White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1910-10-09
CLOSES Down
TEMPORARILY
MANAGER LEE GLOCkNER Or
ELY CENTRAL RECEIVES IN
STRUCTIONS FROM NEW YORK
TO SUSPEND OPERATIONS.


the pump and one Star drill. last
night closed down temporarily. All
hands were paid off and the men
were advised that the shut down
might last only a few days The
action of the management was taken
as a precautionary measure pending
the settlement of the troubles of B.
! II. Scheftels & Co., in the east
While there is no connection be-
tween the firm of B. H. Scheftels &
Co.. and the Ely Central Copper COM
pany, the firm has been handling the
treasury stock of the mining COM
pany and the board of directors of Ely
] Central cannot yet determine what.
| if any, the effect of the suspension of
the firm will be with regard to that
company. In consequence, the Off
eials in the east have been in tele-
graphic communication with General
Manager Lee Glockner for the past
several days. AS a result of this tele-
graphic correspondence. wire came
yesterday to Mr.. Glockner to lay the
majority of the men OF for the pres
ent, until it was determined what the
effect of the firms suspension may
mean.
the Eureka, Clipper and Chispy
shafts, with the exception In the case
of the former two, the pumps are
still kept going, and three shifts of
engineers. The pumps will have to
be kept busy day and night to keep
the shafts clear from water. The
majority of the men who were laid
off are staying on the hill, and have
axnracSad thair infapfiop of d0fuO On
until it is determined whether work
is to be resumed in the near future,
which appears to be most probable
At the time of closing down, in the
Eureka workings they were driving
two crosscuts, one at the 465-foot
level and the other at the 6OO-foot
level. In the latter they were out
about $50 feet. The mission of the
former was to demonstrate the ex-
istence of the ore bearing porphyry
above the fault plane, and this mis-
sion has been accomplished In the
lower crosseut they were going after
the commercial ore, and to get this
they were driving to the east and the
south: to the east to get to the upper
side of the fault, and to the south to
meet the trend of the ore body of the
SltdHi SuONel pil pitNhih5 iheo INV
Ely Central.
The three churn drills were work
ing TO the east and the south of the
Eureka shaft workings. They were in
the draw in this direction and stretch
from the Eureka Fraction No. to
the Quartette claim. 1t was the con-
ident expectation of the Ely Central
management that they would get the
ore bearing porphyry of the stem
shovel pit in more than one of these
workings, maybe in all of them, for
the reason that the ore of the pit is,
to all appearances going that way.
Adjoining the Quartette claim is.
the Chispy. where the latest shaft on
Ely Central is being sunk. The pres
ent southerly workings of the steam
shovel pit lie not more than 200 feet
from the northwest corner of the
Chispy, and II is here that the Ne
vada Consolidated has been getting
its best ore. In the southeast corner
they have been taking out native cop
per, and further to the west they
have been getting sulphide ore which
averages in the neighborhood of eight
per cent copper.
In the Clipper shaft they have
opened up 500 feet of ore, including
that which is in the west crosscut,
and the two drifts to the north and
the south. This ore is at the shall
low depth of 220 feet. at which point
the crosseut was run. 1t is the inten-
tion of Ely Central to sink another
200 feet, and bids are now being ad-
vertised for this work. In the ore
already opened up assays have re-
turned as high as 1894 ton and $40
per cent copper. But not by any
means does the Ely Central claim to
have commercial ore in commercial
quantities. This they expect to get
at the. lower depths where there is
certain to be concentration of
values. This is the reason for sink
Ing the shaft to a further depth of