Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-01-19
PLAN BIG Things
FOR YERINGTON

A broad gauge railroad from YER
ington to Wabuska, a smelter with Il
capacity of 500 tons per day and en-
ployment for hundreds of laborers
and miners in Lyon county for 1908.
These are the plans of A. ]. Orem,
who, with his associates, control the
famous Nevada-Douglas and Ludwig
copper properties near Yerington.
Orem is a member of the firm of
Orem & Company, mine owners and
operators of Boston and Salt Lake
City. He recently secured control of
is now on his way to Yerington to
direct the beginning of work which
promises to- make that great copper
camp second to none in the world.
He spent yesterday in Reno and with
G.. A. Williamson and William f.
Ginot left for Yerington, last night.
Williamson is mining engineer OF
reputation in Europe. This is his
first visit to the United States. He
was formerly with George Goch Com
pany of Johannesburg South Africa.
He accompanies Orem and his asso-
ciates to Yerington with view of eX-
aiming the district, passing upon the
Nevada Douglas and Ludwig prop
critics and preparing report which,
it is believed will eventually result
in interesting wealthy English mining
men in the Yerington district.
Ginot is wealthy lumber man of
Maine. He is interested in the Orem
enterprise.
Neither the price of copper nor
the recent depression has affected our
plans in the least" said Orem last
! night. "Our work has gone ahead
without a stop. We are now going
into Yerington to prepare for big
years work. The first thing that will
be done will be the building of rail-
road from our properties at Yering-
ton to the main line of the Southern
Pacific at Wabuska We have been
sampling our ores and experimenting
with different processes for the treat
ment of our ores for some time and !
believe we will soon be able to begin
work on the first .installment of our
smelterl 1t will be on the Smithy
Valley side of the mountain, an ideal
location for the plant and in place
where the farming interests will not
suffer. To begin with the plant will
have capacity of treating 500 tons
of ore per day.
"In addition to this work will b.
pushed on our properties. 1t is oul
intention to have these improvements
we'll under way if not completed and
in operation before the end of the
present year.
THE report of Mr.. Jennings on the
Nevada-Douglas and the Ludwig
properties shows that we have not
less than 100000 tons of copper
ore carrying per cent values and al
least 100000 tons carrying 10 pei
cent in copper. This is enough tx
keep our smelters going for the mex
three generations and yet we do no
know how much ore of higher grade
we have. For instance, recently OF
the 550-foot level of the Douglas W.
drifted 80 feet in solid ore and cross
cut it for 81 feet in ore all the time
This ore goes 35 per cent in copper
and the quantity blocked out in thi
small amount of development worl
carries copper values at more thai
/ $75O,O0O.
Al Copper is one of the staple metals
of the world Civilization is not go
ling back and while it marches for
ward copper will be the most sought
for of the common minerals. l be
Ilieve we are now on the eve of al
electrical era. The steam locomotiv,
is passing; electricity is taking it
place and where coal and fire ant
steel and steam are now used t.
move the commerce of the world
copper wires and electricity will sool
rule and as rapidly as it does so will
: the use of copper increase.
Not half the world as yet know
of the power of electricity and use Q
! copper in the transmission of thi
mysterious fluid. AS an example onl
one or two places in all of China
I with it's millions of Inhabitants an
miles of territory know the convent
; ence of travelling on an electric car o
{ talking through a telephone.
When copper was 26 cents
i pound no one could find substitut
for it. This insures certain deman
: for It, The present price will not re
. main long. There is certain to be
: rise, but not as high as before.
will probably remain between 10 an
: 16 cents. At this price there is