Show GREAT STEAM SHOVEL RECORD mining expositor ely nev at copper flat last month the record for handling ore was broken by shovel no 4 a 95 ton bucyrus giant which loaded cubic yards during the month this quantity breaks the former records made on the work and also the record for similar machines on the panama canal where the highest record maderas made was cubic yards yard general manager lakenan who was in ill the city last monday stated that the depth attained in the pit at present is not so great but what the loaded cars can be easily handled with ordinary locomotives and that the company expects to go two or three times deeper in the same pit when it can then handle the loaded cars with a shay engine the concentrator is handling tons of ore a day from the pit the output of blister copper is nearly pounds a day and in one day recently pounds was made which also established a record four furnaces are now in commission at the plant of the steptoe valley smelting smelling Sm elting mining company where the ore mined by the nevada con at copper flat is being treated exclusively four stands of conver converters tors are also being employed to give the finishing touches to the product from the reverts before it is ready to be shipped to the eastern refineries where it is further purified and the precious gold taken from it the increased capacity of the furnaces and converter departments will permit the plant to turn out a larger amount of blister copper during the present month which promises to be a record breaker and the total will likely exceed pounds nearly 2000 men are employed at the great reduction works in all departments and the pay roll for the month of september was close to |