The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-09-03
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SMELLING WORK
(From Copper Ore

duction works of the Steptoe Valley
Smelling & Mining. The men on the
job all feel good about it and are
here to tell all hands that there is
no plant anywhere in the country hat
is doing more with the same amount
of equipment. Also the quality goes
along with the qantity.
What Steptoe Valley plants have
accomplished since set going here in
McGill has made a record not only
for the companies and the manage
ment but also for every man on the
job All hands can go on the out
side among concentration and smelter
plants and find that they are looked
up to as having set a new and proud
pace in the industry-and they have
done that very thing.
Three converter stands output
ting five million pounds of copper in
August is some going. Smeltermen
say that it is a record that has not
before been equaled. The concentra-
tor has been right up to this job
and has gone it some better, for
there are concentrates on hand ahead
of the consumption of the month
from which the banner copper pro-
duction was made. The roasters and
the reverberatories have also been
there with both feet. In fact, every
thing and everybody have been get
ting there with the big record.
All this work simply goes to show
that McGill has a great crowd of
A / workers on deck, a good man.
agement and a bunch of plants that
are equipped up to the handle for
the best possible work, which they
are also delivering. Also it means
that the first work in construction
having been proven a big success,
that which will follow will also be
highly successful. And there is a
heap more to follow. Our produc-
ton for August a couple of years
from now will make the big produc-
ton of this last month look like
years from now We will have several
times hte number of men at work
that are now on the job and several
times the amount of machinery go
ing. This little old camp then will
be the dandy bunch of whirling
wheels. smoke clouds and busy day,
night and graveyard shifts in the
country, bar none. Old Anaconda
will be in second place and we will
come pretty neal making enough
copper single handed to put Nevada
at the head of the list of copper
producers.
That is the gait at which the
camp is working and the place to
which she is going-at the very
front. American Smelling & Rein
ing is the biggest thing in the
smelling business, and 1t is openly
declared that American Smelling &
Refining intends to have right here
at McGill the biggest plant in the
world. American Smelling & Rein
ing has SO plants going in n part
and another of the world. The last
time that S. w. Eccles was
here, he looked out over the valley
from up at the concentration and said
that it was the finest site the A.. S..
& r. had to do with anywhere, and
he added that it was the site of the
biggest works that they ever built.
Count on. it that McGill is a
great smelling center and that no
matter how many more companies
may put up reduction works in this
camp none of them will ever out
rank McGill in size and amount of
copper turned out. This for the
reason that it is not in the range of
possibilities that any development
which may come off the present
ground of Nevada Con. and Cumber-
land Ely will ever develop as great
bodies of ore susceptible to steam
shovel mining as these companies.
And steam shovel mining is the stuff
that shoots the big tonnage to the
reduction works, and it is the big
tonnage that makes the big works
and the big output. Giroux, Copper
mines and some others may eventual
ly have reduction works in the amp
and Giroux at a comparatively early
date, but they will none of them
have need for the big works that Nc
Gill has and is adding to every day.
| Giroux has "a great mine, sure
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