The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-27
NJ DONALD ELY IS
Showing UP WELL
Ore Making Appearance in
Each Working Upon the
Porphyry Belt.
IS CERTAIN SOON
TO REGISTER SUCCESS
Golden Gate Shaft, Still in
Leached Zone, Has High
Grade Rock.

Within a short drive from the grow
ing city Of Ely, New, and upon the
eastern portion of the famous monzo-
mite zone that has given birth TO Ne
vada Consolidated, a Cumberland Ely
and Giroux Consolidated, rests the
Mcdonald Ely Copper company's
possessions 1t is a fascinating pur-
suit to travel along this great Ely
copper zone, 10 even see the surface
provides revelation. For distance
of nine miles a territory can be driven
over that shows more copper ore than
any other section of the country ana
if anything in The world equal to 1t
exists those familiar with such mat
ters have not been appraised OF the
fact
When the camp Of Ely was begin
ming to attract the attention of the
world Salt Lake City provided power,
full mining talent who were attracted
TO the merits of the Robinson district
rs red metal section of unparalleled
Importance. Senator Thomas Kearns,
David Keith. Col, f, A. Wall annd as
sociates upon an examination OF the
camp, found in the present possessions
of the Mcdonald Ely company propo-
sition with location and surface
showings eloquentIy bcspeaking It's
merit They acquired the Maceo,
Dauntless. Florida ard Quadrant
groups, and upon the formation OF the
company the Ely Mining and Milling
company adjoining the original proper
ties,
Utahus recognize in the history of
the Ely Mining and Milling company
career many facts 'coincident with
that of the Highland Boy or Utah
Consolidated company at Bingham.
Eight years ago prominent Utah
talent. attracted by the gold values of
this property. erected a large cyaniding
mill at a heavy expenditure of capital.
The step was taken inadvlsedly, for
the copper contents OF the ores then
provided an impossible barrier which
now presents the only key TO success.
The property from now on will begin
to benefit from the red metal that
wears ago forced an abandonment of
the proposition. This mill is IN
splendid condition TODAY, and is pro
v,ding the Mcdonald Ely power for
the means to generate all power for
development purposes. In all the com
pany owns from 125 TO $50 acres, com
prising one of the most valuable areas
in that district.
There are two great Lodges parallel.
ing one another, trendlng cast and
group. These lodges are fully one-half
mile apart, aud between them is the
Ely porphyry or monzonite, identical
in surface character with conditions
upon other properties toward the
west. And in sinking the Mcdonald
Ely management has found this
similarity carried out positively. The
surface also contains those Groupings
of ore characteristic of Ely, and in one
Of the workings driven some time be-
fore Ely was known rs a copper camp.
d. c. Mcdonald, in whose honor the
group is named, sent shaft through
sixty foot ore chute. whose red metal
values averaged higher than the Ely
ores usually run on the surface.
The present system of development
upon the group consists OF two shafts
and A tunnel. The mill shaft is located
near the north ledge This working is
down 100 feet. and it is beginning to
penetrate softer formation, which is
thoroughly impregnated with sulphides,
carrying from to , per cent cop
per. The present formation is identi-
cal with that III other mines upon
the zone, being the Gaping TO al
most IimitIess ore bodies, such as the
Nevada Consolidated company has de-
veloped for 1000 feet in length, 800
feet in width and to the third level
The mill shaft will be continued TO
depths. and drifts aud cross-cuts run
at logical points en- route. The show
ing there is doomed highly significant.
Toward the south ledge the Golden
Gate shaft is being sunk. At the
present depth. $50 feet. rnis working
is disclosing some splendid copper ore,
- ,-,l, al,
high. This shaft, however, is still in
the leached zone. but it is approaching
the real ore bodies very closely, Work
there is progressing rapidly, and
there should be mighty good news sent
10 the Salt Lake Offices of the com
pany by the time another hundred feet
of depth Is gained The position of
these two shafts located as they are,
nearly a half mile apart upon the
lateral portion of the monzohite belt,
is most advantageous. They both are
ent time, and they should establish at
depth what all the surface indications
tend to establish, namely. that ore
should be found from one ledge to an
other. With this fact established. there
will be many more years OF mining
activity on the Mcdonald Ely than
there are years allotted TO the majority
OF the present stockholders,
Another interesting working upon
the property is the Wall tunnel This
tunnel started upon the porphyry to-
ward the line hanging wall, and at
point fully 400 feet from the be
ginning il penetrated a Twenty-Five
foot wide ledge, all OF which carried
heavy sulphides, mostly iron, OF tho
latter there is fully an average of 90
per cent, and of copper there are
lunches that will run TO as high as Is
per cent, The management is sinking
upon the ledge and Manager Nc
Donald expects this working 10 show
up finely within shallow depths,
To the north and south of the
parallel lodges are lime belts, from
which considerable lead and silver ores
have been extracted in the earlier
times. For years the Ely prospector
had to confne his operations to these
belts. and today they present an
interesting topic for pursuit. which
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