Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-28
STEPTOE WORK
GETTING BUSY
CumberIand-EIy Section Of Con-
centrator Demanding
More Ore.
WORKING FORCE INCREASED.
Additional Ore Trains Put Into Service
--Smclter Blows In About
July 4.

Running of the Cumberland Ely sec
ton Of the Steptoe concentration steadi-
~ "a hours daily commences this week,
is the report furnished by the White
Pine News. Not later than Wednesday
a full force of skilled operatives, COM
ing from Montana and other points,
will arrive in the district TO take
charge of the machines and Immediate
~ upon their arrival steady operation,
with three eight hour shifts employed
daily, viii commence. Nine-hour OPP
Grafton of the section on Cumberland
Ely ores has been kept up daily for
some time and results attained have
been found entirely satisfactory.
With going into commission of the
Cumberland Ely section of the con-
centrator this week one whole unit
Of the plant will be doing duty "a hours
daily on ores from Copper Flat and
the Veteran shaft Additional ore
trains will be operated between mines
and reduction works and production
OF no mean proportions win be kept up
regularly. Heavy steel cars for hand
ling mineral from the mines are eX-
pected to arrive within the present
week to replace those now used tenn
pVihIllN. litN WILL ~ PAN III NOAiiAii49-
sion Immediately upon arrival,
Working of the second section ut
the concentration on Nevada CONSOLE
dated ores since the 18th OF the month.
when three shifts daily were put on,
demonstrate the high degree of eff
ficency of the plant, Not for a single
moment during that time has any of
the machinery been idle, nor is there
any indication that even slight stop
pages will occur from now on and as a
further source of great satisfaction
findings in the way of savings of
values from products from the mines
are of the best possible.
In treatment of minerals at the con-
centrator savings of values is especial
~ gratifying in ores from Nevada Con-
solidated. officials stating that the per
centage of loss in tailings is far less
than they have seen anywhere in OPP
erations on similar products, while at
the same time the Cumberland Ely
output gives considerable better re-
turns than We're looked for. Nevada
Consolidated mineral is particularly
adapted for concentrating treatment,
| while when the smelter plant is in OPP
GRAFTON large portion of Cumberland
| Ely's richest ores win be sent direct to
the furnaces for treatment these being
very desirable for smelling and elimin-
ating concentrating costs
| Progress on the second and third
units OF the concentration plant is in
| advance of expectations and that the
| machinery in this quarter will he in
commission by the first OF July at the
latest is assured Extra energy is be-
| ing employed on the second unit with
| the view of starting the wheels going
as soon as possible. Machines are daily
going into place, parts of the enormous
plant being assembled and adjusted
every day. The scene throughout the
entire works is one of activity that
cannot help but inspire admiration.
| At the smeter end of the reduction
| works equal speed is being kept up.
| Blowing in the first huge reverberatory
| furnace of the mammoth plant will
TAKE place according to present calcula-
ton simultaneously with going into
commission of the second concentrate,
unit. Very little heavy work is now
required to place the big first furnace
IN readiness for treatment of ores and
| nothing can now be foreseen that will
hinder commencement of feeding OF
| minerals into the big refinery on july
first, the date set for blowing in.