Show L GIROUX CON SHAFT BREAKS THROUGH Great Shaft Shafi Open From 1000 Level SOON READY TO PRODUCE DIG BIG BODY OF TO BE DRAWN UPON pON Beginning of tho end of w work rk In prep preparation for large production by the GIroux GI GIroux roux Consolidated Copper Copp r company was wa marked yesterday by y the crews whIch hwo i been een workIng sInce last July In Inthe inthe the shaft breaking through to the surface The shaft whIch Is to le be one on ot of the most perfect In appointment and equip ment as It Is the largest In the die dIs dIstrIct dietrict Is fest west of at the old od Alpha shaft and on account of the economy wIth whIch the work could be done It has been constructed entIrely by rats rals in the waste havIng been carried out through the Alpha workings I During the last few weeks the tho miners have averaged six feet teet and more a day says say the Ely ExposItor and the man management management calculated closely that the work would be completed not later than January 1 In advance for tor the corn com completIon ot of the work the shaft house has already been constructed and tho ma machinery chinery has been installed for tor hoisting the rock from the 1000 level and the lower levels as the hole Is driven still further toward the great ore oro bodies lying between the level and the 1200 level start ot Once The hoIst is already in place and the crows crews Will wUl be started on sinking opera operations immedIately It is planned to sink to th 1200 level when th pumps will be Installed rhese will bo be ot of the plunger pattern and will have n a capacity ot of 1200 l gallons ot of water a minute lifting that great volume 1200 feet to the surface A large laree station WI be cut at the 1200 level for tor a pumping and working eta sta station tion and as soon as aJ that Is completed the th shaft will be by the pumps The company will then be In position to produce at n a minutes notice great tonnages ot of excellent copper ores run running nin ning from eIght to fifteen per cent In Ine inthe the e red metal Large Body of Rich 0 Ore The company prIor to the tho dIsaster whIch caused the closing ot of the Alpha shaft developed a great body of espe daIly rich copper ore are much ot of which was wIth Quantities of at the finest nc native ve copper and the general genera average runnIng Into exceptional per percentages percents cents The T o general average of the or ore re resembles resembles the Bisbee Ails Ariz ores beIng direct smelting and free from refractor refractory tor tory elements clementa In September 1908 the company shIpped a trial shipment of 00 tone to the Garfield smelter nt at SnIt Salt Lake CIty whIch averaged between twelve lIer jer cent and thIrteen per cent copper and whIch gave a net return of Lay Steel In the Spring Announcement has been made by Su SuperIntendent Superintendent Mills ot of the Giroux that the grading for tor the tho ext exten en siva sivo system connecting nIl all ot of the parts of the property for n a standard gauge railroad has been corn com completEd but that steel will not be laid untIl spring because ot of the depth of snow covering the grade He said that there wilt wUl be no Immediate use for the track aside from the 1000 feet teet that has already been laId and put Into zion until spring and that the snow would give considerable trouble to the gangs ThIs added trouble and expense will not be necessary and for tor that reason the comIng of spring will wUl willbe be awaited before the tracks are laId |