The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-11-09

sixteen VISITORS, all prominent IN
connection with the copper mining
industry, having investments to the
extent of millions in excess of their
number in copper properties of this
camp, Utah, Arizona and New Mex
leo, spent yesterday on visit to Cop
per Flat, East Ely and the reduction
works at McGill. The stop at East
Ely was for lunch at the Steptoe AMI
glance at the town, which they
later agreed in pronouncing the COM
ing big center of the biggest cop
per producing camp in the country.
The larger number of the visitors
came in on Utah copper Co. spe-
cial train which arrived early yes
terday morning, direct from the east.
This party was joined at East Ely
by Henkel Smith, Arthur Farnham
and HI. Kuhn, of Philadelphia, who
had been in the camp since Friday.
Yesterday morning run was made di-
rect to Copper Flat, where the Wis
itors inspected the pit and watched
the steam shovels at their great
work of ore production. Following
lunch at East Ely, the special train
went McGill, where it was sidetrack-
ed while the visitors went through
the reduction plants. starting rt the
converter and concluding with the
concentrator. Departure for Bing-
ham, the next stop, was taken at
1880, the special going to Shafter
and thence over the Western Pacific
to Salt Lake. From Bingham the
party will go to Ray Consolidated at
Kelvin, Ariz., from where trip
overland will be taken to Miami
property in Globe district From
Globe the party will go on to the
Chino property in the Santa Rita
district of New Mexico, and then
east.
Aboard the special train which left
last night and participating in the
inspection of the camp yesterday
were President Charles McNeill or
Utah Copper; General Manager jack
ling of Utah Copper, Ray Con-, Gila
and Chino Copper companies;
Charles Hayden, of Hayden, Stone &
Co.; Sherwood Aldrich, president of
Ray Con. and Gila companies; e. B.
Shov, treasurer of Ray Con. and
Gila; A. Chester Beatty, consulting
engineer; Judge Babbitt, general
counsel of all the companies visited
by the party except Nevada Con-; Col.
G. l.. F. Robinson, lawson Hawkins,
r. A. F. Penrose, brother of Sen
ator Penrose of Pennsylvania, John
B. Cobb, H. H. Blackmore, George
Bowen, president the Victor Fuel Co.,
Henkel Smith, Charles Farnham and
H. Kuhn, all the gentlemen being in
terested as stockholders and most of
them as directors in one or the other
of the several companies the proper
ties of which are receiving their at
tention on this trip.
What the visitors had to say of
Nevada Con. resources and mining,
and of the reduction works at Nc
Gill was of character giving not only
very high encouragement to the
district but also recognition and high
praise to the splendid management
which affairs of Nevada Con. and
Steptoe Valley Smelling have had
here with result of the great success
which the big party-big in its un-
derstanding of the copper business
as well as in numbers and vast finan-
cial resources-was unanimous in
giving credit for and expressing sur
prise over in view of the short time
of active life of the camp
President McNeill and Manager
Jackling of Utah Copper were par
ticularly appreciative of the work
which has been done and is being
kept ahead with, and as the heads Of
the Nevada Cons closest rival among
the big cheap producers Of copper of
the present their praise ranks as par
T.
roaster, reverberatories and con-
centrator, these gentlemen expressed
themselves freely as considering the
operating system as most excellent,
while passing upon the plants as in