Show THE GIROUX consolidated record ely nee the pumping station on the 1200 foot level is being concreted which will require about 2000 tons of material the work will require at least two months time the 1200 gallon pump is on the ground at the shaft and it is a huge affair the fly wheel is built in two sections weighing seven tons each the setting of the pumps and connecting of the pipes to the surface will also require much labor and time the discharge pipe for the large pump is four feet in circumference or sixteen inches across its face nearly all of the machinery for the new hoisting plant has arrived one of the shafts weighs eleven tons which will give an idea of the immensity of the plant when the pumps are in operation it is likely that the concentrating plant will be started as it will be necessary to pump the water from the mine anyway and it as well be used as run to waste two churn drills are working on glory hill and two others near the morris brooks shaft there is no truth in the report that another shaft had been started president cole has been expected for the past month and may drop in any day when a full campaign of development will be outlined A director who is one of the largest stockholders of the giroux company says 1 I am hearing considerable criticism of the management of the giroux company in planning so extensively for the future without being sure of their ores I 1 know that cole and ryan care not for this criticism the giroux has at its command by reason of its affiliation with the amalgamated and cole ryan interests the best engineering mining and metallurgical talent and they are preparing the giroux for a large copper producer both from the limestone deposits which greatly resemble the bisbee veins and from the porphyry the first production will come from the limestone and these ores will go to the international ter national smelter in utah which will need them the giroux company has about cash on hand and every dollar expended is for the best machinery and everything done is of the most permanent nature nature |