Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1909-03-02 | Page 8 | Giroux Consolidated to Work Big Force

GIROUX CONSOLIDATED TO WORK BIG FORCE I At least men will be working on the GIroux properties In March s ay say those who claim to know but that number will appear small before many months when plans for tho real of the great area owned oed by the company have been fully decided upon and work on them commenced says sas the Ely Mining Expositor The company suffered the loss of Its two churn drills In the fire which de destroyed destroyed destroyed the smelter plant some time ago but as the Ely Central has a couple of Keystones that are not in service it is not unlikely they the will be secured by the Giroux company with which to commence extensive prospecting at al points on the group that have not been prospected by shafts Snow of considerable depth covers the ground all around the tho mines and the new manager cannot be expected to get much of an Idea of the formations be he will have to deal with In the future until a warm spell removes the snow to some extent at least When the exact location of the new shaft on the Alpha can bo ho determined the work will be started and pushed with all 1111 possible speed sp ed but Jut the point cannot be selected until un additional surveys s and I mapping of the underground workings are aro made madre according to Information given out last week This shaft will be planned after the style stylo of those these In the largest mines in the country and will have five compartments two for handling ore in loads and two for handling men menTho menTho menThe Tho The cages for tor the latter Jatter purpose will be belarge belarge belarge large enough to accommodate forty men menat menat menat at a R time and will be Owing to the fact that tho the workings on the Alpha will be for tor the most part all 1000 J feet feel deep It will be bo to have a large shaft and be bo able to drop the men down and pull them out of the shaft in iu ii bunches in order to save savo time as wl h a smaller equipment the amount of time required for that work would take too much from the hours of labor that a man could get in and would make the mining cost appreciably higher