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Show I HB The Ely Celebration. i,j ' 'IIS9HHl Tue pepie f Eiy' Nev' prpse to ave a 'fflH great celebration today, to welcome the coming ( - iHHm But it will be more than that. They believe I . -IIMBm! that today will be marked in the calendar of Ne- "'Vf Wlwst vada as an epoch, a renaissance to correspond to ' Snnfflnilitiu wnat tlie dlscovery of the Comstock was forty- vlffln seven years ago, for experts claim that there are ' tiHHf 50,000,000 tons of ore already as good as blocked out, and that the amount is little more than a promise of what is to be. It is expected that a city as great as Butte will be built up there in the next decade; that it will last several generations genera-tions and that it will give more men employment than the Comstock did in its palmiest days4 It is not strange that the people there are exultant ex-ultant over the presc a and over their prospectg for the future. And it is a wonderful thing for a people who have long been dwellers in mid-desert, mid-desert, three or four days away from every artery of the pulsing world, to hear the call of the locomotive loco-motive at their doors. It comes as an answer to prayer. It is the more so when it follows men into the desert's desolation. It brings back to them a flood of memories; it takes from their minds the sense of isolation that has been upon them so long, and while they do not realize it, their hearts are filled with the memories of the long ago, and in their ears are ringing the echoes of years that have long been dead. There will be hilarity in Ely today; there will be handshaking; there will be boisterous welcomes wel-comes and congratulations; there will be tears in some eyes and some people will have to look their joy their hearts will be too full to give any coherent expression of their feelings through their lips. There will be feasting there and possibly it being Nevada a little drinking, and men will grow garrulous in telling of the past and picturing pictur-ing the future, and that future will, after all, bo the assurance which will give most satisfaction. The Comstock is a great ore channel. The ore found in it have been in deposits, and when one is worked out no one knows whether another one will be found or not. This has always al-ways been so plain that one man who built a house there in the very flush of bonanza days, taking in the situation, would not use spikes and nails in building, but rather substituted wooden pegs. His neighbors laughed at him, but he held his peace and when borasca days came he simply sim-ply knocked out the pegs, loaded the house on the cars, set it up in Los Angeles, and it is a lovely love-ly home today. But in Ely there is enough ore already devel-oped devel-oped to supply reduction works with 5,000 tons per day for thirty years. It will be seen that men may safely build houses there with spikes and nails and not have to resort to wooden pegs. Wo congratulate our neighbors, and again remind re-mind Salt Lake business men that if they are plucky enough they will have Ely for their great suburb. |
