White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-17
OUTPUT At PIT
5000 TONS A DAY
THIS RECORD WILL BE EASILY
INCREASED WHEN BIG LOCO
MOTIVES THAT ARE ORDERED
ARRIVE ON GROUND.

Eight thousand tons of ore day
is now the output of the steam shovel
pit of the Nevada Consolidated, and
this record could be easily increased
with the addition of few big loco
motives 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 the east
turning out locomotives the big COM
pany at Copper Flat must await its
turn with the rest.
Meanwhile the pit Is busy work.
shop, and they are going there day
and night, stripping the overburden
and loading the ore into the cars.
Seven trainloads a day go down the
high line to the smelter at McGill,
and this is not an average, but the
minimum output Each train car
ries 21 cars. and lne capacity of each
car is 55 tons of ore. This keeps the
concentration in operation all the
time, and the concentrates on hand
are far in excess of the demand of
the smelter.
Ihis does not look like an agree
ment to curtail or restrict the output
of ore, and the Guggenheims, of a
certainty know what they are doing
when they are bending every effort to
keep up their big output from the
pit; and with the betterments under
way they will increase rather than
decrease the production. In this re-
gard of course 1t must be remember
ed that Ely is turning out the lowest
cost copper produced in the world;
and they can afford to sell at lower
| figure in the market than can the
producers of copper from the deep
mines.
In the steam shovel pit they are
taking out the ore from the bottom
of the pit and from the upper ter
races 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 ex-
cavation they are burning up powder
enough each day to make fortune
for the ordinary little mine. 1t 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
explosives are doing the work, get
ting the work down to the ore, and
then getting out the ore.
Five steam shovels are kept busy
all the time, and drills are going in
ali directions. Some of these are dig
ging out the powder holes and 9TH
ers are advancing the development of
the pit to the south and to the south
east where lies 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, 1t is question as to when
that first steam shovel will arrive. 1t
was to be delivered this month, and
last week news came that it could
not be landed here until October.
Meanwhile they are busy with sur
veys, pipelines, track laying, 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
being taken out of the big excavation.
Even now there is a gang of in the
neighborhood of fifty men at work,
and when active operations begin In
the fall this number will be increased
to 200 or 800. Copper Flat is busy
center and II will continue to grow
still more busy.