The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1901-09-26
THE ELY'S GOOD SHOWING
Force OF Fifteen Men Is Now
Engaged In Doing Oevel-
opment Work.
Copper Deposit Promises TO sur
pass Even the Most Glow
Inc Expectations.
Superintendent Doty Expects to
Start Up the Mill Early In
January.

Superintendent L. C. Doty has .
force Of Aftesn men engaged indeveaop.
mont work In the mine Of the Ely Min.
ing and Milling Company, and under
his efficient management that property
Is rendering an account of itself that
will shortly gladden. the hearts OF Its
stock holders. From the 250-foot level
drifting 10 In progress both In north
srly and southerly direction, and good
bodies Of high-grsds ore are being en-
countered In both drifts.
In four distinct places In the mine
good bodies of gold ore are blooke out
and 10 addition to the extraction OF
these deposits, the work of exploration
and development is going on in differ
ent directions.
A new departure in the work OF de-
velopment of the Ely will be the in
stalling of electric drills, the power
having already been arranged for, and
1t Is expected complement of these
powerful little machines will arrive
shortly. The tunnel winze, which
shows good body of hieh.grsde gold
ore, will then be tapped from the lower
levels and the supply OF available ore
greatly increased. With all these
sources to draw from, Superintendent
Doty confidently expects to have suffi-
cisnt ore ON hand and blocked out 70
justify the starting OF the mill on jan
usry for long and successful run.
The copper ledge uncovered on the
Ely ground by the recent cloud burst s
assuming an Importance little dreamed
of At that time and promises to devel-
op into a mine that in value will eclipse
the gold proposition. Already the
ledge has been crosscut for distance
of thirty-five feet and q grade OF ore
taken out which assays IS per cent
copper. s5 in gold and three ounces
silver. Sinking on the ledge was com
menced this week and it is the inten-
tion to extend the tunnel in that direc-
tion, the idea being that it will cut the
copper deposit at distance of perhaps
800 feet.
This copper discovery, lying as 1t
does on q contact between porphyry
and lime, possesses all the character.
istics OF bonanza mine, and the indi-
cations are that the discovery has in
creased the value of the Ely many fold.
Concerning the feeling among the
Salt Lake stock holders of the Ely
company the Tribune of last Sunday
said:
Local interests in the Ely Mining
& Milling Company at Ely, Nevada,
are elated over developments ON cop
per-bearing ledge that promises to be-
come even more productive than that
in which the auriferous values FREEDOM
mate. Samples from the new ledge
we're received on Friday, while returns
from them yesterday show as much as
II per cent copper and $40 gold per
ton. In addition to these metals there
Is some silver and an excess over silica
of 40 per cent iron. In cross cutting
the ledge, which was opened at the
surface, the management has run
through thirty -fve feet Of ore. Neither
wall had been encountered when the
report from camp was closed, and In
dications all show the biggest OF
things. With Messrs. E. d. r. Thom-
son, o. J. Salisbury, w. p. Lynn, and
their associates mining circles general
ly will rejoice In the development.