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Show ELY'S 3!5 "MJ)m WI IS BN PULL SWING WITH LARGE CROWD PRESENT In the mean tine fhsre kad bsen effected the coniolidstion sf the New York and Ne-rsda Ne-rsda and the White Pine properties msder the name of the Xerads Coaeolidated Coppr com. pany. At Copper Flat w had not been idle and the Manage developed at Rath is more than equaled by the tremendous body ef ore at the Flat, whote limit have not yet been denned. I think yoa will an.ee with me that ws were Juitifled in tatpending derelopment work whea I say iht there it dereloped at Copper 1 1st and at Rath ore tuffleient to sop- . ply this redaction plant for at least ten years, with - the largest part of onr ground still Bnprospected, but giving erery evidence of eoataining or similar to that we have already al-ready dereloped. It wtt to meet this situation situa-tion and afford means for working this ore thtt the Nevada Northern railwty wet built. The railway was started in September of last year and built at yon know, through a country ' singularly adapted te railway construction con-struction over which our maximum grtde it but sevea-teathe of 1- per cent. Of eng ineer-lag ineer-lag difficulties we have had none, although the unprecedented severity of last winter rendered ren-dered it necessary to suspend operations tor a eooslderable period. Ws have today completed the line into Ely, and will soon hsve it completed to the smelter smel-ter site and te the mines,; and-ere another year rolls around ws hops to see completed the reduction plant with capacity of 5000 tone of ore per day. Our work hts just begun; we have linked this remote' territory to the outside world by beads of steel, sod have made possible rapid and economical transportation of passengers, supplies and ore. Without this the rest would be of ao avail, but with it I can tee In the years to come a population of thousands, with nappy and contented home: not nomadic like . the inhabitants of so many mining eampa, but more akia to the population .of agricultural agricul-tural and manufacturing towns, content with the knowledge that their meant of livelihood will continue beyond their dty and generation, genera-tion, and it I can imprest upon you that the life of this mining camp will not be ephemeral I believe I shall have done you and the die- , triet a good turn. j It it not the fortune of many men to tee a large city grow in the wilderness, and to have a part in that growth, and I am deeply conseiuut of the responsibilities that rest upon up-on the thouldert of whomsoever may be representing rep-resenting this railway and. mining company. There will be many problems that cannot be lightly tettled, and it cannot be hoped that we will at all times please everyone. My endeavor, however, while I remain among you, will be to aee that the. public ia aocorded courteous, prompt and eatisfactory service, that our employeei receive ia full measure just and fair recognition, that their advancement advance-ment depend upon merit and not upon favoritism. fa-voritism. I hope to tee worked out later a , mutual aid association ia which both the company com-pany aad the employees shall have a voice to the end that our life here may hare many bright spots that might otherwise be lacking. Ia return I expect from the public and our employees no lese than what we give, reason-sble reason-sble and just treatment and a spirit of loyalty loyal-ty that cannot be destroyed by idle gossip ' and malicious mischief-makers. j Special to Tie Telegram.) ELY, NT Sept. 29. Bailroad day it ia full swing and Ely ii in gala at-lira at-lira for tha throng of -visitors here tf oalebrata the advent of the Nevada k Northers into thia future great copper ejjnp. " The two - sections - of the excursion train from Salt Lake arrived shortly before noon and the 00 visitors were given a royal reception. This afternoon the program, as heretofore here-tofore outlined, is being carried out. General Manager M. L. Eequa is the host of the occasion and is doing all in his power to make the visitors have a good time. . Mr. fiequa was the principal speaker this siternocn. Mr. Reeua speke on the topic, "How end Why the Nevada Northern Railway Was Built" He said: The buildiae of the Nevada Northern railway, rail-way, coupled, with the experience of the past twenty years in the capper mining campt of the West, has solved problem that hat been confronting the Robinson mining district ever since the first prospector drove his pick into iU ooppet-lsden rocks. A railway into this district would have been a failure in the days when Eureka waa pouring Itt stream ef lead into the markets of the world, and Virginia City its far mightier might-ier tream of gold and silver into the channels chan-nels of trade. Ores that today present no difficulties from a metallurgical standpoint, twenty yesrt ago wars absolutely valueless. The conditions of today have been brought about by the -experience that haa been gained from the eper-ationa eper-ationa In the great copper campe of the West duriag the past decade, from Butts to Bisbee. aad from Utah to California. Had the problem prob-lem that was presented to me on my first visit to this district been presented teneye, vea flva years previous, itt solution would have beea considered hopeless ia fsct, I may tay that the problems surrounding the working of these very low grade oree-hsve only beea worked oat satisfactorily within the last two years, aad it is due to the Bingham Bing-ham district of Utah more than to' any other that we have today absolute data baaed upon actual work rather than empirical estimates a The metallurgy of the- high-grade gold and silver ores was aaeceasfully worked out upon the Comttock, and the amelting cf lead ores a Eureka, bnt for the metallurgy of copper we must first of all turn to Montane, where the high-grade ores of Butte permitted expensive ex-pensive experimenting, the results of which have revolutionised the copper industry ef the world. From Montana to Ariiona, through the camps ef Bisbee, Clifton, Morenei and Globe; also at Grsnby, in Bntith Columbia, aad at Bingham, all with their varying problems, prob-lems, both of local environment and different miaeralogieal conditions, the metallurgy of copper has beea worked out from the high-grade high-grade smelting ore, both oxide end sulphide, to the leaa concentrating ores that ere characteristic char-acteristic of the Ely district, and that are found ia identical occurrences ia" Bingham and the CUfton-Momrerdlf triet ot Ariiona. fortunate. Indeed, has it beea for the West that the greet deposits of high-grade ore existed ex-isted which permitted not only a profit with what now appears to have been the crudest of metallurgical appliances, but also permit-. Vd of extensive experiments, which in their sequence have made possible the profitable exploitation of these low-grade bodies, which bid fair ia ultimate production to exceed the production of the high-grade districts. Few people realise the evolution that hss been taking place in the copper industry of the West during the paet two or three years. The low-grade porphyry deposits which are being exploited in the Bingham district and in the Ely district, have come to be looked upon at the future aource of the great copper output of the West, and owing to their enormout tonnage, it ia possible to forecast their production pro-duction at continuing far beyond the life of the present generation. It would be the height of folly to ssy thst the methods of handling these ores hat been perfected. We are todty confronted at the first step of our process with a lott of from 15 to 20 per cent cf our total valuta, which it carried away in the tailings from our con- centratort. I know of do field to promising for the j winning of a large fortune in the mining line et the. perfecting of some method whereby where-by the lost ia concentration may be eliminated, elimi-nated, or at leatt largely reduced. The smelting processes sre much nearer perfection, perfec-tion, but with all that, it is safe to ssy that the plant that ws era going to erect for the treatment of these ores will within ten yeert be obsolete. Ia ftct. I believe that we will within ire yeara aee changea that will materially ma-terially alter our process in some of its most vital points. We sre, however, building here st this time the very best plant that the combined knowledge of modern copper metallurgy metal-lurgy is capable of producing, and I can say without fear of contradiction thst whea finished fin-ished end ia operstioa, It will be the moat modern end economical copper reduction plant in the world. The task of bringing this undertaking to tnceettful fruition hat not been an easy one. On my first visit I tew only the eignt of repeated failures; the efforts thst had beea made to wring profits from the rocks bad beea without success, and my first day's inspection in-spection convinced me that if there was to be success, it must be slong lines rsdicslly different from those that had already been tried. After a week't study the problem had rotolvod itself to a very simple one, save for the unknown factor tDat must be supplied in order to make the problem susceptible of solution. so-lution. I saw before me a mineralised tone wherein the qnestion of tonnage had even at thai time to wy mind beea entirely elimi-nsd. elimi-nsd. The nnkaown ce-efflcient for which I was searching could only be determined by eyctensiTS deyelopment werk: that co-effleient e-as the avenge copper eoatent of the per-yhyrv per-yhyrv in large ssasses. I had seen upon the surface streaks cf high-grade ore that in themselves were interesting, bnt which did riot bold forth prospects of a tonsge sufficiently sufficient-ly large to justify the expenditure that I knew must be made in order to pat the copper cop-per into marketable form. I saw in those early days that the only hope for this district dis-trict was in developing sonnsge of such mag-ritud mag-ritud and value as would justify the building build-ing ef a railroad from the Southern Psciflo. This meant the building of a line approximately approxi-mately 150 miles long, to justify the building ef which would require the development of millious of tons ef copper-bearing ore. I had crawled down the Kuth mine SCO feet on the incline and aeen forty feet of a crosscut thst averaged approximately S per cent, with apparently no end in either direction. I had sen this same porphyry upon the surface leached of it copper vsluet, extending for hundreds of feet in width, and I knew thst underground development would reveal enormous enor-mous masses of this material, bat I did not know whet the copper content of it would be. It ws. therefore, necessary erst, to develop Ibis ore and determine its vslue not only sufficiently to justify the building of s railway, rail-way, bnt sufficient io quantity to justify the building of an enormous reduction plant, because be-cause profits could not be hoped for unless the ore wss hsndled by the thousands of tons per day. Over a period of two years this prospecting work was carried on until a large tonnage of ore was developed.. Even then the railwty was not justified, because there was no certainty as to what could be done with the ore ia concentration. Te determine this faetor a small experimental mill was built at the Ruth mine, which was operated during a period of three months and most exhaustive tests and determinations made. The entire mina in fact waa sampled by meant of this mill ; . results compared, tabulated and carefully care-fully scrutinized. That these retail were satisfactory it proven by the building of the Nevsda .Vortuern railway, which wss undertaken under-taken immediately after these mill tests were completed. |