Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1906-12-08
THE NEvADA-DOUGLAS

1T has, Joseph, my sweet infant I
said promptly TT certainly do have.
And of course that makes it greater than
all the mines mentioned, Jumped to-
gether, but---well, Joe, to tell the whole
truth, have my doubts that it is after
all, the biggest mine in Nevada. Cap
tain Delmar's Bluestone mine at Yering-
ton is, in the aggregate value in sight,
the peer of any of the great mines you
have named except the Nevada Con.
But the Nevada Douglas in the same
camp is as great, think, as the Nevada
Con. of Ely and I'm not sure but it is
greater. rather think it is, for while
the Nevada Con. probably has greater
tonnage actually in sight it hasn't as
much ore calculably in sight and reason
ably certain, and the ore in the Douglas
is much higher grade---about a quarter
of it is up to shipping and smelling
grade, which means abont 8 to 10 per
cent, and some of it runs very high. OF
course you know the Nevada Con. hasn't
pound of shipping ore. There is al
WAYS factor of uncertainty in figuring
on ore bodies and values, and it is there
fore best to make large allowance for
error, but from the top of Douglas hill.
where the Douglas ore averages only
to per cent copper, to the bottom of
the Ludwig shaft where it runs rs to 80
per cent, the perpendicular distance is
100 feet. The Douglas owns 800 acres
of that ground---exactly the same as the
Nevada Con. IS acreage at Ely. Neither
of these areas of course is mineralized up
to pay values throughout--not more
than a quarter---the Douglass not as
much as quarter, not more, perhaps,
than an eighth, but look at the grade of
the ore and the depth to which the
ground is proved. The geology at Yer
ington is not quite as simple as at Ely,
but am studying it and thinking it out,
and when l write my conclusions up
hope you will find them interesting.
"Yerington? Yerington? Where is
Yerington, anyway"
Gentlemen, said, you all asked
that question year ago when you read
my first story on that hungry, wild, re-
mote, marvellous little jay camp of Ely,
which contains the greatest copper de
post on earth. Today all the world
knows Ely and five railroads are headed
for the camp to secure share of its
future vast tonnage and one of them has
arrived. Yerington is now such another
little jay camp as Ely was year ago.
do not, at present, think the Yerington
deposits likely to prove as extensive as
that at Ely, but l am not yet sure. But
the Nevada Douglas mine at Yerington
is probably the greatest mine III the
State. OF course it is a mine OF the fut
ure rather than of the present, but that
is equally true of its only rival, the Ne
vada Consolidated of Ely. Neither can
by any possibility earn dividend inside
of two years, while the Quartette, the
Shoshone, the Mohawk and the Tonopah
are earning big dividends now. There
is this important difference however,
when Ely and Yerington are we'll opened
they can pay big dividends for 500 years.
! The deposits are so enormous that they
cannot be exhausted in less than that
time. Keep your eye on Yerington. 1t
is going to move. The Salt Lakers have
gone in there and they are the cleverest
copper miners i'll the world"