Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1910-08-20

Hope deferred inaketh the heart SICK.
That isn't an original saying, but one
has to start off an article with something
and the above is good enough particu-
larly when one can say something more
cheering soon after.
For number OF years the mine oper-
ators of the Yerngton district have real
zed that they must have a snelter close
at hand in order to proitably work their
properties. Several years back they re-
would be built. Months ago the Mason
Valley Mines Company began laying
plans to build smelter at Wabuska,
but, as is usual in such large enterprises,
there have been MANY unforeseen delays
and today actual construction work at
the smelter site has not been COM
menced
And it is these delays = necessary
though they be-thdt 'maketh sick the
heart" of the man who is waiting.
But-take it from us-actual construc-
ton work on the smelter at Wabuska
will soon begin and there will be few de
lays until it is ready to receive ore.
Why not2 The money to build it is
raised and actually in hand-we have
the best of assurances on that point
there is plenty of ore of a commercial
grade in the Yerington district to keep
it busy for years to come, and railroad
from the mines TO the smeter
Can YOU beat that combination?
Why combination like that will un-
lock a bank safe any time.
And il is not only the ores of the Yer
ington district that can and will be
treated. The smelter-which will treat
custom ores--is so located geographic
ally that il will naturally be fed from
one of the biggest undeveloped ore
zones in the country. Luning Nina
Virginia City, Silver City, Bodie, Au-
rora. Buckskin, and other camps-to
saw nothing of Goldfield and Tonopah-
can have their ores treated at the Mason
Valley Mines Company smelter at Wa
buska.
But, as said before, there is enough
ore of commercial grade developed i'll
the Yerington district alone to keep it
busy for years
Further there is now OH the dumps,
or blocked out ready for economical
stopping, enough ore above the No 4
tunnel in the Mason Valley mine
owned by the same people who are
building the smelter-to furnish the
latter 500 tons a dav for at least eight
years. And this ore is of grade that
will pay handsomely, even at the pres
ent low price OF copper
There is no doubt about the state
ments in the above paragraph. 1t is
not a matter of guesswork, hope or
surmise. 1t has been figured out to a
mathematical certainty Before the Ma
son Valley Mines people decided to
build the smelter they had the ore re-
serves carefully sampled and measured
up. The process of treatment was de-
cded upon after exhaustive tests and
the cost approximately determined, The
cost of mining and development was
figured out and the cost of transporting
the ore on the railroad to Wabuska is
definitely known.
So, again we repeat, there is no guess
work about the Mason Valley mine and
smelter paving handsomely.
1t is true the experts igures-on
which il was decided to build the smell
ter-have been modified, but only where
ore reserves have been added to, costs
reduced and profits increased,
For instance, the experts figured on a
certain tonnage of certain average
grade of ore above the lowest level in
the mine at the time they examined it.
Their figures were correct as far as
could be demonstrated then, but the
pitch and rake OF the ore shoots are
very erratic, and in opening up the
slopes, Superintendent Welsh has dem
onstrated that there are thousands upon
thousands of tons more ore in the upper
workings than the experts figured on