The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-04-18
NEVADA UNITED
DEAL RUMQRED
Ely Reports United States Com
pany on Trail of SiliciOus
Ore Mine.
GROUND WAS THE
SUBJECT OF VISIT
Ores Similar TO Eureka Rock
Owned by Local Smelling
Company.
Snecisl 10 The Tribune.


ELY. New. April 17.-Reporis are II
circulation to tho effect that the Uniteo
States Smelling company Is sntercsted u
the plans OF the Nevada united Mines
company 20 build railroad lr9m a Ely
OF the Nevada United al the old camp oi
Ward The Nevada United company, mas
an enormous tonnage of low grade Slnel-
10 rhe ores formerly shipped by The unit,
Ell States company from It's mines al
Eureka. New. 70 its smelling plant neat
Salt Lake. Since the li washins , t,,o 1u. rel el
cent foods. the smelling company nds
been deprived OF this source OF s!hclous
ores and is said TO be in search OF prop
crties having large bodies Of low grade
ores capable OF being mined at small eN
pense. II has been announced that Inc
railroad between Eureka and Palisadc WI!
not be rebuilt. which gives some adol-
tioual weight to the report. 80
Mines Manager Allen and Consulting
Engineer Smith OF the United States com
pany made a careful examination ol inc
Nevada United properties last fall, "hcn
they spent several weeks in and around
the Ely district. An engineer in the en-
ploy OF tho Nevada United company has
just finished a preliminary survey 1or the
road which presents no serious engineer
ing difficulties and could he constructed,
II is said. with an average grade OF J
per cent and maximum grade ol " per
cent The Nevada United Mines company
is controlled by Denver capitalists who
have steadily maintained a force OF men
on development work at the property for
the past three years, Considerable ore
has been shipped from the property dur
Ing this period but plans for railroad
being pretty we'll matured the company
discontinued shipments until such time
IS the road could be completed and the
expensive wagon haul eliminated
Steam shovels are being used hN the
Nevada Consolidated at Copper Flat In
excavating for new railroad track when
will reach tho ore pit at lower level
than the track now in use. and which
will enable the company to Slice another
twenty foot layer from the bottom OF the
pit. Shipments OF ore from Copper Fiat
continue 10 run from 5000 10 10000 tons
per day and shipments this month are
Including an unusually large percentage of
carbonate ore. Some O, this carbonate
ore is taken out by steam ShovelS. and
comes from veins In the oVerburden and
is scattered on tho waste dump, and from
there IL is loaded into wagons by hand
and hauled back TO the sailroad, where
il IS loaded into cars for shipment 10 the
smelter. The smelter is not prepared 10
handle very much carbonate ore at pres
ent but the company figures that as long
as IL has been mined VI is worth saving
as sort Of by-product.
After eleven days spent in cutting a
station and putting In an ore pocket al the
Boston Elv, sinking has been resumed
In the inclined wtnze which follows the
pitch of the vein. Superintendent Ralph
is Of the opinion that the water level viii
be reached In another hundred feet where
the enriched zone Is expected TO he en-
countered. The ground through which the
winse is being sunk is soft and moist and
requires close timbeTinC.
At the GirouX Consolidated company S
new shaft the raise on three compart-
ncnts from the l200-foot level back TO
the 1000-foot level was commenced on
Tuesday. AS the work OF cutting the sta
tlon at the l200-foot level is going on at
the same time. the work Of raising viii
not progress as II otherwise would but
il will he completed within thirty days.
Permanent thnberiug for the full size of
the shaft is being carried up the work
progresses.