Show 0 STRIKE IN ELY CALUMET news ely nev one of the most important strikes ever made in the district was the encountering of ore in the lease of the ely calumet during the week ore of a direct smelting smelling sm elting character and from present appearances pe arances they have struck a good and lasting chunk of it the lease is located on the north star claim of ely calumet and the strike was made in a tunnel which is in about feet on the heels of this strike came another on the wild cat c 7 aim of the same property the values being principally in lead and silver some weeks ago the brothers struck a stringer in the tunnel from which they extracted and shipped fifteen tons of ore to the salt lake smelter netting them a trifle over 33 per cent in copper it was on sunday last that the stringer widened out into what appears to be a strong and well defined ledge for the entire width of the tunnel and the leasers leaders have since been taking out the ore without a pound of waste it is perhaps too early to venture a prediction of the lasting character of the find but the chief point in evidence is the fact that the ore is there and that the leasers leaders have another shipment ready for the amel ter the importance of the find cannot be too strong y emphasized on account of its location situated as it is seven or eight miles away from the center of operations in the district and found as it is in the limestone it gives to the robinson district a greater impetus than anything that has happened for some time the ore is said to average better than 25 per cent in copper the principal owners in the ely calumet are lucky tex rickard thomas rockhill and al myers of goldfield it has been moot talk in the district for months that the cole ryan syndicate had an option on the ground and whether this is true of not will soon be determined for the reason that they will not lose any further time in exercising the same thomas cole was here a little over a year ago and he then took on all the properties available which looked good to him he was looking principally to the properties in the limestone a favorite formation of his for the reason that it was good to him in his operations in bisbee arizona the cole ryan syndicate own and operate the giroux consolidated and the richest showing of the latter is the big vein in the limestone in the alpha shaft which they are now going after through the five compartment giroux shaft it was during the buying operations of cole that the finds were made in the limestone in the clipper and monarch workings of ely central adding to the boom of the camp which was we 1 l under way when the slump came and knocked the props from under the most promising prospects the promising ng lease on the ely calumet is being worked at present under slow but sure operations the brothers are not seeking the aid of anyone but are proceeding along in their own way they are working on their own capital and just as soon as they realize on their next shipment they will enlarge their operations with development will come more money for them for if they can get out tonnage enough the blast furnace at the smelter will be set in motion with the result of speedier returns and a greater saving to them |