The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-07-08
GIROUx WILL
SOON PRODUCE
COPPER ORE
Nevada Northern Will Reach the
Property Within About
Month.

Within month the Giroux Con-
sOlidated company will begin copper
production. 1t will then. according
ton concentration and 250-ton
smelter These units will be rapidly
increased when the shafts are en-
larged to admit the hosting of a
much larger tonnage. The Nevada
Northern rail, Dad will reach the Gil
roux properly in about month and
tnis will greatly facilitate opera .pus.
President Joseph S. Giroux, MO
is now in New York, says that viii
ais epu' ,,rlent together with shin
n,.ilts to .thes smelters, he can .dt Il
100000 net for the coming year
on accent copper.
The Giroux company has a miner
allied tract two and one-fourth miles
long and one and one-fourth miles
wide in one body, and, under gov
eminent patent. 1t was the first
property to be opened in the district.
Although the development work was
slow at first, it has been carried
along definite lines by President Gil
roux, who, although young in years,
is old in 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 a mine as the United
Verde.
While other companies in Ely have
been opening the immense porphyry
deposits, Mr.. Giroux has been sink
ink the Alpha shaft with definite
idea of locating the rich ore deposits
from which the copper came that en-
riched the porphyry. He believes
that this lies within the dixie zone
containing the Alpha and other
claims, all confined within the bor-
ders of the Giroux property.
Mr.. Giroux has always believed
that he would strike these deposits
in the Alpha shaft below the water
level. Apparently. he has been
good prophet, for in prosecuting
north from the shaft, at a depth OF
l, 900 feet. between seventy and sew
enty-five feet of ore was encountered
in five different veins, the average as
say of which is II per cent. The
water level of the Alpha shaft Is at
depth of ,005 feet and 1t is believed
that five veins cut are the apex OF
rich ore body, and that at depth of
a few hundred feet below the water
level will be found the enriched sui
phide ore. Diamond drill explora-
lions below the water level in the
cross-cut have largely proved this.
The apex of this ore body Is ap-
parently in the shape of peaks, the
cross-cut striking the top of each
peak. This is very similar forma-
ton to that of the United Verde
mine. The Giroux has also develop
ed an immense body of porphyry, av-
eraging about 3 per cent copper
The porphyry already exposed Is up
ward of 100000 tons, carrying
small gold values. The developments
at the concentrating ore bodies on
the Giroux properties, however, have
hardly been commenced.
The Veteran ore body of the Cum
berland Ely company has been
opened to the Giroux boundary.
There is every indication 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
small way and earning about $2O,OOO
net month. The company has $780,
600 shares outstanding and 10000
shares in the treasury. The control
is in the hands of President Giroux,
who has locked up in the vaults of
trust company in Los Angeles about
$50, 900 shares in five-year voting
trust. Salt Lake Herald.