Show THE GROWTH OF ELY 0 from a mere hamlet to a city of size and commercial importance almost within a year is the history of ely in white pine county nevada and still this remarkable progress has not been of mushroom growth for all of the improvements made all of the buildings erected are of the most substantial character and the aim with all has been permanency the permanency that a great low grade copper camp always promises and a always fulfills ely was a thriving and progressive camp before the advent of the nevada northern railroad since then it has grown wonderfully and yet this growth is as nothing compared to what will take place there as soon as the great reduction and smelting smelling sm elting plants of the nevada consolidated the mills and smelter of the giroux consolidated are completed and in commission nothing to the wonderful change which will take place when the scores of other mining enterprises in this section are on the regular producing list ely has been a marvel a wonder in the transformation that has taken place within its environments within the past eighteen months a brief period for the building of a really metropolitan city one could hardly ly believe in its rapid progress without seeing and yet here one will now find asplen did business structures beautiful re residences residence es i large mercantile houses several banks and and ff almost every line of business n depre represented S e t ed that one would expect to see in a town tow of s inhabitants while three or more able newspapers newspapers contribute to the up building inget 0 OI 01 the town and of the great mineral district 0 they so ably represent but if ely is growing now by leaps and bounds what will its progress be when ac and heavy production takes place when fortunes come out of the mines in 14 stead of going into them in the way of development and equipment the life of ely so far the source of its growth and progress has largely come from the millions that have been paid to almost penniless claim holders and prospectors for the many claims now comprising the holdings of the various big mining companies which have invaded this wonderful copper camp the activity in real estate in building circles and the business that has been created in all lines and occupations occupation by the great influx of investors capitalists laboring men and home seekers this lire life this activity however could not last for long without a solid and substantial foundation and this foundation rests on the practically alli inexhaustible copper deposits of robinson mining district upon the marvelous and almost I 1 t bodies of ore which ex development has proven to exist in a district whose boundaries have as yet been hardly ascertained men were wise who first secured a foothold in ely mines they were wise when they decided to embark in business in this Nom promising ising camp and they were wise when they put their money into real estate in water power projections in telephone service and in the generation of electrical power there was a time hardly less than two years ago when a man could sit on the curb of an ely street and wait an hour before anyone would pass along now there is a stream of travel from ely to lane CRY city and on to pilot knob from ely to magill where the nevada northern is constructing its big plants no one gets lonesome in MY ely now the only fear being that one will have an attack of heart failure in his endeavors to keep up with the procession for ely is on the move and of the hot foot variety |