The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-04-02
Big men MEET
In SALT LAKE
DAWN OF PEACE IN RAILROAD TROUBLE B
Appearance of EcCIeS, Thompson
and Gum in Zion at Same Time
ArOuSeS Considerable interest

says:
With fhc appearance in this city OF
$. W. Eccles, w b. Thompson and
George E. Gum. all at the same time
and with the departure of the two
former for the west last night with
the latter to follow in day or two,
il begins to look as though the cop
per camps of Ely and Yerington are
due to be shaken up shortly. b fore
going to Ely Mr.. Eccles will 30 to
look after American Smelling affairs
on the Pacific coast and Mr.. Thomp-
son will accompany him. They will
return To Ely together about week
hence.
S. ". Eccles is one of the biggest
men in the Guggenheim combination
and next to Simon Guggenheim is
the most active member of that COM
bnation. while his old friends In Salt
Lake are expecting to some time see
him al the top OF the ladder. lie Is
president of the Cumberland Ely
company, the Nevada Consolidated
company. the Steptoe Smelling com
pany and the Nevada Northern rail
road company which connects Ely
with the outside world. He Is one
of the directors and deeply Interested
in the Cumberland Ely company,
which is n half owner in the big mills
and smellcrs now being construct
ed AT Ely to treat the ores from the
Cumberland Ely and Nevada Consol-
idated mines.
Mr. Thompson is vice president of
the Cumberland Ely company and is
also a director in the Steptoe Smelt-
ing company and the Nevada Consol-
idated He is close business asso-
ciatc of George +. Gum. and mem
Der OF the big banking and brokerage
firm of Hayden. Stone & Co, Of Bos-
ton and New York.
Partnership is Formed.
George e. Gum needs no introduc-
iion to Herald readers, but as he and
Mr.. Thompson have pooled their in
terests in this western country, have
organized the Gunn-Thompson com
pany To look after them, have opened
offices in this city and will be heard
from in the mining world from now
on, no harm can be done in repeating
who he is. Mr.. Gum first came into
the limclight here as the field repre-
sentative of the Guggenheims and
American Smelling and Refining
company. He got into Ely and be-
sides being instrumental in landing
the Gnggenheims in that camp, he
rounded out the possessions of and
organized the Cumberland Ely conf
ington and is now making one of the
big copper mines in the country out
of the property of the Mason Valley
company, the control of which was
sold to him few months ago.
These men are about the biggest
and most aggressive that have inter-
ests in the state of Nevada, and they
are just getting started. That is why
this mention of them is made,
Plants at Ely Being Rushed.
While he has not been in camp for
long while President Eccles is in
close enough touch with what Is do
ing to feel certain that the Steptoe
smelter will be ready to begin the
treatment of ore before the end OF
present year. Material for the first
unit Of 1900 tons is now being deiv-
cred al the site, as is also material
ior lhe great milling plant. Tho con-
crete foundation work and all pre-
liminary construction is we'll along
at the plants and as all material was
ordered early last fall and as wealth
or conditions are now such that the
will Immediately begin to assume a
form
Ecclcs, Thompson and Gum are a
unit in their expressions concerning
the greatness of the mines with
which they are connected What the
Nevada Com has been doing in the
way of development is well under
stood What has been accomplished
at the Cumberland Ely and particu-
larly AT its Veteran group is not gen
orally known It is now admitted
that what is probably the biggest
body of high grade copper ore In the
camp. or in the slate for that matter
exists in the Veteran group
Cumberland Ely's Riches.
The development so far done In
this body OF ore has opened II up for
400 feat. .straigt away in what Is be-
/ lieved TO be the strike or trend of the
ledge 1t has been crosscut for 200
feet and in no direction is there YET
any indication of where the limits
will be found. A great deal of this
/ ore carries sensational values, but
/ the company's officers prefer to speak
of il as a mass that will average bet
ter than 12 per cent In copper
From this one property one of the Of
ficials stated yesterday, with copper
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