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Show I' NEVADA CON. IS I0TMM5KE Vice-President Requa States Thousands of Feet Develop-in Develop-in en Work Done. LABOR TROUBLE IS DELAYING RAILROAD Management Will Have Affairs of Road Untangled Within Few Days. The KCiier.il public has heard so much regarding the wonderful surface showings show-ings of the Nevada Consolidated company's com-pany's ground 1" the Ely district, that this property has nlmost been considered VYm from no other standpoint. That thorc aro fW.i 1 several thousand feet of development filM f worl1 already accomplished by tho Ne-iJli Ne-iJli j vnda Consolidated company Is vouched St? or bj" "' L Reo-ua tllc vice-president ifiEi and general manager of that company, rani J, and also of- the Ely and Northern Rail-fi'fl Rail-fi'fl f road company, llj Having: Delay "With. Railroad. IjrjjLj' Mr. Requa arrived In Salt Lako Mon- Ifc'T" day ovenlng from Ely, and reports that ;-!fJ everything Is progressing rapidly with f;".y, tho exception of tho railroad. On account Cv"l"i of trouble with the labor employed In Ik building this road tho company Is not if making the headway anticipated. Mr. I Requa, however, states that within tho v next few days this troublo will be ad- t Justed, and everything will bo procced- .1 lng as desired. Within the present week 1 the company will have tho road comploted as far as Curry a ranch, and within tho month tho road will bo open for business i to that point To Grade Smelter Site. Mr. Requa states that thcro Is nothing f new at Ely. as the entire camp Is awalt- J lng the railroad, and machinery and sup- S piles of all descriptions, and to an almost inconceivable extent, can not 2 be moved into Ely until the road Is com- ploted. Mr. Requa slates that tho com- j pany at present Is getting ready to let ? tho contracts for grading the smelter 5, site, and this Is expected to bo done wlth- , la the very near future. Hj Muck Development Done. Of the development work that is being ?i done on tho property, he states that the J, management is endeavoring to complete i tho connection between the Star Pointer t and Ruth shafts without any delay, as , this will enable tho more expeditious wJd. handling of the Ruth ores. There are 'hMi, four levels on the Ruth mine, tho deepest ,i H?i being to tho CCO-foot level From this ' fitr point thoro has been considernblo work j Si. done, and there aro blocked out In the I rfji mine at present enough ores to provide Jj V ample food for the plants of tho com- ij iaJ liany for tho next ten years. 4 vii Mr- Ken.ua, will be In the city for the : : fjf week before leaving again for Ely. |