The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-03-21
WARM WEATHER IS
HELPING ELY CAMP
All Companies Enjoying Spring
Days After an Extremely
Hard Winter.
NEVADA CON. Is
MAKING FAST TIME
GirouX Operations Gain in Time
and Importance With Pres
ent Month.
Special to Tho Tribune.


ELY New. March 20.-Tho coming oi
spring finds the Ely district in fine form
and the coming season promises to be
the busiest ever known in this section oi
Nevada, New companies arc pushing de-
velopment work In all parts OF tho dis
trict and the Guggenheim interests are
increasing the output OF their mines and
sme!ter to proportions literally gigantic.
At the Copper Flat property of tho Ne
vada Consolidated. four steam shovcls
and FIVE churn drills are employed in
getting ont the ore for the Steptoe Re-
duction works, During the hard freezing
weather last winter the shovels employed
In stripping off the overburden we're often
hard pressed 10 keep out Of the way OF
those employed In loading the ore. With
nlilGer weather however, the shovcls en-
ploNcd on ovcrburden are gaining on
those in The orc and their work has been
further facilitated by the construction
of n new line Of railway 10 the canyon
where the overburden is hauled for dump
Ing.
At the property OF the Giroux ConsolI-
dated Mines company, the big new SHAFT,
one OF the largest in the west, has been
sunk TO depth OF 1900 feet and work
AnS commenced on 4 station, l2OX20 feet
In size. which Will be cut at the 1900 foot
level Tor the accommodation OF pumps
GirouN shaft Is already connected with
the Alpha workings by n crosScut 150
iscl In length al the l000-foot level. II Is
the Intention To connect the two shafts
ri the l200-foot level also and the riGh
ores already blocked out around the
Alpha will be irammcd 10 the GirouN
shafts and hoisted by two ive-ton sklps
working In balance.
Work on the new spur track from the
Nevada Northern maiT line TO the GlrouN
SHAFT has been delayed by a shortage Of
track material several carloads of which
have been tied up In transit by the re-
cent floods, When this material arrives
the track will be hurried To completion,
as, IL is needed 10 haul the heavy ma
chinery and structural steel for the per-
manent hoistng plant al the new shaft
\ temporary hoisting plant is now serv-
Ing the shaft but this Will he replaced
Oy machinery powerful enough to handle
tho skips and cages even at the depth
Of 1000 feet 10 which it is planned to
ultimately sink the shaft.
The Boston ELY company has encoun-
tered the lime wall in the crosscut from
The 1l25-foot level OF the Emma shaft,
Previous 10 cncountcring the lime wall
the crosscuI passed through twenty feet
n mincraized vein matter. shot through
as high 10 or IL per cent in copper
values II is the intention Of Supcrin-
tendent Ralph 10 continue the crosscut
for some distance into the lime and then
high grade sulphideS are expected this
having been the case In the Alpha shaft
or the Giroux company, whore parallel
conditions arc said 30 exist.
The Ely Central company has been
having world of trouble with water
in the Clipper shaft and bad ground in
tho Eureka shaft, but the management Is |
capable and resourceful and the Eureka
while tho new pumps will soon unwater
Ihe Clipper.