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Show H BOYCOTT STARTED ON H SALT LAKE. H Ely, in White Pine count', Nevada, H has declared a boycott against Salt H Lake City, and, at their last meeting, H the commissioners of that county, by H resolution, Instructed all employes not H to buy in the Utah capital. H The White Pine News says the com- H missioners pledged themselves to buy H no article In Salt Lake for the county's Hj use and they expressly forbid any H employee of the county from making Hj any purchase there. The same paper H slates that Ely business men are daily H severing their connections with Salt H Lake houses. H In their resolution, the White Pine H county commissioners put themselves H on record to the effect that, until such B time as Salt Lake shall change its at- M titude toward Ely and the district, no H article of any kind, name or nature H shall be purchased from Salt Lake by H the county. The commissioners re- H ferred to a similar boycott resolution H passed by business men of Ely and H commended them for their attitude. H This resentment, directed at Salt H Lake, has grown out of the movement H Btartcd by Salt Lake to ignore Ely as H entitled to recognition on the Lincoln B Highway, When Salt Lake and Ogden H were fighting over the transcontinen- tal auto trail. Ely joined forces with Salt Lake to have the official route of the Lincoln Highway pass south of Great Salt Lake, through Ely and on west by way of Eureka and Austin, in the heart of Nevada. The Ely road boosters were accepted with open arms. When Ogden, co-operating with the commissioners of Boxclder county in Utah, and other boards of commissioners com-missioners along the Humboldt valley in Nevada, began to demonstrate the advantages of the northern road, Salt Lake, fearing tho diverting of all travel to the Ogden routo, cut Ely off its automobile map by curving its trail north to a connection with the Ogden highway west of the lake. Ely had stood firmly by Salt Lake, but having been sacrificed, immediately immedi-ately took action of a nature to show Its thorough disgust, The boycott Is said to be on in earnest and extends to all lines of business In the Nevada copper camp. This is Salt Lake's punishment for insatiable greed. |