White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-03
NEVADA CON. IS
RUSHING WORK
AT LIBERTY PIT
READY TO BE PUT IN MOTION
UPON ARRIVAL OF STEAM
SHOVELS NOW ON THE WAY.

Everything Is in readiness for the
opening up of the Liberty steam
shovel pit, over the hill to the west
of the present great excavation Of
ore. For months past the work of
preparedness has been going ahead,
and to those who have not been
to Copper Flat of late the results of
progress are startling to behold.
Surveys have been run all over
the ground, pipe lines and tracks
have been laid; two water tanks
each with a capacity of $4,000
gallons have been installed, and
three more, each with a capacity of
10000 gallons are being construct
ed. There is going to be no dearth
of water supply in the new pit.
All that is being waited for to
start in motion the machinery of the
Liberty pit is the arrival of two
steam shovels, and one of these is
expected any day at Copper Flat.
Both shovels are to be put in op-
Grafton at the new pit, and there
are three big locomotives, each
with three drivers also on the way.
These will find employment in the
big steam shovel pit, small dink-
eys taking their place in the Liberty.
The latter is already a miniature Cop
per Flat steam shovel pit, for they
are putting in machine shops, du-
plicate on a smaller scale of those
at Ruth and the big pit. 1t Is
expected that the actual work will
begin in the Liberty on the Sth or
10th of the month. Just now there
are about Is teams engaged in
leveling the roads for the railroad
tracks of the high line and for
the steam shovels. The dumping
ground for the overburden will be
on the Puritan claim, somewhere
between the Monarch and Clipper
claims of the Ely Central.
At the big Copper Flat steam
shovel pit there is no let up to the
work, day or night. Five steam
shovels are again at work, and just
now three of these are seooping out
ore. The big No. 4 shovel with the
five yard scoop was out of commits
sion for nine days, and is now back
at her post tearing out the over
burden on the upper terrace in the
direction of Ely Central ground.
The machine was repaired right in
the pit, and the work is something
of which the management may
well boast. In nine days the work
of what ordinarily takes three
months was accomplished, to say
nothing of the time saved in ship
ping the shovel out of the pit and
back again.
While this monster is caving down
the hill to the south and east.
shovels No. l. 2 and are taking
out the ore on the Ely Central side
of the pit from the bottom of the
pit and from the two terraces above.
And they are taking out ore, too;
ore enough to keep all the dinkeys
busy hauling the cars to the storage
yard; and to keep things humming
on the high line on the way to the
concentration at McGill.
Work has been rushing in every
direction at Copper Flat. and is still
rushing. The machine shop and
storeroom have been enlarged, and
all kinds of useful tools and ma
chimes installed in the former.
Among those a dynamo. hack saws,
pipe-eutters and all sorts of fit
tings. To the east of the great pit
new buildings have sprung up like
magic, quarters for the newcomers
to the Liberty pit. The opening up
of the latter means the employ
ment of from $50 to 200 men; and
new faces are seen in the neighbor-
hood of Copper Flat. Temporarily,
the newcomers are being housed in
Ely Central buildings until their
quarters are ready for occupancy.