The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-11-28
TALENT IN
YER|NGTON CAMP
Wheeler Gold Mines Company
and Yerington Copper Both
Record Results.
JOSEPH E. GAME IS
BACK FROM MINES
Salt Lake Companies Are Open
ing Up Mines of First
Importance.

Joseph E. Caine, prominently inter
ested financially and officially in the
Wheeler Gold Mines company and the
Yerington Copper company, both Yer
lnRton organizations, formed by Salt
Lake talent, has returned TO this city,
after spending two weeks upon both
properties. Mr., Caine brings good news
for all the Salt Lake owners OF these
two CARNATIONS, both companies de.
veloping banner proposition from the
properties within their control The
Wheeler Gold Mines company is the
possessor of n gold property, as the
name might imply, and MI Caine g re-
turn is marked by news of recent
discovery of importance within the lines
as tunnel No. 4 the management has all
of 130 feet of vein so far explored, I,
which gives average gold values Of
$44.S0 a ton.
In tunnel No. 2 the management has
driven for distance OF l40 feet along
a vein that averages two feet in width.
This two feet is ore of shipping grade,
should the, management desire to send
it to market. This, however, is not
the intention. Transportation charges
from the mine to Yerington. thence to
rail at Wabuska, are entirely too heavy
for any organization not pressed for
funds to lose a greater part OF their
profit by making shipments. The
Wheeler company is erecting concen-
trating plant upon their ground at this
time, and the campaign of returns for
the stockholders will not begin until
this necessary accessory has been duly
installed and stamns are dropping.
Mr., Caine states that the framework
for the mill building is completed, and
the machinery for the plant is on the
site At this moment. The company also
has erected bunk and boarding houses,
office building, and other necessary
houses are being built at this time, in
Guiding an assay Office. The company g
pipe line, bringing water for distance
Of one mile, is working in good or
der, and the 5Ooo.gallon water tank is
kept full of this needed liquid, The
company is proceeding with all energy
TO thoroughly open up the resources,
and to have them in shape for dis
posal upon the completion of the mill.
Capt. Ben Tibby, well known through
out the country as mining expert, has
made an examination OF the Ger,ngton
Copper company possessions, and he
gave Mr.. Caine authority to state that
in this group. In his opinion the
company has every chance OF making n
big mine from the Yerington copper
group, and his plan of development,
mapped out for the management, will
be followed most religiously. This
plan Of work contemplates the driv-
ing of shaft at the juncture of what
are called veins Nos. and 3. At the
point where they come together it is
forty feet from wall TO wall on the
surface, and it is the spot along which
the management has encountered a fine
showing of copper glance. Capt. Tibby
has demonstrated to the company where
the walls of vein No. are, and it's
average width is between twenty and
forty feet, while it has been traced by
the company across their ground for
the distance of one mile along its
strike.
The character Of the Yerington Cop
per company's resources, states Mr..
Caine, is favorable for reduction. The
ores contain no refractory contents
whatever, and the problem of reduction
is not one over which the management
need lose any sleep. In the upper work.
ings of the property the red oxide Of
copper is shown to exist In liberal
quantities, and upon the lower levels
copper glance appears, giving the com
panv every reason to feel gratlfied over
such conditions. One important errand
accomplished by Mr.. Caine during his
visit was the acquisition of three addi-
tional claims adjoining the company s
original ground. This gives the whole
of Copper Ridge mountain TO this COM
pany, an ideal group for the purposes
intended,
Yerington seems about on the verge
Of a boom, states Mr. Caine, This
camp is distinctive in that it never has
enjoyed such an interesting experience
in Nevada mining camp life. Strong
interests slipped into the district a
wear ago and gathered about all that
they desired in the way Of properties.
They then went to work in the. most
approved fashion, ordered machinery
adequate to their several needs, and
began opening some of the greatest
copper mines of the country before the
world had time to wake up to what was
progressing. Subsequent explorations,
however, have convinced some of the
strong talent looking after ground
there that the district is larger than
first thought. and if visiting expert tai
ent is the forerunner Of booms, Yering-
ton will have a-plentv of the latter.
Judging from the abundance OF the for"
mer. Twenty miles from Yerington is
the Nevada Rockland group of proper
ties, operated by Los Angeles people.
and Mr.. Caine brings with him some
marvelously rich gold ore from the
deeper workings Of this proposition. As
heretofore mentioned in these columns
this company is working in ore that
runs in part from $4,000 to $4,000 per
ton in the yellow metal. This is cal.
culated to draw attention that way, and
it is doing it successfully.