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Show I ELY OUTPUT IS BEINGREBUCED: Effect of Curtailment Programme Pro-gramme Felt by the Steptoe Reduction Plant. ONE OF THE FOUR UNITS IS CLOSED Big Mill Shows Possibilities Recently Re-cently by Treating Great Tonnage. Special to The Tribune. ELY, New, Aug. 21. In line with the understanding said to have been arrived at among the big copper producers to curtail the output of the red metal, one HJ of the four units of the plant of the Steptoe Valley Smelting and Mining company at McGill has been closed down. Mm Shipments from the steam shovel pit at mmm Copper Flat which were running from mmm S000 to 0000 tons of ore per day. havo W been reduced to from 6000 to 7000- In 1 the same length of time. 1 Shutting down one unit at the conccn- , trator has not. however, affected the 1 reverberatory furnace building at the ' Steptoe plant, und four furnaces are bc-1 bc-1 1 lng operated at full capacity. Furnace : Xo. 2 Ik out of commission to rccoivc a. , new floor lining, but furnace No. 5, which has just been completed, has gone 1 through a week's preliminary warmlng- j up, and Is now In full blast. 1 At the concentrator. 6000 to 7000 tons of ore per day are handlod with case by three units of the mill, or six sections. , each unit consisting of two sections. Dur-lng Dur-lng the time last month when the mill MM was being pushed to Its capacity, appar- ; ently for the purpose of seeing how much j ore it could handle when put to the 1 ' test, ore to the amount of a little over 11,000 tons was on one occasion put ' through in twenty-four hours. For a sln- j gle section. No. 7 holds the palm, with ' a record of 635 tons of ore milled in ono I eight-hour shift. This, of course, was MU under the most favorable circumstances H'i and could not lc , taken into considcra-jg considcra-jg tion In figuring an average output for EE tho mill. Hi A centrifugal pump, slpr driven, has been installed on the hillside back of the Steptoe concentrator for use In cose K of fire. Another Improvement is an oil U storage warehouse, which is being crect- cd just north of the mill and at a suffi-cient suffi-cient distance therefrom to avoid all da:i-gcr da:i-gcr in case of fire. Work on tho new depot for tho Ne-Mt Ne-Mt vada Northern railway at McGlll has been commenced, much of the material is on the ground, and a concrcto nilx-lng nilx-lng machine is in readiness to mix the 1 concrete for the foundations, H'. Two new steam shovels have recently 1 been received at the Copper Flat prop- l erty of the Nevada Consolidated. One of the big machines has been put in serv-Ice serv-Ice In tho pit at Copper Flat to lake tho place of one of the old shovels, which will receive repairs and a general over-hauling over-hauling before it Is put back at work. The other new shovel will be installed J at the new steam shovel pit which the j I Nevada Consolidated company is open- U lng on the Liberty claim about half a 4 mile west of Copper Flat, j At tho GIroux property, the work of j 1 .raising three- compartments of the new ju five-compartment shaft from the 1280-j 1280-j W foot to the 1200-foot levol has been com-41 com-41 pleted. A pocket is now being put In to M receive tile muck from the crosscut which I -will soon be started from the 1200-foot I station lo connect with the old workings n of the Alpha, 750 feet distant. H The strike recently made by Strehlkc . brothers, while leasing on the North Star - claim of the Ely Calumet company, con- J tlnucs to attract n great deal of atten- - tion. The width of the ore Is about elicht feet and Its average value is estimated at I'i 25 per cent copper. The vein matter is 'A so slmttered that powder Is not noces- 3 sary. bul clean ore absolutely free from waste Is taken out with pick and bar at H'. the rate of about tlftecn tons a day. Al- Hu though the strike is located only about n two miles from the loading platform at T the railway station at East Ely, the P wagon road is so rough and steep that only about seven tons of ore per day can be hauled to the rallroud under present Tl conditions If the ore continues to show fllK up with development as well as It now HI -4 snows overy indication of doing, the leasers will no doubt Improve the roads Jg and make arrangements to handle tho oiv on a DlS5er scale. 9) H. R. Plate, a mining engineer in the 9 employ of the promoters of the Ely Gold-Hig Gold-Hig field road, has returned to Ely after Jfl spending three weeks at Tybo, In Nyo HluM county, where ho made an examination iw Two G mine and other prop yl 9 crtics. with the object of securing cor- rect data as to their tonnage posslbil-g posslbil-g lties H Bush & Macklin. operating the WIlcl- J9 cat claim near Ely under lease, havo a Hlfll two-foot vein of ore running $70 to the Hi 91 ton 'n CPPC1"- ,enc3 ard silver, 9 Leasers on the Windsplltter claim near HlH Blaclchorne report the discovery of a BmB four-foot vein of ore carrying free gold. |