White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1913-01-05

quarter referred to herein, a strike
among our employees was ordered by
the officers of the Western Fedora
ton of Miners, but only a portion OF
the men went out. This strike was
not based upon the question of wage
scale or hours of labor, but purely on
a recognition of the Western Fed
GRAFTON of Miners. This company
has not objected to its employees be-
ing members of unions, but its direc-
tors do insist the management shall
not be hampered in its operations by
the interference of men o in the
employee of this company. Operations
at the mines ceased on October 2,
but were resumed on October "a,
and at the date of this report We are
running at SO per cent capacity and
expect to reach normal tonnage
shortly.
Deep drilling to determine the
possible existence of additional ore
at the Eureka pit was begun in Sep
TENDER but the strike forced a sus-
pension of this work. 1t will be re-
sumed again as soon as possible"
The mines of the Nevada Consoli-
dated Copper company are situated
in the Robinson mining district,
White Pine county, Nevada. Some
idea of the enormous extent of the
property and equipment may be
gained from the following account of
these details as supplied by officials
of the corporation:
There are in daily operation eight
95-ton Bucyrus steam shovels,
six forty-fiye ton and four sixty ton
locomotives, and eighty to 100 six
and twelve yard dump cars. There
are about fifteen miles of standard
gauge ore, stripping and dump tracks,
assembly yards, etc, in and around
the ore pits. Pits. dumps, and yards,
are all electrically lighted, and work
is carried on continuously day and
night. Large and fully equipped ma
chine shops. car and locomotive re-
pair shops are maintained.
The entire output of the mines is
treated at the mill and smeltery of
the Steptoe Smelling & Mining Co.,
a subsidiary operating company of
the Nevada Consolidated Copper Co.
The c~oncentrator is a four unit plant,
fully equipped with the most up-to-
date machinery, and is at the present
time treating and easily handling
over 5000 ons daily.
The smeltery consists of calcining,
smelling and converting plants. The
calcining plant comprises sixteen
~eighteen-foot McDougal roasters. The
smelling furnaces, all equipped for
burning fuel oil, with a total cap
aeity for smelling more than 1900
tons per day. The converter plant
consists of two large P~ierce-Smith
and several smaller sized c~onverters.
all basic lined.
The main power pant consists of
eight 400-horsepower boilers, fully
equipped with all modern economi-
zers, feed water heaters, induced and
forced draft. This boiler plant is
supplemented by ten 400-horse power
Sterling boilers. utilizing the waste
heat from the reverberatory furnaces.
The electric power generated aver
ages over 6000-horsepower.
Fully equipped machine shops, re-
pair shops, foundry and laboratories,
are operated by the company as a
necessary and important part of the
plant at McGill.
AT the present time, and rapidly
getting back into full swing after the
recent labor strike, there are being
mined and shipped about 5000 tons
per day from the Eureka and Liberty
pits. and approximately eight hun
dred tons per day from the under
ground workings of the Veteran
mine.
In addition to the ore production,
the shovels at the pits are removing
and handling about 5000 or more
cubic yeards of overburden daily.
There are about 5000 men en-
ployed at the concentrating plant and
smeltery at McGill, about 700 at the
open pit mines and 400 in under
ground mining.
The officials ore: S. w. Eccles,
president; ID. c. lacking, vice presi-
dent; w. L. Bennett, secretary: Pope
Yeatman, consulting engineer.
The operating officials in Nevada
are: c. b. Lakenan. general man
ager; C. V. jenkins. business man
ager; S. S. Sorensen, superintendent
smelter; G. f. Waddell, superinten-