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Show ELY AND BINGHAM MINES DOING WORK. Salt Lake City, June 21. E. N. Skinner, Skin-ner, the mining engineer of Trippe, Thompson & Co., returned this week from a 2ft.000-ir.lle trip covering a period pe-riod of three months and embracing the examination of some of the largest larg-est mines in the United States, Canada Can-ada and Mexico. Mr. Skinner, during this trip, visited more than 150 properties, prop-erties, representing almost every large copper producing enterprise In the western United States. With one or two exceptions he noticed eeveral improvements im-provements at all the camps, particularly particu-larly so at the so-called low-grade porphyry mines, which have recently become Immensely popular. Beginning In Arizona Mr. Skinner went through all the big camps, spending spend-ing some tlrnt? looking oer the properties prop-erties at Globe, Miami, Ray and Bis-bee. Bis-bee. Speaking of come of the changes, in an interview, he said: "The Steptoe smelter at Eureka continues its splendid work. There are at present three units in operation, two of which are working on Nevada Consolidated ores and the third on Cumberland Ely. The fourth unit, which Is to be assigned to tho Nevada Ne-vada Consolidated, Is now building and should be completed in July of this year. Each unit is now treating on the average of l,40fttons a day. Tho Nevada Consolidated is taking Its oro entirely from the Copper Flat ore body, where four steam shovels aro In operation. The property was producing produc-ing fcllghtly moro than 3.000,000 pounds of copper a month, at a cost of between be-tween C and S cents a pound." |