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Show mining news ELY DRILLERS ARE BACK FROM CHILI In November, 1D1, eight men went from Ely to South America undor contract with the Guggenheim Exploration Explor-ation companies in Chile, the Chile Inspiration Four of them have ie-turned ie-turned and the other four remained to continue in the employ of the ! company until after the heard the results of the election in this country The men who remained the Henry Grotber. Bob Nelson, Homer Garfield, and John Dixon Those returning were Tom McNees, who came back by wav of New Orleans some time ago; C. C. (Curlev) Anderson, J. W. Rowley and Thomas H Silllmon Jlc-nces Jlc-nces went to Arizona, Anderson to Oklahoma, Rowley and Silllman came to Lane City. The three men left Clrinuicamata. Chile, October 4 for Callao where thoy transforred to another vessel for Panama They reached New York October 2R and Silllman went to Pennsylvania and Rowley to West Virginia to visit relatives. They met again in accident in St. Louis and auied in Ely together Tuesday ee-nlng ee-nlng Where they were last engaged In churn drill work for the company tho ore bod-, comes right to the surface and contains much high grade One ho'e was r.'ink 500 feet before reaching reach-ing the bottom of the ore which then turn3 Into sulphides. The deposit Is half a mile wide and one of the drillers drill-ers traced It for a mMe and a half and states his belief Upt U is the greatest copper dcposlf iv the world In anothc- district where then- n-orl-i 1 the copper deposit is covied with wash and the wash is nil plnce". but as it contnlns much o'av the work of saving the gold is difficult On the boundary between Chile and Bolivia are silver mines of wonder- I f Jl richness, according to roports, but they are not being worked at present on account of International differences. differ-ences. The natives are a bad lot and cenerallv thev dislike Americans, as they still remember Fighting Bob Evans and the lesson he taught them, and this spirit of resentment is fos tered by English residents of the country, who arc almost as devoid of principle and mining knowledge as the natives. Carrying of firearms is prohibited, but tho natives all carrv a curved knife sharpened on both sides nnd aie ugly to deal with. The coun-trv coun-trv back fiom the coast is a desert, though in places where they have water wa-ter for irrigation fine fruit is raised and two crops of figs are gathered annually The men who hae eturned are satisfied sat-isfied with thoir one experience and much prefer their native land as a nlaco to earn their dallv bread, though their wages and expenpcs were paid from the time they left Ely until they got back home. Ely Expositor. |