The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-08
MINING AND RAILROAD
BUILDING IN THE CANYON
Busy Scenes Along the Line Of the Big Copper
Belt From Pilot Knob to Lane City-..Nhat
Half Days Journey Revealed

mine, no official notification having
been received. The company Is
working in seventeen places on the
$50 acres of copper ground.
w. II. Seagraves, Reno boy and
a graduate of the Nevada State uni
versity College of Mines, who has
spent about eight years in the employ
Of the Simmer and Jack mines, near
johannesburg in South Africa, is
general superintendent of the Cum
berlandEly properties. Under Mr..
Seagraves management the mine
has been developed the past
six months. The main working
shaft is now down to a depth of 400
feet. ]. A. Crookshanks is superin-
tendent of the Veteran; w. S. Larsh
is Crookshanks' assistant, and Mr..
Larsh is also the engineer in charge
of the work. w. H. Dunbar is the
draughtsman and bookkeeper, J A.
Gallagher is the foreman and en-
joys the reputation of being one of
the best in the canyon. The Veteran
is building large boarding house
and bunk house as well as putting
up twenty cottages for the use of it's
employees. The company has started
city on the hill just northwest of
the GirouX concentrating plant. The
Veteran has many drifts and cross
cuts cutting the immense deposits of
copper. These have been run for the
purpose of determining the limits of
the bed, which from present indica-
lions runs from Sawyer's to the
hay scales
The company has just complated
three miles of trenching along the
pipe line from Holt Springs on Ward
mountain, nine miles from Copper
Flat. The pipe is all in Ely and will
be distributed along the line very
soon, placed, covered and have water
running through to Copper Flat by
| the last of September for use of the
Rut.. and Star Pointer and the line
will be completed to the Veteran by
October 31st The Holt Springs on
| Ward mountain furnishes forty min
ers inches of water and the pipe to
convey it to the mines is eight inch.
Water is at present obtained from a
churn drill hole 800 feet deep, near
the working shaft. When water
came into the hole General Superin-
tendent Seagraves brought it into use
and discontinued hauling the much
needed fluid for distance of four
miles. 1t took two teams constantly
to haul the water used about the
camp and the find" in the drill
hole was a valuable one.
The water thus tapped gives a sup
ply of about 500 gallons per hour.
If the people in all the mines in
the district were as thoughtful and
as polite and accommodating in CIV
ing information as the "bunch" at
the Veteran, Ely people generally
| would have much better idea of
what is being done. 1t costs nothing
to be civil, and those in authority at
the Veteran were in such contrast
to some of those in command at 9th
err properties that I feel like taking
off my hat to them. | asked many
questions that were not answered,
but the refusal was couched in such
gentlemanly language that it was al
most pleasure to have the informa-
ton withheld.
The Nevada Northern has just
been finished to Copper Flat and
Contractor Corey has commenced
grading on the Veteran Ely end.
Three miles of grading will have to
be done and much heavy cut work
must be accomplished before the
work will be anywhere near finished.
1t is expected that it will take until
next May before the road will be
running to the Veteran.