The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-09
G|ROUX HAS THE
NEVADA RECORD
Progress With Huge Working
Shaft Breaks All Records
of State.
BIG PUMPS BEING
PLACED IN POSITION
Ely Consolidated Work Proves
Facts of Interest to the
District.
SnecIal to The Trihune

Special to The Tribune
ELY, New, May S.-The GirouN com
pany has completed the raise between
the 1200-fcot and 1000 foot levels OF the
GlrouX shaft, and thus within ten months
since work was commenced. this monster
shaft. twelve feet four inches, has been
sunk from the surface 1900 feet through
solid lime and timbered throughout TINS
establishes a new record for rapidity IN
big shaft work IN this state The com :
pletlon OF the shaft will accelerate the
cutting of the pumping station on the
1200- foot level, which is also n big piece
of work. While this station is being CUT
the shaft will be continued on downwafa' I arr, a.
its ultimate depth being fixed, II ls salo
at 1000 feet. The cutting OF the station
Will require about two months time. ana
then will follow the installation OF Two
pumps with capacity OF 500 gallons per
minute 20 each. Drifting toward the Al
pha workings will then be started Whlch
Will be finished In another two months
After this is completed, the GlrouM VIII
be In a position 10 mine its rich direct
smelling ores which have already been
blocked out between the l200-foot and the
1000 foot level OF the Alpha.
The Ely Consolida ted in the develop
rnent OF the Zack mine has demonstrated
that large bodies OF high grade ore exist
In what was originally considered the
lime belt surrounding the proven mineral
zone OF the district. IL would, however
be somewhat unfair to the Iack TO say
that It's ore body was found in the lime
for its ores are associated with porphyry,
so classified by Or. Walter Harvey Weed
in his report upon the Ely Central prop
ertv, Nevertheless. the ore boGy was
roached by a shaft through the lime. and
This proves that orc bearing pornhyrY eN-
tends under the lime for unknown dis
tances and also that where associated
with ;he lime. the ores are of much
higher grade In copper values,
Al a distance OF $50 feet from the por-
tai. the tunnel of the ELY Centennial COM
Ssny this week broke through the hard
blue lime and entered a quartz porphyry.
heavily inpreg egnated with iron, which is
favorable Indication. The tunnel has
been driven about fifty feet through the
same class Of material
q. T.. Street and NJ. NJ. johnson OF Salt
Lake have been spending the week in
the district inspecting the progress of
work on the property OF the Ely Gibral-
tar company, which owns q promising
group Of claims on the lead belt about
two miles north OF McGill. Mr.. Street
has been engaged in mining for more than
thirty years and has been instrumental
in opening up some of the big mines or
Utah II is his opinion that the lead belt
lying along the western side Of the range
a McCiill is not appreciated by the min
ing mon OF the district. who are neglect
ing some splendid opportunities In that
section.
The Ely Central company has cncoun-
tered carbonate ore at depth Of i65 feet
in the Eureka shaft. \ station will be
cut at this point from whence a drift
will be continued on downward through
the primary ore until u reaches the zone
ore in the Eureka SHAFT verifcs the pre-
diction made by Col William a: Parish
the mining expert. when he examined
the property last fall.