The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-13
YERINGTON To
HAVE SHELTER
First 250- Ton Section of Plant
to Be Complete
April /.
SITE ON CARSON RIVER
PLENTY OF FLUXING MATERIAL
ON GROUND.

YeringtOn copper camp is to have a
smelter within easy reach and it is to
be in operation by next April. 1t is to
be 250-ton plant at the start, and the
mines of YeringtOn will have a freight
rate OF not to exceed 81 a ton for con-
veying their ores to the reduction plant.
Such is the news which was brought
from the district yesterday by Captain j.
E. Game, who has been looking after his
interests in that camp and locality.
The new smelter is being built by the
Western Nevada SHELTERS corporation, of
which James YeringtOn, son of the man
for whom the town of YeringtOn was
named, is the active spirit. The site of
the plant is in Carson canyon, where the
company owns the full water right of
Carson river, obtained by the senior Yer
ingtOn from the Indians. The company
also owns $50 acres of ground upon which
volcanic ash-afl of the material required
for fluXing the ores. The site is that of
the old mill of the Merrimac mine, which
is owned by the YeringtOns.
Material for the first 2J0-ton section of
the smelter has all been ordered, Mr..
Game says, and the work of constructing
buildings and foundations is under way.
IT is the intention to have the first sec
ton in operation not later than April 1.
The site of the smelter is about forty
miles from the mines of YeringtOn. 1t
is on the Virginia & Truckee railroad,
which connects with the Southern Pa
CHIC III MOuUuQOuS9- Inc matter OF
maximum rate for transporting the ores
has already been arranged.
This assurance OF a market for the ores
is already awakening new activity at the
mines, Mr.. Game says, and it is not I'M
likely that Yerington Copper, in which
he is interested, will be one to redouble
its energies in the way of preparing for
production.
Yerington copper's Showing.
While Mr.. Game has kept reasonably
we'll informed concerning developments in
the YeringtOn Copper cOmpany's mine, he
says that the showing of ore is better
than he had anticipated seeing. On the
R0-fOOt level the westerly drift has been
run forty feet and the easterly drift eighty
feet. both following the rich ore, which
is eight feet wide and runs from to II
per cent copper and several dollars in
silver. A crosscut driven sixty feet from
the bottom Of the shaft has not yet en-
countered the hanging wall, but as the
hanging wall is approached the values be-
come smaller. It is the belief of engineers
mine are skimming the top Of the sui
phde zone.
The work of laying steel on the Copper
Belt railroad at YeringtOn is being pushed,
Mr.. Game reports. The Y connections
with the Southern Pacific line at Wabus-
ka were complete when he was there, and
a half mile of ties and steel had been
laid toward camp,
Speaking of Mason Valley and the pos
sibiiity of a reason for the slump IN the
price of stock, Mr.. Game said that he
went through the mine and he is posi-
tive that it's ore reserves have been trebled
I'm the last six months, with no reason
TO believe that the blocking out of ore
will not be continued without interruption.