Show VIRGIN TERRITORY OPEN TO MEN Many Prospectors Flock to Walker River Reservation in Nevada HAS THREE MINERAL BELTS Valno of JI l Problematical am I Thou y Are Arc I Prepared fo to In II I I There Thero has ha been a n great rent ex exodus o of mining men nn and prospectors train from Goldfield Tonopah and antI Reno for fOl the tin Walker Talker River Rive reservation which Is to tobe tobe tole be le opened today for Cor settlement and antI for the tho location of oC mining mininG claims The Time fact act that the tho country has been heen forbidden forbidden for for- bidden ground doubtless Is responsible ble he for fOl many of the stories of great mineral minerai wealth to bo he found there but from froni the statements of if f conservative men It I Is not unlikely that tho the reservation reser reser- contains some somo very good gooc mineral min mm- oral eral rl lands Dr G. G W. W T a well known mining engineer of gl Ely says there arc are three known mineral mIneraI belts bels In the res res- C aton Ono One Ole Is JR a porphyry formation forma forma- tion Uon running northward train from flom Mt lf Gran he Iii- says varying from a mile mileto to four miles mies distant front from the tho western western west west- em ern edge of the tho lake Jake This belt eJ carries high values in gold goll golc hut but the ledges are aro Rma small I have havu seen many rich specimens from this district all ni of which came caine from within the tw reserva reserva- tion Lon Twenty or ot f thirty miles mies above this is If a second zone which carries canies I lead leat silver and cop copper pe lead leatI mating This Flits Is almost directly cast of or Yerington but hut acro across s the Walker River range runge Across s the lake Jalie on the low range which hIchi follows the tho cast east side sido of or the lake g good oil value values In gold gohl and antI silver sl el have been found Coull by parties This belt hel extends eastward across the tue border lord bord er Cr of or the reservation where whelo some work has been blen prosecuted h by Goldfield Goldfeld Of OC cOU course e the tho fact that miners have been heen the interior interim department department depart dopart- ment has lent a rom romance to the countr country country coun coun- tr try and antI Its Is mineral value has hag probably probably ably been heen exaggerated In some re respects respects re- re but Is well wel worth prospecting i if U the e samples amples from flom it count for any any- any t thing II I ug |