Show BECOMING ACTIVE CAMP LAS RESULT OF RAILROAD BUILDING animated by assurances that actual construction of the levells contact rogerson railroad will commence this month mine owners in in contact nevada are preparing for extensive development preparatory to shipping ore as soon as the first link 0 of the boac road from rom Ro rogerson orerson to contact is completed a and nd ready to receive freight the distance is but thirty ive five miles and the way railroads are built nowadays it will be but a short time before contact will realize its dream of many years of rail connection says a nevada mining nino press correspondent the utah construction company has submitted bids for grading the road and dirt will soon begin to fly the oregon short line which is to build the road surveyed a line thirteen years ago from roz rogerson 1 1 to a point on the southern pacific between wells and cobre shipped during world war the mines of contact are located along a limestone contact for a distance of about six miles and have produced a considerable amount of high grade copper dur ing inthe the world war when copper sold at a pound ore was hauled by wagon to rogerson for shipment to utah sm elters the district was discovered in 1876 when the china mountain buntain mines were located by an official of the southern pacific railroad in 1880 copper ore was shipped from the boston mitie mine to swansea wales and to boston according to the united states geological survey during the decade that followed the country country lay dormant with a revival in ISM 1888 when the delano brooklyn empire and copper queen neen mines were located and considerable development dvork was done in 1895 there was another period of activity and in the following year W T mcardle shipped from the hanks mine eight carloads of ore that assayed 24 per cent copper and 14 ounces silver per ton butte man built smelter in 1896 7 S P kemper of butte mont organized t the salmon river mining company and with the aid of twenty ocal local men who contributed each built a 50 ton smelter 01 if the water jacket type the smelter was not a success and d after producing fourteen tons of 98 per cent copper from om ore obtained r principally F from the bluebird mine it ivas s closed the district slumbered until 1905 when with only five ini iden in in camp and no properties working there was an un ejected pecked revival in 1908 there were vere people in camp ow g chiefly to the starting of operation on the ivy wilson group by the united states smelting smelling Sm elting company camp rated as second butte co i intact is often referred to as a second butte and is cons nelden one of the greatest potential copper camps of the t st the he paleozoic pale sedimentary rocks which previously cov the red the entire area have been intruded by y granite 1 rocks al deposits of the district occur principally on the contact so 50 zone of and limestone one in a curve nearly then her nailes r long which is called the horseshoe most of of if i howe ver er are in the toe of the shoe on the west side the e salmon balmon river the 7 dep 0 sits are arc grouped in three classes by the survey contact cent orphic fissure veins and replacement de posits montt tact I 1 in the limestone though less conspicuous than the tob be deposits the fissure veins appear to 40 more promising according to schrader of the survey saya ys they are more regular and persistent generally they are from one to four feet wide but attain an extreme width in places of forty feet the ores of the district are almost wholly copper ores but they also contain small amounts of gold and silver the ore minerals are malachite argentite azurite cuprite galena b gold old ceru cite hematite and of the copper minerals minerals 11 it is considered probable that alone is primary the others being derived from it the salmon river which flows through contact assures an abundant supply of water for all purposes electric power will be obtained from an idaho hydroelectric hydro electric plant |