Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-08-24

angle. Last nights report was tba,
three feet of ore was in sight and
me entire bottom of the shaft still ir
ere.
The ore is of the lead carbonate
character and when roasted in q
common blacksmith's forge the vel.
porting ore from the Alpha and other
shafts of the company as soon as
everything is in readiness to start the
wheels in the two new plants.
The Veteran Ely.
me Veteran Ely people have 15)
TO 175 men on the payroll and want
more and are clearing the decks be-
lore commencing work on the main
ore track has been finished and trains
nave passed over the line to see that
everything is in shipshape for trans
smart, which they expect to start very
soon. They are drilling with churn
drills all over their $50 acres. There
are but four drills at present m
ployed, however, two on the hill n
two more on their property at Lane
City In Cumberland Ely ground. The
Cumberland Ely and the Veteran are
under one management. When
questioned yesterday about the big
merger reported, was informed thai
nothing had been heard of it at the
mine, no official notification having
been received. The company is work.
Ing in seventeen places on the $50
acres OF copper ground.
a graduate OF the Nevada State Uni
Versity College of Mines, who has
w. II. Seagraves. a Reno boy and
tor and smelter. The narrow gauge
spent about eight years in the en-
ploy of the Simmer and Jack mines,
near johannesburg, in South Africa,
is general superintendent Of the
Cumberland-Ely properties. Under
Mr.. Seagraves' management the mine
has been developed the past six
months. The main working shaft is
down to a depth of 400 feet. J.
Crookshanks is superintendent Of
the Veteran; w. S. Larsh is Crook
shanks' assistant, and Mr.. Larsh is
also the engineer in charge of the
work. W. H.. Dunbar is the draughts-
man and bookkeeper, j. A. Gallagher
is the foreman and enjoys the repu-
tation of being one of the best in the
canyon. The Veteran is building a
large boarding house and bunk
house, as well as putting up twenty
cottages for the use of its employees.
The company has started a city on
the Hill just northwest of the Giroux
concentrating plant. The Veteran
has many drifts and crosscuts cutting
the immense deposits of copper.
These have been run for the purpose
Of determining the limits of the bed,
from present indications runs
from Sawyer's to the hay scales"
The company has just completed
three miles of trenching along the
pipe line from Holt Springs on Ward
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
and Star Pointer and the line
will be completed to the Veteran by
October 31st. The Holt Springs on
Ward Mountain furnishes forty min
ars inches of water and the pipe to
1t to the mines is eight-inch.
Water Is at present obtained from a
,hurn drill hole 600 feet deep, near
he working shaft. When water
anne into the hole General Superin-
.endent Seagraves brought it into use
ind discontinued hauling the much
lCcuSu Huiu loI u ul5tdHCe Oh IOur
niles. 1t took two teams constantly
o haul the water used about the
amp and the find" in the drill hole
vas a valuable one.
The water thus tapped gives a sup
Dly of about 600 gallons per hour.
If the people in all the mines in
he district were as thoughtful and
Is polite and accommodating in Civ
ng information as the bunch" at
he Veteran, Ely people generally
would have a much better idea of
what is being done. 1t costs nothing
be civil and those in authority at
he Veteran we're in such contrast
some of those In command at 9TH
n properties that / feel like taking
,f my hat to them. | asked many
questions that were not answered,
tut the refusal was couched in such
sentlemanly language that 1t was al
most a pleasure to have the informa-
ion withheld.
The Nevada Northern has just
been finished to Copper Flat and