The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-07-18
NEW ROAD LOOKS
LIKE CERTAINTY
Road Connecting the Nevada
United and Ely Smelter
Still RumOred.
REASONS WHY LEAD
STACK is NEEDED
Reported Plan of SteptOe
Works Will Have Very Far
Reaching Effect.
Special 10 The Tribune.

Special TO The Tribune.
ELY. New, July 1.-THE report last
week that the Nevada Northern would
construct a branch line fourteen miles IN
length for the purpose of hauling lead
silver ore from the property OF the Ne
vada Mines company, at Ward, seems 70
be verified by the fact that engineers
Of that road are now checking up the
preliminary survey recently made by tho
Nevada United company. The proposed
line will connect with the ore line o!
she Nevada Northern on the east side oi
Steptoe valley and will have an easy
grade. exceeding / per cent in only one
place, where II will be about II per cent
for a short distaice. No positive lnfor-
nation has been given out either by the
Nevada Northern or the Nevada United
Mines company, but all indications point
TO the early commencement OF the en-
terprise.
In this connection there is rumor In
circulation that the Steptoe Valley Smelt-
Ing and Mining company Will erect a
lead stack at its McGLl plant some time
during the present year TO treat the lead
ores OF the Nevada United company, rs
we'll as the ore from Duck Creek, Ham
ilton, Lane City and other camps ol
White Pine county. The building OF a
lead stack at McGill would be OF the
greatest benefit to this section. as there
are many partially developed mines whose
owners cannot afford 10 ship their ores
10 Utah under present conditions, but
who could realize d handsome profit II
there was q local lead smelter which
would handle custom ores.
4 strike recently made by f. a. Strehl-
ke, leaser on the Ely Calumet property
directly north OF the town Of Ely, Is
developing wonderfully well. The drift
hnsn q he Ian which
from two 10 four feet wide for dis
tance OF forty feet. and a fair sample
OF the ore gave assay values OF % pei
cent copper. A winze ten feet in deptE
has been sunk near the face OF the lead
and a carload OF ore has been taken ont
for shipment 10 Salt Lake. This is the
richest ore ever taken out in the Ely dis
trict except that from the l200-toot leve
of the Alpha shaft of the GirouN COM
pany. The Calumet property IS on the
extreme eastern end of the copper belt
Of the Robinson district. as the Ely camp
is Officially termed in maps and sur.
veys. The formation is principally lime.
stone everything monzonite TO depth ol
several hundred feet. and the recent
strike is another demonstration OF ricf
ore "in the ,ime." the existence of which
has been the subject OF much controversy
ever since the district was first discov'
sred.
c. S Herzig of New York is making
an extended inspection of the property OF
The Ely Central company in his capacity
as consulting engineer, and is highly
pleased with the progress that has beer
made since his last visit. The Eurekt
Shaft Is now $50 feet deep and ha:
,eached change in the formation which
closely resembles material adjoining tn,
ore on the north side Of the Copper Fla
steam shovel pit OF the Nevada Consoli
dated: from which all of the Nevad;
Cons enormous output OF about 5000 tom
a day is being produced at the presen
time. The drift from the f50-foot leve
OF the Eureka shaft has been driven 70
a distance OF sixty feet. and is expected
70 soon pass out of the fault plane an,
into the sulphide zone. for which 1t i
being driven, The Clipper shaft OF tn
Ely Central company has passed through
sulphidc material for a distance OF 15
feet, the last ten feet OF which avera ge
$40 in gold. station has been cut a
the 220-foot level. at which point a cross
cut will be started to intersect the or
which has been dipped away from tn
shaft.
James Quinn. a Utah mining man o
much experience. has arrived from Sal
Lake 10 take up the position OF superIn
tendent OF the Ely Consolidated Cope
company. S. F. Snyder, the former super
lntendent OF the Ely Consolidated. ha
gone to Cortez, not far from the ne,
camp OF Buckhorn, where he has taken
bond and lease on a partially deveope
property of much promise. Ely Consol
dated will make a Cotton ore shipment I
Salt Lake City early next week.