The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-10-16
Meeting Held Last Evening at the Com
munlty Center Attended by Public
Spirited Citizens
Hotel Company Present and Outlined the
Benefits and Returns from Such
Structure
ELY SUBSCR|BEs QUOTA OF STOCK.
$4,000 IN Shares of $4,000 Each Sold
to Enterprising People of this City
as Guarantee.
Cut Herewith Shows Front Elevation Of
Handsome Structure to be Erected in
Time for Next Years Business.

final payment when the building is
completed.
We are today printing a cut of
the new building as it will appear
from the front when completed. AS
will be noticed that the natural fall
of the street of ten feet from the
eastern end to the western end of
the site is taken care of by the of
flee and meZZanine floor on the
western end and that the main
building is five stories on the west
and four stories on the east ends.
The plans. call for the postoffice
in the one story structure on the
east and the next store front and
rooms on the, first floor and base
ment is set apart for the Superior
National Forest headquarters. Three
entrances to the hotel building are
provided and in addition four store
fronts are located on the street. AS
planned the hotel will contain 83
rooms with bath; 16 rooms without
bath; nine apartments; ten suites of
private offices; five waiting parlors;
club rooms; private dining rooms !;
sample and trunk storage rooms;
kitchens; soft drink parlor; billiard
and pool rooms; barber shop and
every other room needed for the
conduct of a first class hotel.
While the picture calls for a La
Sale Hotel and the cut was made
from the original drawing, the local
committee and citizens at the meet
ing last evening were of the opinion
that Hotel Ely would be more ap-
propriate and the change was order
i. Substitute Hotel Ely for La
Sale Hotel and the cut will give
you fine idea of the hotel for this
city superior to anything outside of
the Twin Cities and Duluth.
To the Hotel Committee of the
Commercial Club is all credit due.
They have worked hard and faith
fully in the interests of the better
ment of the city and in the face of
a number of obstacles have pushed
the improvement across. Those who
sat on the sidelines and jeered the
move will also come in for the gen.
eral benefits to accrue from the
new building. Every t. OF of prop
erty in the city will feel the benefit.
Ely has needed such structure
for some time and every year adds
to the need. Winter housing has
become considerable c1 a conun-
drum and summer care of the tour
list trade has become hardship and
Ely has suffered.
An average of 240 cars a day
passed over the Ely-Finland road
last summer and 400 motor driven
vehicles over the Tower-Ely highway
as the report of the State Highway
Commission shows. Two-thirds of
these cars were of the higher class
with well dressed passengers carry
ing golf paraphernalia. The larger
number of these people looked for
a hotel here to rest up before con-
tinuing their drive to Duluth or to
the Superior international Highway
via. the Ely-Finland route. The ex-
perience of the state has been that
these people expect to pay for at
tention and the cost is no object.
With first-class hotel; golf course
and our magnificent opportunities
for outdoor recreation constantly
growing larger as the fame of Ely
spreads in the outside world; the
only exclusive canoe routes in the
country; the scenic beauties of the
road to Lake Superior; the stability
Of Ely as an all-year town; the Cir
lie Trip with its allurements of |