Show ELY HAS A mr thompson predicta predicts ton smelter a population by the first of next year and in three yeara years there arrived in ely sunday laston the private car oceanic a small group of men who havo have had and still have a powerful interest in the destinies destinies of ely and castern nevada these men who have done so much for ely and who are planning to do so much more are SW S W eccles W 13 thompson george E gunn stephen birch W J palmer frank C armstrong and W S Alc mccornick McCorn Iok S W eccle eccles Is the president oe of the nevada northern railroad which con ely fly and the entire mining district with the southern pacific railroad at cobre and gives communication and transportation facilities I 1 to 0 the outside world he 1 10 Is also president of the steptoe valley smelting smelling Sm elting company which la building the greatest and largest smelting smelling sm elting plant in the world at mcgill 12 miles from ely where thousands thou sandr of men will bo be employed within the next few beans yeans and where the smelting smelling sm elting of the ores from the mines in this district will give employment to thousands of miners at the mines where but a few hundred are now employed another company which mr eccles heads is Ls the cumberland ely copper company one of the largest mining companies in the state and in which the powerful financial interests of the aro are directed he ile Is also a director in the nevada consolidated soli dated copper company another institution in which the guggenheims are interested william larn B thompson la Is vice president of the cumberland ely copper company director in the nevada consolidated soli dated copper company and has many other local interests george E gunn Is to a director of the cumberland ely copper company and one of the original prophets of the greatness of elys mineral deposits steven birch Is director in chief of the duggen elm copper interests in the copper river country in alaska with headquarters at the bonanza mine owned by these Int interests inserts erts he is recognized ag as one of the greatest living authorities on copper and cop per ores W V i palmer is president of the ely townsite te company and ind all of its subsidiary companies he Is well known here because of active work done here in the interest of that company frank C armstrong is to associated with mr thompson william S mccomick cornick aar is one of the veteran 15 ankers of salt lakeland Lake and the president of mccornick co one of the largest private banks west of the mississippi river he is also a director of the american smelting smelling Sm elting and refining company largely interested in III local enterprises including the cumberland ely copper company and the nevada consolidated copper company he ire is a director in the first national bank of ely and accompanied the party from salt lake Preal dant eccles satisfied the work at tho mines sm shelters smelters smelt elters cra and concentrators ie Is progressing asing well when weather and labor conditions aro are taken into hito consideration said president S W eccles to t tho li white pine news when seen in tho the car oceanic isfort a short time after the arrival of qt the party yesterday afternoon our company feels that all of this work Is in the hands of the ablest men in the business I 1 refer to pope yeatman managing director and joseph E gazzam general manager of the smelter and mines these there men are placing the most modern modem type of smelters shelters sm elters and concentrators in tho world at this place and when these smelters shelters sm elters are opened it will make ely fly a second butte 1 I hope to see the old and the now towns ans grow together and be so 80 closely 1 connected connect ei that there will be but one ely and that all interests will take a broad and liberal view of off the operations of the new now companies and that all classes and people will unite to give a long and hard bard pull for a greater ely in a it discussion of the policy of the nevada N northern or thern railroad company with regard to lo freight and passenger tariffs improvements and other matters pertaining to the interests of the railroad and of tho the people president eccles said ely Is the best situated big mining camp in nevada insofar as freight rates and transportation charges are concerned we have not come here as haa been intimated specially to ta take e up the matter of reducing the freight and passenger tariffs we have ordered reductions in freight rates on oil many commodities that are greatly needed here these are particularly lumber brick building material and certain other classes of freight these reductions have been authorized and will go into effect 30 days dya after they have been authorized zed the reductions could not bo made within 30 days because of the require requirements of the interstate commerce law these rates will then be as low as the road can afford in view of the many and extended improvements a aa contemplated or already under way we want to put the entire road on ballat ballast we want to give the best of service both for passenger and freight traffic we are crowding crowd hig the new con st ruction work as fast as we can as can be seen by any one who will walk out on the line toward lane city the material tor for the new smelter is moving rapidly and we wa want at to keep it moving as fast as possible to keep as many men at work as can bo be placed improvements ordered four new locomotives have been ordered for tho the road the orders are with the american locomotive company and at least one of these will be turned out by the schenectady works it should be on the road now headed for ely these engines are aro extra heavy tor for use on the mountain line as the line between mcgall and the mines Is called four new now passenger pa enger coaches have been ordered and will be aa fine a anything in the entire reat west one of these will be ready in may and the others in june and july there are also two 60 toot foot baggage cars modern in every respell the tives will be electrically lighted and will have all the moet most modern modem ant and improved appliances insuring speed power and lasting qualities the road has alao given orders for 50 hopper bottom ore cars and when this rolling stock ia 16 delivered we will be in a a shape to handle 10 tons of ore dally between the mines aad the savl shelters smelters sm elters tors within the next few years thin amount iu tift be enormously increased and the pa orthis camp will be increase d correspondingly v W B Tho thompson la Is a man ot of modest appear appearance anco nig ills faw face la Is 1 and does not reflect tho the burdens il 1 wealth lie ile is well groomed and ia neat in appearance wears no jewelry save a plain bandling ban dring a a modest fob bov and a tiny scarf pin ml ely looks good to me said mr thompson enthusiastically when he was ivas asked what ho he thought of the camp it certainly looks good to we I 1 have been interested hero here for two years but this alls la 18 my first visit to the camp what attracted your attention to ely he way wag asked gunn it was three years ago it was just plain gunn then we term him the big gunn now gunn and NV T hook first attracted my atten tion to ely hut but gunn was the biggest factor at first 6 when gunn dunn first told mp me about ely three years ago I 1 tried to get in touch but I 1 wa was a little too late wish I 1 could have got in then ho lit said retrospectively as his eyes smiled just a little it could havo have all been had then for a mere more song then when tho nevada con waa was formed I 1 got in operation and interested myself and my friends in that then I 1 joined with gunn and others and with those and the guggenheim Gugg enholm interests tho the cumberland ely copper company was formed later the guggenheim interests had their attention directed toward the nevada con I 1 own MO re nevada con and cumberland ely than ever before he said with a chuckle and I 1 intend to hold on to it too aou you can bet I 1 thompsons Thomp sons prediction after the mado made examinations ami amina nations tiona they found such enormous ore bodies here that they could not gee fee a small plant for their handling they started a ton unit that would not have paid they discovered as the ores of ely can only be handled at a proper profit on a really bi big EF scale the result of a these alo s is the plant they are now building th the largest in all the world 1 I predict that five years from now these concentrators concentrator a will handle ions tons of ore per day 1 I look to see ely greater ely it you please tho the commercial and industrial du center of eastern nevada if not of the entire state within the next five or elx years thousands of men how bow many thousands I 1 cannot estl esti mate will be employed in the mines in the concentrators and smelters shelters sm elters and in the subsidiary organizations which will be news necessary sary to care tor for them their families and their interests th the future of ely is today the brightest of any town in the entire west 1 I expect that there will be people here by january 1 1908 in three years from now there will be people living here and we will havo have a modern modem city there will be an abundance of city water as pure as can be found anywhere in the country there will be electric lights on an all tho the street corners there will be all ull the conveniences of civilization and progress that can be found in any city of in the country we are working toward these ends steadily we are pushing the water system as rapidly as the work can be performed but as for ely just watch her grow and develop all V A AV S Alc mccornick Cornick who visited ely tor for a short time ae one year ago expressed himself as being completely surprised at the wonderful progress made by the camp in that time 1 I was all nal turned a around round he said and it took me an hour to get my bearings dont know what the town will bo be in another year v ar if it keeps up like it has beon been doing tho the members of the party will devote the next few days davs their interests here they will visit the great mines of the companies they represent thy will inspect the water works the electric light plant the townsite tow of ely city and the b big I 1 g emelar at mcgill it is altogether likely they will remain main until thursday or friday after w which atch they will yo xo to other othor points to look after interests in the state |