The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-12-12
BOSTON ELY THE LEADING
FEATURE ENCOURAGES ALL
Will Help Greatly in Showing the Way for Other
Development in the Lime and Iron Of the Dis
trict---GirOux %Crowdine AIong--Other Work

The most important development OF the week was IN
the strike on the Boston Ely. The finding of ore in that
part Of the district is one of the most momentous happen
ings in Ely since steam shovels were employed by the Ne
vada Consolidated to move a mountain OF ore-bearing por-
phyry. The example of the management Of the Boston
Ely, through the persistancy and faith which has
characterized its work, will be followed by others, and may
lead to the making of this district as one of the greatest
if not the greatest limestone copper camps in the world. This
in the face of the fact that it was the porphyry which made
the world ring with the greatness Of Ely, though it was
the low costs figured as possible In treating the ore in the por-
m pns1y, ani ;nto l4 the c 80 ploVe NJ l notice o, was taken II Of ~ fbe COPPER Ipel
stone with which the district abounds, and engineers of
some fame have passed the limestones up as unworthy of
development or the price of prospecting.
BOSTON ELY HIsTORY-Three years ago the
Boston Ely started its shaft in the limestone. They were
derided by some and commisserated by others, but they
had a theory, and they had faith. Superintendent Ralph
and those behind him were certain that the ore would be
found in the p%orphyry under the limestone. They went
through the lime and into the jasperoid, which is a re-
encountered at a depth of S65 feet, and the shaft went
through it for a depth Of 200 feet further, when they drop
ing; but nothing phased the people behind the shaft. They
got the ore, but the best Of judgement declares that it is
the primary ore of the limestone and not the %porphyry: It
is Identical with that of the ore Of the Veteran workings
of the Cumberland Ely, and whether that is lime or por-
phyry, none will venture his reputation on a flat statement.
But the fact remains that the Boston Ely is in the ore, and
whether it is in the limestone or the %porphyry, the one sure
thing is that they got it by getting through the limestone.
SECONDARY ENRICHMENT-The jasperoid of the
Boston Ely, many are convinced, is the so-called "blout" of
Professor Lawson, the remains of a once great low grade ore
body, the values of which have been in all probability
leached and precipitated to lower levels of the same ore
mass, where is found the zone of secondary enrichment. It
is for this zone that the Boston Ely is now headed, and it
is believed by those familiar with the situation that it will
be reached at the water level, as was the case in the Alpha
shaft of the Groux Consolidated. Jasperiod, once des-
pissed, has been most eagerly sought for some time past;
and the hunt for it will now be more eager. The lime
stone is not confined to the properties which are under de-
velopment. In many places it overlies the %porphyry; it per-
meates the entire district; and if the work in the lime be-
comes as assiduous as it has been in the %porphyry, there is
no limit to the possibilities of copper production in Ely.
NEVADA CoNsOLIDATED-The big Copper Flat
steam shovel pit is keeping up its vast output of nearly
1000 tons of ore a day, in the face of snow storms and cold
weather. The battle with the elements was fought out last
winter, and preparations have been most thorough for the
snow and rhyohte, and through snow and ore, and the
cold has no effect on powder, for the slices come down with
the same regularity from the hilltop and pit sides. Rail
road construction has become a daily profession to Super
lntendent Vanderhoef, and the laying of tracks the dream
of his nights. They are now blowing and scraping in the
snow for the grade of the B line, from the east side Of the pit
to the Star Pointer shaft. The right Of way for this line has
been granted by the Ely Central but the right of way for
the big trackage, the most important outlet from the pit, is
still under discussion.
GIROUx CONSOLIDATED-They continue steadily
with sinking, upraising, grading and drilling on the Giroux
For the past week the outside drilling has not been of
much consequence, the weather proving a stumbling block.
The upraising in the five compartment Giroux shaft goes along
steadily, the miners making seven feet a day, and getting
nearer and nearer to the surface with every shift. The work
of erecting the temporary gallows frame and shaft house is
progressing steadily as is the work on the temporary hosting
plant. In the Alpha shaft they are exploring the ground
both horizontally and vertically with diamond drills.
Above the grading for the tracks between the Nevada North
ern rails and the Giroux and Alpha shafts is very nearly
completed. With the exception of the drilling there has
been no cessation of work anywhere on the property.
ELY C~ENTRAL-The Eureka fraction shaft Of the