Show ICON TACT CAMP CAMPIS CAMPi i IS ON THE MOVE II Two Hundred People Now in in Rich Northern Elko Coun COlln County County ty Copper District The Tho various arlous reports received from Con Contact Contact Contact tact arc are all to the same effect that the camp is very el rapidly coming to the front and is destined to soon become one of at if not the most important copper producing camps in the state says the Wells eUs ev State Herald Horald The fact fa t that a railroad will wUl certainly be built into the camp dur during durIng durIng ing the tho coming summer and that outside capital is being freely freel Invested there are a athe the leading factors leading to the present activity in that region For many years it has hs been known that underneath the earths crust in the Sal Salmon Salmon Salmon mon River district there existed vast de deposits deposits posits of copper ore of a very good grade and at times during the past much of this ore has been sorted up and transported by wagon miles to Wells and then by b railroad to Salt Lake or Vallejo smelters Even Een under these great disadvantages disadvantages disadvantages vantages those who ho have carefully sorted their ore and shipped It out have made it pay Now that a railroad Is to tap the re region reton gion glon ton the dreams of those who have stood solidly by b the camp the firm believers in Its future are about abott to see their dreams dream realized Judging from the statements of conser conservative conservative aUve men who have visited the camp lately and also from the assertions of those who ho are more or less Interested there there seems no doubt that Contact will ee zee good times this summer It Is reported that there are now fully MO oO men in the camp engaged in develop development ment work ork prospecting and leasing and aud some of the tho men thus employed are taking out ore for shipment Three com corn companies companies panics have been formed and lots are arenow arenow arenow now being disposed of At the location which it is said will be the chief business portion of Contact a general merchandise store a lumber yard and two more saloons will Ill be he opened within the next thirty days Lumber for a hotel has been or ordered ordered dered and it Is expected that the building will be ready read to accommodate guests with within in the next sixty days das This structure will willbe willbe be feet Among tho those e who have hac lately spent a afew afEW afew few days das at Contact were Joseph M 31 1 Taber of or Elko and Roy Luckenbach of Philadel Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadelphia phia a gentleman l representing considerable ble capital and who has become interested with Mr 11 Taber and associates In a group of very promising premising claims Taber and Luckenbach came in from Contact last Sunday afternoon and spent the even een evening evening ing in here They expressed themselves highly pleased with their examination of the district and brought In some splendid specimens of ore are from a number of the mines there located Taber and Luckenbach arc are associated in their min mining mm ing In ventures with Dr J R It Eby Eb Dr D J 1 Gilliland Gililland M W Conway and Andy Jolly of Elko and own the Elko group comprising comprisIng ing nine nino claims mile southwest or of Contact While here Mr Taber who spent a number of years ears in Butte re remarked remarked remarked marked that he saw more copper In Con Contact Contact Contact tact during his short stay sta there than he ever did at Butte ROUND MOUNTAIN CO COTO COTO COTO TO PAY OUT At A t a meeting of the board of directors of ot th the Round Mountain Mining company yes yesterday yesterday th the fourth quarterly dividend amounting to was authorized says the Goldfield Tribune This makes a to total total total tal of l jOt paid by the Round Moun roun Mountain tain tam Mining company In n dividend and Inasmuch as us the directors have planned to increase the capacity of the plant as IlI detailed several days das ago the earnings will probably Justify heavier disburse disbursements disbursements ments to shareholders The present divi is on a basis of ot about 10 O 0 per cent of the market price The plant at Round Mountain Is producing a month or about a day The capacity of the mill will be increased to tons a day with a compressor with ten drills added and also a tubular mill |