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Show THE LAU2?CniNG OF ELY, V -.Ik.waa a Pea celebration at Ely... The little, great camp spent $5000 to make it a success. There was a gathering of all the people of the place and surrounding farms and ranges. There were grown men there who had never seen a train of Pullmans before. There were half-grown boys and girls who had never heard ,the music of a brass band before, there were old .settlers whose eyes were filled with tears all day it was to Ely an epoch, and congratulations congratu-lations were the order of the. day. The isolation which ' had brooded there so long took wings and flew away. The success vhich had so often promised to come to the camp came with full equipment with the locomo-. locomo-. tive, which .has-often been an evangel in the wilderness, wilder-ness, but. never more so than to Ely. It is the only mining camp that ever, before any reduction works " were built, or any great rush of people had come, - - held out a certain promise that it would steadily gain in wealth and prestige while two generations of men . should rise up and pass away. 'Many , who have been there all the time have as yet no real -comprehension of what is to be.. They . read the figures of present development as they read the distances to the fixed stars, but they comprehend neither. A big city is to. grow up there ; thousands of homes will be established there; there will be schools and churches and libraries, and with every day's work, when the arrangements shall have been completed, the wealth of 10,000 tons of ore will be added to the world. Last Saturday another poten- tial point was added to the stations of the West. It is a great event when a railroad, with all its : -. . equipments, in a day places a point which for forty years has been practically isolated from th- rapid-moving rapid-moving world in direct connection with all the swift-throbbing swift-throbbing arteries of -commerce the world around. Wheit.the road to Ely is properly ballasted it will place that point for passengers two days nearer New York and San Francisco than it ever was before, and for freight ten days nearer. For passengers it will exchange the old mud wagon for a palace car. The Salt . Lake papers which heretofore have been four days reaching that point will be read there the same day that they fall from the press. That moves those people up within ten hours of Salt Like City. That supplies all the hint that should be required by Salt Lake merchants and manufacturers. The present trend of Nevada is toward Calif ornia. It is natural. The relations between Nevada and California have always been most intimate. The world was picked to f make a people for Calif ornia ; the pick of Calif ornia made the bulk of the first race in Nevada, and for twenty, years after Nevada was really settled it had to be supplied from the Golden State. . In return it supplied to San Francisco its fairest structures, and the dividends paid by Nevada mines materialized in a thousand forms all over California. : But the trade of eastern Nevada is due to Utah. The lessened distance wonlc solve the problem if other things were normal For instance, Ely ought not to be more than eight hours from this city a month hence. It will not be nearer than four times eight hours from San Francisco for a long time to come. But goods should be as cheap here as tney are in ' San Francisco, and there should be no discrimination against Salt Lake in freights! If there is not the surplus sur-plus ores of that district will surely come, this way for reduction. If they-do the men who send in the ores will surely buy their supplies here if a square deal can be given them. - - Again, there will be a thousand families in and near Ely within twelve months from this date. It will be possible for them to come in here in a night, remain the next day and return the next night, making ma-king the journey, have a day in this city to make purchases, pur-chases, and reach home in the same time it would-require for them to reach San Francisco from home. 1 That will turn many a one of them here. It will . 'turn many pupils for our schools this way, for their mothers will say: "If anything happens we can reach them in seven or eight hours." Their wool, their surplus sheep, cattle , and hides will come this way. i Our machinery merchants and foundries ought to have a marked advantage in that trade. A night dispatch will bring orders for goods, they can be shipped next day and reach Ely the second morning. - This is the present situation. "We hope to see it improved upon within a year, but t-en now the manifest man-ifest advantages which should be cur people's can Js seen at a glance. ' As men begin to accumulate fortunes there, if properly encouraged, many and many a one of them will buy or build homes in this region, for no other place can offer one-half the facilities that are apparent appar-ent on the face of things here. It must be kept in mind that Ely is to be a permanent camp; not fo this year and next, but probably for quite three generations gen-erations to come. Eighteen months from now quite 5006 miners will be working there. That will mean 25 000 people to be supplied. Our merchants should e'ed only that pointer to know what to do. |