The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-09-26
Central UOrk
Holds Interest

Ely Central is a mining property
of the district which covers a large
area and which has recently been
passed upon by Col. Vim. A. Parish,
Of the best known mining en-
gineers of the country, as certain of
making a great mine. In his state
ment to this effect in report to un-
derwriters who will float a 5000, 900
bond issue for the company on the
strength of the report, Col. Parish is
unsparing of words in his express
sions of confidence in the property,
believing that its present showings
justify the belief that many millioa
tons of commercial ore will be open
ed by development that has lately
been started vigorously after more
or less prospecting with churn drills
for some time previous. The report
of Col. Parish is particularly inter-
esting in view of the fact that ten
years ago he made report on the dis
trict for Colorado interests and at
that time predicted precisely what
has since come about in the camp.
The shaft sinking which is now
underway on the Eureka claim, ad-
joining Copper Flat pit is being
crowded with all possible speed and
the work on the property has
brought it into prominence and keen
interest not only in the east but IN
the country generally, it being look
ed upon widely as a most promising
Ely property. 1t is now expected
that the shaft will be down to ore by
the first of the year. Concerning the
work, Superintendent Parkes of the
company, who has had wide ex-
perience in the district, having been
in charge of Nevada Con. churn drill
ing for some time and later with
Giroux as superintendent of churn
drills, resigning from that company
to go with Ely Central, is quoted as
follows:
1--WE are making very satisfactory
progress in sinking our new working
shaft on the Eureka Fraction, and I
am confident that we can make a
progress of 100 feet a month from
this time on. Our equipment is up
to-date in every particular, and is
as efficient for the depth to which
we will be obliged to go as any hoist
ing plant in the district.
From my knowledge of the
ground surrounding the Eureka
Fraction, I am justified in predict
ing that we will encounter the sui
phides at less than 400 feet. l am
very familiar with the formation on
both sides of the Ely Central ground
at this point, having had charge of
drilling operations for many months
on the estate of the Nevada Consoli-
dated, where the steam shovels are
now at work in the great pit, and
also in the Ruth group, lying east of
the Ely Central. My experience in
this work leads me to believe that
the shaft will strike the leached por-
phyry at a depth of about $50 feet,
and that we will not have to pass
through more than so feet of leach
ed material before we strike sui
phides of commercial grade.
We have our Keystone drill in
shape to begin drilling on short
notice, and we are awaiting instruc-
tions from the eastern Office to be-
gin this work. 1t is the present plan
to start the hole near the west side
about 200 feet south of the shaft
line of the Eureka Franction at a
point about 200 feet south of the
shaft and run a line of holes at in
tervils of 100 or 200 feet through the
south half of the Eureka Traction
and into the Q%uartette claim, which
adjoins the Eureka Fraction on the
south. When this work is complet-
ed the drill will be moved to a point
200 feet north of the shaft and a
line of holes run to the northward
through the north half Of the Eureka
Fraction and into the Weber claim,
where four drill holes have already
demonstrated a fair grade of sui
phides at depths warning from 80 to
$50 feet.
early next month we shall break
ground near the center of the Clip
per group for a three-compartment
working shaft. Some of the best sur
face values ever found in the district
have been secured from the big iron
cropping that passes through the
Clipper claim in a northwesterly and
southwesterly direction, and I am
confident that we will develop a
large body of high grade ore at reas-
enable depth on the Clippers.
Later we will do some extensive
drilling on the Tutwiler claims, sit
uated in the northeastern section of
the estate, where a number of shall
i low shafts have encountered good
values. William A. Parish, the noted
engineer who recently examined the