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Show ACTIVITY GAINS j AT ELY MINES Reports From Nevada Camp Show Conditions to Be Prospering Favorable reports emanate from Ely on the condition of Nevada camp. Tho camp Is prospering, and the Immedlati outlook Is declared to be very bright. The new milling plant of the Nevada Ne-vada Consolidated Copper company at McQIll, Is being rapidly constructed. ; j un .Stptembcr i 5 two mills capable ol treating ttoo tons were completod, in .ii i ordam e with the company's schedule sched-ule Two more will b added, it Is i said every tsvo or three weeks until j ten units in all are Installed. j Soon after the first of the year, the n w mining plant win ha e capacity adequate lor the needs of thl COI1 -pan) As the demand for copper increases, in-creases, plans of the company are to increase tho capacity so that i5,oou I tons can be treated daily, ' According lo reports, more miners have recently been available for cm-ployment. cm-ployment. At present from 400 n 5oo j linen are working at Kuth and more i men are going to work .very day. It Is believed that companies Irom now on will be aide to secure tho numb.r j Of miners necessary to extend opera-j . tlons In keeping With present plans. : Kliiiberh., . where the i on ohd.i :,l Coppermincs company has resume 1 Operations, Is dally taking on new i life l atest reports tiom the Ely district dis-trict are to the effect that 10L' l..cn are on the payroll ot the Coppermine I company. Ch anlng out and r-.tlmbei- I ing ot the Minnesota shaft, not used for the last 12 years, has been started I in gallows liame I . r the new shift jwnicu is to be sunk on the Minnesota claim has b.-en installed In a days sinking operations will be lOl- Ider way. I The company Is evidently going to work on an extensive scale as new '.workings are opened up, the crew will haw to be Increased no that by the ! fir-t of January, It is expected that several hundred nun will be employed I at Kiml-rnv and that hy next spring the Consolidated Coppermlnea com- 1 pany will be op. rating as It was win n lit closed down more than two years ago . 1 Since that time the Nevada Consolidated Consoli-dated Copp.-r company bus discovered I ami dev eloped a large body of high grade dir.-cl sui King ol e In the Uuth jmine This oie body has been worked close to the line of the .Minnesota I claim, and It is confidently expected that the Coppermincs company will encounter thla high grade copper ore Iln the proposed workings In the Minnesota Min-nesota claim. As this discovery has opened up new and unexpected possibilities for both companies, developments will bo watched with Interest. |