Show NEVADA CON COPPER COPPERI I PRODUCTION WORTH ORTH I 1 I I Every Evey da day 3 atom alone the Nevada Narada Northern rn I branch oro ore lino IIno that passes through Ely Elyon I on th north side of ot the city nine ten tenI tenor tenor I or more mor trains of or twenty one cars ars each Mch I. I loaded with ore from Iron tho the Eureka I Liberty Lib Jtb- lb- lb erty orty purl pUll of or the tho Nevada Consolidated Consolidated Con Con- d Copper company near Copp Copper r Flat Fiat glide swiftly from Robinson canyon canon with wilh such sach regularity that tho the noise they make mako attracts but little more attention I than n tho the ticking ot of a a. clock chock and for that II reason because local rc residents ha have havo 0 I grown so eo used d to the tho trains the magni t- t tude Lade of ot what It all means to fo th tha worM world rarely comes in mind nor do does any anyone one tta watching a. a train rain roll roli aJon along along- realize that I to bring down front from rota tho the mince only tho puro pure copper metal which time tile Nevada NAvada Consolidated Consolidated Con Con- has hall rna manufactured from the thc ore that has haG been c carried along th the tracks 13 of or f cud uch Fuch trains train composed of r 2820 2620 cars would bo ho required Assuming I I that the tho er a average c copper content of or nil all the th ore oro was 17 per cent the cent the average n for tor torI some years years and and that only the time pure copper coPI copper cop coP- I per pcr which the ore oro contained had hall b been en I hauled d down wn the tho canyon trains rondo made I up p of curs cars would have havo been required On this basis tho the amount of oC ore oro which h has been hauled through the tha city over the tho ore oreline line branch has bern been tons In n trains train made up of ot 23 31 cars says ss's as a's the Ely Expo Expositor Since production of or blister begun began at McGill n In in 1905 there thore has MS been produced I up lip to December 51 31 n. n 1913 f long 1 tons o of Ur 2240 20 pounds f each ach or pounds If U tho tim Nevada C Consolidated ted sold this metal at an average crage price of or 1 12 izi cents a n nJ J Ou poun pound i tho the company's Income front Ironi this source must mut have be been n while If 11 the tho price averaged 15 IS cents the receipts would have been the enormous sum of 35 I Assuming that the actual amount of ore oie produced pounds represents an average extraction of only 70 per cent the actual amount of copper contained in inthe the tho ore oro mined was pounds long lone tons or ordinary corn com commercial mercial tons The value of this metal if It could have havo been sold In the form of blister copper at cents a pound would be while at 15 cents a pound the metal would bo be worth Nevada Consolidated Is the second of the porphyry mines to be developed In Inthe the United States State the Utah Copper being r first while the Ray Miami and Climb t have been producers since 1911 It IB Is only teb years ago In 1904 1901 that tho porphyry bearing deposits deposit were found to bo be bot t Workable when development of Utah Cop Cop- the erection of time the big mills at was planned The big mill at ats s Garneld began handling Copper ore oro in 1907 and In the tha next year Nevada Con Con- 1 r hf 1907 j and up to the tho end of of last year car time tho total production of If copper by the porphyry mines la Is' laas as follows expressed In long longi i to tons 2240 pounds Nevada Year Utah Con j I jr 1507 07 t 1910 11 VV I t mi W. W f 1912 1 w k 5 v. v 22 I K nay n Con Con i Miami Total J TV J VJ JP rf i r.- r. 88 ir A V In Iii the tho production of the porphyry per por companies as hown above has been as follows I Nevada Consolidated Ray Consolidated Miami Miami's s Total Tott These will produce hi In pounds S during tile the year 1914 according to estimates esti- esti I mates Utah Copter Copper j Nevada Consolidated j Ray Consolidated e Miami I i I Total T |