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Ely Ely is the largest
city and county seat of White Pine County, Nevada, United States.Ely was founded as a stagecoach station along the Pony
Express and Central Overland
Route. Ely's mining boom came later than the
other towns along US 50, with the discovery of copper in 1906. Though the railroads connecting the First Transcontinental
Railroad to the mines in Austin and Eureka
have long been removed, the railroad to Ely is preserved as a heritage railway by the Nevada Northern
Railway and known as the Ghost Train of Old
Ely.
As of the
2000 census, the population was
4,041. Ely was founded as a
stagecoach station along the Pony Express and Central Overland
Route. Ely's mining boom came later than the
other towns along US 50, with the discovery of copper in 1906. This made Ely a mining town, suffering through the
boom-and-bust cycles so common in the West. Originally, Ely was home to a number
of copper mining companies, Kennecott being the most famous. With
a crash in the copper market in the mid 1970s, Kennecott shut down and copper
mining disappeared (temporarily). As Kennecott's smelter was
demolished, copper concentrate from the mine is now shipped by rail to Seattle, where it is transported to Japan for smelting. The dramatic increase in demand for copper in 2005 has
once again made Ely a copper boom town. Ely is a tourism center,
and is home of the Nevada Northern Railway
Museum. Nearby are Great Basin National
Park, Cave Lake State
Park, and Ward Charcoal Ovens State Historic
Park, as well as the state parks of Lincoln County,
Nevada. The long stretch of road
on State Route 318 near Ely is known for the annual 90 miles (145 km)
Silver State Classic
Challenge course, an authorized time trial
Cannonball Run-style race that attracts entries from all over the
world. The Ely Renaissance
Society has financed more than twenty outdoor murals and sculptures in the
downtown area. Artists from all over the world have been commissioned to create
images of area history, using different art styles. They also maintain a
historical village consisting of a general store and several shotgun houses
which display the history of the ethnic groups that came to the area to work for
the railroad and the mine. The Bureau of Land
Management, part of the United States Department of the
Interior, operates an area supporting
an elk herd south of town. The Ely Elk Viewing Area offers visitors the
opportunity to see an elk community up
close. The historic Lincoln Highway, the first road across America, went through Ely, entering town from the north on U.S. Route 93 and
departing town to the west on U.S. Route 50. Income & Housing Costs Numbers: Estimated median household income in 2008: $43,653 (it
was $36,408 in 2000)
Dec. 2009 cost of living index in Ely:
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