The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-12
MASON HAS BIC
BUILDING BOOM
New Nevada Camp Is Forging
Rapidly to the
Front.
MINiNG COMPANIES
ARE ALL DOING WELL
Boston Capitalists, 1t Is Said,
Are Now Heavily In
terested.

MASON, New, June ll.-Mason is
Just now enjoying 4 building boom
which probably exceeds in extent that
of any other section of Nevada The
Nevada Copper Belt Railroad company
working about twenty carpenters and
painters is busily engaged in erecting
Il general office building, station,
roundhoUsc, machine shops, etc, and
nearly every daY now sees Il new resi-
dence or store building getting material
on the ground and starting work.
The Mason Lumber company is do
ing land office business, moi only ia
the town but at the npnes aud farms
adjacent to the town. During the past
week a number of merchants and busi~
ness men have arrived to look over the
field and in nearly every case have Sc
cured locations with the intentions OF
building either Immediately or at an
early date.
Preliminary work at the smelter site
Is progressing nicely, and IL Will be
matter Of n short time now when ma
terial begins to arrive at Wabuska. The
first consignment of steel rails for the
smeltcr extension OF the Copper Belt
railway Is expected this week. Several
carloads of tncs are arriving daily, and
as soon as the spur is completed into
the smeltcr grounds, work of laying
ihe steel on the extension Of tho line
south of Mason Will be started.
Douglas Company Busy.
The Nevada Douglas Copper company
this week increased its force sixteen
men and is rushing work on the instslla-
ton Of their new power line. This con-
slsls of new substitution and trans
former house and a new 150-horsepower
electrical hoist at the Ludwig shaft The
company is also installing new $50
horsepower air compressor and a surface
jram from the top of Douglas hill to the
railroad grade. 1000 feet below, As
soon as the new power line is in and
the additional machinery installed at
Tho Ludwig, Superintendent Arantz
Will increase his mine force 10 fifty
men. This should be about the middle
of July, or the first Of August of this
year,
Reports locally and from Boston have
1T that the Malachlte Copper mine has
that a crew of fifty men will be en-
ployed within the month. The Mala
chite is one of the most promising
properties in the camp. 1t adjoiDs the
Mason valley mine on the south where
the big S0-foot ore body has been de-
velopcd up TO within 100 feet of the
adjoining end lines. There is no ques-
tion that the Malachite will develop
INTO one of the biggest properties of
nv uiSliiSis anu IL IDphS rs IUtIc
was no question that it has changed TO
strong hands during the last week. The
Boston people who are accredited with
the purchase OF the control of the prop.
orty arc expected to arrive at Mason the
latter end of this week
In the Mt. Grant and Pine Grove gold
mining districts at the lower end of the
valley and III plain view from Mason
there IS great deal of activity Just
now. The keystone 20stamp D,iH is
being delivered on the ground this
blocking out ore. The Bartholomew
mill is running steadily and is making
a satisfactory extraction and at the !
same time increasing IFS ore reserves |,
The Pine Grove mine is working nine
teen men and is driving a 3000-foot tun- /
mel TO cut the ore body which is large |,
ly developed above The management |
100 feet when interesting developments !
are looked for. This property WAS .
formerly owned by the Wilson brothers /
of Mason Valley and is credited with
production exceeding SIX millions In !
the neighborhood OF seventy-6ve men
are working in the Mt. Grant and Pine /
Grove districts at the present time
Double the acreage of last year IS
being put in grain and potatoes in this /
valley this year and bumper crops arc ,
expected. The heavy snowfall Of last |
winter has provided an over abundance ,
Of water for irrigation which has made /
possible the increased acreage in crops
for this season. Two additional stations
nre to be established on the Copper
Belt line this summer for the handling
of the crops from the southern end /
of the valley. The new shipping points |
Will be at Nordylse, three and one-hslf |
miles south of Mason. and at Wilson S .
canyon. about seven miles south of this |
phase. The Copper Belt line is already
preparing for n heavy tonnage this fall.