White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-07-22
ROSPERITY-GENERAL, LOCAL

With a condition OF prosperity IN
the east, middle west and on the Pa
cifc coast that is phenomenal, the
intarmountain conditions are such as
to puzzle experts in business and
finance. Yet they are not as bad
here as they seem and the causes OF
their seeming as bad here as they
DO are local.
Eastern Nevada is i'll the shadow
of Salt Lake, which city has shown
suicidal Tendencies from which it
appears doubtful if it can recover.
Salt Lake is the financial reservoir
for this district, the place with which
local banks must deal and obtain the
bulk of their credit, and the woeful
depression that prevails there is in
escapably reflected here. With an
exodus of $4,000 people from that
city in the last six months and gen
eral business feeling it most acutely.
it would be an impossibility for a
place as close as Ely and as depend
ent upon Salt Lake as it is bound
to be to not share in the depression
to a considerable extent.
If Salt Lake were in a condition
of prosperity like Los Angeles or Sc
attic. if it's banks were bullying with
money for loan and investment as
those OF such places and other coast
cities are, the whole country for hun
drcds of miles around would feel the
impulse and receive its share Of the
cash, making for it's instant response
in a business way. But with Salt
Lake in the condition that it is the
effect is the contrary.
Then there is that further diff
Guilty of the obstruction of the Lin
coin highway and this chargeable to
Salt Lake also 1t is hurting Ely but
it is hurting Salt Lake worse. Any
thing that retards business in Ely
does the same in kind for Salt Lake,
for whereas what INJURIES the one
likewise Injuries the other, it being
a rule that works both ways with a
vengeance, Yet Salt Lake is too
near-sighted to see it and too b!goted
to admit it. 1t honestly kinks that
by eliminating Ely and diverting
travel elsewhere, o%bstructing the
building of the Lincoln highway and
removing from the map the chief city
of a great copper producing center
it in some fanciful manner is helping
itself, but it is doing the exact OPP
posite. Just as surely as the kaiser
wrote his obituary when he ordered
the ruthless submarine campaign in
1917, Salt Lake wrote its own when
it launched it's campaign for The
Blocking of a seventy million dollar
highway and of wrecking a city that
has contributed millions for it's own
upbuilding.
Were this city at one end of a
highway building campaign, which
it would have been but for the de.
feating Of the Lincoln highway en-
terprise by Salt Lake. it would have
meant an immense business activity
during this and the text following
roadbuilding season, but to have been
closely followed by the vastly in
creased automobile travel by the
opening of the road to the multitude
from the east fretting in impatience
to come this way and leave heir dol
lars not so much with Ely alone,
as with Salt Lake, which they have
learned by its Captain Kidd methods
is the best place on earth for them
to stay away from.
Locally Ely is affected by a trans
.rortation problem all it's own. The
nature Of it's ailment is understood
and admitted by all, but over the