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Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1906-02-24
NOUN AIMS Or ORE NEAR MASON VALLEY,

throughout the valley. are lined
with outrageous shade trees.
1t IS a great potato country, a
great alfalfa country, great also for
wheat and other grains. II ships
its farm products III great quanti-
ties to the new desert camps from
Wabuska station, which is twelve
miles north of Yerington and in
the desert.
You can go down from Reno bv
either the Southern Pacific or the
Virginia & Truckee railroad. and
it is about four hours to Wabuska
thence by stages that meet all
trains.
= 1t is cheap place for prospect
ors to live down there-potatoes
only so cents a bushel that sell in
Bullfrog at So. Hay. 500 ton in
Bullfrog and only S. at Yerington.
Oats cent a pound i'll Yerington
and 6 cents at Bullfrog. Water
free in limitless quantity all over
the Walker River Valley and 5
cents gallon at Bullfrog and To
nopal and Manhattan-but of
course at Tonopah nobody drinks
water except with suicidal intent.
Yerington. as the only supply
point of all the Walker River Val
ley country for 90 to 10 miles
southwark, will see lively times
in fact a dizzy boom--as soon as
the reservation is thrown open
and the rush begins.
Americans are all so constituted
that nobody wants anything till
everybody wants it-then rush
and a scramble. Yerington is liza
BILE to have rush of Io,ooo-most-
ly wide-awake prospectors from
Manhattan and Gold6eld and Bull
frog, and spectators from Salt
Lake and Frisco-before midsum-
ner.
And then Reno will wake up to
the fact that there is a great new
mining field just beyond her door
yard and she will rush en- masse
to the Walker River country and
get in at the top as usual-buy
town lots in Yerington and in new
additions to Yerington from Salt
Lake and San Francisco specula-
tors at 10 to 20 times what they
can be bought for today from the
natives. Reno has had cold feet
ever since the mining fiasco in her
own little old Peavine range. She
ought to take tumble to herself
and wake up to the fact that all
Nevada is booming.
Keep your eye on Yerington.
Things are coming her way-fast.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1906-02-24

Wllle tIe minnesota NINE, some
six to eight miles nortlward of the
Gallagher, has a great display of
uranium of lemon yellow color.
probably a complex oxide. The
Minnesota is very remarkable
properly mere prospect still,
not a mine, but displaying on its
outcrop nearly
A MILLION TONS OF IRON,
Mostly i'll the condition of very
pure magnetic.
This alone would make it very
valuable property anywhere near
an iron smelter. The property has
received but small development
yet, and the uranium is a factor of
unknown value. for while the pure
oxide of the metal sells at 81 to S3
per pound, this is only an ore, and
as displayed at the surface prob
ably not of high grade. If it de-
velOps richness and volume with
depth it will make the property a
veritable Golconda. But besides
the iron and uranium the property
displays i'll other outcrops high
values i'll copper. 1t is a property
whose developments with depth
all students of mineralogy should
watch with profound interest.
There is an education in the study.
1t seems to me likely that the iron
is most likely at the surface, or
near it, and that with depth it will
prove a copper proposition with a
chance for good values in uranium.
There are in the Walker River
Valley (Which. l should explain,
is one with Mason Valley), the
remnants of many little ranges
and all appear to be mineralized.
The field for the prospector is one
of the best i'll Nevada. There are
scores of properties of great prom
Use down there, but yet only in the
prospect stage which l do not
mention at all, but the Bluejay
group, three miles east of Yering-
ton, is mine that on small devel-
opment presents the promise of a
fine future. Near to that, but
closer to the reservation line, H
G. Wedekind, of Reno, son of the
late H. G. Wedekind, has a group
of prospects that show high as
says in gold and silver, and if he
develops them energetically Ne
vada mining circles are liable to
hear of the Wedekind family
again.
THE WALKER RIVER VALLEY
Lies directly west of the Walker
River range and that range is COW
cred at present by the Walker
River Indian Reservation and not
open to locations under any of the
public land laws. 1t is trespass to
go upon it, and any locations
made upon it are null and void.
But the Federal Government is
now locating the Indians, on their
own petition, in severalty on their
agricultural lands at the head of
Walker Lake, and when the allot-
ments have been completed the
mountain portion of the reserve
will be thrown open to mineral To-
cation, and then-well look out
for the rush to Yerington.
1t will be great-it will be a
whirlwind.
YERINGTON TO-DAY
Is quiet little agricultural town
of perhaps 600, with newspaper,
a bank, three hotels, six or eight
general stores, one lawyer and
one clergyman and two school
teachers and two blacksmith shops.
1t is the largest town between
Carson and Touopah and q place
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1906-02-24

enormous body. 1t is low grade
all they claim is an average of
three per cent-but the stupend-
ous volume of it makes it a valu-
able proposition to handle it on a
large scale. In the Yerington
wide veins, but they are not in
close connection. and therefore
the mining cannot he done as
cheaply as at Ely. This draw
back, however. is offset by the
fact that the average of values is
about three times the average of
the Ely ore, while considerable
portion of it is very high grade
from Is to 80 per cent copper.
THE BLUESTONE MINE
Is not a new proposition. but
till lately it has been in the hands
of men unable to develop it to a
paving condition-liadn't the cap
ital or did not know how to use 1t
if they had.
But for the last couple of years
it has been under bond to that
truly great captain of mining,
CAPTAIN DELAMAR,
Who has developed it into a
great property and is arranging
to operate it on great scale with
electrical power derived from
Walker River.
Though the most extensively
developed mine in the district by
long odds, the Bluestone is not the
richest nor the one promising the
greatest future. The Douglas on
the west flank of the range gives
promise of becoming with equal
development a greater mine than
the Bluestone, also the Dyer
group on the east flank OF the
range, which. in character, looks
very like the Douglas. The latter
is now under bond to Salt Lake
parties and is receiving energetic
development and is showing up
| fine.
The Douglas has shipped over
1000 tons that averaged trifle
over rs per cent with the iron just
about balancing the silica. The
Dyer has shipped about the same
amount that has averaged even
better than the shipments of the
Douglas, while the Ludwig, near
the Douglas, has shipped great
deal that averaged 20 per cent.
The Mcconnell group, which
lies between the Bluestone and
the Dyer, is owned by Salt Lake
people, too, and has received a
good deal of development, and has
100000 tons in sight that will av-
erage five per cent. 1t has also
shipped 5000 tons that averaged
10 per cent.
These mines all lie in the Ma
son. Valley range, which consti
tutes the west wall of Mason Val
ley, and those on the east flank
are only four miles from Yerington
and the Walker River. while those
on the west flank are only seven
miles.
The Mason Valley range is
low one and was probably formed
under the ocean. Geologically it
is mostly very ancient, though
there are some recent rhyolite
dikes. The copper appears to
have been deposited along the
shrinkage fssure along ancient di-
orite dikes and to have found a
lodgment i'll the course structure
of the eruptive. Many of the
veins, however, outcrop through a
very sandy limestone that nearly
caps the range, and in this rock
the copper forms great chambers
of ore by replacement as usual in
limestones.
The core of the range is granite
and the dikes have followed faults
on both flanks that run parallel
with the axis of the range.
While it is true that the mines
in this range run mostly to copper
they all carry little gold, and the
Gallagher property, ten miles to
the northward, runs high in gold,
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1906-02-24

FitZ-MaC, the Colorado mining
writer, who has just completed his
third trip in six months over all
Nevada, arrived in Reno last week.
says the Reno Journal, from Yer
ington. where he went for the
second time to study the outlook
for a mining rush to that region
when the Walker River Indian
Reservation is thrown open to 10
cations, which will be very soon.
Asked about the mining outlook
down there, he said:
Yerington-keep your eye on
Yerington.
1t is going to boom.
And there are reasons why
good reasons-the best of reasons.
That's what | want to tell YOU
about, for you people of Reno
ought to know. 1t is right handy
at your door and you ought toI
post yourselves SO tlat when
things are doing down there you
can take hand and turn an hon
est dollar, and not let Colorado
and Salt Lake and San Francisco
take the cream of the boom and
leave you only the skinned milk,
as they have done down in the
new desert camps. The chances
there are going to be big and you
don't want to miss them. You
want to post yourselves and get
your hooks in and do it in time.
And now Is the time.
There are mountains of minerals
down there-actual mountains. Il
know what | am talking about. |
have been over them. have ex-
amined them, and stand by what
| say.
MOUNTAINS OF MINERAL.
And now if you Renoites don't !
make some of the millions that are
going to be made down there this !
Summer it will be your own fault,
for I'm telling you that Yerington is
going to have big, wild, old fash
ioned Nevada boom this coming
Spring and Summer. It's got the
stuff for boom-that's why.
.Yerington! Never heard of it
probably!
OF course not. You never hear |
of anything in Nevada until out
siders have swiped the cream.
Yerington, as have said, is
right at your door. That's the
reason you haven't heard of it
heard of it, | mean, as a mining
region, for of course you've al |
ways known of Yerington, the
principal town of Mason Valley,
famous for its agricultural pro-
ducts and fine stock ever since
white men have lived in Nevada,
and famous as an Indian hunting |
ground for two or three thousand |
years before any white man ever
saw Nevada.
The early trappers and fur
hunters knew all about it, for it !
was a great grass and water and
wood country, and therefore a fine
game country. Kit Carson knew
it by the bone
There is game there still. at the
upper end ot the valley, but cx-
cept water fowl and fish, it is
scarce To what it used to be. The
beavers, OF course. were all trap
ped long ago, and YOU never see
an elk nowadays, and only an oc-
casional bunch of deer as the
snow drives them down from the !
Sierras to find feed in the valley. |
But waterfowl and fish in Walker
River and its branches and lagoons
till you can't Standard quail. |
too, worse than anything.
But of course there's nothing
but sport in all that-no money in |
it. The money is in the minerals,
the copper, the lead, the iron and
gold and silver.
And say, take my word for it,
there are mountains of mineral
down there-mountains of iron.
mountains of copper, big veins of
lead and silver and big and rich
veins of gold.
| am not guessing nor casing.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1906-02-24

Dattan is the Only tnlnS, Uon
you? Well, | was the first news
paper man that ever visited Man
haitian (early last August), and |
wrote it up and pronounced it a
camp OF great promise and sure of
a boom. But now I'm telling, you
that everything they've got in
sight at Manhattan today would
not more than be patch to one
mine-only one single mine-in
the Yerington country.
You think pretty we'll of Gold
field, of course-now that it is
proved up.
But YOU had your doubts about
Goldfeld for long time and you'll
have your doubts about this Yer
ington country till outsiders get
the cream and let you in for the sour
milk-then you'll get out and
shout for the Walker River coun-
try.
You have a good opinion of
Bullfrog. too, since Schwab has
offered Cor is reported to have of
fered), FIVE millions for the Mont
gomery Shoshone. But | am tell
ing you now that the owners of
the MontgomeryS yShoslione only
claim to have FIVE millions of value
in sight. They have taken me all
through the property and | would
think FIVE millions generous es-
innate of what | saw, and con
slider it a really marvellous mine,
too.
But just think! There is one
single mine (the Bluestone), J, down
in that Yerington country, on the
edge of the Indian Reservation,
with
NINE MILLIONS IN SIGHT.
That beats all Manhattan-beats
any mine in Goldield, beats even
the great Montgomery Shoshone
of Bullfrog-beats anything in any
of the new camps of Nevada ex-
cept the great quartette of Search
light and the Nevada Consolidated
and the Giroux Consolidated of
Ely.
You have great respect for Ely
since the Guggenheims are pub
licly reported to have offered Sill
100000 tor 81 per cent ot the
stock of the Nevada Consolidated.
But when visited Ely last year
and wrote up the camp and pro-
nounced it the greatest copper de-
post known in the world, YOU
could have bought 81 per cent of
that stock for exactly 81. $4,000,
S. a share.
Since seeing Ely | have publicly
and repeatedly predicted that Ne
vada is destined within short
time TO lead the world as a copper
producer.
Ely is the central point of de
velopment in the great eastern
Nevada copper belt that extends
north and south from the Idaho
line to Arizona.
Yerington is the central point
in the great western Nevada cop
per belt that extends north and
south from the Oregon line to
Arizona and southern California.
Keep your eve on Yerington-
it's going to boom just as Ely is
booming.
You haven't heard of Yerington
because it has been nobody's in
terest to talk about it and adver-
tise its merits as they are talking
about Ely and Manhattan and
Goldfeld and Bullfrog, no stocks
for sale yet. See?
WHEN THE STOCKS BLOSSOM
You'll hear of Yerington and
the Walker River country as re-
gion of mammoth mines.
don't say it will prove as great
in copper as Ely, for | call Ely the
greatest copper show on earth. 1t
is different, but it is going to prove
very big.
At Ely the copper lies III one
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1906-02-24
YERINGTON TO-DAY

Is quiet little agricultural town
of perhaps 600, with newspaper,
a bank, three hotels, six or eight
general stores, one lawyer and
one clergyman and two school
teachers and two blacksmith shops.
1t is the largest town between
Carson and Tonopah and place
of considerable, but unostentatious
wealth. Near by is big Touring
mill and large and successful
creamery, which sells its butter to
the Palace Hotel of San Francisco.
The altitude of the place is 800
feet, and the climate is just little
milder than that of Reno. The
farmers are blowing there now.
The streets of Yerington, and to
a large extent the main roads
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-08-16
Household Suggestions.
Simple but Useful Recipes.

Cream Cake.-One cupful of maple
sugar, one egg, one-half teaspoonful OF
salt, one cupful sour cream, one and one
quarter cupfuls of -four. one teaspoonful
soda. Add the soda to the cream; when
it foams add the egg well beaten, next
the sugar and salt, last the -four. Bake
in a quick oven.
Corn Saute.-Place the contents of a
can of corn in a saucepan with third
of a cupful of butter and allow it to
simmer for five minutes. Then add a
cupful of cream, busting of white pep
per and salt and a little nutmeg. Cook
gently for a few moments, then pour
into hot dish and serve.
Ham Salad.-Chop some ham very
fine and slice twice as much cold po-
tatoes very thin. Arrange the ham and
potatoes in a salad dish in layers and
sprinkle each double layer with chopped
celery. then pour French dressing over
all. Garnish with hard-boiled eggs, cut
in slices or in fancy shapes.
Veal Soup.--Take well-broken joint
of veal weighing about three pounds
and cover with four quarts cold water
boil gently for several hours, then add
one-quarter pound macaroni, previously
cooked tender, or cupful of boiled rice
season to taste with salt and pepper, boil
up once and serve.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-08-16
CHAPTER ".

After being with some difficulty re-
stored to consciousness Mrs. Dunbar
ton had, with the aid of an opiate, fallen
into a profound sleep, from which she
did not awake until midnight
Moving her head, she saw Veronica
seated beside her, pale from fright
Olive Dumbarton understood, and a
fresh and poignant grief darted through
her heart. Then, bracing herself, she, in
weak and trembling voice, said:
"Veronica-Veronica! l am inno-
cent?
A burden that seemed unbearable was
suddenly lifted from the girls life, the
darkness which had brooded over her
soul was dispelled, her whole being re-
Taxed from torture and fear, now vi
brated with gratitude and delight
ut was not l, my child; you under
stand. l am innocent" Mrs. Dumbarton
murmured.
Mother" Veronica exclaimed, flinging
her arms in transport of joy and graft
tude that was not without remorse
arounSe her mothers neck, while she
kissed her pityingly, tenderly, lovingly.
You believe me, Veronica?"
Mother" the girl said, infinite trust
and tenderest love expressed in that one
word
Thank Godl" Olive Dumbarton muir
INJURED.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-08-16
IN THE SHADOW
OF SHAME
By Fitzgerald Molloy
Copyright by E. Fitzgerald Monoy.
By Fitzgerald Molloy
Copyright by E. Fitzgerald Molloy.

Then began her struggle for life, Bit
ter and long maintained. She had al
ways possessed certain talent for writ
ing, facility of expression, picturesque
of description, power of imagination, and
she resolved to embrace literature as a
calling.
Many mile she walked, from Office
to Office, which, with fiuttering heart
and overstrung nerves, she entered to
offer manuscripts over which she had
spent much time, always hoping she
might find acceptance. Money was ter
ribly needed by her. The result was
ever the same. Each magazine or jour
nal had its own staff of contributors
hundreds of stories were waiting for
consideration. The supply was greater
than could be exhausted for years. And
such manuscripts as she was permitted
to leave or which she sent by post, were
not lost, or mislaid-invariably returned
to her, until her spirit was well-nigh
broken.
A turn came in the tide of her affairs
when they seemed most desperate. A
tale retained by a magazine for over
twelve months at last saw the light of
publication. Reviews spoke of its truth
to nature, pathos and originality of plot.
| A second story was accepted by the
same magazine and an editor who had
returned her stories and essays unread
| requested her to send him some articles.
Those he had previously rejected were
posted to him and paid for within a
week.
Slowly and gradually her name began
to grow familiar to the public. With ap-
probation came courage to persevere,
and, putting forth all her strength, she
wrote novel largely embodying in its
pages her own life, This had been pub
| lished by George Bostock Its success
was immediate. Her name being famous,
independence was won.
Her husband, after years of absence,
returned to claim the benefit of her
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-08-16
Salmon and Celery salad.-Flake

cannon and Celery Salad.-Flake
enough canned salmon to make one cup
full Arrange lettuce leaves around with
one cupful of celery cut in tiny cross
wise slices. Make mound of the mix
ture in the center of the lettuce and
pour on dressing made from two table
spoonfuls of oil, three tablespoonftils of
vinegar, saltspoonful of salt and a
dash of pepper
Potatoes with Cheese.-Pare and cut
into small cubes enough potatoes to
make pint; lay them IN cold water half
an hour, drain and cook in sailed water
until tender. Place layer in buttered
baking dish, sprinkle thickly with grated
cheese, pepper and salt, with bits of but
ter and little celery salt; fill the dish
in this way; pour over cupful of milk,
bake fifteen minutes and serve hot.
Red Kidney Beans.-Soak one pint of
red kidney beans over night in two
quarts of cold water; rinse and cover
with fresh, cold water. Add a small
onion with one Glove stuck in it and a
rounding tablespoonful of butter. Cook
slowly until tender, but not broken, and
add water as it boils away. Season with
salt and pepper. Take out the onion
and turn the beans on to a platter to
make bed on which to serve broiled
chops, sausages, or roast pork.
Deyilled Eggs.-Boi1 a sufficient guam
tity of eggs hard; when cold, peel and
dip the first into beaten raw egg, next
into oil, and roll them in salt and a
small quantity of cayenne. Make little
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-08-16
Why He Didn't Look

Senator Hale, apropos OF an awkward
remark, said:
'It reminds me of the conversation of
two ladies at reception.
These ladies were strangers to each
other. After a moments desultory talk
the first said, rather querilously:
81 don't know what's the matter with
that tall, blond gentleman over there.
He was so attentive while ago, but he
won't look at me now"
"'Perhaps,' said the other, he saw me
come in. He's my husband, you know.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-08-16

Veronica kissed her again and again
before quitting the room, as if in this
way she would convey the faith and af-
lection which words failed her to ex-
press. To refrain from thinking was
an utter impossibility to that stricken
woman, though thought was absolute
pain. As she lay there in the silence
and gloom, heartsick and despairing, the
story of her life rose in black outlines
against the lurid tragedy which had
crowned and intensified all her sorrows.
An only child, worshipped by her
mother-her sole surviving parent-andi
caressed by her friends, she had entered
society when she should have been in
the schoolroom.
Followed and admired, praised and
courted as she was, society was to her
a land of enchantment, and before her
second season ended she had wholly
given her heart to young lieutenant OF
Lancers but five years older than her
self, handsome, daring and fascinating,
graceful dancer, a skilled polo player,
faultless in dress, winning in his speech,
popular among women, hailed as good
fellow among men.
Before her eighteenth birthday she had
married him against the advice OF her
mother, and in spite of the warning of
her friends, endowing him, who was de
pendant upon his pay and STEPPED IN
debt, with the handsome fortune left her
by her father. Then came three years
of weddAd life of varying happiness, at
the end of which time the ardor on her
part remained unabated, while on his II
had vanished quite.
His growing indifference made her
womanlike, more anxious to retain his
affections, while her eagerness defeated
its own ends by rendering him more
careless still.
Her disiliusion, once begun, was
quickly completed. Soon came the
knowledge of his unfaithfulness, hi:
losses on the race course and at the
gambling table, as well as the percep
ton that his nature was gradually
coarsening by drink and dissipation
The day was not long postponed wher
she learned that her whole fortune
had been squandered by him in ways
that were wrongs to her. And, when nc
longer able to preserve patience. she up
raided him; ne brutally struck her. b
this time he had quilted the army, an9
disappearing, he left her and her chilt
depending on friends, her mother being
now dead.