The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-07-06
ROBINSON CAN
YON DISPLAYS
GREAT INDUSTRY
Interesting Description of Mining
Properties in Our Immediate
Vicinity.

Editor the News: Robinson can
yon from Ely to Kimberley presents
field displaying great industry and
push. The heavy work being done by
the Nevada Northern people on their
railroad bed in putting in the con-
Meeting link between the mines and
the smelter would make Robinson
canyon hum were nothing else going
on. There is much traffic on the
road and bushes of one kind and
another calls many to the mines.
The big tunnels being driven
through the hills by the railroad, the
huge fills and deeper cuts being put
in shape to make roadway for the
iron horse, soon to be followed by
long trains of ore cars transporting
copper in it's natural state to the
smelter at McGill to be reduced to
a worlds commodity, make of the
canyon a perfect bee hive of industry
from one end to the other
Along the Zine of march" first
comes the Mcdonald Ely group of
claims, about one-half mile above
Ely. A short distance beyond the
Mcdonald Ely is the old Chairman
property and a little further on
comes Lane City, with it's three
boarding houses, ten saloons, black
smith shop, school house and three
mercantile establishments, supported
by an immediate population of per-
haps 900 or 400 and mining popu-
lation at the various mines in the
canyon of perhaps 1000 men. On
the eastern hill side above Lane City
may be seen the iron stained dump
and hoist of the Ely Northern Cop
per company, being worked by the
Pheby brothers. Going on up the
canyon one comes to many other
properties, some of which have al
ready passed the stage of the pros
pect and have become well devel-
oped properties, now known the
world over, namely, the Nevada Con-
solidated group, the Cumberland Ely
group, the Ely Mines company's
group, and at Pilot Knob the valu-
able group of the GirouX COnsolidat-
ed Mines company.
| drove through to Kimberley be-
fore making any notes, thinking it
better to look going up and work
coming back. 1t was nearly 10
O'Clock when ! arrived at the GirouX
), l
dence of Charles e. Fryberger, who
is superintending the putting in of a
large concentrating plant, as Mr..
Walters. the superintendent for the
Girour company, was away from
home.
Seing a large five-story building on
the side of the Knob, as though put
there to perform some great WORK OF
pcIyn d
ger what it was. He replied that IL
was the first unit of great conceh-
trating system the Giroux company,
was putting up. When questioned
further Mr.. Fryberger said the plant
was being built by the Traylor Engl-
neering company OF New YORK anu
that it would have capacity OF foo
tons per day and would be ready TO
start by August LIST, and would De
run in conjunction with big smeit-
er now Just nearing completion, slt-
uated, perhaps half mile from the
concentrating plant. Charles II. Fry
berger is superintendent of construc-
ton for the Traylor Engineering
company and has had so men con-
stantly employed for the past seven
months putting in the plant. MI
Fryberger has had IA years expert
ence in building smelters and CON
contractors and putting up other mn,
ing machinery all over the unlted
States. Perhaps short description
of the plant may not. prove unlnter-
esting to the readers OF the news,
1t will at least tell them what ID
going on right here at home ana OF
which there has never been much OF
ANYTHING said yet AS | said before,
hanging to the rugged sides of Pilot
Knob is a building occupying zl'-
400 square feet of ground space
with five different levels or stories.
The Boiler Room.
The boiler room Is PROVIDED Win
three SO-horse power hlgh pressure
making it possible TO ueVei-
on 240 horse power. They Will ne
steamed up on August l with WOOD
Int after the completion OF the Gl-
roux ore railroad running to copper
Flat. a distance of two miles, ana
connecting with the Nevada Noruh-
ern. coal will be used for fuel. Inc
engine room is supplied with a 24o-
horse power engine of the CorlIss
patent, besides another OF l4o morse
mower. The engine room is 80 by oV
feet. painted white on the interior
light and well ventilated. one wv
light electric dynamo has been IN
stalled to furnish light for the mill
Description of the Plant.
The ore bins are situated at the
MINER side of the mill, and nave a
capacity of 400 tons, leaving ina,
amount of ore in reserve at an
times. The ore is drawn from the
hins into a Is by "a Blake crusher;
they then pass to 24-inch elevator
and discharge into the mill bin, with
a capacity of 200 tons. From there
the ore passes into an automatle
feeder and feeds onto TromWell
screen with SIS inch mesh. Inc