Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1913-11-15
Old Camp Aurora
Looming, Up
UTAH PEOPLE DOING GREAT
THINGS IN MINING WAY.

One of the finest automobile trips
for person to make Is the one to
Aurora, by way OF Kinds Springs,
" ellington, Sweetwater and Fletcher.
A Times representative made this trip
last Tuesday upon invitation OF Su-
perntendent Sullivan, of the Nevada
Copper Belt. The road is a regular
boulevarde for nearly the entire dis
tance there being only two really bad
places. The Commissioner of Smith
Valley certainly deserves credit tor
kkeeping the roads in such good con-
dition and we are sorry that we can
not say the same of the roads i'll this
valley
At Wellington the Reading Broth
ers were called upon during short
stop and they report things III busi-
ness way improving in that section
every minute Continuing on towards
Sweetwater we met and passed any
number OF freight teams and auto
trucks coming from and going to
Aurara. all loaded with freight. Stop
ping at Paddy Conway's home for din
ner we had a most enjoyable visit with
MIR. Conway and his family (and, by
| the way if YOU ever have a longing
the Conway ranch and arrive there at
meal -time). This section of the coun-
trv looks prosperous. The meadows
for several miles in extent are Gov
cred with cattle which look to be
shippers right off the grass. Leaving
| Conwav's we spin along the fine road
towards Fletcher's on by Del Monte
| CANYON. which shows many relic OF
by gone mining greatness, past the old
Del Monte mill, which years ago
ground out millions for its owners,
and on into the old camp of Aurora.
/ We found here hustling. busy little
( burg Many new buildings have been
erected and number OF the old ones
repaired and put in use again. The
| old Esmeralda court house. built of
brick. is being repaired and remodeled
and will become a hotel. We saw the
ruins of the old Mcleod store. and the
place where Mac Glenn used to pub
lish the Aurora Herald up to the time
the county seat was moved to Haw-
thornc in 1888: also teh old residence
of Judge Wells who was Assembly
man from Esmeralda when the change
OF county seats was made. and whom
the indignant citizens of Aurora hung
in eitgy when he voted for the meas
ure Many other historical points were
pointed out about which a romantic
article could be woven did space
u permit
Passing over the divide above town
and down Mill Canyon for about a
mile and quarter beyond the town
we came to the Aurora Consolidated
Mining Co.'S property We found this
to be a very busy place. The com
pany is well along with the building of
00-stamp mill The building is up
and under cover and the company is
waiting for the machinery to arrive.
This is coming as fast as teams and
auto trucks can haul il from Hudson.
The massive concrete foundations for
the batteries are completed and the
batteries will be rapidly set when they
arrive The mill will be connected
with the mine by an electric tramway
about three e-eighths OF mile in
length. At the mill end large ore bins
and a rock crushing plant will be in
stall d. a belt conveyor being used to
convey the ore from the rock crushcr
to the stamps The tramway is prac-
tically completed and work on the
crushing plant is being pushed ahead
rapidly The surface improvements
cover quite an acreage. consisting of
mach shops. warehouses. assay
Office, Managers Office and dwellings,
a comfortable hotel. bunk houses and
dwellings, for employees: also water
system with which all buildings are
conn cted
The mine is about three -eghths of
mile from the mill and the lower
tunnel is being driven ahead as rap
idly as possible, A big compressor of
Zoo cubic feet capacity arrived
Thursday and is being installed at
the lower tunnel 1t is expected that
this tunnel has reached the vein by
the time OF this writing By the time
the mill is ready for operations the
mine will be opened up to such an eX-
tent that there will be years OF pro-
duction ahead.
The principal officers of the com
pany are Jesse Knight. OF Proov,
Utah; w Lester Magnum. General
Manager; J H. Leavel, Manager OF
Mine. havii direct supervision of all
| mining and milling of ores: II w.
Fox. Superintendent of Mill; John
Blee, Superintendent OF Mine.
The estimated expenditure for de-
velopment of the mine, construction
OF mill and surface improvements is
$500,000 before pound OF ore goes to
the mill
The return trip to Yerington was
made via Fletcher, Morgan's and
Pmmmer's. over as fine a mountain
road as there is in the west until the
upper end of Mason Valley is reach
ed, and from that point to Yerington
the road is a disgrace to anv civilized
community Everybody who travels
his portion of the road is complain
ing and the. Commissioner Tor this dis
trict should see that the condition is
: remcdied Such roads are not a good
advertisement for the county