The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-12-10
GREATEST COPPER
PRODUCER IN WORLD
This What the Big Red Metal
Camp in Ely Promises
to Be.
COPPER CAN BE PLACED IN
NEW YORK FOR 8 CENTS
COncentratOr at the GirOuX
Property viii Be Ready
by March |.

Ground has been cleared for the con-
centrator at the Ciroux mine at Ely. New.
and the plant VIII he rushed so as to have
IL under cover before the winter sets in,
II Will have capacity OF 500 tons and
should be completed by March /, The
smelter has been completed with the ex-
ception or the smoke stack which will
be finished shortly and the plant should
be In operation before the first of the
year. II will start work on ores from the
Morris and the Bunker Hill mines. which
run from to per cent copper The
Giroux shaft is down 900 feet TO the
water level
The construction of the Nevada e
ton smelter by the Guggenheims will
mean much for the Ely camp The de-
yelopments In the Hack shaft OF the Ely
Consolidated Copper company are now in
30 feet of rich sulphdes having already
passed through more than one hundred
feet OF ore, This alone gives the prop
liant shaft is down in ore for over 100
feet and the American shaft has cut
through two different ore bodies. running
from 25 to 40 feet In width and Is now
penetrating rich sulphides. II is claimed
that the rich ores OF this camp and the
possibility OF economic mining OF the
same, whereby copper can be placed In
New York City for less than eight cents
per pound destines the Ely camp TO be
the greatest copper producer in the world.
The Hayes -Monnette mine and the
FRANCES MoHaHK companies at GOldf1eld
are each bending every energy to make n
shipment OF ore which shall break all
records In the mining industry history.
There is considerable rivalry between the
two companies. The Frances Mohawk is
hosting $50 tons daily, which run from
500 to $6s6 ton or about 100000 a
week The Hayes Monnette people are
hoisting as much every week. 10 say the
very least.
The high grade ore chute being worked
by the Frances Mohawk is from eight TO
tains streaks OF solid gold. On one level
II has been proved 10 be eighty five feet
long and on another one hundred feet,
1t has been followed 10 a depth of 300
feet and TO within 100 feet of the surface
and is continuous.
The Nevada Hills Mining company OF
Falrview New. has been operating it's
cumulated 100000 In its treasury and It
is said Is making n distribution to share
holders of AZ least 100000. The last car
load Of ore from the mines brought TO the
management s5l 900, This ore was broken
down In developing the property.
The Gaena King, the Gold Belt and the
Lone Pine mines near the Nevada Uills
dividend PAYERS In a short time.
Reports from Rhyolite. New. are TO the
effect that the Goldheld Eastern Star
Mining company has purchased the East
the Gracey claim. which the company is
now developing. In addition 10 its Bull
frog properties the company owns con-
siderable property in the Goldfeld dis
trict.
The report that the Greene Consolidated
Copper company had selected site for
a new smelling plant In the San Pedro
valley, Mexico, and would soon begin the
construction of such a smelter Is not con-
frmed at the office OF the company. The
question OF such smelter has. however,
been discussed by the directors and Off
cials but the matter is said 10 rest in the
main in the hands OF Colonel Greene him
self.