Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-27
INTEREST GROWS
AT BABY TOWN
RAILROAD DAY AT MASON
WILL DRAW CROWD
ALL PEOPLE IN THE MINING
VALLEY TO CELEBRATE
Work on the Douglas Copper Mine
at 650=Foot Level - News
in the District Is
Cheering
Especial to The Herald. ]


YERINGTON, New, Dec. 26.-The
little town OF Mason is fairly bursting
with activity and Mason valleys baby
town seems to have started at last
on the high road to prosperity. Ar
rangements are going ahead with a
! swing for the proper observance of
4 railroad day which is being made a
! valley celebration. Forty Of the lead
ing men Of this valley are on the exec
1 utiYe committee, men who represent
over forty miles Of farming country
along the Walker river and from the
| interest they and the people generally
are taking in the railroad day celebra-
ton plans it is easy to predict that
i several thousand people will be in
Mason on that day. 1t has been impos-
sible to set the exact date of the cele-
/ bration, which is contingent upon the
completion Of track laying into Mason,
but it is certain that somewhere be-
tween the first and fifteenth of Jam
! uary the first railroad train Will roll
! into Mason, and for the first time in
the history of this valley the surround
ing hills will echo back the sound
of an engines whistle signaling
| crossing"
Work at the Nevada Douglas copper
mine is being confined to the 65O-foot
level, where an immense tonnage of
high grade sulphide cor per ore is being
blocked out. The new incline shaft
has been completed, and is declared by
experts to be one Of the finest pieces Of
mining engineering in the district. 1t
is fully timbered. The company Is
conhning its attention at present to
getting ready a heavy future produc-
ton. Much interest Is being manifested
in the vast gypsum deposits that eX-
ist on the estate of the Neyada-Doug-
las, and by the time that the new rail-
road is completed to the mine plans
will have been completed for the build
ing of one of the largest gypsum fac
tories in this country. There are lit
orally millions of tons of this product
I'm sight and practically blocked out
and the quality of the ore cannot be
eXcelled anywhere.
General Mining Notes
Two feet of ore that gives an aver
age assay of $31l.20 in gold per ton
has been opened in the Hargrove &
Bell lease on the Diamond Queen at
Fluorine, in the Bulfrog district. The
ore was encountered in the drift from
the bottom of the shaft at a depth OF
100 feet and indicates that probably
better body than the leasers have yet
had Is making its appearance. Asso-
ciated with this new strike is a good
body of lower grade material numerous
shipments from which have netted
from $50 to 800 a ton.
The Diamond Queen ore is highly
ozidized and as a general rule gives but
little outward indication of its real
values, which are frequently surpris-
ing, as shown by fire assay About
$4,000 has been shipped from the Dia-
mond Queen during the last few
months, the average value per ton be
ing about $75 in gold. The company is
now working a small force of men in
addition to the development that is be-
ing done by leasers.
Louis X. Kontz, general manager of
the c. o. d. Mining company at Gold
field, is figuring on suspending opera
tions on the Victor shaft within few
davs. and will after the first of the
new year begin development of the Vic
tor vein through the SHAFT of the Gold
ore Leasing company, on the Gold
Bar claim This shaft is 600 feet deep,
and as the Victor vein dips very
strongly toward it, Mr.. Hoontz believes
that it can be developed more eco
nomically at this depth through the
Gold ore shaft than through the Vic
tor shaft. A strong body of ore has
been opened at various places in the
Victor workings, values ranging from
milling grade up to 5000 and $500 per
ton.
Work on Cherokee Lease
Work is to be resumed on the Cher
okee lease on the Atlanta, at Gold
field. Under the new order of things,
the lease will be operated by sub
leasing syndicate composed chiefly OF
the principal hackers of the original
lease. 1t is expected that the vein that
was cut by the shaft at depth OF 540
feet will soon be reached by the cross
cut on the GAO level, which has been
driven down 140 feet, and is believed
to be close to the objective point. The
shaft exposed about two feet of ore
carrying S1S to $50 per ton in gold, with
n considerable percentage of copper,
and it is thought that the increased
depth will show much better values.
A new shaft is about to be sarted
close to the water mark of the Tono-
nah a Goldfield railroad, on the San
Grass claim, by the Tonopah Mining
company. Occupants of houses that are
in the way have been notified to move,
and twenty miners are to be employed
i'm rushing the work in its various
phases.
In the past year the values of the
Red Plume claim have caused the
average of the big eompanys ores TO
keen up, and it is believed that there
is much significance behind the SINK
ing of the Sand Grass shaft. The bet
ter values of the mine seem to run in
that direction, which is north OF
westerly.