The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-24
MILLIONS Of TONS
ADDED TO C|ROUX
Accidental Discovery by the
Nevada Con. Proves Valu-
able to Neighbor.
ORE ZONE EXTENDED
Coppernines Company Can
Mine New Tonnage by
Steam Shovel Method.
ORE ZONE EXTENDED

About six miles west and three quar-
fers of A mile north of the Northern
hotel in Ely is the spot where the
strike was made this week on the Gi-
roux group of the Consolidated Copper
mines company, and from which the
Nevada Con. mined seventy-two car
loads in two days, which were sent to
McGill for treatment under the terms
of the GirouX contract, says the Ely
Expositor While the contract does not
contemplate the mining of ore by the
Nevada Con. or the milling of more
than a maximum of 1900 tons a day,
the production OF ore from the new dis
covery was stopped only because OF lack
OF storage room for the ore, 1T being
necessary to hold most of the extra
production in the cars, as the bins al
lotted 10 Giroux at the Steptoe mill
would rot begin TO hold it all.
Meanwhile. until those cars are emp
tied and returned to the pit, the Ne
vada Con. will be shy of cars and Will
have to keep the ones it uses moving,
though it is not expected the output
from the big pits will be lsssened
Several wears ago the Nevada Con-
secured right Of way over portion
of the Ora claim, belonging to the Gil
roux company. This claim is detach-
ed from the main Giroux group, being
separated by the Josie claim, which Is
owned by the Nevada Con-. botn
these claims have a general north-south
course, with the Ora bearing east OF
- % ha rrGC
Ora claim is not full, the south end hav-
ing overlappcd the south end of the
Josie. the outlines of the two forming
the letter "V.'
Two years ago, during visit or
Pope Yeatman to the district, plans for
the Liberty pit entrance and tram yard
were considered in detail by him and
resulted in his approving the surveys
as made One track was laid across
the Ora to the Liberty and used IN the
preliminary development work, Now
that about onethird Of the Nevada Con
production has been coming from the
vanced toward making connection be-
tween the Liberty and Eureka pits, the
work of preparing for tracks TO reach
the lower level OF the Eureka has been
started.
To achieve this object the entrance to
the Liberty with yard facilities for
handling empty cars and making up
loaded cars into trains must first be
prepared and it was while one of the
steam shovels was cutting out the sur
face to widen the yard that the strike
of ore on the Ora was made.
AS the Ora was detached from the
main group it was not included in the
prospecting plans when the Giroux had
q number of drills az work. For one
reason it was not thought that ore of
any amount existed in II, though
Thomas Rockhill. one of the locators OF
the claim. had often asserted he found
sulphides in his prospect shaft That
this has now been proven to be fact IS
Of great Importance TO the Consolidated
Coppermines company, as the indica.
tions are il means several additional
million tons OF ore for that company
and a steam shovel proposition at that.
Another feature of the discovery is
that it puts the plans of the Nevada
Con pit management up in the air for
the time being. Until the. limits Of the
newly-found deposit can be determined
by n few drill holes. the preparations
for more tracks leading into the Lib
ertv cannot be pushed. as the indica-
tions are they would be laid on a solid
body. and that means they would not
he permanent. Fortunately there is suf
ficient room for the Liberty entrance