White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1910-12-25
GRINDING OUT
WEALTH At PIT
BIG COPPER PRODUCER con.
TINUES TO SEND ITS PRODUCT
TO CONCENTRATOR WITH
CLOCK LIKE REGULARITY.


the stockholders In the Nevada Con-
solidated for they are grinding out
the money from the steam shovel Dit
under the able generalship of Super
intendent Vanderhoef as fast as men
and machinery can tear down and
ship out the ore. The weather has
been exceptionally fine for the opera
tions in the pit, barring a lack of
water supply. There is little eoncep-
tion on the outside as to the amount
of water which is needed TO keep CO.
ing the churn drills, the locomotives
and the steam shoyels in the vast
workhouse; and il is one of the prob
lens in the working of the pit TO keep
up this supply.
At this time of year it was expected
that the company would be wrestling
with the cold weather, with the snow
and the ice. Now the snow cannot
come too fast, nor can there be too
much of it to help out on the water
supply, and the storm of the early
part of the week was as welcome as
the flowers in May. Up to date no
trouble has been experienced with the
ore that is being shipped to the con.
centrator, and the season is now so
far advanced with so little winter in
it, that the difficulties of last year in
consequence of the freezing of the ore
in the cars In transit to McGill will
not be repeated.
During the week one of the big
shoyels which had heen undergoing
repairs, was returned to commission
and with the new dinkey engines in
operation, everything is going ahead
at full blast. Not less than seven
trains loaded with ore go down the
high line to the concentrator each day
and this means between 1000 and s.
900 tons emptied into the ore bins.
This is by no means the capacity of
the concentrator nor the extreme out
put of the Copper Flat pit; but when
one stops to think what it means to
the district. 1t is little wonder that
the outside world sits up and takes
notice when the camp of Ely is men
toned.
In addition to the work going on
at Copper Flat they are stripping an
other big pit at the Liberty workings,
and the work which has gone on here
for the past several months is surpris-
ing to the visitor. Up to the present
there is but one steam shovel employ
ed, but the work of stripping that has
been done by this agency is such that
h. ,f
ore which they will begin taking out
in the spring. The oyerburden taken
from the Liberty is being distributed
on the big high line dump, and a new
dump has been started on the COM
pany's ground near Riepetown.
The discharging of the over
burden presents not the least of the
busy scenes at the Copper Flat pit.
From there they are dumping in three
different directions. There are two
dumps to the east and north in addi-
tion to that at the Star Pointer; and
in addition to the regular Star Point
er dump, they are now making fill
between the big boarding house and
the machine shops.
At the Star Pointer they just COM
pleted a II room bunkhouse for the
accommodation of the various fore
men in the pit and outside workings,
and more houses are being put up for
the men of families. The bungalow,
which was built to take the place of
the staff headquarters at Copper Flat
has been completed and furnished,
and Cashier n. b. Nance and his force
now occupy the new and eommodious
quarters