White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-07-14
MINING NOTES
Of INTEREST
SUMMARY OF WEEKS HAPPEN
INGS GATHERED FROM DIS
TRICTS VARIED RESOURCES
IN COPPER AND OTHER ORES.

the mining operations being carried
on by him at the canyon. He has
driven $50 feet of new tunnel, and
is finishing an upraise of so feet to
connect with the ore. The ore car
ries both gold and silver. and Mr..
Paulson is planning to make a ship
ment before very great while, and
sort his first car up to the 5000 per
ton mark.
c. A. Dunham, manager of the
Pony Express company, was in the
city this week. arranging for the
shipment of the company's new IL
horse power gasoline engine, COM
pressor, knoeked-down house, lum-
Der, etc, to the workings at Hogum
gulch. near Osceola. The equipment
is to be moved on wagons, by the
Ramseys.
At the Zack shaft of the Ely Con.
excavations have reached a point
about so feet below the 600-foot
level. and good progress is being
made Notwithstanding the inflow of
water For the last so feet the shaft
has penetrated solid iron sulphides
that show promising traces of cop
per A sinker pump will be in
stalled at the 700-foot level, to lift
the water to the big pump at the 600
foot level Sinking will be discon-
tinued at the 500 foot level, for the
time being. and a erosscut run to
connect with the lead of commercial
ore on the 500 and 500 levels.
A. A. Shell and G. l.. Sheldon re-
turned Sunday night from Railroad
valley where they have been doing
assessment work on a number of
potash claims for Ely people. Ac-
cording to Mr.. Shell. the Railroad
Valley Saline company has driven
the drill hole to depth of 915 feet,
at which point work has been tenn
porarily suspended until more pipe
arrives The drill has developed an
unusual flow of artesian water.
whereby a large acreage can be
made available for agricultural pur-
poses. The Saline company is max
ing arrangements to install heavier
drilling machinery, by which the
70 he. HaA ~
depth of 1000 feet. If desired.
At the Coppermines workings. ar
rangements are being concluded for
the installation of 25 horse power
gasoline engine on the Star Pointer
fill above the Minnesota shaft. This
will enable ores 10 be elevated into
bins and carried directly to the Me-
vada Northern cars, for shipment
TO the smelter. at an expected saving
of S100 per ton, to the company.
Development work is going forward
at a steady rate, and according TO
present estimates the mine is show
ing from 5000 to 6000 tons of ore,
that averages from 13 to Is per
cent in copper tenor. Shipments
are being made OF from two to three
ears of ore each week, averaging so
tons to the car. The ore reserves
in the mines are holding beyond ex-
pectations. since work was resumed
about three months ago, and indi-
cate that the Minnesota will prove
an important producer in the dis
trict.
Reports of satisfactory nature
come from the churn drilling opera
tions now going on at the l245 loot
level of the Emma shaft of the Bos-
ton ely company. Progress OF the
work will be watched with interest
by minining men, as 1t is a ne"
method of deep mining In the Ely
district. which is expected to hasten
demonstration on deep levels with
noticeable saving to the company
in the location of low-lying ore
bodies. Late development by drift-
ing shows that the Emma vein Il
72 feet in width, with teaching
which promises increased values as
the depth is increased, and whicf
will be tested by the churn drill. II
is proposed to extend the level whicf
cut the Emma vein on TO the Matilda
vein, for an approximate distance o
800 feet. In the early days th'
Matilda vein showed remarkable
gold values on the surface. ship
ments averaging from 500 to $2O'
per ton in gold. Therefore. the cut