White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1911-02-26
McELROY TALKS
To SALT LAKERS
WELL KNOWN ELY ATTORNEY
IN TRIBUNE INTERVIEW SETS
FORTH CONDITIONS OF DIS
TRICT As THEY EXIST.

Gilbert A. McElroy, the well
known attorney returned this week
from Salt Lake. While in the Nor
non City, Mr.. McElroy was inter.
viewed in the Tribune on conditions
In the district and also more especi-
ally upon the report and conditions
of the Giroux Consolidated Mines
company. Mr.. McElroy has been in
the district for a number of years
and has kept himself well posted on
the mines and mining as well as
every other condition affecting the
people here. He is in a position 10
speak by the card and anything he
has to say Is sure to be of interest.
His interview in the Tribune Is GER
tainly of interest at this time and Is
given here in full:
"Since the Ely stockholders of the
Giroux Consolidated Mines company
have had the opportunity to read the
report for themselves" he said,
quite a favorable impression has
been gained, something far different
from the imperfect and detached ex-
tract we first received over the wires.
Those who know the mine as a great
many do in Ely feel sanguine that
everything is all right and that no
more detailed report of the Alpha
ore tonnage could have been given
by anyone caring to stay within
bounds of reason.
Until the Alpha shaft workings
can be u%nwatered. which can be done
within the very near future, any
blocking out of tonnage are useless.
We figure the situation out that,
knowing the character of the men
behind the Giroux, the company
would not have gone to the expense
of sinking a new five-compartment
shaft and of installing one of the
most comulete and expensive mine
equipments ever placed on any prop
cry were those in charge not certain
that results of great magnitude are
certain.
We know the quality of work
the company has been doing and We
are intimately acquainted with the
equipment. and there never has been
a better or more complete job of its
kind accomplished anywhere. With
the facilities To- being added the
Giroux should be able to handle as
much as 1909 ons of ore a day via
this shaft. No one believes all this
would have been made possible were
there any doubt that such achieve
ments are sure in time to come.
AT the present time there must
be in the neighborhood of 5000 men
employed in the mines of Ely and in
the Steptoe concentration and smelter
| am not positive as TO the amount
of the monthly payroll. but | judge
it is close to $500, 900. allowing an
average of 500 per month per EN-
ployee. In addition to the big prop
critics there are from fifteen to
twenty companies working from
three or four to twenty men right
along. and the number of operating
properties is being added TO from
time to time. What Ely needs is
custom reduction works for copper
and lead ores. There is no question
but that the Nevada Consolidated
company will have use for all the
capacity of its mill and smelter for
the treatment of its own ores, and no
one expects this company to attempt
much in a custom ore business.
Along Duck Creek and elsewhere
here are a number of promising lead
properties. and a lead stack at or
near Ely would greatly stimulate the
development of this kind of mining
property"