The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-07-16
J. [. G|ROUX TELLS
OF ELY PROPERTY
HIS EXPECTATIONS

OF the tlTouA 10 Ill lills camp sDdstu
upon his findings during his recent
visit. He says:
The 500 ton concentrating mill
has been completed at cost of
$3.50, 900, and, pending the day that
il is placed in commission, the work
ing force at the mine has been re-
duced to 90 men. The main work
in hand at the present time is the
sinking of the Alpha shaft, which is
now down to the l ,145 foot mark
II is expected that water will be en-
eountered in quantity al about the
200 foot level. Enough water is
making now to run the mill at about
half capacity, but il is not eonsid-
cred good economy to run il that
way. IL is hoped TO soon have water
enough in the shaft to keep II run
ming full time
Ii the water level should be deeper
than is now supposed. the company
will be forced to bring water from the
Steptoe farm, l . miles away. but IL is
hoped that the expense will be avoid
ed by the Alpha developments. II
would be necessary TO raise the Wa
ter from Steptoe $50 feet and the es-
Inmates of cost run up to $250,000.
The property is developed for
distance of nearly a mile by -four
shafts-the Giroux Morris, Brooks
and Bunker Hill-on the main
quartz-porphyry dixie, which extends
for a total distance of two and one
eighth miles on the eompany's
gorunds, between the estates of the
nd he Ia
solidated. Already 100000 tons
bave been placed in sight, and it is
estimated that the average will run
close TO 2 "A per cent.
Concentrating tests show that 10
tons of crude ore will make one ton
of concentrates running from 30 TO
23 per cent.
The Alpha shaft. impressed upon
the minds of all mining men by the
terrible disaster which entombed
miners last winter, is sunk upon an
entirely separate and distinct ore
bearing dixie, SOC feet TO the south.
over the hill. and which runs in the
same general direction as the quartz
porphyry vein, and is not being de-
veloped by any other company in the
camp.
The surface showed an immense
body OF leaehed material, and the
shaft went through soft sand for the
first e25 feet. At that point iron OK
ides began to appear, and at the
LOCO level crosscut was run 400
feet 10 the north and another $50
feet to the south, both in oNidized
ore. At the 60 foot mark in the
north crosscnt the top of a solid OK
idized ore body was cut, showing val
ues of ! ) per cent, and on this a
Wine vas sunk 80 feet in ore that
averaged Is per cent. At the 1870
foot mark of the same crosscut an
other ore body was cut, and this
proved to be 20 feet wide, with an
average of about Is per cent. Six
carloads of material shipped just as
il was mined gave smelter returns of
over / = per cent.
At the 600 foot level "A diamond
drill hole was put down 100 feet,
and at that point struck another ore
body, and IL is TO develop this find
that the main shaft is now being
sunk At the time of the cavein, $50
feet of drill rod was lost. and the
management has not been able to de-
termine whether the sulphide zone
had been reached. The shaft is now.
however, within Is or 20 feet of the
bottom of the drill hole. and the rod
has been removed as the work pro-
crossed. President GirouX believes
that in any event the water level will
be reached near the 200, and there
fore prefers to let the concentrator
remain idle until that point has been
reached and his theory proved or
disproved. Strangely enough, the
water level on the other side of the
mountain in the other shafts has been
encountered at the l25 foot level.
The 200 ton blast furnace smelter
of the company mas also been COM
pleted. and will be blown in as soon
as the concentration is complete in
every way. Keystone drills are be-
ing used to prospect the uneXplored
portion of The quartz-porphyry dixie
east of the main workings. When
water has been developed and the
mines and plant are running full
handed it is expected that force of
between 400 and 500 men will find
employment.
hShtu dH W tiit Hipbubit Nos' VI
manufacturing copper, President Gil
roux said that their estimates ON
cost from the quartz-porphyry low
grade ore run from cents to cents.
These estimates do not take into ac-
count the high grade ore from the Al
pha shaft. and It is probable that the
cost would be reduced 2 cents If
these ore bodies develop in the way
that present indications point to. The
disaster of last winter upset the plans
of the management to a great extent,
but everything is now running very
and the actual manufacture
OF copper only awaits development of
a sufficiently large flow of water to
operate the plant full time.
will then be ready to put up a mill
when the proper time comes and il