The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-02-07
YERINGToN Is GREAT DISTRICT
Visitor Talks About Its Prop
perties-MasOn City Makes
Splendid Strides.

SALT LAKE, Feb e. H.
Turner returned yesterday from a
western "trip that took in California
from Inyo county up and across the
line into the big copper district of
Lyon county, Nevada.
There is nothing resembling a
boom there. but there is a ire
mendous steady growth that is back
ed by nothing but the splendid show
ing being made in the mines of the
Mason and East Yerington district, :
said Mr.. Turner 1T is not necessary
/ for me to talk about what has been
and is being accomplished at the
/ Mason Valley. Nevada Douglas. West
ern Nevada or other mines in that
portion of the district, as YOU hear
from them quite frequently.
III should be said however, con-
tinued Mr.. Turner, that Mason City,
the big town in the country before
long. is being handled in splendid
shape by the management of the
townsite company. Splendid build
ings are going up, and the require
ments of the place are being looked
after with an eye to the future. when
city has been builded. The grading
of the streets. yhe installation of
waterworks. the preparations for
electric lighting. sewerage. etc, all
go TO show that the management al
ready appreciates the permanency of
the mines and the wonderful growth
they will insure TO the town
Touching the East Yerington pro-
ton of the district, Mr.. Turner said
he found the Yerington Copper COM
pany's property 10 he looking fine.
A twenty-one-foot crosscut on the
400-foot level, he said had failed TO
disclose the full width of the vein.
all of which was good copper ore.
\ drift ninety feet is also cut the
entire distance in ore and everything
indicates more and more ore as the
development progresses. A new
cable is now being placed on the hoist
and the incline shaft has been laid
with 25-pound rail in order that the
skip can be handled more rapidly and |
with perfect safety. Water level has
just been reached, and, while the ore /
now being opened up is largely sui /
phide. Mr. Turner says he has no |
doubt that every foot of depth from |
now on will show an improvement, |
as the leached zone will be left be-
hind.
The Yerington Copper Mountain,
ad Joining. is now down 100-feet with
its inclined shaft. The first eighty
five feet were all the way in ore At
the depth mentioned the ledge
Strengthened up and the rest of the
distance has been sunk in the hang
ing wall of the vein. There is no
question about the vein. There is
no question about the kind of prop
erty this is going to make with de-
velopment
A powerful New England syndi-
cate, Mr.. Turner says. is behind the
Yerington Black Rock company,
which owns property adjoining the
Copper Mountain on the southeast.
They have a shaft 100 feet down in
fine ore, and machinery capable of
operating to depth of 900 feet is
now being installed. This company,
Mr.. Turner says, has been thorough
ly financed and is operating in bust
nesslike manner. 1t proposes to sink
| 900 feet without a halt, and he has
no doubt ii will do so.
"Yerington is a wonderful mining
country" concluded Mr.. Turner. In
not single instance that ! know
anything about has intelligent work
failed to bring results. That a rail-
road and smelling facilities will be
provided during the present year |
have no doubt.