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The Alaska prospector., 1907-07-04
ConDess1an Humphrev.

ASo-0 ADN1ey.
 We had the pleasure, Wednesday, of meeting Hon. ". E. HuDphrey. a member of the House of Washington, who arrived on the steamer Portland from the West, where he and his estim- able wife had been enjoying au outing since about the first of May. lie re- nained in town for a few hours oply and sailed South in the evening on the same steamer.
 Mir. Humphrey has been, the greater portion of his time, on Kadiak Island, in pursuit of big game, his favorite sport. He killed four bear, one very large one, which, in the language of the street ''is going some." These bears don't walk up to you and say "please take me-" ':ot they. The "man behind the gun" must be trained, to the use of the rifle, posseded of . good eye ''ln,g" such game. During our shor, talk with MT. Humphrey, we were con viuced that, in him, Alaska has . gooo friend in congress and that he stands ready to advance her interests, in every honorable way Mir. and Mrs. Humph- Fey were met by Mir. Scott. Asst. U. S Attorney, q personal friend of ltne standing, who introduced them to as mary citizens of Valdez, as the limited time would permit. and with the assistance of Mir. Scott's daughter. aud of Mrs Whitely, an old friend of Mrs Humphrey, their stay was, we wero assured, made an enjoyable one, and they left us fsvoraply impressed with our people; the natural advant- ages of Valdez, as port; and that it would, by reason of such natural ad- vantaaes, play an important part in the business and in the development of Alaska.
The Alaska prospector., 1907-07-04
Swift Game Of Ball.

Sunday, June 16-The first game oi ball played in the Copper River coun- try tock place today betwoen the Hub bard. Elliott team and the Diamond H F team (sul veyors.) The game was an exciting one from start to finish and was so closely contested that it took thirteen innings to decide the game
 The batteries for tho Hubbard Elliott team were Smith and Morgan and for the surveyors Waite and Preschern both playing an srrorless game.
 Victor Smiths playing on first. Lon 0organ's home run and Haneman's clever work on short were credit to the miners to say nothing of the excel- lent fielding done by l.. D. Hubbard D. 8. Dobbas and Jack Hughes.
 T.e work of Green and Bassett of the surveyors as base runners was exceptional and tho teams crack in fielding was the only thing that saved them from the hard hitting miners
 Jee Wechsrt was official scorekeeper.
 The game was umpired by Fred Guthrie who made himself very popu- with both teams by his good judgment in rendering decisions.
 The game resulted in score of II rune for Diamond HI. E. and 10 for the Hu bbard Elliott team.
The Alaska prospector., 1907-07-04

Tho Clara reached Seward Saturday evening from Katalla, and from there started for Seldovia. It will probable be Tuesday night or Wednesday morn- ing before she leaves here for the StateA
 By the arrival ot the Tumwater which left Herring Bay the 2Sth of June, comes news that an important disclosure has been made on the Her. ing bay side of tho Crown Copper Co.'S. property. For some time past the company has been quietly at work on this lead, but not until . recent date did they determine the depth and value below surface which Is from thirty to fifty feet and runs eight per cent cop- per. Shipments of ore are predicted early this fall.
 MT. and Mrs John Burton came up from Cordova last week. Mir. Burton has taken over the general manage ment of the Owl Drug Co.'S. store.
 MTs, Y. M. DrOWn entertained number of her friends Saturday after noon at n Five Hundred party The first prize was won by Mrs Geo. Ester ly and Mrs. F.. E. Spiers won the second.
 Edward Doyle, an employee of the Ellamar Miuihg Co. was brought up on launch Saturday, suffering from fracture of the right leg, which occurred while working in tbe mine Ee was moved 10 tue Good Samaritan Hospital
The Alaska prospector., 1907-07-04

The Jeanie is to leave Seattle for here today.
 The court officials have not decided yet whether it will be necessary to call . petit and a grand jury at the July term of court. The conditions are such that it would 5e very hard for litigants to reach Valdez in time for court and witnesses in the moro i'm portant cases could hardly be secured in time if it was decided to have . jury. The matter will be settled in few days.
The Alaska prospector., 1907-07-04

all the equipment is in place, which will be about August list, she will be turned over to the government.
 The new boat is 70 feet aud six inches In length, with b foot g inch beam aud six foot drsusht- She will be equipped with l5O horsepower engines and will be capable of making at least F knots ger hour.
The Alaska prospector., 1907-07-04

Mrs Rose Johnson has been con fined to the house for nearly two weeks with serious attack of rheumatism.
 From Mondays Bslletin
 The Valdez Cold Storage Co. has ee- cured the contract for supplyinQ Fort Liscum with meat for the ensuing year. The contract starts today. LAst year the Valdez Market had this iob aud the year bsfore the Fort was sup piled by Love X Whitley.
 l.. II. Carvey came up Saturday from Cordovs, where he has been for the past week.
 Wm. Egan came in this morning on the Tbree-M from Knights island. He will remain in town until after the 4th. His wife and family will come up on the next trip of the Three-M.
 Tue Elsie is due today with a tow of logs for the sawmill. She will leave immediately after her arrival to pick up the excursionists who are coming Q Valdez for the 4tL.
The Alaska prospector., 1907-07-04
Of Local Interest
From Friday's Bulletin.

The Santa ClWa had not rssehsd Seward this morning, and it Is very uncertain when she will be able to get away for the South. The weather at Katalla may be such tAst it will re- quire week to anIosd before going west.
The Alaska prospector., 1907-07-04
From aaturday's Bulletin.

Jack Tanxy, who arrived recently
 from tho Gulkana country, tells of
 finding largo lake in the district
 between Taslina and Gulkana, which
 he is confident has never been visited
 by white men in the summer. The lake is about % miles long, and is remark.
 able for the large number Of immense trout which swarm in its waters. In .
 few hours fishing Mir. Tanzy and his companion caught fifteen trout which
 were large enough to load down . pack
 horse, the heaviest one weighing 26 pounds. They were genuine lake trout, different from the Smaller species caught in other lakes through. out the interior.
 In few weeks the Hubbard Elliott property on Knights island will have the tram working and as they have
 plenty of ore ready to take out, will be
 making large regular shipments. This will be the first mine to become a steady producer on tho island which is the center of so much mining activ- ity.
 Voting Contest. The voting contest for the Goddess of Liberty up to this noon has resulted as follows: Hazel Sheldon 6O3; Hele,
 Brown 266; Miss Osland 9; Miss Ids
 Corrigan 1l3; Miss c Ashby 13O; Nis.
 Messner l13; Maxine Marshal 2l; Mis- T. Dougherty 20; Miss Mae Crittende, 20; Miss Lulu Kline ,. Miss Savoy l04.
 The voting contest will clos,
 at six tomorrow evening, and for the convenience of those who wish to vote onSunday, the boxes will be placed in
 the Bowling Alley, Seattle Hotel, Til likum Club, Owl Drug Store and Archibalds Store where votes may be cast until six o'clock tomorrow even ing.
 McCarty Bros. and Moore wish to extend their thanks to T. G. Quinn for the use of lights furnished for ths launching of the VaIdez and Anton Carlson, who provided tke hall for the dance.
 Miss Gertrude Johnson who wac elected to a portion in the Valdez
 Public schools has resigned. A special meeting of the School Boards was held Wednesday evening and Miss
 Jennie LeGendre of Seattle was elected
 to f1ll the vacancy. Miss LeGendre
 has cabled her acceptance and will
 leave Seattle on the next Santa Clara.
 The Bertha leaves Juneau this even-
 inp. northbOund
The Alaska prospector., 1907-07-04

The voting contsst foe tho Goddess of Liberty will close st six o'clock sharp on the evening of Jane S0th. No vntes wlll bs accepted after that hour. The backers of tho dark lorss. who will show up on the last day, cay they bave money collected for over 1000 votes.
 From Satufday's Bulletin.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1907-06-01

The eastern foothills are cover
ed by late flows of rhyolite that
have no connection with the ore
deposition. The structure is COM
plicated by system of folding
and faulting older than the gran
lite intrusion, also by faulting after
the naturalization. Copper ore
occurs in the garnet rock as an
impregnation throughout portions
of its mass and as richer concen-
trations in fractures and shear
zones; also as bedded veins in the
marbleized limestones. The effect
of the folding and fracturing of
the strata previous to the granite
intrusion has been to localize, in
degree, the deposition of the ore
in the garnet rock along these
fracture zones, giving the deposits
the appearance of fssure veins
filled with chalcopyrite dissemina-
ted in garnet or garnet epidote
gangue, which has a laminated
structure parallel to the bound
aries of the fractured zone. On
either side of these assures the
garnet rock is more or less impreg-
mated with chalcopyrite, but sep
arated in some cases by a narrow
rib of barren epidote two or three
feet thick.
The lower boundary of the ore
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1907-06-01
MASON VALLEYS
BIC BANK ACCOUNT

William B. Thompson, who is associ-
ated with George f. Gum and other big
operators of the West in many Utah and
Nevada propositions, was in Boston four
or five days ago on his way back to New
York from a several weeks trip into this
region. Among other propositions with
which he is prominently identified is the
Mason Valley Copper Company. Con-
cerning the proposition he is quoted as
saying:
s'On the surface of the Mason Valley
property we have fine showing of car
Donate ore. At 100 feet the ore is a sui
phide and runs about per cent copper.
From the tunnel we have tapped the
vein at depth of $50 feet and have
crosscut over so feet of ore, SO feet of
which will run 5.4 per cent copper and
the balance will run 8 per cent copper.
We have drifted about SO feet on the
vein in copper running over 5 per cent.
While there has been nothing startling
in the development of this property to
date, believe there are very promising
possibilities in connection with it when
we have attained great development.
The Mason Valley Company has zoe, 600
shares outstanding and 5000 in the
treasury. Salt Lake Herald.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1907-06-01
CITY COUNCIL

The city council held its regular semi
monthly meeting on Tuesday night of
this week and continued. in session from
night to night during the week, trans
acting the following business:
Ordinance No. 4, concerning vagrants
and vagrancy, was introduced by Coun-
Gilman Gallagher, read and laid over
until next regular meeting
An order was made that Chief of Po-
lice supervise the Strengthening out of
Bridge street at point in front of the
Road House, filling up the slough which
cuts into the road at that point. This
work is now in progress.
The bond of City Clerk Powers, in the
sum of $1,000, was presented and ap-
proved.
The plat of the Craig Addition to the
city was presented accompanied by a
letter from Mrs. Carroll and Mrs. Ar
cher Offering to donate to the city an
acre of land for the use of a Court
House On motion the plat and letter
were filed for future consideration.
Councilmen Snyder and Ross were ap-
pointed committee to see about site
for city hall and report at next regular
meeting.
Councilman Snyder was delegated to
see about the construction of water
closet for the jail
Councilmen Some and Ross were ap-
pointed a committee to interview F. w.
Fairbanks regarding city printing.
resolution was adopted designating
the LYON COUNTY TIMES the official
paper of the city.
Council will continue in session to-
night.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1907-06-01
He HAD A CLOSE CALL

In attempting to board an eastbound
passenger train at the Southern Pacific
depot Tuesday morning, William Camp
bell, miner who recently came to Reno
from Yerington, was dragged for more
than 100 yards and nearly lost his life
under the wheels of the train. He was
fortunately struck by the steps of car,
however, and was thrown out of danger.
The skin was scraped off his back so that
portion of his backbone is exposed.
His left elbow is broken and the bones
of the right arm are exposed in several
places, where the flesh has been torn.
The man is suffering great pain, and at
times is unconscious. Reno Gazette.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1907-06-01
LAY IN COAL NOW

Yerington needs wood and coal yard.
Let some one start in this business at
once so that we may have sufficient
supply of fuel on hand for next Winter.
Remember that it takes long time to
get anything started here, also remem-
Der the Winter just past, when it was
almost impossible to get wood or coal
enough to cook meal and keep warm.
Don't let the next Winter in such fix.
1t takes long time to get coal in here
from Utah and Wyoming, and it is none
too early to get in supply now. The
railroad people, even, are warning the
town people of Nevada to get their fuel
supplies in now. A coal and wood yard
would be paying business in Yerington.
Get busy, somebody, and establish
dump of this kind.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1907-06-01

ary beds into garnet rock contain
ing more or less disseminated ore
and other beds, in higher hori-
zon, into marble, and also filling
fractures parallel to the bedding
of this marbleized limestone with
copper ore.
1t is not possible at the present
time to determine how much of
the rock metamorphism is due to
the heating effects of the intrusive
and how much to the introduction
of new compounds by the waters
of the molten magma, but we can
assume that the ore is due to these
waters and that the rock metamOr-
phism was largely caused by the
action of heat, supplemented by
the chemical action of the water,
as the;garnet is more or less impreg-
mated with ore, showing its per-
meability to these solutions which
undoubtedly contained other min
eralizers that contributed to the
formation of the garnet.
The limestones, which occur at
higher horizon, have probably
been altered by the action of heat
alone, as they contain no ore, ex-
cept in the assures. The district
is being developed rapidly; one
mine having 100000 tons of ore
in reserve, and in two years time it
is expected to become copper
producer on large scale.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1907-06-01

nary type in which the ore occurs
as irregular masses near the con-
tact; this difference being due to
the pre-existing assures which
confined the ore-bearing wa
ters in channels of great
vertical extent, aside from
these local concentrations the gar
net is impregnated with low
grade copper ore. Where the fis-
sures were more open they were
filled by the molten magma, form
iLg dikes of granite-porphyry.
The mine developments are not of
sufficient extent to connect the
limestone ore bodies with those
contained in the garnet, but it is
difficult to avoid the conclusion
that in depth the two classes of
ore bodies will connect, forming a
continuous lode, whose lower
boundary is the granite and with
its apex in the limestone.
If this view is confirmed by later
work, the deposits will be of great
interest as illustrating the genesis
of ore bodies due to the action Of
intrusive rock masses, the mag
matte waters of which have min
eraliZed certain pre- existing tis-
sures, and. together with the heat
derived from the molten magma,
has converted certain sediment
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1907-06-01
RECLAMATION WORK WILL
NOT Be STOPPED

Reports have been current on the
streets of Fallon during the past week to
the effect that work upon the Carson
project was to be suspended during the
coming warm months of SUNNI err and
various abortive rumors have emanated
from this report, all of which are mis-
leading in the extreme. An inquiry at
the local reclamation office elected the
following:
About 200 head of stock belonging to
contractors have been releas ed for the
coming warm months, but the govern
ment stock will continue at work There
are several reasons for the reduction of
the force, among which are the impossi-
bility of securing help during the sum-
mer months and the fact that work now
under way is about completed. But, as
a matter of fact, the real reason lies in
the fact that of the original So, 900, coo
appropriated for this project just enough
remains to allow of the employment of
moderate force only. With the coming
of Fall operations will again be pushed
to the limit, and no time will be lost in
completing the new work now outlined
and the old work yet uncompleted.
Secretary of the Interior, ]. R. Gar
field, has already announced his inten-
ton of completing at the earliest posi-
BILE date all projects now under course of
construction, and he proposes to elimi-
nate in so far as he can all impediments
to this policy.
During the rest of this season work
will continue. The district, including
the Indian reservation, which is now
open to settlement, will receive most at
tertion from the government forces dur
ing the Summer, as it is proposed to
have water available for irrigation in
this district for the next growing season.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1907-06-01

Resting on this granite are beds
of rock several hundred feet thick,
composed of the lime -alumina gar
net, grossularite, graduating into
andradite by the partial replace
ment of the alumina and lime by
iron. This rock varies in texture
from a compact mass to coarse
crystalline aggregate of a CHINA
mon-brown color. Thick beds of
white to gray crystalline lime
stones cover portions of the gar
net rock, but their original area
has been greatly reduced by ero-
sion. An extensive series of meta
mornhic rocks also occur, whose
greatest development is on the
west side of the range where they
have nearby vertical dip and a
thickness OF 5000 feet. ms
series is uncomfortable with the
garnet and limestone on the west
ern slope and separated from them
by fault which has dropped this
later series into its present posi-
ton. These rocks are not as well
developed on the eastern slde' and
their relation to the garnet-lime
series is obscure. In composition
they range from silicihed lines to
microscopic aggregates OF tremo-
lite. INVESTIGATES and biotite, and
were probably lime shales and
states originally.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1907-06-01
TELLS OF MINES Of YER|NGTON CAMP
mining
Copper Of Paper cad In canada SKI

The following extract of paper
read by E. P. Jennings, the local
well-known mining engineer, be-
fore the Canada Mining Institute
last March appears in the Mining
World:
The Yerington copper deposits
in Lyon county, Nevada, 40 miles
southeast of the famous Comstock
lode, present many interesting
features both from commercial and
geological view points. The Ma
son Valley mountains, in which
the mines are located, are small
north-south range, about IS miles
long and 3 to E miles wide, with a
maximum elevation of $500 feet
above sea level and 1000 feet
above the valley of the Walker
K1Ver. lhe core or this range is
intrusive granite. exposed in the
highest peaks and in the deeper
canyons where the erosion has
been greatest, but covered by
metamorphosed sedimentary strata
on both the eastern and western
slopes. Late rhyolite flows occur
along the eastern base of the
mountains. The intrusive granite
is coarse-grained mixture of
feldspar, quartz, hornblende and
biotite, becoming porphyritic in
structure near the contacts.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1907-06-01
BRIEF MENTION

]. A. Knox, of Buckskin, was in town
today on mining business.
j. O. Birmingham returned from Car
son the first of the week.
]. M. Benleam was down from Buck
skin yesterday and continued on to Reno.
He reports the camp looking fine.
The principal Office of the Reno Yer
ington Copper Company will be moved
from Reno to Yerington next week.
jim Harris and wife came in from Au-
burn, CAL, last night and expect to
make this place their home in the future
c. F. Holland was called to Los An
geles Tuesday by the serious illness of
Mrs. Holland, who is in that city under
the Doctors care.
Frank Gallagher and R. S. Brooks
left for Los Angeles yesterday, called by
the serious illness of Mrs. Gallagher,
who is suffering from paralytic stroke.
City Attorney Baker will leave for
Reno and Dayton on legal business to-
morrow. He will attend the regular ses-
sion of court in Dayton on Monday
next.
The old Yerington brass band is being
re-organized. There is good material
here for brass band and the bows are
getting a hustle on for the Fourth of
July.
R. P. Barton, of southern Nevada,
was an arrival here the first of the week
to look over the district Mr. Barton is
practical miner, and from what he has
seen of this country, likes it nightly.
The Kockel Bros. were down from Ar
rowhead the first of this week with some
samples of ore from a new strike in that
district. Free gold could be seen in the
ore they exhibited at this Office. They
are now developing their claims.
B. G. Decker and wife, who have been
here for some weeks visiting Mr. Deck
er's sister, Mrs. G. B. Waldo, left Tues
day for their home in Hoxie, Kansas,
accompanied by Mrs. Waldo, who takes
the trip for the benefit of her health.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1907-06-01
STRIKE NEAR LUDWIG

Recently fve-foot ledge of copper
ore was reached at a depth of thirteen
feet in the Valadastack mine, near the
Ludwig, in the Yerington district. The
ore has very fine appearance and the
assays made recently showed that it ran
between four and five per cent in copper
and as high as $153 in gold and silver
The owners are Otto Shulz and Sam
Lucien, of Carson City.-Carson Appeal.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1907-06-01

is the granite, as shown by the
BluestOne mine on the eastern
side of the range, where the con-
tact is we'll exposed; .chalcopyrite
in a garnet-epidote gangue resting
directly on the barren intrusive
rock The marbleized limestone
which, in places, covers the gar
net rock, contains bedded veins
filled with oxidized copper ore in
quartz and calcite gangue. AT
water level, which in one case oc
ours at a depth of Goo feet, pyrite
and chalcopyrite begin to appear,
replacing the oxidized ore. The
mines have not been sufficiently
developed to show the relation of
the ore in the limestone with the
ore of the garnet shear zones, but
that there is some connection is
very probable. The original min
erals of the ore deposits are chal-
copyrite and pyrite which have
been oxidized and partly leached,
forming in the upper enrichment
zone, malachite, azurite and chrys-
ocolla, and covellite as coating.
or chalcopyrite in the upper sui
phide zone. Bornite and chalco-
cite occur as secondary sulphides
in few instances.
These ore occurrences can be
classed as contact-metamOrphic de-
posits, but differing from the ordi-
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1907-06-01
BREWERY AGENCY

Jay O'Loane came out from Dayton
again this week on business. He has
decided to locate somewhere in the city
of Yerington and establish an agency
for the Wunder Brewing Company, OF
California. Jay says he has already Sc,
cured several nice orders from the local
booze dispensaries.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1907-06-01
CEMENT ARRIVING

Two carloads of cement arrived at
Wabuska this week for the Yerington
Realty Syndicate, of Yerington, to be
used in the construction of cement side
walks and other purposes. Three more
carloads are on the road from the factory
for the same concern.