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Show ; Nevada has already commenced to. pay dividends to Salt Lake City; ',-, -. '",V-'.: .'-'' ' '' . . A month ago Sir.- Gordon.-ofiJtound Mountain, Nev.,-bought the' beautify fiome of Geprge Forres. 5?d M domiciled hiVbride th'erelrid henceforth j heiwill be a'citizen of Salt Lake City! ' ; . : I vHe is only;23 years of age. He was bora in Aus- tin; Ney.,- but has spent most of "his life in New, York ajid San Franciscb. A couple, of years ago he went . ; back to Nevada .and located some claims on' Round . , ..... . JiXOuntain, : m Big : Smoky . valley, , a . spot "that the ! miners and jurojspectprs.of, Nevada have been passing within rifle shot ::fo? .morethan forty;years. - He ."has already .cleaned :p;$i;O00,0ti0 and Has' great in-. in-. r: ? teifestsleit:):. I;- v.;-,,"' ' "' , : . . '-kike the sensible youth that he is, he "was married .. : three' months ago and bought a cage forhis' bird in: ; SritLake City;.-:-- : .'..;'; . " -1." '".-. '".-. ; On Monday last, J. B. Simpson ("ig Sim"), of j Elibought.tlie: Fierr?8-home,.'cprner.pf C'"and-First streets, andbTiUri.ngL;lan)Uy here,: where the i children can bfr .educated llost "of hir time will be spoilt in Ely wher?: he still has "great;in'terMtvbut the better half of .him (his wife and children) will live .here.. rr, .:' ';; .'"'j ..,3J f 'Big Sim" is as well knowp in Nevada as Mount Davidson behind Virginia City. He i is a. first;class . man. He haa.been working hard for thirty years. This last ten years he has been swearing by Ely. Now swears are? mating good. I - The aboye are. but twc straws'. Tere are plenty more men in Nevada that are contempTatine doine . asr;Mr. Gordon and Mr. . Simpson iiave: done. It is a clear case that imore schoolhous'ea and more homes will be needed here and the first necessity is to'have .direct communication with i;Ely.'- tVhen a'train can run direct from this city to Ely, it will mean that a man can leave Ely at 7 o'clock in the morning and reach this .place at 5 in the evening. " lie can leave Ihme on Saturday Evening, reach here Sundaj' morn-icg,-. spend th.e Sabbatb ;:th i his family, take the train Sunday, night and be home and Veadj for .work Monday morning, .And through the week at any hiwir he can call up the family by long distance telephone, tele-phone, .find out. how the baby with the -measles is Ixa! t il. ' il 1 ' . 'a a " it . - . t a r .geiiing op; wne.iner iae wue weni 10 lac SKaiing rink the .night before or not, and whether,, the oldest girl has run away ; with a banker or a" chauffeur. . v .For several years Ely is to beta suburb of Salt Lake. After .that, possibly; Salt" Lkke will 'be a .suburb of Ely. ' - ' " "- " '-. '-. The above merely shows to Salt Lake people what their present opportunity is and ' time will show .whether or not they have the genius and enterprise ' to take and make most of the opportunity. |