| Show WILLIAMS COMMENTS ON THE CAMP OF ELY Declares Strike at Boston Doston and amI Ef Proves DIstrict to lie bo Similar to hut Is Found at In commenting on the recent ore find in the S Herbert WIl hums who introduced this property In Boston and who has JUt just returned from n a vIsit to the mino tates that the ore find In the shaft of the DO Bos DOton Boston ton El Ely MIning company be besIdes sIdes aides beIng of at great Importance to that company has created more mere t In the camp Ulan than anything sInce the opening of oC tIme the Nevada Con says alls the tho Boston Doston Financial News The Tho bottom of at the shaft at the level showed 14 feet teet ot of ore which averages from 2 per cent to 2 Jj per l cent copper contain containInG containing InG gold gohl earl and values alues amounting to 2 per ton rhe he precious metal values alone will IJ pay Y the cost of oC min minIng lag Ing and the tho ore beIng a hea heavy can be sent direct to the being concentrated the level Icel whore the ore was reached Is s estimated to bo be about Ido feet above the water level und and when hen that point Is reached It Is ex cx that the percentage of copper will b Yeo much larger probably twice as high The ore are strIke apparently proves the Boston Doston Ely property beyond an any doubt but aside from that fact It Is 13 ot of great Interest In a gen general ral wn way Time enormous deposits in the Dingham district where the Utah and Boston Consolidated aro contain time the same porphyry r ns as those In time tho EI Ely camp but outside of the porphyry are found the tho sUlphide ores The Tho strike In time the Boston Ely shaft that there arc of oC great reat mines to be opened outside the por porphyry In time the limestone deposit lt The ot of this fact adds Im immensely to the tho value ot of the camp campIt It also the value ot of prop property ert erty situated In close proximity to porphyry En Enterprises opening up limestone claims must be prepared to turn furnish Ish both ample cash and patience Shaft sInk sInkInG sinking InG through hard limestone Is slow and I expensIve A close study of the e t dIstrict during rl the past s by arm I able geologIst develops met lac LULL thero thelo Is an enormous quantity ot of porphyry In EI Ely that will prove un This accounts for tor the nurn num numerous erous results obtained on of prominence A statement to the effect that development may prove proe time the heavy ore bodies to tobe tobe be equally Important with the por porphyry may be critIcIzed and yet ot It Is quite possible The large commercial ore bodies ot of porphyry are arc thought to tobe tobe be quito well defined but the sulphide deposits are an unknown quantity i Tho Fhe question of water always pro pre presents prosanto santo itself to those unfamiliar with I the district Up to the tho present nothing i has been heard of oC anY In Inthis inthis i this direction By a system of shallow shafts the Steptoe smelter has increased ed cd its water supply h by 42 per cent Mr 11 T F Cole was the tho first Important min minInG mm InG operator to impressed be wIth the tho proSpects of oC finding copper ore Ole In the tho limestone and backing his own con convictions convictions purchased ed large groups or of claims adjoining or near the Giroux Copper company compan It Is reasonably sure that time the ColeRan Interests will erect a custom smelter this with railway wl vili place Ely In the posItIon of being the most desirable mining dis distrIct district In the United States |
