The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-07-06

berland Ely and Ely Mines company
are operating big properties near the
Flat and in year or two It will be
an important point in White Pine
county.
Coming on down the canyon Lane
City Is the next point of public in
terest. Lane City has grown one
half in the past year and promises to
be a lively town of perhaps a thou
sand or fifteen hundred in year or
two.
The United Ely is another COM
pany that is operating with churn
drills in the canyon and have more
than an even chance of success. The
Robinson mine is another that Is en-
ploying many men.
The Chairman.
The old chairman Consolidated
Copper company has recently started
up afresh and is sinking into the
bowels of mother earth under the
management of w. n. McGiil, with
T. B. Wilson as assayer and book
keeper. The development work is
going on under the experienced eye
of J. J. Welsh The mine is work
ing % men, but after a little more
preliminary work has been done
there will be put on much larger
force. Manager McGill is developing
the Chairman on new lines never be-
fore adopted in working the prop
erty. He is sinking new shaft on
the old Chairman lode and is now
down 100 feet and is cross-cqtting to
the old shaft at the 100-foot level
for air. After that connection is
made he will continue on down to
a depth of 800 feet, where another
cross-cut will he started. connecting
with old Joana shaft, now down go
feet, and the 800 foot shaft in the
Chairman will be at the same depth
of the old Joana shaft at $50 feet.
1t is expected that copper sulphides
will be encountered at the depth of
800 feet in the Chairman, which will
be 40 feet below the water The bot
tom of the shaft is in low grade gold
ore, carrying values of from 81 to So
per ton. The company Is paying no
attention to the values In gold, but
are going after copper. The gold ore
is hoisted and dumped as though it
was not worth a nickle, but a little
later the dump will be worked for
gold, using the ore for ffux to work
copper ore. The surface shoWings
on chairman ground are very en-
couraging for a big copper deposit
and a large vein of copper Will un-
doubtedly be exposed with depth.
The old Joana mine adjoining at one
time produced gold ore that 1t is
said went $40 to the pan. The ore
was worked at the old mill in Ely.
In 1901 an extensive cyanide plant
was put in at the Chairman, but
never was a success. 1t was never
run a great while and 1t is fair to
assume that it was not successful,
the copper ore making it impossible
to cyanide the product for gold. the
Chairman group is composed of
eigh. claims and is considered one OF
the best nrope, ties lii the, district.
| cant help but believe from what l
saw that within ten years the Chain
man will be as great producer OF
copper as the other great mines in
the district.
The Mcdonald Ely.
d. C. Mcdonald is developing the
old Robust group of claims now
known as the Mcdonald Ely. Nc
oIuhluS WV WI s'N
property, one on the Golden Gate,
which is down 800 feet and the other
on the Dauntless, now down lao feet.
He has recently put in air compress
sors and drills and is now installing
new pump to handle the water
which has come into the mine the
last few days. The Golden Gate
shaft has been in ore for some time
and the ore shows good values. Mr..
Mcdonald is very busy man and but
little information was obtalnable,
but at other mines / saw and heard
enough to justify me in the predic-
ton that Robinson district has not
yet started to grow and that inside
of ten years Ely people will see
thicKly populated section all the way
between McGill and Kimberley, and
it will be hard to decide which par
ticular quarter section of land is the
5est to settle on.
ALLEN C. BRAGG.