Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1906-12-29
Especial Correspondence by Fitz- Mac. ]

Especial Correspondence by Fitz-Mac.
The camp that contains the greatest
mine in Nevadal
The only camp east of California
where the honest and intelligent Amer
ican miner can hit drill with one hand
and pick peaches from the bough with
the other!
Well, that ought to be camp worth
talking about!
And probably you've never heard of
it2
The great copper deposit at Yerington,
Nevada, now in course of energetic ex-
ploitation gives confident promise of
proving one of the worlds largest re-
serves of the red metal. Therefore ev-
erything concerning its geological his
tory, its metallurgical conditions and its
commercial aspects that can be presented
at the present time with approximate
accuracy should possess an intelligent
interest for the whole industrial world.
Although so little has reached the out
side world concerning the camp that Gas
the case was with Ely up to IL months
ago) even its geographical position is
hardly known a hundred miles from
ilOhC, CANCPt III sodft l<dkC WhCiC
most of its properties are owned, it al
ready possesses two of the greatest mines
in Nevada, Captain Delamar's great
Bluestone and the Nevada Douglas, the
first of which ranks as the peer of the
greatest mine in Tonopah or Goldfeld
or Bullfrog, and the second of which
ranks as the greatest in all Nevada, and
certainly contains a greater wealth of
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all the producing mines of Tonopah,
Goldfeld and Bullfrog Jumped together.
Its only possible rival for the first place
is the great Nevada Consolidated of Ely,
which is estimated to have so, 900, 600
tons in sight" worth at the present
price of copper not less than the astound-
ing value of $500, 900, 900.
The Nevada Douglas hasn't any such
quantity of ore as that actually blocked
out" in the strict mining sense of the
term, but neither has the Nevada Con-
solidated. Miners do not block out ore
in the full sense unless they are getting
ready to sell the mine. 1t would be a
useless waste of labor. The broad use
of the term ''in sight" means sufficient
" revealed to be safely calculable as
reserve But nature has done so much
of the mining for the Nevada-Douglas
that it may safely be said it has vastly
greater tonnage of ore in sight than the
Nevada Consolidated of Ely and the ore
is great deal higher grade. The Ne
vada- Douglas owns 800 acres, covering
Douglas hill, which may be called
little mountain of copper all by its lone
some.
Yerington is on the Walker river, in
Lyon county, Nevada, about 100 miles
by rail and stage south of Reno, the
metropolis of the State. 1t is II miles
south frorIf Wabuska, the railroad sta
ton, on the line from Reno to Goldheld,
and about 55 miles east of the California
line
The valley of the Walker river at Yer
ington is the finest agricultural region of
Nevada and the river itself, which has
its source i'll the Sierras, is the largest
stream in the State.
MASON VALLEY. l
The river valley at Yerington is called
Mason Valley, and the low north-south
range that walls the valley on the west
is called the Mason Valley range, while
the higher north south range that walls
it on the east is called the Walker River
range and till recently was included in
the Walker River Indian Reservation.
The valley is 4, 800 feet above sea level
and is eight to II miles wide by about 80
miles long, and the whole region is
mineralized and is fine and easy pros
pecting territory.
Yerington is the principal town in
Lyon county and place where life can,
with a little effort and taste be made
very delightful magnificent trees, mead
ows of blooming alfalfa. fields of waving
grain, fragrant orchards, luscious past
ures filled with gentle, dairy stock, or
with spirited young horses bred for
market-a lovely, dreamful agricultural
scene, tuneful, too, in summer with the