Show ORES OLES ARE BEING MINED AND MillED NEAR nv ELY E. E L. L Fletcher who has devoted several several sev- sev everal eral ye years rs to developing developing- tungsten properties prop prop- crUes in Nevada is now preparing the fi finished finished shed product for tho market Mi Mr Fletcher is general manager of the company and associated with him is Oscar A. A Turner the well known mining min mm- ing operator A model milling plant has been been erected on the pro property erty mid arid a de- de of tho mine and the new plant has been prepared by an engineer as follows Concentration of low grade tungsten ores into a high grade product that will wills average 60 per cent acid or betI better better bet bet- s I ter is now in progress at the new mill of the United States Tungsten corporation corporation corporation corpora corpora- tion at al the Hub near the base of Mt Wheeler forty five miles from Ely A reduction in freight rates on the concentrates concentrates concen- concen I which are to be shipped from Ely to New York has been secured and the first of the mill product will be forwarded forwarded for for- warded to the company's selling agency within a short time The crude ore carries carries carries car car- ries from 1 to 50 per cent of the acid and is worth about 8 8 a unit A large amount of it is in sight in the main ledge where the principal and only productive productive productive pro pro- work is being prosecuted by the company at present This led lede e crops frequently along the surface for a lon long distance up the hill and shoW sho better ore at the highest elevations with in indications indica lions Hons of continuing far Into the mountain mountain moun moun- tam tain under the quartzite which forms tho tim t capping of the Snake range e near there e This ledge is opened by a number of short tunnels two of which are being heim pushed ahead with one shift each There are several shafts sunk along alon the ledge a also lO On the high ridge south cf Gf the main mainone one a crosscut tunnel has been driven from the north side to tap the e e y that appears to form tho the backbone of the formation of the Side Issue claim This tunnel has cut one ledge at a depth of feet and connection has been made with a a. shaft that was sunk on a good ore shoot from which production can be commenced at any time the ore is wanted In the mill Indications in the face of the tunnel a few days davs ago pointed to the near approach to the ledge alon along which great depth c can n be obtained by driving to the east into the mountain To the north of the main rid ridge e are others where shallow prospecting has disclosed disclosed dis dis- closed the presence of ledges valuable for their tungsten ores which are found as and sch scheelite eUte No development development development devel devel- work is being done on them at present In addition to the ledge opened on the main ridge on the company's group there are apparently parallel ledges near it that have not been opened ex except except ex- ex on the surface and the strike of all aU the ledges indicates that they radiate fr frOm m a common point under the quartzite quartz Quartz- ite Ito to the east where when more ex extensive extensive ex- ex work worle is done better ore bodies are expected to be found The mill has a capacity of handling about tons of crude ore a day andIs andIs and andIs Is equipped with crusher coarse and fine grinding inding rolls jigs s Wilfley Witney tables and Isbell a all the most approved approved approved ap ap- ap- ap proved patterns of concentrating machinery machinery machinery ma ma ma- chinery that have been found to work successfully elsewhere Water for operating the mill milI Dart of of the time and for concentration Is furnished furnished furnished fur fur- from Williams creek b by means of j a a ditch about feet feet- long It enters a pipe line at an elevation of GOO feet higher than the mill on the crest of the Side Issue ridge Other water is obtained ine from springs a short distance north of the mill which furnish dent water dent for concentrating A steam plant of two Erie boilers boners is also in installed installed in- in stalled at the portal of the main tunnel to to- operate the compressor and furnish rower power to the null mill when the water Is not a available for that purpose The ore from I. I the tunnel directly to the top of the bins in the mill milt Tent Twenty men are employed at present in and around the till mines and mill mm Commodious bunkhouses and boarding houses a store building blacksmith shop and nd other buildings have been erected near the mill which is located about three mi miles s distant and at an elevation of 1600 feet above the level of the eastern eastern east east- em ern ed edge e of or Spring valley The summit of Snake e range rane is about one mile east or of the mill mm but nearly one mile mite hi higher her elevation though h the main peak of Wheeler is to the north of that point t |