The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-25
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Local Operator Discusses Copper
Country and Reservation
Opening.

From all obtainable information the
next great copper boom is going to be
In the Yerington district, Lyon county,
Nevada There is more Utah capital in
mat country than there is in Ely, prob
emphatic declaration that every condition
is In favor of the Lyon county region
=. ID. Rooklidge and Joseph E. Game
the head men in the Yerington Copper
company and the Wheeler Gold Mining
company, returned from camp Tuesday
night highly pleased with the manner in
winch both propositions are rounding into
form and each enthusiastic over the
prospects of the entire country. At the
Wheeler, Mr.. Rooklidge stated during the
day, the foundations for the new mill
ing plant are all in place and the cree
NOE or the buildings has commenced
Mucn or the material and equipment is
or the ground and, with any kind of
luck at all, the plant will be turning
out gold bullion by the end of the year.
About Reservation Opening.
"A great deal of interest is being taken
In the opening of the Walker River In
dian reservation on Monday next said
Mr.. Rooklidge but do not believe there
Is going to be any trouble. All kinds
Of stories ore afloat and not a few Will
go into the country prepared for trou-
pie, or rather prepared to defend them
selves against mischief makers. The
country, however, Is so extensive that
AFTER a week has passed. the 1000 or 5000
proSpectors and others who go in there
seeking bonanzas will be completely swal-
lowed up and lost. As near as l can
learn there are two or three big mineral
belts running through the country and,
as they are several miles apart and on
different sides Of the mountains it is
hardIy nkely that there will be any mass
ing OF humanity until the prospectors
nave had time to size the country up
and get their bearings. I have no doubt
that there are men who know just where
TO go TO find mineral. 1t could hardly
be otherwise N a country, where the In
dams are anything but unfriendly with
the whites. 1t is also probable that this
knowledge Is going to be taken advan-
prevented. At noon on Monday the res
ervation will become a part of the pub
nc domain, and everybody will have
right TO be on the ground If someone
has INDUCED in sharp practice to get
there ahead Of his fellows, and it can
BE- proven on him, he will likely be made
to suffer for it, but you can just bet
every penny you have got that there
will be men there ready to take the
chance.
Three Mineral Belts.
Il believe that there is lots of good
mineral ground on the reservation, but
IN most instances it is going to require
work and time TO locate and prove it up
Just as ii does in any new district fol-
lowing original discoveries. There is re-
puted to be a fine gold belt a copper
AOllS diu SllNer-IeaG producing area In
the reservation that will result in the
opening of two or three news towns and.
bordering as ii does, the rich district ad-
Joining and on the opposite side of the
Yerington valley where all the big cop
per mines and gold mines have been
found, the new country is apt to turn
out Well as it ought to do"
Mr. RooklidSe says that all of the large
operating companies iii the Yerington
copper district are working with a will
and great deal of rich ore is being
shipped. Everything is moving in way
that insureS big doings in the future and
with a fertile valley to draw upon and
great streams and lakes of water at the
disposal of the miners, farmers and ranch
men, there is nothing lacking to make
the country the most productive of cop
per and gold during the next few years
there is in the entire state of Nevada
Mr.. Rooldidge made trips into several
camps during his absence and would not
have been back yet only for the dis
Quieting reports that reached him con-
corning what had happened during the
terrific wind storm OF Saturday and Sun
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