The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-04
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YER|NGTON CAMP
w. Y. Rice Is Enthusiastic Over
the Surface Values in
This District.
is INTERESTED IN
THE NEVADA-D0UGLAS
Properties Give Every Indica-
tiOn of Making Permanent
and Rich Producers.

Another enthusiastic convert to the
magnificent copper district OF Yerington
is w. V. Rice. who has iust returned
from his first glimpse OF this interesting
region. Mr. Rice is one of the many
Salt Lakers who have ventured well and
wisely In Nevada fields, His properties
in Bullfrog and Fairview are making his
tory for these camps, and his 1erlngton
interests bid fair 10 rival even the per-
formances of the properties in the other
districts OF that State. Mr., Rice stated
Monday that the showings In Yerlngton
were truly wonderful, and he is positive
that the district will make one OF the
most permanent and richly producing In
Nevada.
Mr.. Rice was accompanied by George
Gum, under whose eye the developments
on the Dyar and Spragg groups OF the
Mason Valley company are being carried
forward, Mr.. Rice states that the Spragg
especially struck him as Il most promis
Ing property. and the manner in which
the developments are being carried on
should determine in two or three months
the true strength of this group, II will
be recalled that the Mason Valley Cop
per company was one OF the pioneer or
ganizatious In that district. Its achieve
ments attracted the attention OF the en-
tire country. especially Salt Lake, from
ganizers and officials,
AS TO the Nevada douglas group, Mr..
Rice Is more than pleased. He Will be
one OF the directors In this company
when IL is organized, and with him Will
be several prominent Salt Lake and Bos-
ton capitalists. The Nevada Douglas.
states Mr.. Rice. has the greatest surface
showing he ever saw anywhere. Nor Is 1t
all surface, as the early owners OF the
ground made frequent shipments to the
Salt Lake market, and shipments made
under the conditions then existing should
serve 10 emphasize the resourcefulness
OF a property where the greatest depth
does not exceed 100 feet In any working.
To make these shipments the owners
necessarily had to select the richest cop
per ores, and the small portion of the
property from which such ore was eX-
Iracred still is lousy" with copper ore
which now is considered rich stun. Mr..
Rice states that there must be 5000 tons
OF ore on the dumps at this time ore that
formerly would not stand the charges in
cident TO It's transportation 10 Salt Lake.
Yet this tonnage will average 6 per cent
copper, The present owners of this
group are going about the opening up
Of their resources In a systematic and
thorough manner, There are few prop
critics anywhere that can spread before
the visitor such surface showing. Mr.
Rice can only state as scores Of others
have, that the surface Is nearly all cop
per- and magnificent values and bodies
OF ore can be looked for when the sui
phide zone has been tapped.
The railroad which has been promised
this mineral region now seems only
matter OF a short time. and Mr.. Rice
believes that the tracks will tap the
mines through Mickey's Pass, bringing
the road right In the midst Of the mines.
1t is through this pass that the Ludwig
Mining company has been shipping its
ores TO Wabuska, thence to market by
rail-. During his trip Mr.. Rice visited
Goldheld and heard very encouraging re-
ports from the Gibraltar mine at Bull
frog,