The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-03-19
SAYS G|ROUX SHELTER WILL Be
BUSY WITH MINES PRODUCTION
WILL PROBABLY HAVE To BE PROVIDED BN 9TH
Frs NEwETT wRITEs-HoIDs OPINION THAT SHELTER
WILL PROBABLY SUFFICIENT WATER AT
THE NINE FOR OPERATION MISUNDERSTANDING REMARKS

to their efforts. 1t is a much better
plan than generally adopted in the
West. where men work ON the com
pany account system. all being paid
the same wage per day. The day
work in Ely mines consists of eight
hours.
The Cumberland-Ely is being well
handled underground as well as upon
the surface The equipment of mach
inery is first-class and the operation
should be attended by neat profit
even in the present low metal price.
We Judge that this ore is the very
best now being mined in the camp,
and should yield considerable more
in copper than the Nevada CONSOLE
dated, which is working up a con-
centrating ore deposit holding low
er percentage of copper.
USING STEAM SHoNELS.
The Nevada Consolidated obtains
its ore on the same plan as the open
cut iron mines in the Lake Superior
region, using the steam shovel to
do its stopping. At the same time as
our visit a bench of ore about fifty
feet high was being shoveled. Over
lying this was a drift from 10 to
40 feet thick which was being re-
moved. The operation was similar
to what We see in the stripping of
iron ores in the Lake Superior conn-
try. The ore is loosened before the
shovel by the use of churn drills and
black powder. the ground being shak-
EN- and is about the same firmness
as the iron ore deposits of the Mesa
ba, probably a trifle harder in COM
position.
WEST END OF CAMP Is BEST.
The shoyels have been working in
to side hill the ore coming readily
to them, and there is large deposit
which will give opportunity for this
sort of mining for some time before
the hill stripping grows too heavy
when they will have to go under
ground The company owns large
tract of land here, as can be seen
from the map and much of it has
not been explored. To the west, to-
wards the Giroux Consolidated claims
there has been very little drilling
done, but the ground tested has
shown very satisfactory conditions.
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is carried on west is shown by the
openings on Giroux and Cumberland
Ely. The Nevada Consolidated thus
far has exposed no Understanding
ores of any commercial extent, but
to the west Giroux has an enormous
tonnage of this class as well as
great area of concentrating ores.
Cumberland Ely. as has been stated
runs heavily in ores of the direct
smelling class, With its gradual
growth to the west the Nevada Con-
solidated may run into deposits which
1t will not have to concentrate, or
that can be mixed with good results
with the ores now being mined.
HAS TERRITORY UNEMPLOYED.
One sees, in railway cut near the
present scene of activity on the New
ada Consolidated property, leached
ground that suggests something
commercially valuable may be found
beneath. This is at a place on the
main railway line where the latter
runs through the property of the
Giroux and westward. The company
has been combining its operations to
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abundance and which are obtained
at a comparatively low cost. With
this we'll established and future
tonnages assured, condition now
about realized, attention will un-
doubtedly be given other portions of
the property possessing attractive
surface indications.
The Nevada Consolidated has per-
feet system of trackage, Is we'll sup
piled with shovels and other appara-
tus for handling its property to best
advantage, and must show mining
cost that would stagger many opera
tors who are forced to win their ore
underground Nevada Consolidated
ore will average as high as some of
the underground properties OF the
West and the Lake Superior region
and should be getting a profit now
that It's equipment has been prae-
| tically finished.
THE SHELTER AT McGILL.
With the CumberlandEly 1t has an
| interest in the SteptOe smelter oil
the Guggenheim company. located IN
the Steptoe valley, and fourteen miles
north of Ely. This is modern con