The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-05
ABOUT GIROUX
MINES At ELY
Company Expects to Have Mill
and Smeiter Running
Within Short Time.
3 PER CENT COPPER ORE
RICH SULPHIDE DEPOSITS CON-
ING IN AT 1000 LEVEL.

Within a month the Giroux Consoli-
dated company, operating in the Ely
camp, will begin copper production. II
Will then, according to report, have in
operation a 500-ton concentrator and q
25O-ton smelter. These units will be rap
idly Increased when the shafts are en-
larged to admit the hosting of a much
larger tonnage. The Nevada Northern
railroad will reach the Giroux property
In about month and this will greatly
fac1iltate operations.
President Joseph S. GirOux, who is now
in New York, says that with this equip
ment together with shipments TO other
smeiters, he can earn S2,OOO,00o net for the
coming year on 15-cent copper.
The GirOux company has a mineralized
tract two and one-fourth miles long and
one and One-fourth miles wide in the
very center of the Ely camp, in one body,
and, under government patent. 1t was
the first property to be opened in the
district. Although the development work
was slow at first, 1t has been carried
who, although young in years, is old in
mining experience. 1t was he who
opened the United Verde for Senator
Clark, leaving his employ to develop this
property which bears his name and which
he believes will in time be as great
mine as the United Verde.
While other companies in Ely have been
opening the immense porphyry deposits,
a
shaft with a definite idea of locating the
rich ore deposits from which the copper
came that enriched the porphyry. He
believes this lies within the dixie zone con-
tanning the Alpha and other claims, all
confined within the borders of the Giroux
property.
Mr.. Giroux has always believed that
he would strike these deposits in the AL
pha shaft below the water level. Appar-
emily he has been a good prophet for in
prosecuting north from the shaft, at
a depth of 1000 feet, between seventy
and seventy-five feet of ore was encoun-
tered in five different veins, the aver
age assay of which is II per cent The
water level of the Alpha shaft is at
depth of 1,005 feet and it is believed that
five veins cut are the apex of rich ore
body, and that at a depth of few hun
dred feet below water level will be found
the enriched sulphide ore. Diamond drill
explorations below the water level in the
cross-cut have largely proved this.
The apex of this ore body is appar-
emily in the shape of peaks. the cross-cut
striking the top of each peak. This is d
very similar formation to that of the
United Verde mine. The Giroux has also
developed an immense body of porphyry,
averaging about 5 per cent copper. The
porphyry already exposed is upward of
100000 tons, carrying small gold values.
The developments at the concentrating
ore bodies on the Giroux properties, how
ever. have hardly been commenced.
The Veteran ore body OF the Cumber-
land Ely company mas been opened 10 the
Giroux boundary. There is every indi-
cation that the Giroux land between Old
Glory shaft and the Veteran Ely line
contains valuable copper deposits.
The GirouX company also owns valuable
properties at Sonora. Mex, from which
it is shipping ore in q small way and
earning about $4,000 net month. The
company has 10000 shares outstanding
and 10000 shares in the treasury. The
control is in the hands of President Gil
roux, who has locked up in the vaults of
a trust company in Los Angeles about
$4,000 shares i'm a five-year voting trust.