Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1909-10-15 | Page 12 | Smelting Ore in Ely Central

SMELTING W OR ORIN ORE V M Ei IN flY LY CENTRAL Comes to Surface Where Shafts Are Being Sunk That large bodies of or direct smelting ore wilt will be opened In the Monarch and Clip Clipper Clipper Clipper per claims of the Ely Central Copper company where the sinking of Is under way is freely predicted by Ely experts ore comes to the sur surface surI I face tace in those places it is said Mid and con considerable considerable of It was gouged out years ago by searchers for gold The report of Colonel Farish who made madean an examination of Ely Central ground six weeks ago advised going to work on this ground and predicted that the Clipper Monarch and Josie claims would develop Into big producers of direct smelting ore York Work ork in the three shafts now under underway underway underway way will develop the property at the southeast end the northwest and in the center of the big estate says the Ely Ey Ex Expositor Expositor Expositor The shaft on the Eureka Frac Fraction Fraction Fraction tion at the southeast t end is in very soft sort ground heavily stained with Iron Consulting Engineer Edward Hoffman says that they will be In the theore theore theN N ore of the Nevada Consolidated within sixty days The fhe Judgment of the engi engineer engineer neer fleer Is backed by the recent development on the pit of the Nevada Consolidated which borders on the Eureka Fraction I During Durin the week a II churn drill was put to work iSO feet east of the ore or in the pit pita a aid aad ad at a depth of feet the ore was encountered The hole Is now 15 feet fOOt down and In ore from the mark The Nevada Consolidated is rushing the therk therk rk in the pit toward the tho Ely Central round ground four of the five steam shovels of the thc company being engaged on the east eastE eastside t E side de of the pit two working in the over lurden and two in the ore Surveys for forthe tho the railroad tracks on the ground between the present eastern side of the pit and the sideline of the Eureka Fraction have been made and the work to be carried on there will bring the pit ore feet closer dosE to Ely Central ground