The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-04-25
E|F TIL FURNACE
MAY BE NEEDED.
Steptoe Smelling Company May
Have to Raise Capacity
of Plant.
SHELTER NOW Is
GOING FULL TILT
Many Points of Interest in the
Great Copper Camp of White
Pine County.
Special 10 The Tribune.

Special TO The Tribune.
ELY, New. April 2i-The Steptoe
Smelling and Mining company is now
opers ting It's full complement OF four
revcrberatory furnaces, each with ca
pacity OF $50 tons Of calcincs per Gay.
Furnace No. 2. which was shut down
for refining some time ago. is again In
service and the calcInes are being han
died as fast as they come from the roas-
ter building. where sixteen McDougail
roasters treat the concentrates as fast
as they come from the mill.
Construction work the fifth rever-
beratory furnace was suspended last VIII
ter after all the steel work ana the
larger portion OF the brick work had
been completed, and has not as yet been
resumed. although With the general In
crease In activity all along the line. IL
seems probable that the furnace VIII be
made ready for service some time In the
near future. The waste heat boilers. OF
which there are two to each reNerper-
ator. and which furnish quite large
proportion OF the steam for the power
house. are being installed for thc hith
furnace.
At The concentrator end OF the step,oe
plant the system OF Arizona settling
tanks is being extended. The reservoir
at the end OF the Duck Creek pipe line
above the mill Is also being doubled in
size To provide an additional reserve wa
ter supply In case Of any accident 10 the
pipe line. Excavation for the new set
ling tanks below the mill is being car
ried on as far as possible by hydraulic
power Water from four-inch pipe
line under sixty pounds pressure is con-
Quoted through li-inch nozzle, and
the powerful stream washes the earth
and. smaller fragments OF rock into a
talinSs iaunder where the swift current
washes the waste material into the val
ley below the mill.
Tonnage OF the Steptoc mill is main
tainpH az lhOGt S000 IuN. Tie
mill has repca tedly handled 5000 tons in
twon tyf four hours with seven OF IT'S otght
sections IN use, and could probably put
through 10000 tons in twenty-four hours
at a pinch. provided there were no
brcakdowrs OF machinery or belts; With
concsn,rator. however, as with any
other big installation of machinery, IL is
moi advisable to push the plant TO It's
fullest capacity al all times.
Surface work a, the new shaft OF the
GirouX Consolidated Mines company has
heen completed and the top OF the big
lime mountain cut down TO level with
the collar Of the shaft. Steel for the
spur track from the Nevada Northern
main line to the shaft has nearly all
been laid, and the trnck is being rap
idly ballasted. Coal bunkers are being
built at the Alpha holsting plant OF tho
GirouX company. into which cars OF coal
can be dumped directly from the new
track,
Work al the big pumping station on
the l200-fo level Is being pushed. and
the three compartments of the big shaft
are being raised from the 1200-foot TO
The l00O-foot level at the rate of two sets
ri timbers per day, set Of timbors be-
Ing equal 10. five and oDe-haf feet. Three
carloads OF hoilers for the permanent
holstinG plant were received this week.
One churn drill Is working on the
western extremity Of the compsnys es-
tate near the Veteran mine Of the Cum
berland Ely company. and number of
holes have been sunk during the past
few weeks
sf,n. +, n.,r,fo, Of dolays b,- ,,,ipor q col
dents during the past week. the inclined
winzc from the 1l27-foot level of the
Emma shaft Of the Boston Ely Mining
company is again under way and has
been carried down To eighty feet below
the l127-foot level. N~-ager Ralph be-
leNes that the wafer level Will soon be
with the Nevada Consolidated for cleo
trio power so the installation Of cleo
tric pumps. if the same are found neces-
sary. Will be the cause of only short
delay. The lead. which is twenty five
feet in width. Is well mineralized. but
leached OF principal values. in all
other mines Of the lime belt Al or be-
low the water the level, the zone Of sec
ondary enrichment will be struck. after
which the future of the property can be
determined.
]. X. TURNER. manager OF the Ely Calu-
met Copper company, is in the city from
Gpidbeld. Mr. Turner states that the
recent strkn on the companys property
VIII make II" change in its plans for
The present al least The strike was
made Al distance OF about 450 feet
fro01 the mouth OF the tunnel, and cross
cutting has revealed good body OF ore.
wlich Is reported 10 carry values Of $40
ton and better in gold. silver and
copper.
Local people are taking advantage OF
the present slump in stocks 10 load up
10 their Emit on the favorte Ely issues.
One broker reports that his business Is
fully equal 10 that during the big stock
boom last fall