Show mcdonald ELY development valuable and well equipped property owned by salt lakers mining record ely nev air drills have been ordered by manager D 0 mcdonald of the mcdonald ely efy copper company to push the work of developing ve loping their great properties near town A five drill compressor will be installed in the robust mill which now belong to this company this mill was erected a few years ago to extract the gold from surface ores by the cyanide process the presence of copper in the ore found at depth caused a closing down of the mill which is a first class structure and in good shape the power plant installed at that time will be made use of to operate the compressor the company owns twenty six claims in the richest part of the district and operations are being carried on at present in two shafts and one tunnel the wall tunnel will penetrate under the old robust workings which were opened by a shaft feet in depth at a depth of feet in this shaft a fifty foot body of copper ore is exposed that will average two and one half per cent copper it is a crosscut cross cut tunnel driven to explore the contact between the lime and on the surface three distinct ledges or veins of ore appear the first ledge cut was twenty feet wide it i will average about fifty per cen iron and runs as high as six per cent copper with some gold and silver the breast is now in 4 53 feet and in good ore with the installation of machine drills much more rapid progress will be made in extending it other large bodies of copper are known to exist in the robust ground and also good gold bearing rock this ore while not carrying values enough to warrant its transportation a long distance will be readily marketable at the local smelters shelters sm elters a desirable ore for use as a flux and will be required in large quantities the golden gate shaft is now down feet and is being sunk as fast as possible from it the old maceo group located by mr mcdonald twenty years ago will be explored this part of the great estate has been thoroughly prospected on the surface and is known to contain very large deposits of copper in this shaft a three foot body of porphyry carrying about five per cent lead was encountered associated with ore running two to five per cent copper a very rare occur ance in this district the mill shaft is now down feet and is to be sunk to the foot point from where ahe the country to the north will be crosscut cross cut and thoroughly prospected this company is one of the strongest financially in the district having among its stockholders senator thomas kearns david keath and col B E A wall of salt lake and is under the personal supervision of one of the most energetic man agers in the district with thirty ty years experience peri ence in the mining industry which is a guaranty to the investor that the immense property will be developed on a scientific and economical basis 6 |