White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-08-05
BABBLINC
IN THE DESERT :.

Probably the most important piece
of news that we have ever been called
upon to chronicle or at least the most
important for the past week or ten
days is that of the projected CONSOLE
dation of all the banks of the Ely
district under a single ownership and
management, which is being brought
about by circumstances shrouded in
mystery. By so doing these institu-
tions will be enabled to give better
service To the good people of our
town and county, a great improve
ment for all concerned. The identity
or identities of the prime movers OF
this worthy enterprise are a part and
parcel of the mysterious setting
that is battling local w~iseacres, but
suffice to say that the identity OF
the new owner is known to me but
the name will not be divulged and to
print the manner in which a person
supposed to be without great wealth
could have performed such a feat Of
financial wizardry would be giving
away a valuable trade secret.
But, in the strictest confidence, tc
sort of ease the curiosity of any per-
sons financially affected, I might
tacitly admit that I am the person
and that the mi in which it is
being brought to final consummation
has not been through the power of
money, that is by use of actual cash.
so much as by means of the prestige
gained by a commercial rating
which I will have to admit is all the
same thing--obtained from no less an
authority than esteemed fellow
townsman, Happy Hope.
/ could have worked here for low
wages all my life and until Joe Big
gers and Jay Brnton are old and
gray-headed and never saved the
money to buy the hinges on the Ely
Nationals front door, but as you can
see now, without any fimfar1mery
of the Ponzi sort or anything else
shady, | have been enabled by slip
ping Happy a few simoleons to get
his rating and have stepped into the
millionaire class overnight.
AS long as I've told you this much
which I did not intend to tell you
or the start, but now that it's gone
g far I'll have to let it go-I might
as we'll give these few further de-
tails, that | will place all the cash
and the general management in the
keeping of my selected and trust
worthy lieutenant, Mr.. Br;mmer. NOV
s~kyscraper l shall forthwith erect,
by hat mean cutting out the eco
nomic waste of maintaining three or
more roofs, But / will not give the
worst of it to anybody, for if | had
such intentions Happy would not
have rated me for twice the fee. To
get right to the point, I will use my
utmost endeavors to find employ
ment for Billy Biggane and Herman
Wise, rel 10 good jobs at either Nc
Gill or Ruth, riding back and forth
daily on the shift trains, for by rea-
son of being the only depository in
the district I will have quite a pull
with the copper company.
What inlpelled me to make this
sudden change in my financial pro-
gram-that is, what was the imme-
diate cause of my sudden determina-
tion-was the instant rise to I'M
believed beights in the financial
world by our worthy and esteemed
fellow townsman, Charley Johnson,
who by the same sort of rating given
last week by Mr.Hope, when Charley
practically by the wave of a hand
placed in a class with Rookie
Teller, Henry Ford and Roy Mus
grove. From that moment Charley's
popularity has been enhanced one
million fold and persons who had not
spoken to him since the days of the
Southern clul. have not only greet
ed him cordially and congratulated
him. but have faced about with
hand twisted askew in the same man
ner that you've seen 'em on the
stage. Charley has agreed to turn
that trade over to me. SO you see
I'll have no difficulty in making the
banking business a go. I cam 1T say
any more now without letting every
body know who it is and how it is
done, so keep this dope under your
hat until Happy and I have settled
the details and are ready to put it
in the papers.
w. J.. Arkell, former publisher of
Judge and Frank Leslie's, of whoM
I told you last week, at one time be-
fore coming to Nevada held a pro-
prietary interest in the manufacture
of the connection known as Littlo
Early Risers. 1 think it was he who
christened them, for the name
as much like him as if you
heard the words coming out of mis-
or read them among the
many Sanitary apt paragraphs in
the funny pages of Judge. At any
rate he used to like to tell how.
when the pills were first being made
ready for marketing and the labels
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