Show E F GRAY PREDICTS BIG FUTURE FOR CAMP OF CONTACT NEVADA contact will have a population of 2000 people in a years time declared E F gray president of the vivian tunnel company and gray mining company in in a visit to this city over the weekend week end says the elko nevada free press of recent date it will not only have a population of 2000 in a year but will bid well to become the metropolis of nevada before a decade has passed he added coming from gray this statement carries carries con considerable sid erable weight as he has been identified with some of the largest mining properties in this state and was one of the men who started the copper mining development in ely it was through his efforts that the railroads approved the building of of a road into contact when the road was built a tunnel was driven feet in order to prove that the existing ore body had depth within a very short time men will be at work on the vivian tunnel and machinery is already being tin unloaded loaded at the site where the power plant is to be erected gene cipriani of this city has a contract for the moving of the ma machinery chinery diesel eng engines ines i w will ill be erected in the power 1 plant and the electrically driven cars will be propelled by power generated from these engines will be revenue producer the vivian tunnel will be six miles long and large enough to allow two electric cars to pass while in the of construction the tunnel will be a revenue producer process gray declares this is made possible because of the various shoots of ore which will be encountered as the work the ore is owned by various companies which progresses this will not interfere will remo remove veit it as the work progresses with the work of driving the tunnel forward as both will continue operations at the same time the ore crews which is taken from these drifts will be sent tos to sm elters melters and this revenue will be produced from ore contact will not be started for actual smelting smelling sm elting work at wishes to complete the tunnel the management some time as work before the smelting smelling sm elting of ore is and other preparatory the construction will start contractors undertaken sa san n francisco in in that vicinity immediately for of thirty cottages st have already families who will move there preparations of a bank and stores which will made for the opening been their and of the workers be needed for the convenience families |