Show will build A store horace coltharp is home from nevada after looking at the mines and sizing things up in general he purchased a lot and as soon as the railroad reaches ely he will put up a building and stock it with gen general erSil merchandise there is only one store there now of any size the town has a population at the present time of 2000 and mr coltharp thinks that number will be doubled by the time the railroad reaches there w chich aich will be in about two weeks six stage lines are running into the camp and three automobile lines and all chicles are loaded ile he and sonin son in law fred nichols went in on the automobile a distance of fifty six miles and made the trip in two hours the dust he says filled the air until one could cut it and when they rut rat he be feared at tims the auto would not be there when they came down he says the average man can see more money there in a day than he ever saw baw in all his hia life before and SAS sacs the demand for laborers of all kinds is great and the demand greater U I 1 I 1 an tf e supply the nevada consolidated mining company mahich paid pad for mining property have miles of tunnels and shafts and it is have enough c ore blockel oat andin and in sight to run tie tl u smelter fifty years this same company is 13 patting in the largest smelter in the world ard are building a railroad miles long to the he camp the smelter arrived before the road was completed and mr coltharp says it has been unloaded on a side track which he be estimates to be three fourths of a mils mile long 1 yd the timbers and machinery are arc up on each side of the track tho the entire distance tho the smelter when completed will handle tons afore daily there are other mining ining properties in the locality m around ely that show big bodies of ohp low grade copper and will no doubt be large producers lumber is 13 80 per thousand feet lour flour 5 per hundred and other things in proportion are eleven saloons in town and nine of them havo hava wide open gambling houses which are always crowded the town has a fine water supply of good water |