White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-14
ROCK Of PIT IS
ROCK OF AGES
DEMONSTRATES
POWER OF PRODUCTION BY
DELIVERING IN EXCESS OF
10000 TONS PER DAY.

In the steam shovel pit of the Ne
vada Consolidated there has been
for the past few days a falling OF l
the frightful energy which character
lied the work of the previous week.
The pit Is now down to about its
normal production. which means
something in the neighborhood of g.
900 or 1000 tons of porphyry ore a
day.
The management of the pit has
demonstrated the wonderful power
of production of that vast workshop
to the extent of delivering to the con-
centrator in excess of 10000 tons of
ore a day. Any time they require
that amount of ore at the big reduc-
tion works at McGill the pit can
funish 1t to them. 1t was not for ex-
hibition purposes that eight and nine
trains loads of ore were being sent
to McGill; and on the other hand 1t
was not because of the actual need
of it. As there is reason for every
thing there must be one for this.
1t is now pretty generally known
that an international agreement has
been reached for the curtailment OF
the copper output as the saving grace
of the copper situation. The supply
of the red metal was in excess of the
demand, and the only solution Of the
problem was to cut down the pro-
duction. Naturally, the Guggenheims
had to be a party to that agreement.
and the result Is now In evidence at
the pit workings. from which the Me-
vada Consolidated is taking Its only
product In the district. But here Is
what appears to have happened. Be-
| fore the Guggenheims became party
to the agreement the output OF the
pit was increased to the greatest cap
acity of production and treatment,
and when the time for curtailment
arrived they simply Topped of what
they had added, and they are now go-
ing ahead at their normal production.
| 1t takes q great business head to
perform wonders of this kind, and
| they have to take off their copper he'll
NETS to Daniel Guggenheim. When
a man can make a curtailment in
production without actually reducing
his output, he is going some, but this
is what has been done at the steam
shovel pit. Of course there has been
some laying off of hands at both Cop
per Flat and at McGill, and some of
the laid off men have come to town
with the statements that they are
getting shy of ore in the pit. Nothing
could be more ridiculous, and all that
is necessary to prove the contrary is
visit to Copper Flat, where the ore
| looks up to one in the evidence of its
very presence.
! At McGill the situation is most
sound and inviting from a business
standpoint. The concentrator is
handling, under a reduced force, all
the ore that is being sent down from
the pit. One of the units has been
closed down, but its energies are not
needed to make away with the ore
which is being furnished from the
storehouse at Copper Flat. Mean
while there are on hand sufficient
concentrates to run the smelter and
the converter for period of sixty
days at the present rate of production
of blister copper.
The present arrangements tend to
postpone operations IN the new Lib
erty pit of Nevada Consolidated for
maybe six weeks or two months. The
new steam shovel which was suppos-
ed to be for the Liberty is already at
work in the present pit, having TAX
en- the place of shovel No. /, which
has been laid off for repairs. The
second big shovel is due to arrive at
Copper Flat any day, and will also be
put to work in the big excavation. 1t
must be joy TO the hearts of the local
management to know that the high
pressure is off and that they can de-
vote most of their energies to strip
ping the ore. The overburden will
fly from the hills from now on, and
when the eurtailment agreement is at
an end. fine position will be theirs
at Copper Flat for the handling of
ore. They have the knowledge, too.
that in the pit they have ore enuogh
to keep them busy for a generation.
for verify, the rock of the pit is the
rock of ages.