White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-03-25

ISounty commissioner BAIRD and Vail
M. Pittman be appointed to confer
with Mr.. Hickey upon the subject of
"a daily service to CoDre and shift
trains, and IL a compromise were
reached satisfactory to the Chamber
lof Commerce at subsequent meet
ing the result should be wired to
him and that he would withdraw tho
complaint. When this motion was
adopted a daily cobre service had
been promised by Mr.. Hickey as soon
as business would warrant and tho
promise was reiterated at the meet
ing by Charles s. Chandler, counsel
for the railway company. Both Mr..
Hickey and Mr. Chandler emphat-
ically refused to ever reestablish the
shift trains.
The conference was held and the
committeeman reported as its first
feature that Mr. Hickey received
them in an icy sort of way, which
bordered upon a decline to receive
them at all. With some difficulty
they convinced him that their mis-
sion was friendly and then he reit-
Grated his former attitude, but in a
more genial spirit, with the adden
DUN repeated that If the Zurich pc
tition were fought through and the
company lost the matter would be
tiled up in the courts for years and
meanwhile neither daily nor shift
trains would be reinstated.
This result was reported TO the
chamber at a meeting held February
27 and a motion was unanimously
adopted asking Mr.. Zurich to with
draw his petition. This Is what Mr..
mise but back-down, and he says
he will not accede to it, Yesterday
he handed the White Pine News the
following prepared statement:
My complaint against the rail
road company applies to the shift
trains as we'll as the main line. .'he
Chamber of Commerce had nothing
to do with my filing the complaint.
am solely responsible for the COM
plant. Later the chamber. upon
my motion, appointed committee
of three to confer with the manage
ment with the understanding tina.
IL a satisfactory compromise was
reached that the same should be
communicated to me at Carson, so
| that il the same was satisfactory to
all concerned, including myself. I
would dismiss the proceedings.
The compromise has never been
reached and the chamber had no
| business to pass upon the matter
and request that l dismiss the COM
| plant. In so far as its request is
concerned it has absolutely no
weight with me and in my opinion
the community would be better off
without such a Chamber of Com
| merce. As to what I will do in
! the matter I have net decided as
| yet and when l reach a decision 1
will follow it. whether II pleases
the chamber or not.
| Meanwhile the public. service COM
mission has been tied up for want OF
funds and has been holding no hear
! ings. But the legislature provided
funds for its next two years OF SER
vice and date for the hearing of the
Jurich petition may be announced at
any time.
For more than week il mad been
rumored that the management was
ready to resume the Cobre daily ser
vice and was waiting only for the
withdrawal of the ZURICH petition
Finally this week Mr.. Hickey gave
out letter addressed to the com
mittee containing substantially that
statement, but with a different Sc
quence, which. after referring to and
discussing the petition, was that the
daily train would be reinstated April
%, whether or no, and that his COM
pany and he we're anxious for the
GOOD will of the people and would
cooperate with them for the benefit
OF all.
So the present status Is that Mr..
Hickey is supposed to believe that
he has jumped Mr.. Jurich's claim on
the good will proposition and will
proceed to develop it and stope out
the proceeds, running the daily train
meanwhile; whereas Mr.. Zurich will
have to remain outside the good will
property lines with only the shift
train color of title up his sleeve and
his Chamber OF Commerce pick badly
bent