Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1911-10-28
REPORT ON THE
YERINCTON COPPER

The Yerington Copper company, which
owns some good ground two miles east
OF Herlngton, recently held a stockhold-
ers' meeting at Salt Lake. At the meet
ing it was decided to reorganize the asso-
ton Hereafter the company will be
known as the New Yerineton Copper
Co. 1t has been capitalized at 900, 600
shares OF stock, at the par value of 81
per share. Stockholders in the old com
panY viii receive one share of stock in
the new company for two they held in
the old one. This will enable the new
concern to dispose of treasury stock, the
proceeds of which will be devoted to de-
veloping the property.
Il am i'll favor of putting the property
on a paying basis so that it will bear at
least portion of the expense of develop
ment, and of starting campaign of de
yelopment work vigorously, to determine
at as early date as possible the posi-
bilities of making a mine. In my opin-
ion the property has.more than an aver
age chance of developing into paying
proposition"
With the above paragraph Engineer
Duncan MacVichie concludes a COM
muncation to the president and direct
ors of the Yeriugton Copper company,
the property of which organization is in
the Mason Mining District of Nevada,
/ located within four miles of the Nevada
Copper Belt railroad tracks. Mr.. Mac
Nichie made an examination of the prop
erty just recently for the officials, and
while he gives assay values as found, he
makes no attempt to state the value of
tonnage. owing to the ores not being
sufficiently blocked for this purpose.
The country rock of the property, the
letter states, is a porphyritic granite, in
tersected by diorite aud other igneous
rocks. The veins OF the Yerington Cop
per property follow one of the diorite
dikes, which has an apparent width of
from 80 to loo feet The strike is about
east and west. with a southerly dip of
approximately 6S degrees. Practically
all the work is done on the vein on the
north side Of the dixie, only a few shall
low pits having been sunk on the south
side
The shaft is on the western end of the
group. driven to the 4O0-foot level, and
for the most part in the footwall. The
vein was encountered $50 feet from the
surface by station cut in the hanging
wall side, and again on the 400 level by
a cross-cut cut 10 feet to the south. In
various tunnels considerable work has
been done. bringing some excellent ore
to view. Several surface openings have
been made 700 feet east of the shaft,
showing in the vein ore of good quality
in paving quantities.
After giving a detailed description of
the various shaft and tunnel workings,
Mr.. MacVichie then states:
Il am not prepared at this time to say
whether it would be necessary to sink
the shaft to greater depth. This can
be better determined when the develop
ments on the 400 foot level are contin-
ued to the east, and the ore shoots to
the east. already mentioned, developed
to that depth. The long surface tunnel
should be continued east and raise
started on the ore from which No. s
sample (9.23 per cent copper was Sc
cured so as to develop this tonnage.
There should also he short tunnel
started on the east side of the hill to de
yelop the ore body already exposed on
the surface. The ore is of excellent
quality and can be sent to the smelter
very prohtably
"A wagon road should he constructed
on the east side of the mountain, con-
tracts should be made with the smelling
company for the smelling of the ore and
general plan of development work
carried on.