Show AT THE GIROUX CON mining record ely nev the giroux concentrating plant which hate has a daily capacity of tons is now ready to go into commission at a moments notice the big smokestack at the smelter is in place and the down take from the furnace to the lust dust chamber is goin going in other parts of the plant are being put in condition as rapidly as possible and it is now expected that the plant will be ready to blow in kithil within thirty days from the present time the triple compartment working shaft on the alpha has now reached a depth of thirty feet below the 1100 level and is being driven as rapidly as possible A feet north of the alpha shaft is being sunk from the 1000 foot level and is going down in solid ore that will average from 12 to 25 per cent drifts will be run from the main shaft to connect with this at the 1100 and 1200 levels when the latter is reached thus blocking out one of the largest bodies of rich copper ore to be found in any mining country work is also progressing in the morris and bunker blinker hill shafts in fact all of the mines are in splendid shape for producing A force of men is engaged in steptoe valley building a big ditch to convey the water from the stream to the point where the pumping plant plan twill will be located on the ath dinst bids were opened at the com banys office in new york for the building of the pumping plant and the supplying of the pipe for the pipe line and doubtless these contracts have already been awarded the company is now employing ninety men in its various departments which makes a handsome payroll at the end of the month president giroux and several directors of the company are expected to arrive tonight to look the property over and it may be that while here they will issue orders for the starting of the concentrator and the smelter by the time of the completion of the latter plant however the price 04 of copper may delay the period of production until a little later |