The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-03-01
ELY WILL BE
A GREAT 7
CAMP
BODIES OF COPPER ARE ALMOST
BEYOND ESTIMATE.
Steam ShoveJs Are Loading Trains
With Orc to Be Carried to the
Big SmeIters.

Harry Hedrick, representing the Ne
vaIa Mining News, writing from Ely,
Nevada. praises that camp as among
world. His letter is as follows.
Ely, February 27-If the State of
Nevada had no other entry In the lists
for honors among the great copper
camps of the world, her standard
would be In safe keeping with Ely. and
her position assured among the states
OF the vast mineral empire OF the West
as one Of the great-perchance the
sreatest-of all producers of the red
metal. For here, along the gigantic
mineral belt Of the Robinson district,
thero has been blocked out an aggre
gate OF something Ike $4,000 900 tons
OF commercially valuable copper ore.
while the latest possibilities In the
shape o2 probable ore occurrences are
go tremendous II rs q dimcuit task to
even approximate their extent
1 am told that j. Parke Claiming
has placed tho average OF ore depos-
It's throughout what Is termed the bed
ded plano area at 100000 tons per
aofe. Taking this as a basis, the ag-
groSate, as exgDsed by shafts, cross
cats, late1als and extensive drilling
operations, covering an area from half
a mile TO a milo and half wide and
seven miles In length. would foot up
in round numbers 2.264, 100000 tons.
While this estimate, based upon drill
exploration and not supported by ac-
tual orc exposures, Is. In a measure,
within the pale of speculation, the
actual ore showing, proved up accord
Ing to engineers plans of measure
ment is of sufficient magnitude to give
the camp all the glory and prestige
needed to firmly establish its rank
among the leading copper regions of
the world.
In computing the visible supply Of
the red metal in the developed mines
of the camp, several OF the best all
thorities of the world on such matters,
who havo made extended examinations
here, dealing only with proved ore
bodies, give the aggregate accredited
to Ely at 100000 900 pounds, which,
at 13 cents per pound. is worth $32o.
100000 gross. According to the COM
putaNons of Mr., Charming. there Is an
average profit OF $I.12 Ia per ton In
this ore. which would give $62. 500 900
az the net value of the proved ore of
the camp.
A fair Idea. however, OF the almost
Imitless potentialities Of Ely as
copper camp may be acquired from the
statement. given officially, that not TO
exceed 2 per cent Of the probable ore
nothing Of actual development work
vi - any nj
teneiye mine-mahing dates from about
1905. Up TO that time there had been
some mining dono In desultory way,
prospectors having found promising
gold. silver and lead showings, and
for several years the Robinson dis
trict was the sconc OF sporadic oper-
ations. But no attention whatever
was paid to the copper occurrences,
us the bedded planes were covered
With mass Of overburden varying in
thickness from so to several hundred
feet
Ii was not until this underlying mass
OF copper ore was encountered In the
quest of far moro precious metal-bear-
Ing formations that Ely's possibilities
as groat copper camp were dreamed
Of. And, as mine development. follow
Ing closely upon the heels Of explora-
ton work has revealed the vast hori-
zontal planes Of coppcr-bearing por.
phyvy, varying In th1okness from 100
TO $50 feet vertically. the district has
forged ahead aggressively, with cumu
lative energy. until today. It Is tho
scene Of the most extensive mine oper
ations In all the world, and is adding
to the worlds supply OF copper at the
rate of 3.5o0,000 pounds per month.
When the plans for further Increase
OF capacity at the Nevada Consolidat-
ed company's smelter shall have been
consummated. and an equally big
plant constructed by the Giroux Con-