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Show THREE PER CEiT ODE I Mi ill Nevada Con. Has Material Advantage Ad-vantage in Treating This New Product. Tralnloads of 3 per cent copper ore are coming from the Veteran mine these days and the mine Is making a splendid record. With the present price of copper such ore is worth nearly ?10 a ton, and, according to the last report of the Nevada Ne-vada Consolidated, there Is a profit of 53 a ton In It for the company shareholders. sharehold-ers. At that rate the eteran Is making mak-ing ?S000 a day, which Is an amount that pi.es up faat when operations are con-I con-I dueled every dav In the year. Under Superintendent McDonald the work at the mine Is going along as smoothly as any thing possible could and a steady run ot ore tit the rate of 100j) tons n day Is being be-ing broken and hoisted, nays the Ely Expositor. At the (.'opper Flat eight steam shovels aro In service, of which three arc working work-ing In orr- while the others are rlnirlng off the overburden that covers the oro body between the Copper Flat and Liberty Lib-erty plte. Three of the shovels are on the west or Liberty side of the big hill The dally routine at the pits goes on uninterruptedly ex-eept for minor troubles trou-bles that are always arising In and around such great enterprises. The production pro-duction demanded by the smelter Is easily maintained and could be Increased on short notice at any time Nino thousand tons Is tho average amount of ore being put through the concentrator at McGill. where there Is nothing out of the ordinary happening these days. Preparations are being made to begin to receive oro from the Glroux company next week, although the amount may not. be largo for several weeks. The Glroux Is supposed to furnish an average aver-age of 1000 tons a day and to begin doing so May 1, but cannot. It will likely take two months for the tonnage to reach that figure, as weather conditions have caused unavoidable delay In getting the Morris and Bunker Hill shafts equipped for regular heavy work. |