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Show I III Nevada ,1s On the Bum Frank Turner Writes that Laborers Should Stay fronrthis Camp; No Work. Frank Turner, son of Fred Turner of The IlErunucAN, went to Ely a couple of weeks ago, and whllcho is getting along very satisfactorily, his Inttcrs IndlcatejJiat Ely Is hardly the plnco for any great Influx of labor. Tho boy writes a really capablo lntter; it sounds llko straight goods and wo present hero a portion to bo taken for what It Is worth. He says: "It Is a shame tho way the company com-pany that is building this, new Ely city Is bring people in here.' Half of them cannot get work and over a hundred leave here every day disgusted. dis-gusted. If jou see" anybody coming out hero try to stop them, for they will certainly bo disappointed If. they come. Tho town Is full of Greeks, Japs and Italians, who work cheaper than the white man "The reason there was such a boom here for carpenters, masons, etc., Is becauso this Ely Townslte Co. has bought all tho land around tho county good and cheap and Is bulldlnglhouses on small lots and making people think that It Is a largo place; but the town is twelve miles from the smelters which will not bo finished for two or three years at least nlno miles from tho mines, so you see It is hard 'to tell where tho main town is going to be. Tliero is no pay roll of any kind In tho country yet, It Is all outside money, and from tho way somo of the boys talk that have been here quite a while, there Is not very much of that left now. There -are many Cache valley people here."'. |
