The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-11-30
Pioneer Ely Organization
Reaches Point Where Large
Milling Plant Required.
THOROUGH REVIEW OF
GREAT ORE RESOURCES
Development Work Has Demon
strated Value and Perma-
nency of Ores.

The following report by Joseph l..
GirouH for the last half year was is
sued under date OF Oct. 25, 1906, This
abstract is confined 10 the operations
of the company at Ely, New, says
the Engineering and Mining Journal.
At Ely, New, much has been accom-
plished in exploratory work and ore
developments, which have, in great
degree, determined the character and
extent Of the great Ely copper de
post, The company's holdings at Ely
consist of a compact group of 52 claims,
or approximately 1850 acres. The
property is two miles in length, and
from 1000 to 5000 feet in width. For
its full length it extends along the out
crop of the silicious porphyry dixie,
in which are developed the principal
ore bodies Of the district. Many
shafts have been sunk and other sur
face workings performed to outline
these deposits, Five of these have be
come permanent working shafts. The
GirouX shaft on the Old Glory claim
near the west end of the property
has reached depth of $50 feet; and
from this. levels have been driven $50
feet in each direction. This vein eX-
tends east and west, and Is believed
to be the same ore body which has
recently been opened by the workings
end line: 4 distance of 1900 feet from
the workings of the GirouX shaft.
One thousand one hundred feet cast
of the GirouX shaft the Morris shaft
has been sunk in the porphyry TO the
depth of 215 feet. At the 200-foot
level drifts and crosscuts have been
run in the porphyry ore in the dlrec'
tion OF The GirouX shaft, requiring
but 800 feet more of drift 10 connect
wItb Tho g0O-fnpt lsral nT tho f,irnnN
shaft, while to the east the drift is
being extended to connect with the
Brooks shaft. The Brooks shaft is
sunk also in the porphyry at dis
tance of 1900 feet from the Morris
shaft The east drift at the 20O-foot
level from the Morris shaft has been
run a distance of SO feet and at the
same level west drift from the
Brooks shaft has been driven 455 feet,
leaving only $50 feet to connect these
TWO shafts at the same level. To the
east OF the Brooks shaft, a distance
of 500 feet. the Bunker Hill shaft has
been sunk to the 200-foot level of the
Brooks and Morris shafts, and at this
level the Brooks shaft and the Bun
ker Hill shaft have been connected,
showing a continuous ore body for the
entire distance. Thus, the westerly
end OF the property has been explored
for distance Of practically 1900 feet,
with ore showing 1900 feet beyond in
the workings of the Cumberland Ely
property. From the Bunker Hill shaft
to the eastern end Of the property. a
distance OF over 5000 feet. this large
ore deposit has well-defned outcrop,
and its continuity is plainly shown
AT that point has been developed the
principal ore body. Of the Nevada Con-
solidated Copper company.
Other Ore Bodies Also.
1t is reasonable TO suppose that sew
eral similar ore bodies extend through
out the entire length Of our property,
they can be proiitablv worked The
Alpha vein property has its highest cl-
ovation at the westerly end. sloping
gradually 10 the east TO what is known
as the Copper Flat. Adjoining the por-
phyry dixie at the upper end Of The
property and extending along the SAME
for distance Of about 5000 feet. is
large quartz vein, having width
of about 1000 feet, between the por-
Phyry, and limestone, formation, which
is independent of the porphyry dixie
and which we call the Alpha vein.
Midway along the strike of this vein
and at n point about 200 feet north
Of the southerly contact with the lime
stone formation, the Alpha shaft has
been sunk vertically. 1t has reached
a depth of zoos feet, and crosseuts
have been run in the leached zone
from the 500foot, 600-foot. and 700
foot levels Of the shaft Two of these
crosseuts have reached the wall rock,
which is limestone, and have proved
to my satisfaction that the south is
hanging wall. dipping 6S degrees to
the south; moreover, that it is true
wall, and that the quartz vein is a
and porphyry. In the crosscut from
the 500foot station in the Alpha shaft
we opened a body OF very high grade
sulphide ore of small extent II has
been shown by these workings that the
Alpha vein is overlain by the lime
stone, and in turn overlies the great
porphyry dixie in which are found the