The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-02-23
HEAVY COPPER ORE TONNACES
NOW BLOCKED OUT IN ELY

In review of conditions at Ely, the
New York Commercial, the leading
financial newspaper of this country,
says:
The Robinson mining district is
booming. Development work is going
forward on rapidly increasing scale.
On the leading properties the working
force is being increased; new and
larger machinery is being installed;
and more extensive camps are building.
Every train beings in number of
miners, prospectors and investors.
Within the next |. months. Ely will
be the most prominent mining camp in
Nevada. The tonnage already blocked
in the workings of the Cumberland Ely,
the Nevada Consolidated, Girouix Con-
solidatcd and other well-deveoped
properties, insures the permanence of
Ely as copper camp for many years
to come.
AT the Steptoe smelter site, IA miles
down the valley from Ely, hundreds of
men are engaged in grading. trenching,
putting in foundations and erecting the
many necessary buildings which will
go to make one Of the largest copper
reduction plants in the United States.
Already nearly $500, 000 worth of ma
chinery and equipment is on the ground
for the first unit of the plant, which
will have a daily capacity of ever 4, 600
tons of ore. 1t is expected to com
p.ete this first unit during the present
year, and the second unit OF similar
capacity, will be added as eXpeditiously
a possibly.
The water supply, which is directly
at hand on the mountain back of the
smelter, is sufficient to treat %, 000
tons daily The smelter is on the Noy-
ava Northern Railroad, which is now
being con p!etcd west Of Ely, through
the Robinson canyon, in which the
mines are located.
CUMBERLAND Ely ORE El8H.
The Veteran workings of the Cum
berland- Ely have developed intoa mine.
Many tons OF ere are blocked out in th
various drifts and frequent assays show
that this IS the highest grade depoaio
thus far opened up in the district. The
Manhattan drift of the Veteran, V hich
runs from the main tannel ut the lob
foot level Of The shaft, is in a splen id
body Of peacock ore, showing an aver
age assay OF over . per cent copper.
In some places the assay values run up
to % or 10 per cent. From the 300
foot level Of the main shaft drifting
has been done four ways in the ore
body for total Of over 900 feet. In
none OF these drifts has the wallng
been reached, and the extent of the ore
body can only be surmised.
Both the Ada and Jupiter workings
of the Cumberland-Ely are showing up
well, although the ore thus far encount-
cred will hardly average more than "a
per cent. A new shaft which is going
down on the Wedge, on another portion
of the same property, has reached the
100 foot level and is just now entering
good looking body of ore. AS yet no
assays are reported on this working.
AS yet the work on the Cumberland
Ely properties, which include total of
over 1000 acres along the improved
mineral zone, has been largely that of
development. However, thousands of
tons of good ore are on the dumps at
the. various shafts, and by the time the
smelter is in operation it can run to Ca
pacity on the output of the Cnmber-
land-Ely and Nevada Consolidated.
The main tunnel of the Ruth mine of
the Nevada Consolidated is in ore hun
dreds of feet. The Ruth ore dump con-
tains over 1000 tons at present, and is
probably the largest single dump in the
district. The tunnel is being pushcC