Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-01-01
WILLIAMS COMMENTS
ON THE CAMP OF ELY
Declares Strike mt Boston and Ely
Proves District to be Similar to
What Is Found at Bingham.

| In commenting on the recent orc
find in the Boston, Ely. S. Herbert VIII
liams, who introduced this property In
Boston and who has Just returned
| from visit to the mine, states that
the ore find in the shaft OF the Bos-
ton & Ely Mining company, be-
sides being of great Importance to
that company itself. has created more
interest in the camp than anything
since the opening of the Nevada Con-
solidated. says the Boston Financial
News. The bottom of the shaft at the
1075-foot level showed IA feet of ore,
which averages from 2% per cent TO
rs per cent copper. besides contain
ing gold and silver values amounting
to 81 per ton The precious metal
values alone Will pay the cost OF min
ing, and the ore being heavy
sulphide can be sent direct TO tne
smelter without being concentrated.
Furthermore the level where the ore
was reached is estimated to be ABOUT
100 feet above the water level. and
when that point Is reached II Is ex-
pected that the percentage of copper
will be very much larger. propaply
twice as high
Tho ore strike apparently proves inc
Boston Ely property beyond any
DOUBT DDI dSlOc IIOiii tiisit AoSes ~ -
of great interest in general way. The
enormous deposits in the Bingham
district, where the Utah and Boston
Consolidated are working, contain the
same porphyry as those in the Ely
camp. but outside of the porphyry are
found the sulphlde ores. The strike
In the Boston & Ely shaft proves that
there are possibilities OF great siuphloe
mines to be opened outside the Por-
tn
establishment of this fact adds I'M
mensely to the value Of the camp.
1t also enhances the value OF prop
erty situated in close proximity TO
,knowns copper-bearing porphyry, En-
terprises opening up limestone claims
must be prepared to furnish po.n
annie cash and patience. Shaft sink
inr through hard limestone is slow and
expensive, a close study of the entire
district during the past season oy an
able gcologist develops the fact that
there is an enormous quantity OF
porphyry in Ely that Will prove un-
productive. This accounts for the num-
erous negative results obtained on
properties of prominence. statement
to the effect that development may
prove the heavy sulphide ore bodies to
be equally important with the por-
phyry may be criticized and yet II Is
quite possible The large commercial
ore bodies of porphyry are Thought 10
be quite we'll defined but the sulphlde
deposits are an unknown quantity
The question of water always pre-
sents Itself to those unfamiliar with
the district Up to the present nothing
has been heard of any difficulties In
this direction. BY a system of SHALLOW
shafts the Steptoe smelter has increas-
ed its water supply by AZ per cent. Mr..
T. F. Cole was the first important min
Ing operator to be impressed with the
prospects OF finding copper ore In the
limestone. and backing his own con-
victions purchased large groups OF
claims adjoining or near the Glroux
Copper company. 1t is reasonably. sure
that the Cole-Ryan interests will erect
a custom smeltcr; this. with another
Will place Ely In the position
Of being the most desirable mining dis
trict in the United States.