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Show NEW SMELTER TOWN. Tbe smelter which is to treat the Ely ores under the direction of tbe Nevada Consolidated syndicate, will be erected fourteen miles' northeast of tbe town, on Duck creek, where adequate water resources re-sources have been secured for the present pres-ent and future possible needs of tbe smelting business. Tbts announcement has been issued by tbe management of tbe company and is expected to settle severaj mooted questions in the districts affected. Accordingly a new town may cluster around tbe smelter, and detract somewhat some-what from the glory which Ely Itself had expected to carry, but nevertheless it will have to be the residence seat of upward of 3000 to 5000 miners within five years at the latest. The smelter town's population must also become very large, as within Its purview will be located loca-ted a number of large-producing mtnes. The Kearns-Keith properties on Duck creek are now found to be within so short a distance of the smelter that transportation of the ores will be a mere bagatelle in the matter of expense. Quite a number of other Duck creek mines under development also gain largely by the location of tbe smelting plant so near. The properties of the Nevada-Northern company will be connected by rail with the smelter plant, while lines of tracks may also be extended to every prominent mine in the district. Later these tracks are expected to be operated opera-ted by electricity generated at some central cen-tral point, and then the Ely-Duck Creek-Cherry regions will be a counterpart coun-terpart of the Cripple Creek district of Colorado In regards to transportation facilities and the miners may reside anywhere they choose and ride to and from their work twice daily on electric cars for 10 cents. The smelter will have 15,000 tons capacity when finished the largest plant of the kind In the world and nevertheless nev-ertheless experts say that the Nevada-Consolidated Nevada-Consolidated company has enough ore already blocked out to furnish tonnage in this aggregate amount to keep the smelter busy for fifteen years. So huge a proposition seems almost beyond comprehension, and yet it must be no Idle dream, for the Guggenhelms, the men who are behind this gigantic development enterprise, with their millions mil-lions of capital, have never been known to either make Idle boasts or failures of anything. J. OBERNTJORFER, STOCK BROKER, BROK-ER, 161 S. Main. Tel., Bell, 792. |