The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-30
THE SALT LAKE HERALD: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 80 1906

who gathered the first samples which
induced outside capital to investigate
the merits of his reports and verify MS
conclusions.
No other expert In the district is as
conversant with the copper belt az
whole, from the porphyry ores to those
in the limestones and on the contact
of the two formations.
He has established the fact that huge
bodies of the latter character of ores
are to be developed.
Mr. McDonald's judgment has been
INDICATED in the result attending his
successful operation on the Mcdonald
Ely ground, two-thirds of which is one
and one-half miles from the town and
in the east end of the porphyry or sui
phide area, and about one-third on the
edge of the lime contact.
Valuable Estate.
This vast valuable estate covers 1000
feet in the famed monzonite zone, the
naturalization of which has been the
wonder and admiration. of the mining
world since its extent and possibilities
have been appreciated. 1t has three
large assure veins in the limestone
bordering the monzonite and adjoins
on the east the Chairman group of the
Nevada Consolidated company.
There are included the Robust Nc
Donald and Maceo groups, each of
which had been fully tested and proven
worthy a place in this representative
corporation before it was admitted
thereto.
And to make the estate a most fully
equipped one for practical and profit
| able operations. Cummings ranch and
nfhar QUriC111frrrQ1 10 nd 70 no
of 1000 or 1900 acres were acquired.
This purchase covers a deep lake of wa
! ter one mile long and a quarter of
mile wide, fed by a great number of
springs, and from which a large stream
constantly flows down into the valley
BottomIess craters.
These springs have openings like
craters. and apparently have no bot
tom. Lines dropped eighty-five feet
down into the springs find no bottom
whatever. affOrding an inexhaustible
underground flow of water, composing
one of the most extensive supplies of
the whole Ely region.
There are exposed in the Robust
workings, to the extent of fifty known
feet in width, ores carrying an average
of 2 per cent copper, and nobody knows
how much wider this resource is, as
there is no way of determining the
! extent of it until stopping begins.
Surveys have been made and patents
are pending for the eleven claims in
the Maceo group. The Robust group
was patented several years ago. There
are thirteen claims in this tract and
the total claims number twentyfour.
Big Disclosures.
Within the few months since the
company was incorporated there have
been exceedingly gratifying disclosures
/ in these properties, sustaining all the
prophecies regarding their future which
| Mr.. Mcdonald has been making these
numerous years. and he has in these
instances assured the public that he has
known always that many fortunes ex-
listed in this territory.
| The prospecting and. development
were confined to sinking the main
shaft on the Maceo group, the Robust
group and to extending the Wall tun-
| mel.
The Golden Gate shaft struck sui
phides at eighty feet, that averaged
spots therein carry high values in the
red metal. BY the time the shaft had
been extended TO 145 feet the copper
values were averaging from 21R to 5
per cent.
The Mill shaft found considerable
iron sulphides at the eighty-foot point,
carrying copper.
Extend Tunnel.
| The Wall tunnel is being extended to
| tap the contact at 100 to zoo feet depth,
and has already proven the correctness
of its conception for this purpose.
| T. So ~
countered the sulphides, and was ex-
pected to find the contact before the
beginning of the new year. There
heavy iron-lead ore is expected to be
disclosed inasmuch as these metals are
shown to richly impregnate the crop
pings of this ledge. The object of this
tunnel having been to demonstrate the
contact, it is fulfilling it's mission.
Plans later are to cross-cut from the
two shafts to the contact, and this work
Twill be inaugurated when the shaft
4 shall have reached the 300-foot point
below the surface. Then mining on the
contact viii commence, and the produc-
tive career of this wonderfully pronlis-
ing Ely mine will begin. Its principal
owners believe their territory will prove
equally as rich as its prolific neighbors
and in many instances more so.
Gasoline Hoist is installed.
A nty-five-horsepower gasoline
hoist has been installed on the Golden
Gate shaft, and intentions Of the COM
pany are to equip the mines with good
buildings and the most modern machin-
cry that is available, as rapidly as il
may be required for employing all the
economies that are susceptible of In
PRODUCTION A mill will be erected wher
ore supplies are available.
The superintendent and genera
management of the mines are In the
hands of Mr. Mcdonald personally, who
spends most of his time looking after
the same; and not only he. but all the
executive board are confident that thi.
enterprise is going to make as big q
paying proposition, and very soon, az
Ely district will have two or tire,
years hence, except possibly the com.
bined Nevada Consolidated and Cum.
berland-Ely.
The McDonald-Ely company is incor.
porated for one million shares of a pal
| value of IS each.