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Show GIROUX ORE GOING STEADILY TO SMELTER Production of ore bv the Giroux department de-partment of the Consolidated Copper-mines Copper-mines is continuing regularly, in quantity quan-tity sufficient to fulfill the terms of the contract with the Nevada Consolidated, which calls for about 1000 tons a day 1 he ore being shipped is all coming from the Oni claim and is being mined by the Nevada Consolidated by the two or the shovel oyned by the merger company, says the Ely Expositor. ..Unofficial reports from Kimberly stato that tho next annual report of the Giroux is likely to show larger tonnage and of considerably greater value than any heretofore In the sections of tho Giroux group, which were prospected by churn drills under former management-It management-It has been expected that moro definite def-inite news would be received beforo this tlmo relative to the selection of a smelter site, but nothing has been given out. Before Be-fore leaving the district recently, Thomas F. Cole is reported to have stated positively posi-tively that the Consolidated Coppermlnes will begin the orcctlon of a smelter In tho spring, and it is believed to be almost al-most certain the plant will bo located on tho Warm Springs site. |