The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-12-06
Has HoIdinqs In MEXICO.

The holdings of the Giroux company,
TiOr TO the recent purchases in Ely,
consisted of the GirOux property at Ely,
and the Sultana and San Jose groups, 2S
Sonora, Mex. The Nevada property,
which is the most important and one of
the three largest mines in Ely, comprises
an area of approximately LOCO acres of
mining claims, while in the Sultana and
San Jose groups there is a total of 459
acres.
The active management Of the proper
ties comprising the GirOuX Consolidated
Mines Co. was turned over TO the Cole
Ryan syndicate in February of the pres
ent year.
The sultana and San Jose mines are
both copper properties, the former carry
ing high gold values. Shipments have
been made, but were discontinued in the
early part of 1903. owing to the low price
of copper and the long haul to the smelt-
ers at FL PasO. These have amounted TO
S590000 About $4,000 have been eXpend-
ed in developing and equipplng the prop
critics which are said TO have COnsidera-
bic merit but have been handicapped by
the lack Of funds for development.
Ely Ground Valuable.
The Nevada property lies between the
Cumberland Ely and Nevada Consol-
dated mines at Ely. The gOund is we'll
located, and contains a large pOrphyry
area and also a considerable amount of
grade ore. The pOrphyry deposit, which
is analogous to that of the Copper Flat
ore body Of the Nevada Consolidated, is
developed by five important shafts. These
shafts on the pOrphyry zone lie in gen.
eral east and west direction and develop
a territory 240O feet in length, in which
the underground workings show the ore
shoot to be continuous for 1900 feet to
have a width Of 80 feet and depth of
100 feet
The limestone ore bodies are developed
by the Alpha shaft 1,215 feet deep, with
levels at the II0, LOCO and 1,200-fOOt points.
Owing to the impraCtcability Of main
tanning the Alpha shaft as the main
hosting way, the present management is
sinking a new shaft 10 by II feet in the
clear, 200 feet to the westward. This
shaft is being sunk from the surface and
/ raising IS going on from the 40 and loo
foot levels. thereby giving three points of
attack. The ores in this deposit are high
grade smelling and resemble those of the
Bis5ee camp. In September, 1903, a ship
menJ OF 200 tons Of ore from this deposit
was made to the Garfield smelter to as
certain its commercial value. The av-
erage of the ore was between y and Is
per cent and the net smelter returns
Reserves in Porphyry.
In the. porphyry deposit the former man
agement estimated the ore reserves at
100000 tons averaging 2.S per cent cop
per. In addition to blocking out this ore
body into lOO-fOOt squares at the present
time the company is drilling with Key
stone drills to ascertain accurately the
amount of Overburden, and to determine
whether or not the ores can be mined
by steam shovel. At present three drills
are in operation and three more are on
the way to the property, making six in
all
In the lime deposit IL is somewhat pre-
mature to state the size and Importance
of the shoot developed by the Alpha
shaft There is already a considerable
tonnage of direct smelling ore exposed
estimated by the former management Ia
average Is per cent copper, and indica-
tiOns are encouraging for the extension
Of the present ore body with DEVELOPMENT.
The property is equipped with a 450-
ton concentrating mill which was built
in 1906 and which has been employed
since that date principally in testing the
ore. The former management states that
the property has sufficient water. OBJ
tanned from the underground workings.
for the operation Of this mill. Tests on
the ore are stated by the former man
agement TO have shown a ratio of concen-
tratiOn Of S into 1 and a saving of so per
cent.
The property is also equipped with q
small smelter rated at $50 tons a dav.
the plant being composed of one 42x11S-
inch blast furnace. A fire at the mine
partially destroyed the plant and since
that date it has never been rebuilt.