The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-02-20
MINERAL IS NOT
IN SMALL LEDGES
Mountains of Mineral Exist i'm
BlueStOne Property at
YerringtOn, New.
WILL WITNESS BOOM
GREATER THAN ALL
Entire Walker Reservation is
Future Interest Point of
Copper Production.
Special 10 The Tribune.

Special 10 The Tribune
YERRINGTON, New, Feb l9-Nevada
is as certain as tho sun to become with
IN few years the greatest producer of
copper in the world There are two dis
iinct copper belts OF great magnitude
crossing the State from north to south.
one on tho east near the Utah border.
the other on the west near the California
line.
Centers Of Two Belts.
Ely is the center of development In the
eastern belt and Ely contains the great
est deposit OF copper on earth. Yerrlng-
ton, In the Walker River valley, twelve
miles south of Wabuska, on the railroad
from Reno TO Goldheld is the center of
development In the western belt All Ne
Nada Is booming, but Ely and Ycrring-
ton are marked I'm a special degree for
great booms the coming spring and sum
mer-booms that Will stick and populate
the State, for they both have great de-
poslts OF copper that cannot be exhaust
cd In generations
Ely Copper Low Grade.
The body OF ore at Ely Is stupendous-
Incredibly stupendous-but IL is low grade
and can only be operated by the employ
ment or very large capital. Ely, there
ferrington the ore bodies though large
do not lie In one body as at Ely and
tneTefore. cannot so easily enlist large
grade or the ore is about three times as
nigh MS at Elv. and the development
therefore. does not require so large capt.
tuL II is more OF poor mans camp,
The country surrounding this town OF
lcrrlngton alone contains copper enough
10 make Nevada a great copper State.
and Yerrineton Is only one point-the
point or greatest present deyelopment-on
the western copper belt
The Walker River Valley.
Keep your eye on Yerrinston; IL Ia 60
ing 10 boom il IL going to boom with a
boom that will make noise In the whole
country. For IT has got the stun. 1t Is
rich In copper and the bodies are large
and the grade Is high, and II is only
twelve miles from the railroad and has
limltless supply OF water In the Walker
river which has It's source In the eternal |
SHOWS of the Sierras. Besides this, lt has |
finc climate and an altitude in the val |
ley. only little exceeding 900 feet. and |
gentle slopes and the mines can all he |
reached by wagon. Those are great ad-
vantases.
Resources Are Great.
There Is wood, too, in plenty but only |
at the southern end of the valley which |
runs north,south and is about sixty miles |
long by eight TO ten wide and rs traversed |
throughout by the Walker river, a con- !
slant and Soluminous stream one of the |
largest In Nevada and well stocked with
alive with waterfowl The valley is also
so much the haunt of quail on account
OF Its grains: that under the Nevada law
The Walker River valley They may be
shot all the year round-such a nuisance
to t farmers. II is the finest agricultural
valley In the State. and the river Is lined
with fine farms and the farms are
stocked with hne grade horses and cattle
At the southern end. which is higher and
wooded and we'll graescd deer stIl
abound. though the region is no longer
alive with them In earlier days I,iy-
ing ie, OF course cheap I'm such an agri-
cultural valley: and 1t is a vertabe pros
pector's paradise
The Prospector's Paradise.
The valley lies west OF the Walker
River range and east of the Valley |
range. The Walker River range has long
been known 10 be richly mIneralizcd
with copper, gold and silver, but it is at
present covered by the Walker River In
dian reservation and. OF course, not open
to mineral locations. The Government
however. is now allotting agricultural
own petition, around the head Of Walker
lake, and when this is completed (Which
VIII be In oieht to ten weeks) the range
Will be thrown open to prospectors. Then
watch out for
The Rush to Yerrington.
AS the center OF present mining deyeI-
lpment and the only supply point for aIl
mis- region. tho town is sure TO have r.
Wild boom as soon as the reservation Ia
thrown open and prospectors given go
II the Walker range Is very stcep and
'ugged, but on the west It slopes off GEN
ny into tho Walker River valley and Is
many ccnters of exhausted volcanic nc
ivlty, The eruptives are the ancient
liorltes and their related rocks cut or
'oIlowed along their shrinkage planes and
llong their fault planes By recent ande-
,ites and rhyoites, with here and there
llkes OF phonolite In many places down
'r qunrtzites of the Cambrian or sIIurI-
IN series and the indications of copper
ire numerous
Rich in Many Minerals.
But the Walker river region is not sim
'y a copper country. II Is rich In gold.
Monte. at the head OF tho valley, were in
heir day among the biggest gold mincs
Nevada hae ever developed and they |
,roanced millions Many smaller gold
mines, and at least one placer on the
Walker range, were worked i'm n small
voy In the early days with very promis-
ng results but when the Comstock no
u Nevada 10 Virginia City and absorbed
III the hopes and energies OF the State
ne nts9 were ab2ndoned. SO that when in
$40 President Hayes established the In
IAN reservation by executive proclannn- ,
Ion thcrc WINS no ono to object To the
reiusion of these abandoned mining
lalms. For several late years como Itoi
an miners at the south end of the range
ave mado big money. and one at least
las grown wealthy by eneakng into the
escrvation and clnndcstinely working ]
hose old gold mines with only n nick
nd shovel. recovering the gold In n hand
nortnr not daring TO use powder or al
cmpt to pack out the ore lest they [
heuld be discovered and elected by the l
indian police. The Indian agent has In {
net, repeatedly elected them but they n
neak back and get In their work as soon II
s he returns to the agency. sixty miles n
way. " a
The Whole Region Rich. I
The minerals of the Walker river co,p- Y
~ are not. however. by any means lin
led TO the reservation. They nre found q
very yWherc and the whole region Is ono | =
I the finest prospectIng fields In Nc | Y