The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-07
NEW SHAFT GOING
TO SPLENDID ORE
CumberIand-EIy Company to
Send Big Shaft Quickly
to Ore Body.
MUST BE READY TO
SUPPLY NEW MILL
Remarkable Ore Body Con-
tinues to Be Attraction of
the Ely Camp.

The Cumberland Ely company has
placed an order for a new line OF
equipment which will enable the man.
agement to sink a new shaft through
which all the resources of the property
are to come to the mill for treatment
George r. Gum, the Cumberland Ely
pioneer, the manager during the first
year of its development work. and at
present a member of the official family,
stated 10 The Tribune yesterday that
this new shaft must he down TO the re-
sources, and in readiness for bringing to
the surface each day 80 tons Of ore,
by January the first next. On the lat
ter date the engineers IN charge of the
mill construction have pledged that the
Cumberland Elv aud the Nevada Con-
soli1ated concentrating plant or the
first unit of 800 tons capacity, will be
placed in operation,
M Gum stated that this new equip
ment consisted of an electrical hoist
which must have total capacity of
5000 and 1000 tons of ore per day. The
shaft rs tc be :. four-complr5mcn af-
fair. and is to he equipped with skips
each with capacity of four tons per
load The hoist, however, at first will
be called upon to furnish only 80 tons
of food for the new plant. As the
plant approaches completion in all its
parts. the equipment Will then be called
into play at maximum raising power.
This new shaft is To be sent down
10 the 2s0-foot level Of the Cumberland
Fly group where the management has
been and still is developing one of the
spectacular avenues of red metal wealth
Of the Ely district. So far the com
pany has blocked out million tons or
ore. which, taking into account ore,
waste and everything else. Will average
between 3 - and per cent copper. This
splendid ore body has been actually de-
veloped for total length OF 500 feet,
aud to a width SO far of 200 feet. Mr..
Gunu states that the management is
sending several crosscuts into this body,
all being in ore, and in the next thirty
days he is certain that the width of this
body Will be shown much greater than
at present The company does not yet
know how much longer the ore body
will be found to be. but all the drifts
arc still pushing into ore us new terri
tory yields its secrets Of development.
Mr. Gnpn knows the Cumberland Ely
possessions as few others. And there
arc few who arc better able to Judge
of the companr's possibilities. He
stated Yesterday that within the next
four months the company would have
blocked out orc IN the properly lhaC
would correspond 10 $50 per share profit,
and such prediction is certain to he
verified The present level of The stock,
therefore is easily seen TO be ridicu-
lo,sly low. As for the concentrating
plant, Mr.. Gum states that ne is as
surcd all the machinery for the first
unit is on the ground.
Recent developments In Ely have
moro than established the permanencY
of the Ely district with depth to the
satisfaction of everyone, Mr.. Gum IN
cludcd. but it is doubtful If the public
In general knows that the most crafty
ing and most significant developments
Of the year have been registered at so
deep a level as one thousand feet. Yet
such IS the case. and such development
has done wonders with the expert opIn-
ION rendered by many engineers during
the first stages Of the Ely excitement
and interest This deep development is
on the Giroux Consolidated ground, and
local circles hear that A splendid body
Of ID 10 30 per cent copper ore has
been found in the Giroux Consolidated
workings Mr.. Gum stated that he
deemed this news Of the utmost signih-
cance.
The Nevada Consolidated company,
he states, is developing greater ton
mage constantly, and the ores are av-
eraging higher grade than those orig
inal]y developed This organization has
accomplished wonders during the past
sixty days in development way.