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Show MANAGER REQUA HAS HAS HANDS FULL Gigantic Tasks Awaiting Talent of Man Upon Whom Responsibility Re-sponsibility Rests. General Manager M. L, Requa, upon whose shouldorH rests tho renponBlbili-tleo renponBlbili-tleo Incident to tho building of the No-vada No-vada Northern railroad and tho erection of tho hugo plnnto which nrc destined to handlo the Immcnso daily tonnages of coppor oro from tho property of tho Nevada Consolidated company, left Friday Fri-day evening for .Ely. Tho undertaking of tho Novnda Consolidated company will rank as ono of tho most gigantic In the hlBtory of mining in tho West, and tho work will stand as a monument to tho qualltlcB of Mr. Requa aH a manager and organizer. The extension of the Nevada Northern road into Ely will rcproKont but n Bmall portion of the work that was originally planned for execution.' Thin work has been rushed forward with romarkablo progress considering tho dlfilculiy experienced ex-perienced in securing' sufTlciont labor, A ctill greater problem, however, remains re-mains to bo Bolvod boforo tho work can bo Inaugurated upon tho smoltor of tho Nevada Consolidated compnny. This 1b tho question of handling without delay or dissatisfaction tho untold tonnages of freight now awaiting shipment. While tho Nevada Northorn company alono will have nutllclent freight to kocp the rolling stock of tho new road pretty well occupied for months, there nro a scoro of Ely companlos and mnny soorea of othor White Pino county organizations organiza-tions piling tip their cqulpmont and Bitp-pllos Bitp-pllos all nlong the line from the supplying sup-plying point preparatory to rushing theso into tho districts whero they will confine con-fine tholr operations. It will tako no small dogroo of patience and exocutlvo ability to meet these tremendous demands de-mands satisfactorily. And whon theso probloms aro mot and Holved by Manager Requa and hlB staff tho real effort will come In assembling tho equipment of tho Nevada Consolidated Consoli-dated compnny and placing it in condition condi-tion to begin eating away upon tho resources re-sources of tho company. Littlo doubt Is oxprcsscd among thoso who are fa-mllar fa-mllar with tho situation that at least two yoars will bo required of steady work, with everything favorable, for tho acomplishmcnt of this task. |