Salt Lake Telegram | 1907-04-22 | Page 6 | Eccles Pleased with Ely Outlook

ECCLES PLEASED WITH ELY OUTLOOK S. XV. Eccles, president of the Nevada Northern railroad, at the head of the traffic department for the A. S. & R., and one of the most active men on the Gu-genhelm Gu-genhelm staff, returned with hla party ,.i a private car this morning from a trip of Inspection at Ely Nev. That the trip waa a revelation to Eccles and every member of hia party. Including Armstrong. Gunn, McCornick and Thlmpson was acknowledged acknowl-edged by all. but that still greater things are to be expected with the approaching summer season In the development and equipment line was confessed by every member of the party. While Eccles represents the great Guggenheim Gug-genheim interests In the Ely and all other camps of the West, and is a very conservative conser-vative man at best, he admltird that of all the Investments made by his company com-pany during the last ten years, none gives promise of greater returns than that of the Ely district. . Ely will be the rival of any copper-producing district of the world, he says. While the average values of the red metal may not be so high as those in the Bingham Bing-ham camp, it is said the ore rone thus far e-xplored promises to be more extensive ex-tensive than any of the mineral fields. The building of the mammoth smelter, which la said to be the largest refining plant that has ever been contemplated. Is being hurried along as fast as the manufacturers manu-facturers can turn out the various parts of the plant. The railroads have been instructed in-structed to hurry up the delivery of this machinery as fast as it is received, and when this reaches Ely every arrangement will have been completed for the Installment Install-ment of the plant, and the starting up of the furnaces that will reduce the tons of rocks to a commercial basis. Ely Is receiving the closest attention of capitalists and the energies of the younger mining classes. During the summer season every provision pro-vision will be made for the carrying on of work throughout the winter months without with-out the slightest interruption, and Improvements Im-provements In the roadbed and rolling stock of the Nevada Northern railroad will be made for the handling of all of the freight and traffic business headed for the Ely diggings. Rates will be cut down for the upbuilding upbuild-ing of that section within as reasonable a basis as can be made to pay.