The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-29
RICHER ORE SOON
FOR NEVADA CONS.
Steam Shovel Begins Task of
Stripping Ore in Lib
erty Pit.
Special to The Tribune.

Special to The Tribune,
| ELY, New, Aug. 2S.-The two new
| steam shovels recently received by the
| Nevada Consolidated company have been
put 10 work in the pit at Copper Flat,
| while one OF the older and smaller show
els has been transferred to the new pit
on the Liberty group about half mile
west Of Copper Flat where preliminary
track laying. pipe line installation and
| other preparatory work has been carried
on for some months past, AT the point
| Where the shovel has been put at work.
| the oyerburden Is not deep and q short
Time Will be sufficient for the stripping
| OF a considerable body Of the sulphide ore
| similar in character to that at Copper
Fiat, but slightly higher IN copper values.
+. " Reid, OF New York, arrived in
Ely this week from Sonora, Mexico, and
| Will superintend the erection of the big
smoke stack which will serve tho Giroux
| company's hoisting plant at the new five-
compartment shaft. The stack will be of
brick and will have base OF 1G feet ard
with eight 150-horse power boilers. The
men who will erect the steel gallows
frame for the hoist are expected TO ar
rive soon after the first OF tho month,
They will also erect the steel framework
for the buildings of the hosting plant.
The dome OF the pumping station at the
lE0o-foot level OF the Giroux shaft Is be-
ing cemented,
F. a. Strehlke has returned from Salt
Lake where he made arrangements with
the I. S. smelter people TO handle the
ore from the Strehlke lease on the prop
erty OF the Ely Calumet Copper company.
The lease is looking remarkably well and
VIII unquestionahly develop into a large
body of rich ore, The carload shipped
this week is expected to average at least
20 per cent in copper values.
The Ely Resurrection company, which
and west OF the holdings of the Ely Calu-
met. has decided to open It's property 70
the leasing system of development. Some
very rich ore has been produced from the
property of this company in years past.
Many good surface showlngs exist on the
property which. by development could
probably be made to produce shipping
While sinking an experimental well on
the property OF the Steptoe Valley Smelt-
ing & Mining company at McGin last
week, now or water was encountered
at depth of only six feet from the sur
face which. under development has grown
TO a stream OF about 400 gallons per min
ute.
The water was discovered only shor.
distance from the officers quarters at
McGln. Pumps have been put in and a
making the new find the source of the
domestic water supply for the company
town OF McGill, which now numbers
somewhere son between $500 and 5000 people
me water was encountered on a barren
mllside al an elevation OF perhaps of 100
ieet above SIeptoe valley, beneath the
ievei or which was supposed TO lie all
the available underground flow OF this
Vicinity. The discovery is likely to stim-
ulate further Investigations with n view
70 developing artesian wells to be used
for irrigation.
The Clipper shaft OF the Ely Central
company has reached a depth OF 2a5 feet
and crosscuts are being run to the east
and west from the 220-foot level. A
crosscut from the 465-foot level OF the
Eureka shaft is In pyrltic limestone but
is expected to soon enter the sulphIde
zone, a pipe line Is being laid 10 supply
the boilers at the Clipper with water
from the Eureka shaft
The McGill Mining company has filed
with the county clerk of White Pine
county certified copy of It's articles OF
Incorporation as required by the Nevada
law In, regard to foreign corporations
The principal office of the company is al
Provo; Utah. 1t is capitalized for a mil
lion shares of a par value OF ten cents
each The incorporators are Jesse
knieht, ". Lester Mangum, J. William
Knight, j. F. Brim and Walter D. Bon
nam. The company is formed for the
purpose OF developing mining property
near McGilI -