Show WORK IS RESUMED DY BY FEEAL FEDERAL E ELY Y n Railroad Survey to Water Supply Arouses Interest The Federal Ely Copper Capper company campan with wih a force of af twelve and fifteen men employed Is resuming active develop development development ment meat work in both of af Its is groups of claims in the Ely district distrct A new hoist hoit is to to be placed on an the Pride of the West shaft W V J Craig general manager of af the company is due to leave today forthe for forthe forthe the east mission unknown unknown Curiosity as to just what is going on in Federal Ely local Interests in the corn com company campany pany decline to satisfy That a deal for far control is pending is generally believed In view of the Interests having announced their intention ot 01 building a new concentrator and smelter I Ito to treat tret their Ely ores ore and in view of the further facts that Federal Ely owns awns tEe tle only available av Important water sup supply supply supply ply near the Ely district district and that the Giroux company compan has had made a pre pro preliminary survey for a line lne of af railroad miles mies long extending from Its mines to to a point near the water supply of the Federal Federl Ely company many persons assume to be we w ie concerning con concerning concerning what is going on In Federal Ely But of af course its Is all al a guess Federal Elys properties are both close to to the heart of the district within rea rca reasonable reasonablE proximity to Nevada Consoli Consolidated Consol Consolidated dated date and Cumberland Ely and in both porphyry and limestone formations In its Steel Stel group Is a tunnel 90 feet long which Is well wel along toward getting un under under Under der an outcrop of mineral minerai where a great body bady of af commercial l ore are Is virtually as assured assured assured The mouth of the tunnel Is with within withIn within in a few feet of af the Nevada Northern railroad permitting of mine cars beine belnE dumped directly Into Into railroad cars In Inthe Inthe inthe the Queen of the West group a shaft shat to the depth of feet Is in sulphide ore ar o u of commercial grade rade Water Rights Are Valuable But the Federal Ely company made itt Ih It really realy masterstroke when it I acquired a Steptoe valley ranch which carries with wih it I one ane of the few important water rights right in that region the others having beer been acquired by b the Guggenheims The wa water water water ter supply thus controlled Is ample It Itis I Itis is said for a large smelter and concen concentrator Conservative experts having haying In mind the assured great ore are production of af the Ely mines have averred that the Federal Ely E water rights are worth the thc entire entre capitalization of the tho th company Possibly the Interests wll consider themselves fortunate to be abl to purchase the water rights for a half hal ha million thrown with wih In the mining properties |