The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-11-14

At the Veteran of Cumberland H.
the Great Plant Which Giroux Is Set
partment Shaft.
and the fires burning in the smelter.
And the pit is equal to it.
GIROUX CONSOLIDATED-Work
is still going ahead with undated
zeal on the spur track from the
Veteran cut of the Nevada Northern
to Giroux shaft, where the work of
sinking the five compartments has
now been resumed, the excava-
lions having been completed for the
shaft house and the gallows frame.
The temporary hosting plant is pro-
crossing toward completion, and it is
possible that the foundation for the
permanent hosting plant will DOR
be started. The site for this will be
400 feet from the collar of the shaft,
safely in the clear, with plenty of
working room around. This plant
when completed will be the greatest
in the district, and n of the most
imposing in the world. At the pres
ent time the unfinished work is a
hlooC ilAplCoOlSO lOohin6 ol6hLy CIV
ing one an idea of what the future
has in store for the Giroux consol-
idated, with it's acres of demon
strated ore, both in the porphyry and
the limestone. Standing on the foun-
dalton of the temporary hosting
plant n gets a sweeping view or
the Alpha shaft anu houses, and be-
fore him lies the skeleton of the
great plant to be, with a hundred
men at work. Peeping over the hill
top is the gallows frame of the Vet
eran shaft of the Cumberland Ely.
To the right the grading for the
tracks is advancing, and a smafi
army of men is at work with pick
and shovel, and wheeilng cars of dirt
along the narrow temporary tracks.
This, in itself, is no little enterprise,
for there will be in the neighborhood
of three miles of track. Churn drills
are still at work proving up more
ore. These drills are in the lime
stone as well as the porphyry.
There are thousands of tons or the
dumps of Bunker hill, and Old Glory,
which is to be explored by the old
Alpha shaft, has it's dump of direct
smelling ore.
ELY CENTRAL-Work on Ely
Central is going forward steadily.
On the Eureka fraction, the three
compartment shaft is now below the
200 foot level, and sinking, stopped
for the purpose of putting in a sta
ton at the 200, has been resumed.
The station was cut for the purpose
of checking the flows of water COM
in0 in frOno tho noCf ci6A nj 4 : o4A
1876 feet and has been successful,
the shaft being practically dry. The
cut extends 20 feet back from the
side of the shaft and is damned at
it's mouth so that no water can es-
came down the shaft. A No. Z Cam
eron pump has been installed back
Of the dam which is raising all the
water to the surface. In the event of
more water coming in below the 200
foot level, a second Cameron pump,
or sinker, is in readiness. On Friday
a three-compartment shaft was
started on the Clipper claim. At the
end of the drift in this claim, they
encountered a cav ten feet deep and
filed with ore, specimens Of which
go as high as 80 per cent in copper.
1t is here in the limestone that the
second shaft has been started.
CUMBERLAND ELY-The veter-
an workings of the Cumberland Ely
are still idle, and there is apparently
less chance of work being resumed in
the shaft at early date than before
the property was merged into the Ne
vada Consolidated.
ELY OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Levey, who is also the general man
ager of the Ely Consolidated, left
for Salt Lake early this week. He
went away expressing the utmost sat
isfaction with the work that Is in
progress at the mine. Two shafts are
going now, the FAC and the Brilliant,
and both, at their lower levels r
looking promising. Mr.. Levey stated
just before leaving that the American
shaft would also soon resume work,
when the property workings would
again be going full blast.
BOSTON ELY-The shaft of Bos-
ton Ely is down to depth of 1895
feet, and is still in hard ground.
They are sinking with the same per-
sistency and confidence which has
characterized their work from the
start, and they will stay with the
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