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W I-h I uj j ELI EL ELVi S BIG lf MINES TO TOi TOc i c I START PRODUCTION Unis Units of Mill Mi and Smelter t to toBe f Be Ready April Apri 1 an and May 1 t ENORMOUS WORK IS AHEAD t IS- IS Properties Equipped for Vigorous Vigor- Vigor ous Attack Atack on Immense Ore Bodies 5 itt Statement was ma made e yesterday b byk by k r Manager lanager of or Ke a Nevada a Consoli Consolidated Consol Consol- s dated datel Cumberland Cumberlan Ely and the Steptoe F ii Valley Smelting nn and Mining company that within a fe few feda da days s 's Nevada e ada Consoli Consolidated Consol t dated would pick up the work ork of or making male mak y In ing ready for regular production uton of or orI o I or ore for ur the or und and smelter smeller f Considered in tn the light of all al this f means the news Is Ig I the he best that has been given the tiLe district In many weeks f. f 4 s says 8 the White Pine Pino News It I does not apply to to Nevada ovada Consolidated alone S Cumberland Ely properties too will wil get nt at production along with those of Nevada Xe Consolidated The greatest meaning of all nl however el is 15 that Is-that that It I determines de tie- te- te the starting of or the first unit o of the concentrator and signifies that the bul builders ers of or the smelter see ee their ther r way aj clear to getting the tile first part of or that plant in operation within a corni comparatively com corn i ely short time The date now considered as ns altogether likely for starting of or the concentrator unit uni is the first of next month while It is expected expectS expect expect- S ed that on May Ia r 1 the smelter will be bein beIn bein in op operation raton i S Enormous work is ahead for fot- fot Nevada Consolidated lifetime work for or every everyman ery c 5 man associated with wIh the enterprise to to to- t tw r da day That That this Is true has hns been determined deter deter- determined eter- eter mined to mathematical certainty b by the engineers who have hc e given the property their care cale and thought Engineers who have recently ma made e close cose stud study of the thc properties of the company and given sl them careful final inspection before the of have beginning production expressed express express- ed tho highest st st. opinion of their value that has nt at any time been extended Equipment as well wel as ns mines has lias been found foun read ready tp tc answer answel all al calls and to tobe toI I be e the best type and placed In the best leSt manner for Cur ur the attainment of highest T results Is i tu i Fur tr ix r t York i. i Getting its Hs ores from rol the tho ground to the reduction plants has hns been prepared for b by Nevada Consolidated in as thoroughly thor thor- systematic emi complete manner man marner mar ner as any copper mine in the countr country has hns ever had advantage 0 of From tho thoun un underground oro ore bodies all al ore will wIl be hoisted to the surface through theS tho the tlC Star Pointer main working ng shaft This Thin Thi S shaft hat ha Tour our compartments of or splendId dId aid i construction and und equipped cd for the handling of ot enormous tonnage It I Is off the ore bod body ground having been ot chosen where there would be bc freedom dom from the many difficulties that a shaft shaf In lu the ore lire la Is I compelled to contend with of the caving and to enable operation system to the best a advantage vantage au and with with- I of or slightest danger of disturbance of the shan shaft shaf From a rum the i. i main shaft tramways run Into the various vari varl arious of the thc mine which have have ous throughout Ore electric lines strung Is isI workings In the cars In iii these put there hoisted hoisted hoist hoist- the shaft an and direct to shaf I lun 1011 un ed cd to the surface where It It is dumped which empty direct Into tho the ore bins Into tho the ore line Une cars The minimum gained while the caving cay cay- of or llan handling Ung Is is untrammeled b by proximity proxImity system lug ing which might suffer shaft shan of a n from irom moving o of the ground St Steam 3 els II d. d on un Surface CopS Cop'S Copper Cop Cop- the surface from tram the great J On Eureka mine of the Flat property S 'S per ler wonderful Consolidated has a Nevada S the tle of mining opera opera- Hold fold for cheapest time tho the Here in a n very short steam tons shovels lele will wl be lifting ton tori after stripped ground round the from rom ton tOi of ore line 5 into the tho oro ore direct lne t and dumping dumping In readiness and cars arc are I Shovels an f cars the surface the On I la hI tho the or ore and so o the thet t i oxidized but I Is considerably latter later have worked In pr preparing pre pre- i t lo lower cr down own they o ha the great body for or attack atack the paring have ha come in S. SS the i. i es t material there Is IS dt oxidized materm tere less the and l t r-t Immensity l' l of ur r this extent field feld of at of operations the tonnage ton ton- nn and the enormous bo be can i I t to be removed remo ed is s ua nage e there i through to a visit to the 1 realized only look toward where one ma may ground sunk tor to gound which was SUlk the tho Eureka shaft shaf hat the ore arc and then figure on OIl r demonstrate body Lody that lies Ues away awny from rein the the vast which arc of ot ties the railroad track tes the All this un under er be bedded de In iii solid sald ore 1 sunk will vill the Eureka Eurela was wil hill hUl on which shovel steam of the means o come cone out b by mens later be supplemented supple which v nun may possibly operations mente b by quarrying In Sight c Tono Tonnage i c t Approximate estimates estimate's estimates s made by various van vari ous engineers who 11 have examined the the the- 1 since Nevada Ne Consolidated of properties ot bring bring- in S ceased vary varr little development ev o of ore lug the the total the total tonnage This ore one out to around tons put io tj II T t t average nv race between 10 a and 15 i pounds higher l In cOI copper ler v contents Jn of or Utah Copper Production Production than the tile ore t tion an and re reduction expenses of ot Nevada ton Consolidated v. v will ill be no more than Consol Indeed it Is those o of Utah Copper In ee that these expenses ex ex- considered rel probable tnt r will fall below those of at Utah pensos wil tal latter reach S should tho Copper even later cn level that is la now being tho the 7 cent cont ol le per nt C realized striven for an and has been near the life Ufe of or this thin As ts to S b by the company company- property there can cali cn be no estimate this thin time and It will wi probably made thade nt at b Jadu n bodies before its ore be many years ears Ia extent sufficient filtered to have been beon f ha e calculation as to totne to enable enable an any near be beI which ma may of prosperity the years year I ed for |