Show ONE EASTERN WRITER WHO fUU KNOWS MINES Gives Charitable Explanation of Work of Some Hired Slanderers J 9 feLY ELY WILL RIV RIVAL AL BUTTE t J j This nils' J Is Ills JIs Conclusion After J fr Two Occupied 6 In Examining i Copper Copper Camp that an charitable thing can be bc said In relation to the recent mari mug mag- mar mar- i azine lne stories purporting to bo be true truo I pictures of the mining boom in Nef Ne- Ne t. t t f Vada la Is that tho the writers knew not what nat hat they were talking about Nevada f r 1 ti In Iri the next few years will wi make rapid strides trl as us a a. mining state Money i is going Into tho the state In Iii big bunches for tor tor mining investments and much of or ort t it is Ea Eastern money too It I Is plainS plain r- r S th that t somo of M o the tho wisest financiers of or tho entire country are arc not afraid of f wildcats wJ WU William m Starr Bulock Bullock a well wel known I newspaper writer wrier of oC New ew York spoke e thus of the Nevada a situation yesterday yester- yester day lay upon Tipon his return from the Ve West t after aCer having visited Ely Eh Gol fel Tonopah and other othir leadIng lead- lead I Ing camps Mining is Mr 11 Bullocks Bullock's specialty In tho the newspaper field He Ha last Just fall tal covered Cobalt exhaustive exhaustive- W for ly-for y for the New York Sun and other ot cr Eastern papers and also wrote a book I on the tho camp which met with large Jarge sales sale His Ills mission loJ West Vest at this time is particularly to cover CO Ely In the tho same wa way He lie was wa occupied two ve weeks ks in examining the mines and pr prospects ts of that camp and his lils conclusion con con- Is' Is that Its greatness has hns not been been- over over Strong Rival of or Butte Ely EI will wf bo a stron strong rival of or Butte Bute he sl said In hi the Ely Eh and IEl Ely Consol Consolidated companies companies' workings alone tire are already ahead exposed more than tons of or ore ore enough to keep their big now smelter bus busy for years even if I no more development work was done I speak peak of or these mines because they aro are more mor exten- exten ly developed that any others others There Thero are area a number of other properties which are being developed te rapidly and which have bave ever every prospect of becoming becom becom- ing great mines mines The proven mineral zone is now 12 miles mies long by from three to four miles mies wl wide e. e so that It J rma fmay be bo seen that the tho possibilities are ar wonderful wonderful This does not mean of or course that pa pay ore will wJ be round found in every square rod of or what is known atho proven zone zone zone-It it means that it itIs Is alt all al mineralized to a greater or less degree and there thero are possibilities In the the greater greater portion of or It i. i iThe The Tho best showing thus far perhaps per per- haps is in the Veteran property of or Cumberland the the Ely H Hero Here ro there thero ar are millions of or tons of or ore blocked out which runs from four to t five per cent c with considerable bodies that t at go and ten per cent cert There iare tare nearly 1000 feet of or drifts in ore The nn het 1 at tho the level has gone 60 feet t In solid sold ore Xe New Sm Smelter ler a onder aonder The he ton be- be Il Ing built by the will 11 Itself It- It itI I self set be a won wonder er To 0 give something tk f I of oC an Idea Mea of Its Is size over a a amlo mile will wi Intervene between tho the concentrating mill mi ard and the tho smelter and all al this space will vIll wl b bo be built bui In solidly with witha a auxiliary plants plant of various kinds warehouses ware- ware hOUS houses S. S etc There here will wl be more than 12 miles mies of or in tho Theone The Tho one Item of or copper cable used to tr- tr transmit rower power In the tho yards alone J 1 will wi cost Tho stack will wi be feet feet high the highest In the count country country coun- coun t try and only five feet teet shorter that the Washington monument monument They are now working several hun hundred red men on this great gret plant and f expect to have the tho first unit completed completed com com- before the end of or the year car I f while the tho completion of or the second unit will follow early next r wi year J There Is little speculation In mining min J ing In Ely It I is purely a n commercial j n proposition as as much so as running a 11 t railroad or a steel plant or any othen other othe n manufacturing proposition Make EI Ely Lr Largo Large o Town ho town of or El Ely should havo have a 1 pop population laton of or to oooo within It the next two years yeats A new town with modern improvements is being built buit 1 at Ely City There seems to be he lo I It capital behind the tho project and within 1 a short time there vl will be bo no tie 1 lack o J of conveniences for resl residents and I J 11 Mr Bullock Bulock did not examine aim any y of f the tha other camps camin so thoroughly on x I this trip as he did I Ely I but he was 1 i Impressed with wih all al Ho lie 10 Is that is another t convinced Yerington with the tho advantage big copper camp wih of somewhat higher values in lf I alue copper generally than has Ely gly There Is no longer question queston o of Gol feld a great camp ho he says saye and that others will be developed into the into the tho same sro class tho ho has no no doubt doubt |