Show SOME BIG FIGURES news ely nev during the year 1910 there ther ewas was shipped from the big pit of the nevada consolidated copper company to the steptoe valley smelting smelling sm elting plant at mcgill pounds of ore which is equivalent to shipping one pound of ore miles or around tile the world times this immense tonnage was hauled owr over the ne 4 vada northern railroad and as the average haul was 1100 tons it took a fraction over 2409 trainloads train loads to convey it to the smelter the ore from the pit averages about 2 per cent copper making the gross copper contents of the years production pounds hut but in treating the ore at the reduction plant there was a loss of pounds leaving pounds of blister copper that was shipped to the guggenheim refining plant in the east while these figures will seem large to the average reader yet they are of small proportion to what they would have been had not there been a general curtailment of the copper output throughout the country which necessarily included the nevada consolidated soli dated as this company ranks ex extremely well among the great copper producing properties the largest shipment ever made in one day from the pit was on the of last month when tons were hauled to the big plant at mcgill and if this average could be maintained for a year it would mean the extraction and hauling of tons or pounds |