point of purchasing the Ne
vada Northern, as "a feeder to its
main line.
The yoicing of this rumor, Is treat
ed as a Joke by local officials of the
Nevada Northern, and also by the
Western Pacific officials. But rail-
road rumor of this sort is as ever
present and as elusive as fieas on a
dog. and keeps the public busy talk
ing the same as the fleas keep the
dog scratching. The visitors. whose
road Is doing more or less business
in Ely In the freight and passenger
way. state that 1t is their policy to
get personally acquainted with con-
dtions. as a matter of good business
policy and that il happened to be
asLyenient at this time to make a
~ into Ely. Vice President
Schlaeks with associates was on an
official inspection trip over the West
ern Pacific lines, and Mr.. Sehlacks,
who has long been a close personal
friend of General Manager Cannon OF
the Nevada Northern. conceived that
it would be opportune to run into Ely
with his train, from Shafter. and ar
rangements were made accordingly.
The visitors were met at Shafter. by
Superintendent Duddleson, and Il
pilot for the Western Pacific train,
and accompanied To Ely. Col. Can
non himself would have been along,
had he not been at ogden. where he
went recently to take treatment for
sciatie rheumatism.
Jolly John A. Gill, the Southern
Pacific-Nevada booster. arrived in
the district on one of his intermittanf
sunshine-dispensing visitations, the
"of hiNtl lht W. Icopi' h"N wv
and he put the "Western-Pacific-b buy
ing-the- -Neveda Northern" proposition
very nicely when he remarked with
Characteristic decision:
why, 1t wouldn't be right for the
WEixern Pacific to come in here and
buzz the Nevada Northern, when Col.
Cannon is out of town. The Western
Pacific wouldn't do any thing like
that"
Perhaps the News Is trifiing with
Mr.. Gill's forbearance in mentioning
him in the same story with the West
ern Pacific. but no violation OF any