The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-30
new SHAFT BEGUN
ON FEDERAL ELY
Company Prepares to Develop
Splendid Bodies on the
Queen Claim.
PAST WORK SHOWS
WHAT Is TO BE HAD
Savage Group Showing Silver,
Lead and Gold Values of
Significance.

Until everything was pretty well ad
vunced by the management III charge
of the Federal Ely company Ely pos
sessions, very little has been allowed tc
reach the world regarding tho eharac,
ter of development work being urged
forward aud the kind of results that
ARE being obtained. General Manager
W. j Craig OH Friday gave out the
first intimation that the work had been
started by means OF which great bodies
OF copper ore arc to be exposed in the
Federal Ely property. This work con
sists OF n deep shaft now under way
upon what is known rs the Queen of
the West claim
During The first few months of Fed
eral Ely work, the company drove q
shaft upon this lower group To tho 100
foot level. This shaft was started
about midway between The two great
blowou,s crossing the property for n
blowouts are parallel and about 200 feet
apart, and the intervening distance
shows ore carrying low but very salts
factory red metal contents. From the
l00-foot level OF this first shaft two
drifts were run, one toward each blow
out, one being driven for fifty feet and
the other rwenty-six feet. both showing
orc all the way and ore that increased
perceptibly IN copper values as the
blowouts were approached.
The new shaft started by the COM
pany is midway between the two blow
outs, 800 feet away from the first work
ing being located in a much more con-
venient portion of the group for sink
ing and for taking cars OF the ores to
be extracted therefrom in time. This
new working Will be sent on down TO
the i00foot level without delay, but it
is anticipated that results Will be gained
before that level is attained to call for
plenty of lateral explorations from the
lOU-toot level on down.. Manager Craig
stated yesterday that the experts for
the Guggcnheims who recently made an
inspection of the Federal Ely property
with him were of the opinion that the
richest ore would be found between the
two blowouts ut n vertical depth of
about $50 feet. and that the ores would
extend positively for 800 feet IN thick
ness. and perhaps still more,
Such development would present for
the Federal Ely as ideal system OF re-
sources as is enjoyed by almost any
property in the Ely district, and better
than which no member of the COM
pany's official family could desire or
expect. The conditions now known 10
exist upon the Federal Ely, and from
the lessons learned generally in that
section Of the camp, the company has
every reason TO expect it's resources 10
states thai there has been very sat
isfactory development during the past
few days IN the bottom of the shaft
started some time ago al point not
lar distant from the tunnel portal on
the Savage group. The shaft has
broken into body of lead, gold and
silver ore that gives assay returns Of
a bttle over S51 to the ton. This body
occurs right on the contact between
porphyry and lime, and promises to be
no small source Of revenue TO the com
pany from the present time on,
With the present plans of develop
ment we'll executed, the Federal Elv
company bids fair 10 become a great
producer, and to bring resources availa-
BILE within It's lines for keeping q. large
capacity concentrating plant busy for
years. The water rights of the com
pany are among the most valuable as
sets OF that section of Nevada, and a
resource that will come into fine play
when the mill is erected and ready for
business.