Show GREAT ACTIVITY AT ELY Sr SMELTER ELTER SITE Buildings Springing Up and Excavations Excavations Excavations Ex Ex- Ex- Ex for Great Plant Rushed C COMPARED WITH WASHOE Will Bo no r L' Larger el Than One Which lias lins Produced Over O 10 J Per cr Cent of ot Worlds World's Supply Ely Kly Nov cv Nov O G. G There G.-There There Is great activity at the smelter site at One hun hundred and Ot fifty men are on the pa pay roll roil an and 1 buildings are arp springing Ui ip anti and excavation for fOl the big plant plants plantis Is s being ru rushed The Time company Is fM installing in- in tailing stalling a water vater pipe line from rom Duck creek reek to the site and will In that way convey onvey water atel Into every building of the he commissary There will also be Installed In- In stalled 1 an lI light ht electric plant Mr 11 Hu the commissary ar contractor nt at t the site Is erecting buildings sanitary saul saul- tary ary In eVer every particular as fast ast as umber lumber can be secured 1 and at present presents is s fcc feeding the new town anti and everyne everyone everyone every- every one ne In iii It Jt with satisfaction to all aU con- con 1 Sonic Some Idea JeLl of what whatEly's Elys Ely's new now smelter tN ter er will be hi can be gained by a com com- parl arlson on with tIme the great Washoe smelter melt r which was ym built tit at a n. cost CIst of or he fhe The Ely 1 I will ill cost an and nd 1 will vili be larger anti and arranged 1 according according ac- ac cording to the most advanced ad Ideas kicas of f the science of oC smelting The Time Washoe plant lant employs 2337 men mOil in the works and nd 3 G in Auxiliary industries Elys Ely's melt l' l uSe beCI of its greater size will e employ j ioro men n tJ t II f c J I Ve C Last year fal the Washoe Choe smelter f produced pro- pro duc d ten CU antI and a 0 half hal per cent of the orl worlds world's supply of copper and anti 20 O pc per percent r cent ent of the production pro of the United States Tho The smelter receives an average aver aver- age ge of oC tons o of ore a 1 day 1 a or bout about 2000 tons less than the Ely nelter r will handle This ore oro comes from flom om tho the mines of oC the Anaconda Parrot Parrot Par- Par rot ot Trenton Washoe Butte Butlo Boston North Butte nutte Ea East t Butte Bulte Red fled Metals and nd Pittsburg Montana anti and as about bout 80 Sti per cent o of this ore carries less ess than G C per cent copper It is sent sont sento to o the tho concentrators In less than three and a half halt years he tho smelter has treated ore valued at nt This will give gie some hint of f what the tho EI Ely smelter will do 10 During the three and a halt half years the ic total co cost t of ur operating the smelter smeller was vas of which was vas spent for Cor labor ri for coal oal for fOI coke 7 for or lime Ime rock use used 1 In smelting for or machinery for or lumber and nd U. U for railroad rates rate Tho The Washoe smelter is it about twenty miles from Butte Butto anti and a nourishing city of or inhabitants Anaconda Anacon has grown up around It As the I Ely I smelter will disburse as aN much or ClI more it Will support a population as large arge or larger |