The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-22
ELY OUTPUT IS
BEING REDUCED
Effect of Curtailment Pro
gramme Felt by the Steptoe
Reduction Plant.
ONE OF THE FOUR
UNITS is CLOSED
Big Mill Shows Possibilities Re.
Gently by Treating Great
Tonnage.
Special to The Tribune.

Special to The Tribune.
ELY New, Aug. Pin line with the
understanding said to have been arrived
at among the big copper producers tc
curtal the output OF the red metal, one
of the four units OF the plant OF the
Steptoe Valley Smelling and Mining
company at McGil has been closed down
shipments from the steam shovel pit at
Copper Flat which were running from
5000 TO 5000 tons of ore per day, have
been reduced to from 5000 to 1000 In
the same length Of time,
Shutting down one unit at the concen-
traitor has not. however, affected the
reverberatory furnace building at the
Steptoe plant, and four furnaces are be-
Ing operated at full capacity. Furnace
No. is out of commission TO receive a
new floor lining. but furnace No 3,
which has just been completed. has gone
through a weeks preliminary warming
up, and is now In full blast.
AT the concentrator. 5000 TO 1000 tons
of ore per day are handled with ease by
three units OF the mill, OF six sections.
each unit consisting Of two sections. Dur
Ing the time last month when the mill
was being pushed to It's capacity, appar-
entity for the purpose OF seeing how much
ore ii could handle when put to the
test. ore 10 the amount Of little over
LOCO tons was on one occasion put
gle section, No, holds the palm with
a record of 635 tons of ore milled in one
eight-hour shift. This, Of course, was
under the most favorable circumstances
and could not be taken into considera-
tion In figuring an average output for
the mill,
A centrifugal pump. -tor driven, has
been installed on the hillside back OF
of fire. Another improvement Is an oil
storage warehouse. which is being erect
ed just north of the mill and at a sufii-
cient distance thercfrom 10 avoid all dan
ger In case of fire.
Work on the new depot for the Ne
vada Northern railway at McGill has
been commenced, much Of the material
is on the ground. and concrete mix
Ing machine is in readiness to mix the
concrete for the foundations.
Two new steam shovels have recently
been received at the Copper Flat prop
erty OF the Nevada Consolidated. One
Of the big machines has been put In serv-
ice In the pit at Copper Flat 10 take
the place of one OF the old shoveis. which
hauling before 1t is put back at work.
The other new shovel Will be installed
at the new steam shovel pit which the
Nevada Consolidated company is open
ing on the Liberty claim about half a
mile west OF Copper Flat.
At the GirouN property. the work OF
raising three compartments of the new
hve- compartment shaft from the 1880
foot TO the l200-foot level has been COM
pleted. a pocket is now being put in to
receive the muck from the crosscut which
will soon be started from the l200-foot
station TO connect with the old workings
of the Alpha, $50 feet distant
The strike recently made by Strehlke
brothers. while leasing on the North Star
claim OF the Ely Calumet company. con-
tinues to attract great deal OF atten- =
tlon, The width of the ore is about eight
feet and It's average value is estimated at
25 per cent copper. The vein matter is
so shattered that powder Is not neces-
sary. but clean ore absolutely free from
waste is taken out with pick and bar at
the rate OF about fifteen tons a day. AL
though the strike Is located only about
two miles from the loading platform at
the railway station at East Ely, the
wagon road Is so rough and steep that
only about seven tons Of ore per day can
be hauled to the railroad under present
conditions, II the ore continues to show
up with development as we'll as 1t now
shows every Indication OF doing. the
leasers Will no doubt improve the roads
and make arrangements 10 handle the
ore on bigger scale.
H r. Plate, a mining engineer in the
employ OF the promoters of the Ely Gold
field road. has returned to Ely after
county. where he made ar examination
of the old Two G mine and other prop
critics. with the object Of securing cor
rect data as to their tonnage possibil-
tiles
Bush & Macklin. operating the Wild
cat claim near Ely under lease have g
two-foot vein OF ore running so TO the
ton In copper, lead and silver.
Leasers on the Windsplitter claim near
Blsckhorse report the discovery OF q
four-foot vein Of ore carrying frse gold