Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1910-03-19
ROSY VIEW OF THE
CAMP WITHOUT
A FAILURE

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Yerngton NOW has railroad pene-
tfating into the heart of its mineral re-
sources and General Manager Geo. Il.
Gum. Of the Mason Valley mines, an
uounces that this company proposes 10
begin work at once on the construction
of smelter at the cotnpanv's site near
Wabuska This work, he states, is to
he begun without further ado and with
out waiting for the full program of the
conlpany's refinancing to l,e rounded uI.
The news which has come to IeringtOii
during the past few DAYS that William
B Thompson. one of the principals of
the Mason Valley mines, and the man
who is most looked to al present to pro-
,.losed out his holdings in the La Rose
mine at Cobalt, Canada, thus doubtless
placing him in position to take up more
extensively the exploitation of his in
erests in Yerington, was received with
great satisfaction The belief i'll Yer
.ngton is that the Mason VALLEY inter-
tsts will make good on their smelter
proposition before the end of the sum-
iner, which means that Yerington. with
rom $50, 600. 800 TO 800, 0O0,OU0 i'll high
grade copper ore blocked out i'll its vari
,us shipping mines, will at once enter
he ranks of the low-cost copper pro-
lucers on a considerable scale
1t is hard to overestimate the import
lnce of the development, bv railroad
and sinelter, of Yerington to produc-
.ng basis, with economical transporta-
Jion and treatment facilities for its ores,
older copper districts of America. 1t
.las been known for years that Yering-
.on has perhaps the most Stensive min
eralized territory of amy district on this
continent, being, i'll fact, similar i'll lis
great breadth of area To the Lake Su-
perior district, where there is really
ombination OF several tliatricts in one
Experts have compared the mineralized
urea of Yerington with Ely, to the adj
vantage of the former. and it is known
that its mineral grounds far exceed
those of Butte or Bingham. 1t is also
morally certain that Yerington ores, in
addition to being of the highest grade
and neutral, self iluxing and direct
smelling, 30 to the deep i'll great vein
systems, thus assuring operations on
mammoth scale tor an indefinite period
of years A smelter expert. i'll recent
visit to the camp, viewed the ore expos
ures in the slopes, dumps, etc, and
went away saving that Nerington 5
need of a smelter was as great as had
been at any time that OF Ely and Bing-
lain.
But it is not upon mining alone that
Nerinyton will live and flourish i'll the
road. now half completed to The Nevata-
| Douglas mine the terminus, taps the
entire mineralized district and opens up
one Of the finest agricultural sections i'll
| he west.
The members of the State Railroad
commission of Nevada last summer
made tour of the territory to be ira
erse,l by the Nevada Copper Belt and
I rade a report to the hnancier and phil
tuthropist ID. @. Mills, of New York
,hoMing the resources of that section
The commission states that large cat
lie feeding business eau he established
immediately III Smith and Antelope val
evs. where the finest quality OF Timothy
lover and alfalfa hay can be raised
The commission also discussed the irri
CATION possibilities and the wool grow
my opportunities of tins country. to
yether with its rich deposits ot marble
gypsum, etc.-Copper, Curb and Min
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