The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-16
MASON VALLEY IS
DEVELOPING BIG
Experts Examine Mine and
Report Is Favorable for
SmeIter.
COPPER BELT ROAD
WILL HELP CAMP
Nevada Douglas Shaft Being
Equipped for Future
Production.

Concerning the recent visit of Llew
Humphries and j Lcbarthe, smelling
expert, TO Mason Valley, the News says
''The range of inquiries instituted
by J. Beharthc seems to be in keeping
with the Importance of the project he
now has in hand For more than a
week, in company with Consulting En-
gineer Lew Humphries of Gum Thomp
son engineering staff and Superintend
ent Jack Wclch of the Mason Valley
mine, he has conducted an examination
of the Mason Valley, collateral to
which there has been general eN.
ploratiOn of adjacent or nearby prop
critics; also the smelter site, where work
is in progress, a careful study of the
transportation problem. including a
minute survey from town to the mine
and q thousand and one points, the
exact data for which must be at, the
command of the metallurgist In deter
mining the details of smelter construc-
tlon of a plant such as to insure sue
cess at the very start,
Prepare for Plant.
Several, days moro will be devoted
TO the task Of making up a budget
of details and clear the way for the
installation of the plant that is TO
solve the problem of ore treatment in
Mason district
Investors can but be pleased with
the careful manner in which prelimi-
nary steps are being taken; and it
is evident that The present movement
20 complete the smclter project is
characterized in tho reports Of Llew
Humphries. upon Mason Valley and
Nevada Douglas properties, which re-
ports are, undoubtedly. responsible
for the confidence of the investing
public, making it possible for the pres.
cnt programme Of development to be
realized up 10 the present status. and
10 be assured Of its completion.
New Railroad.
"The Nevada Copper Belt railroad
IN process of construction, and practi-
callv completed as far as Mason,
thanks 10 the energy and enterprise Of
w, {; Orem, general manager Of the
Nevada Douglas Copper company. did
not have ITS inception in Il promotion
scheme, neither did the smelter project
OF the Mason Valley Mines company:
the foundation of both consists OF orc
development, which the Mason Valley
citizens and outside Investors in local
properties have watched with an in
tense interest.
Mason Valley Mine.
As TO the Mason Valley mine. with
the information that the upraises at
No ; and No. 4 levels. designed for
ventilation, are about to be completed
comes the certified statement that in
each of these air shafts. which. from
top to bottom, distance of nearly three
hundred feet, pierce the heart of the
ore reserves, have been continually in
ore Of lar better than an average grade.
In fact, the upTaise from No. level
has recorded an average OF better than
from q 10 per cent copper. The true
significance of these facts will not he
lost on any person familiar with the
developed ore reserves of the Mason
Valley; while the existence OF the con.
tlnuous ore body from level TO level has
heretofore been amply demonstrated the
disclosures Of these upraises make n
further demonstration that the values
are also continuous throughout, with
occasional! enrichments that put the
ultra-conservatives in n state of fem.
porarY embarrassment
"Over at the Nevada Douglas devcl.
opments are awaiting the arrival Of
the Copper Belt, The 750-foot shaft
incline, which taps the sulphide orc
bodies, is entirely completed. and at
present work is confined to eouipping
the same with the necessary machinery
TO operate on producing basis