Salt Lake Telegram | 1911-06-26 | Page 10 | Giroux Con. Soon to Ship Ores to Tooele Smelter

a, GIROUl CON. SOON 10 SHIP-ORES 10 . TOOELE SHELTER reconfirmed reports are to the effect that Olroux Consolidated Mining company has aompletari arrangement for the ehlp-ment ehlp-ment of Its lilrflter grade copper ores to the Tooele srielter. The rout, selected for forwarding the oree from the mine near Ely to the furnaces near Tooele Is said to include the Nevada Northern railroad rail-road to Shatter and the Western Pacific from thst point to Garfield. A eery favorable fa-vorable haulage contract has been made with three roads, according to accounts, which waa made possible by an under-e'sndlng under-e'sndlng which was reached by the Olroux with the Nevada Northern early In the year. ft la planned to ehlp, from 100 to 600 tons of the higher grade copper ore from tha Olrous properties at the outset. This ore cornea from tho old Alpha workings, where it Is said the ore averagea aa much as 1? per cent copper for aome distance. This will not Interfere with mill eoneiruc-llon eoneiruc-llon later on for the treatment of the lawer grade ores, but the coneantretee mill he shipped with tha high grade when milling Is Inaugurated. Boms Idea of whet has been done uf recent dste In the way of equipment at the Olroux Is given In tl.s following from the Klv Record: "developments at the Glroux have been . rowdlr.g along rapidly during the pant tar, weeks, and It Is now f xpected that . within a very frw days the 1300-foot crosscut will reach tho old worklnga 01 the Alpha, when the blocking out of new bodies will be commenced. At the same time drifts will be started to ths east and the west along the course of the newly discovered vein to the south of the Alpha shsft. which promises even better then the Alpha workings, shipments from which averaged hettter than 11 psr uent In copper content by carload lota, Realising Real-ising that the ahlpnlng period haa arrived In the history of the property, the pocket In th niroux shsft below ths 1200 level Is being cleaned out and prepared to receive th or aa It come from the new workings. work-ings. It will hold several hundred tone and when It la nlled the or will be hoisted hoist-ed to the surface and dumped directly Into cars for shipment tn the smelter at Tooele. Too-ele. Th. railroad track to th Olroux haft haa not vet been laid, but the grading grad-ing la flnlehed. and tha steel can pe mm within a few daya when needed. Croaa-cut Croaa-cut on tha 1100 la progreeelng rapidly, and traveling at th rate of five feet per dav. It haa now reached a distance of 410 feet from the Olroux shsft. and Is expected to etrlks the new ore body within with-in 200 feet. when work on the ore will also he commenced on that level. The water la the Alpha shsft haa been drained ' awav. bnt the worklnga are atlll making 4W gallons per minute. It is probable that shipments will he commenced from the i;oo-foot level within a few weeks. According to shinmente previously made from the old worklnga of the Alpha, the ore will have a m value of about 11000 bar carload of fifty tonat- ,