The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-12
VISITORS SPEAK
HIGHLY OF ELY
copper Magnates We're Pleased
With Conditions in
District.
NEVADA CON. Is
GIVEN MUCH PRAISE
Official Predicts More Extensive
Shovel Operations in
Future.

Judging from reports coming from the
Ely district. the members of the pnrty
Of big copper interests which is making
a special train roundup of the great
producers of Utah. Nevada, Arizona and
New Mexico. were very well pleased
with conditions as they found them in
the Ely country. On the return of the
party from Ely. tho Utah Copper prop
erty n Bingham aud the Garfield smell
ter were visited, and from Utah the
maeuatcs went 10 Kelvin. Ariz.. 30 in
,pccf the Ray Consolidated holdings;
from therc to the Miami in the Globe
district. and finally TO the Chino in
Santa Rita district of New Mexico,
According to the Ely News, what the
visitors bad to say of Nevada Consoli.
dated : mining and resources, aud of
the reduction works at McGill was of
character giving not only very high
encouragement TO The district. but also
recognition aud high praise to the spen.
did management which affairs OF Ne
vads Con. and Steptoe Valley Smelt-
ing have had here with result Of tEc
great success which the big paTty-bIg
in It's understanding of the copper busi-
ness as well as in numbers and vast
financial TcsourceS--wJs unanimous IN
giving credit for and expressing sur
prise over in view of tho short time
of active life OF the camp.
President McNciil aud Manager Jack
ling of Utah Copper were particularly
apprcciativc of the work which has been
done and j. being kept ahead with,
aud rs the heads OF the Nevada Con. 5
closes, rival among the big cheap pro
duccrs of copper Of the present their
raiSN ranks as particularly valuable. AZ
converter, rUsStcr. rcNerberato oricS and
coUcoutroror. these gentlemen expressed
themselves freely rs considering the
operating system rs most excellent,
while passing upon the plants as in
some respects superior 20 ANYTHING they
had before seen.
Comm"n'iu ON the camp In a general
way. lIcEkcl Smith. who was very busy
duIjng his Stav Of three DAYS and utjl.
ilcd every possible moment in getting
around had 10 say on departing that
be WAS greatly 2Tatiiicd with the prog
less that had been made in Ibe wear
since biS last visit and felt more en-.
thu>iaslic thau ever about the camp.
' There VIII be many more mines made
here. lac said. land much more steam
shovel ground developed The camp has
= great future MANY more people viii
be required mere ~ time passes to do
the work Of the district and the fine
bcadwav that East Elv has been making
-opyjuccl nc more than ever that il
viii be q very large center OF popu
lIliOu
Regarding The object of tho trip. 1t
was the general expression of the visit
uIs that they were out 10 see what was
being done and 10 form opirlous there.
tiom y so what tight be expected from
the future. While IL was not saids the
impression gathered was that upon the
summing up of their findings with &c.
would depend good deal in relation TO
cNncuditurcs for increased facilities and
larger work in future. Optimism pre-
vailed among the party as TO the fu.
tuIc of copper. and particularly the
PorphNTv coppcis.