The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-07-20
No LET-UP At
THE ENEVADA CON.
Company Making the Most of
Ability to Produce Red
Metal Cheaply.
FORTUNE USED IN
EXPLOSIVES ALONE
Waiting For New Equipment to
Increase the Mines Daily
Output.

In the heavy ore shipments now being
made by the Nevada Consolidated. Tho
White Pine News falls TO discover any
intention oh the part or the Guggenhein
interests to curtail the production of the
metal. and In this property, judging from
the low cost OF production. they have one
OF the strongest reasons for refusing tc
curtail. for profits are being wrung out
TO the extent of about 10 per cent or
the present market price or the stock
The News says:
Eight thousand tons CT ore day is
now the output OF the steam shovel Pill
of the Nevada Consolidated, and this rec
ord could be easily increased with the
addition OF a few big locomotives, for
which they are patiently waiting at the
pit The locomotives were ordered long
ago to overcome the heavy grade out OF
the pit into the storage yard for the ore
laden cars; but they are SO busy In me t
east turning out locomotives, the big
company at Copper Flat must await its
turn with the rest.
Meanwhile the pit is busy workshop.
and they are going there day and night,
stripping the ovcrburden and loading the
ore into the cars, Seven trafnloads day
go down the high line to the smelter at
McGill. and this Is not an average but
the minimum output. Each train carries
each car is nfty-five tons of ore. This
keeps the concentrator in operation all
the time. and the concentrates on hand
are far in excess of the demand OF the
Smelter.
In the steam shovel pit they are taxi
ing out the ore from the bottom of the pit
and from the upper terraces to the south.
while on the west they are tearing out
the overburden with dynamite, drill and
shovel. In the work of mining in the
great excavation, they are burning up
powder enough each day TO make a for
tune for the ordinary little mine II is
Fourth of July all the time In the pit.
and there seems TO be no letup to the
blasting, day or night. But the expo
sives are doing the work. getting the
work down TO the ore, and then get
ting out the ore.
Five steam shovels are kept busy all
the time, and drills are going in all d.
rcctions. Some OF these are digging out
the powder holes and others are advanc-
ing the development of the pit to the
the best ore, and In which direction the
big ore body is trending.
"At the Liberty pit they are doing
considerable work while waiting for the
tools with which To take out the ore.
Now. II is a question as TO when that
be delivered this month. and last week
news came that ii could not be landed
here until October. Meanwhile they are
busy with surveys, pipelines. track-lay-
ing, and seven or eight teams are doing
the eXcavating work The Liberty will
not compare in size TO the present pit.
but some Of the ore there will go con-
siderably higher than that which is be-
ing taken out of the big excavation, Even
now there Is gang of in the neighbor-
hood OF fifty men at work, and when ac-
tive operations begin In the fall, this
number will be increased to 200 or 300
Copper Flat is a busy center and II Will
continue to grow still more busy"