The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-11-25
F|Tz-MAC VISITS
YER|NGTON MINES
1ntrOducer of District Takes
Second Look at Proper
ties of Camp.
HOW UTAH MINING
MEN SECURED GROUPS
Salt Lakers Took Seriously
Enormous Resources of
This Rich District.
Special to The Tribune.

Speclal 10 Inc Irtbune-
RENO. New, Nov. 24-Reno is des-
tined TO become, in the not distant fu-
ture, the geogra phical and financial ceu-
ter of one of the worlds greatest cop
per fields. But the mining men OF
Reno have recently missed one of the
biggest chances that ever came to
Western town-such chance as comes
TO men or towns only once in gener~
ation-in letting everything at Yering
ton get away from them. Salt Lake
has gobbled the whole camp, with the
exception of two properties. Yering
ton ls great-immense-
Barring Ely, which has the greatest cop.
per deposit known on earth, Gerington
has a greater wealth of mineral in sight
today than all the other camps of Ne.
vada Jumped together. But the people
of Reno-the people of Nevada gener-
slly-did not understand copper. The
Salt Lakers, on the other hand, know
copper in all its multiplex phases and
disguis;es; better than they know their
own children. They are the cleverest
copper sharps in the whole country
the best ever. Nothing of the copper
kind gets past them when they are
awake. They have the alert, hungry,
trained eye for copper. a man may be
good miner or good prospector and
yet know no more than q COW about
copper. It requires little special
training-not a great deal, but little
prospector may tramp for years right
over the greatest copper deposits in
the world without suspecting that they
possess any commercial value. A pros
pector needs to know the peculiar
chemical habits of copper to under
stand what the surface signs mean
[ called the attention of Reno to
Yerington last February through their
daily papers and for day or two
but nothing came of it-a fash in the
pan. But there is some excuse for
them-their attention just then was alb
sorbed by the great silver.gold discov-
cries being made at Fairview, which
lies 100 miles directly east of Reno,
while Yerington lies almost exactly the
same distance to the southwark. near
the line of the Reno -Tonopah railroad.
sixteen miles from Wabuska station,
where. the trains for the desert camps
stop for dinner, And that is rather
too bad for Nevada prospectors, because
the copper output of the United States
at the present price of the metal is
considerably greater than combined
values of its gold and silver output and
Just now good copper properties are
easier to sell than gold or silver mines
| don t believe the absurd stories that
come from Greenwster; I believe it is
q good camp. And if it is good camp |
all the hot-air artists in California can
not Kill it with their foolish and ignor-
ant stories Of incredible richness "right |
at the surface / also believe it is a !
high grade camp-even a very high !
grade camp-that it may even rise to |
the average OF 5 or 6 or per cent. |
But even, that very high average (Which |
is only about q tenth of what the fool
ish hot-air artists claim) raises a sus-
picion that the ore bodies, as a whole, |
must be small. Ely is the greatest
copper camp on earth, but nobody |
claims that its almost incredible ore |
bodies will average better than 2i2 |
per cent-at least I never claimed it. |
and I was the first outside newspaper |
man that ever went to the camp and |
as, in effect. I introduced Ely to the |
general public of the United States, I |
was naturally under the temptation (ss |
an introducer always is) to make the
best presentation that would approve |
itself to men who understood copper.
Because everything / said in introduc.
ing Ely has proved TO be true and be.
cause Ely has proved itself in the judg,
ment of men far wiser on copper than
|, some forty or fifty millions have
been invested in the camp in the last
twelve months-al of which of course
would have come sooner or later with
out any introduction from me. My ap-
preciative and favorable reports would
have counted for nothing if the char
acter of the camp had not sustained
every claim | made for it and even
proved itself, to keener copper judges
than 1, a little better than claimed. Ny
of the camp to the public
only hasteped by two or three years
a result that was bound TO come any.
way,
He introduced the Camp.
Four months after introducing Ely TO
the public I also introduced Yerington.
But Yerington is a more complex geo
logical and mineralogical problem than
Ely (at least specifically, though at
bottom I now think they are nearly