White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-07-29
RAIL WAY HEARING SHOWS
POLICY IS TO REQUIRE
MEN TO LINE ON JOB

1.-THE crate on Mondays and Tuesdays
for canning, more especially Mon
days, whereas other days and espe-
cially Saturdays and Sundays sales
were by the cup and pound. If a
Sunday night train arrived in Ely it
would be advantageous to the fruit
business.
The witness then related that, re-
siding in the Richmar apartments.
he had personal knowledge of five
families leaving the district in a
period of two months because they
could not reside in Ely and work at
McGill. -Four of the families wished
to reside in Ely and the fifth was
willing to reside at McGill, but at
that time a house could not be had
there, preventing their remaining.
had been received only the previous
evening, saying they would net re-
turn.
The witness had returned to Ely
last fall. expecting to buy a home
and at last settle down after ten
years of running around. having
sold his home at Tonopah, but after
arrival had learned of the shift train
situation and would not invest.
Mr.. Branson said that in his ca
pacity of a wool buyer he visits
practically every ranch in the county
in the spring months, as we'll aG
many miles into Elko, Nye and the
edge of the state of Utah, tributary
to Ely, and that the ranchers,
KIN moving him to be a newspaper man,
invariably entered into lively dis
cussions of all public questions af-
ranchers recognized in Ely their
natural trading center and were
keenly interested in the shift train
issue. They Were favorable to the
shift trains and the daily main line
service, their point of view being
that they believed the policy OF the
company to be to wipe Ely off the
map, compelling them to drive four
teen additional miles to McGill to
trade.
Owing to the fact that the Ne
vada Northern occupied the field,
and main line passenger business,
Mr.. B9anson said he wished to cell
the attention of the commission to
the fact that this would have the
effect of shutting out an interurbar
line, which could not participate in
other business. Ii was his belief
that when a railway thus occupied
the field the people were thereby
entitled to service from it.
Mr., Chandler asked if a bus line
would not do as well. The witness
was sure it would not. Besides the
one as proposed by Mr.. Chandler
would have the direct effect OF
putting the jitneys out CT business.
their owners having tremendous in
yestments here and having contrib
uted to the upbuilding of Ely. Mr.
Chandler asked if the shift trains
would not compete and have a like
effect. Mr.. Branscn said it would
be the opposite. The shift trains
would promote the prosperity OF
Ely; creating business for the jit.
neys. Asked if he wanted to see
the shift trains operated at a loss
the witness asid he did not, yet that
all businesses had to be operated al
q loss to start with. He had been
the founder and owner of five daily
newspapers and It was raro indeed
that a daily paper was not a loser
for the first few years of its life,
Mr.. Branscp said he wished to sec
the Nevada Northern mako money
and that it might earn the good will
of the public by 4 proper policy, add
ing that he would be glad to use
what influence he had to assist.
Il may not have much influence
he said, but / seem to have had a
little here. I'm the guy who wrote
the item about the million dollars
that created all this trouble here
today"
You are somewhat of an expert
in your newspaper work at making
: trouble, are you not?' asked Mr.
Chandler.
Perhaps an answered the
with ess, but | also recall writing
many sendoffs for people in Ely. in
I Guiding probably fifty or more fol
t you. Mr.. Chandler. and you never
| once came to me and saiG Thank
you. Mr.. Branson.' For instarcc,
f you delivered the Fourth of July
!, Grafton in Ely three years ago and
. wrote a column and a half editorial
I swelling you up and you never came
0 to me and said, Mr.. Branson, I ap
! preciate that and wish to thank you
for it, met you on the street mary
(. times and sometimes ycu nodded &c
L me and sometimes you didn't"
d well, did you come and tell me
: you wrote the editcrial?" asked the
e attorney.
mo it was not my place to dc
that. It was your place to COM tC
Y me. / am not around looking 70
S bouquets retorted the newspaper