Show MINES OF ELY EL Y TRIM DOWN WORKING FORCE Simultaneous with the announcement of the tho dismissal of men at the prop properties properties orties of the GIroux Consolidated comes the report that the Consolidated Copper company has made material reductions In Its working forces at the Ruth and the Veteran Ely mines says the Ely Min Mining MinIng Mm ing Expositor Expo At the Veteran fifty miners were laid off oft recently and the action of ot the fore foreman foreman foreman man In letting out the men came as a a great surprise to everyone in the district as it was the general supposition that the working force at the Veteran would be largely Increased this month The reason for the action has not been given At the Ruth and Star Pointer shafts of the Nevada Consolidated about forty miners have been notified that their Jobs were vacant At the Ruth only one shift Is being employed and at the Star Point Pointer er th thO S activity Is confined tp Ing the main shaft It has been an announced announced announced that two shifts will be placed on the Pointer within a few days das but that would only give employment to about twelve men In lit letting out the men at the Ruth and Star Pointer the foreman gave the Information that they were a long ways I ahead of their work and that It would be useless to put large forces of men menat menat menat at work until the smelter at McGill Is ready to treat the th copper ores from the Ruth group up Both properties are now in a position to supply the big smelter with all kinds of ore The majority of the miners who have been on the payroll at the Giroux and other properties pr left for Goldfield Salt Lake Lae and other western tern towns |