Ogden Daily Standard | 1910-04-05 | Page 2 | New Record Made at Ely's Big Pit

NEW RECOiD MADE AI EIH BIG PIT Salt Lake, Aril . The record output of the Tevada Consolidated Copper company", pit at Copper Flat was made on dy last week, when the big (.hovels ,urned out and the railroad dellveret In the smelter at McfJIIl toniof ore. The great est output prevkus to this was 9,-ooo 9,-ooo tons. The ocrage for the past year has been In the neighborhood of 5,oio tons rw-r dT. This Is an Illutratlon of the manner man-ner In which theblg company is carrying car-rying on opcrattms, says the Expositor. Ex-positor. General Manager Lakeman spent Thursday p town, but though he did not dlsiuss the company's plans he expressed himself as well pleasod wlh tb? outptit and the manner In vhlch it was hauled. It Is belhved bat from now on the output Df tho mines will bo Increased In-creased Jufit as ripldly as the smelting smelt-ing facllltl are added to. The additional ad-ditional irnl: Is practically completed. Its completon wl'.l mean a substantial substan-tial Increas In the present force. The pay roll of the Nevada Consolidated, Con-solidated, a?led companies and Independent Inde-pendent eoiporatlons npw operating: at Ely for this month will be the greatest In the history of White Pine county ard y far the largest of ary city or camp In the stat of Nevada It estlmried that Ihe total pay roll will rea:h $350,000,