Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1906-11-24
The PROSPECTS.

peCtS were brighter HOI DuSlHcSS
better in all sections of the old
State, and Mason Valley and Yer
ington are not to be excepted in
this statement. Every branch of
business being carried on in our
little town is proving veritable
mint to the conductors of business
houses, saloons, hotels, blacksmith
shops, etc. The mining industry
in this immediate vicinity and fur
ther south has brought this won
derful increase of business; and
this industry is only in its infancy
in this district.
1t is true that our district has
received but little advertising on
the outside. Few of the State pa
pers have had anything to say
about our resources and pros poets,
but some of the Salt Lake papers
have given the camp and its sur
rounding properties very favor
able mention This is because
many Salt Lake people are becom-
ing interested in copper properties
in this neighborhood. They know
good thing in red metal ore
when they see it, and have COB
bled up about all there is in sight
here.
With the opening of the Reser-
walton another large tract of min
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the prospector, and already reports
of discoveries of valuable lodges
of gold, copper, silver, galena, etc,
are coming in. The Reservation
ground is great field, and it will
take years to thoroughly prospect
it. The big rush is over, but pros
pectors and mining men are conf
ing in all the time, and more dis
coveries are being made daily.
Many of them are going to prove
bonanzas and make their owners
rich, while some, of course, will not
amount to much.
Mason Valley is admirably stu
ated to furnish all the new camps
to the east and those TO the west
with all kinds of produce at rea-
sonable figures. We have one of
the finest valleys on the Pacific
Coast and can raise the finest kind
of products and in greater guam
tity than any other section. Land
in Mason Valley will double in
price within the next three years.
1t is more than likely that a rail
road will run through our valley
before another year rolls around,
and this will give land owners a
chance to ship their products to
southern camps, provided, they
have surplus after furnishing the
home market.
With all these prospects in view
what are we doing to make town
that will be credit to the new
condition of thingsl The town
needs many things which those
who live here would like to furnish
if they had the means, ana which
those who have the means do not
seem disposed to furnish. There
are splendid opportunities here
for the investment of capital in
almost any line. Soon the outside
people will become aware of these
conditions, and if there is not a
move by our people TO make Yer
ington THE town of this valley
there will spring up another town,
which, if it does not materially in
jure business propositions here,
will divide the business and make
two insignificant towns, where one
good, central point ought to be es-
tablished. The people can remedy
matters much by getting together
and working in unity for the up
building of Yerington. Other
towns have grown to be cities
from a smaller nucleus than Yer
ington has. They have advertised
their resources at home and abroad,
and none of them have had as good
a foundation to work upon as have
the people of this community.
The TIMES is trying to present the
advantages of this section to the
outside world. The paper cannot
do it all. 1t must have better sup