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Show LIKELY TO STEAM Not Fully Determined, How-i How-i ever; Engineers Still Working Work-ing at Problem. Colonel D. C. Jackling was in hia offices of-fices in the McCornick building yesterday yester-day hard at work in an endeavor to clear his desk of business that had accumulated ac-cumulated in his absence, preparatory to leaving for Butte at midnight in his ; private ear with his party, including ' Mr. Stone and Traffic Manager H. B. i Tooker. In a reply to a query he said that the question of mining the big Kuth ore body of the Nevada Consolidated with : steam shovels had not yet been settled set-tled definitely and that "the engineers were still working on the problem. The j thickness of the capping over all parts ! of the ore body has not; yet been fully ! determined and a final " decision will i not be reached until this has been done ! and some other details worked out. While Colonel Jackling did not say so in so many words, what he did say left the impression that he expects the Ruth to develop into a steam shovel proposition. propo-sition. No ore ha-s been taken out of this vast body except that removed in the course ot development and even the great dump created bv those operations remains untouched, jfe said the Eureka Eure-ka and Liberty pits are merging into one, but that tho Kuth would he separate. separ-ate. Should steam shovel operations be undertaken there thev would begin along the face of the hill between the Ruth and Star Pointer shafts. When the Star Pointer shaft was sunk it was the intention to take all the Ruth ore, including thp big dump, out that way, but tb-s.t was before the cost of removing the overburden had been reduced re-duced to auvthing like the figures that have since been attained. Colonel .Tackling said he had been criticised for speaking of Utah Copper. Nevada Consolidated. Ray, Chino and Butte & Superior as finished properties. What he meant by thtit was, hs said, I that the" had passed the constructive period and had settled down into steady producers. The wonderful April record of Utah Copper he ascribed to the fact that for the first time since, the mills had been brought up to capacity the conditions were al! favorable for a top-notch top-notch output. "With favoring circumstances circum-stances the mine will occasionally duplicate du-plicate this record and may at times even surpass it. All the properties, said Colonel .Tackling, .Tack-ling, arm in splendid condition and are maintaining their production with a clock-like regularity that is very gratifying. |