The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1906-02-27

INTERVIEWED
Noted Mining Writer for
+. Eastern Papers Visits
verrineton Cope Field

Fitz-Mac, the Colorado mining writer,
who has just completed his third trip
In six mon rs yer all Nevada. arrived
in Reno yesterday from Yerington
u,.-, he went FOR the second time to
study the outlook for mining rush 10
that regior when the Walker River M
aian reservation is thrown open T. TO-
cations. which wi. be very soon
Asked by the Journal about the MIN
ing outlook down there. he said:
..Yerington-keep your eye on Yering-
ton.
TT is ing to BOOM
mAnd there are reasons why-gcod rea-
sons-the best of reasons. That's wnat
| want to tell you about. for yoa people
of Reno ought to know 1t - nsns
handy to your door and you ought 20
most yourselves so that when things are
doing down there you can take nand
and turn an honest dollar, and not let
| Colorado and Salt Lake and San Fran
| cisco take the cream OF the boom and
leave you only the skinned milk, as
they have done down in the new desert
camps. The chances there are going to
be big and you don't want to miss them.
Yo,: want to post yourselves and get
your hooks IN and do II in time
"Andu now is the timS.
1 s1<u
there-actual mountains. ] know what
am talking about. l have been over
them. l. have examined them. and
stand by what II say.
HAnd now if you people don't make
some of the millions that are going to
be made down there this summer 1t VII
be your own fault. for I'm telling yot
that Yerington is going to have big
wild, old-fashioned Nevada boom thi'
coming spring and summer. 1t has got
the stun for a boom-that's why.
i "Yerington.-never heard of it prob
ably?
"Of course not You never hear oi
anything In Nevada till outsiders have
swiped the cream.
J, "Yerington. as / said. is right at YOU
door That's the reason you havent
heard of it--heard of 1t. I mean, as
mining region. for of course you've al
ways known of Yerington. the principa
town of Mason Valley, famous for IT.
agricultural products and fine stock eve
since white men have lived in Nevada
and famous as an Indian hunting groun'
for two or three thousand years befor
any white man ever saw Nevada.
1.-THE early trappers and fur hunter
knew all about 1t for it was a grea
grass and water and wool country an,
therefore fine game country. Kit Car
son knew 1t by the bone.
There is game there still. at the up
per end of the valley but except waite
towel and fish 1t is scarce to what
used to be. The beavers. of course, wer
, all trapped long ago, and you never sc
an elk nowadays. and only an occasiona
bunch of deer as the snow drives ther
down from the Sierras to fnd feed /
the valley But water fowl and fish
Walker River and its branches and la
goons till you can't Standard quail, too
worse than anything.
But of course there's nothing bu
sport In all that-no money in it. TIL
money is in the minerals the copper
the lead. the iron and gold and silve
And say. take my word for 1t. ther
are mountains of mineral down there
mountains OF iron, mountains of coppe
). big veins of lead and silver and big an
rich veins Of gold.
II am not guessing nor gassing I al
talking about what 1 have seen. / a,
!. just hack from there.
!. You think just now that Manhatta
Is the only thing, don't you? Well. I
was the first newspaper man that ev,
I visited Manhattan (early last Angus
skd wrote # up and pronounced It