Show YERINGTON TO HAVE First Ton Section of Plant to Be Complete 1 April Apri I II I SITE ON CARSON RIVER i PLENTY OF FLUXING MATERIAL ON GROUND Yerington copper camp cap Is to have a smelter within easy reach reah and it I is to tobe tobe tobe be In operation by next April It is to tobe tobe tobe be a plant at the start and the mines of Yerington will wi have hav a freight rate of not to exceed 1 a ton for con conveying conveying their ores to the reduction plant Such Suc Is the news which was brought from the district yesterday by Captain J JE JE JE E Caine Calne who has been ben looking after aner his interests interest in that camp caMp and locality The new smelter is being beng built bui by tho the Western Nevada Smelters corporation of which James Yerington son of the man manfor manfor manfor for whom the town of Yerington was named is the active spirit The site of the plant is in Carson Carn canyon canon whore the company owns the full ful water right of Carson river obtained by the the senior Yer Yerington Ye YerIngton ington ingon from the Indians The company also owns owns acres of ground upon which Is i a vast tonnage of Iron limestone and volcanic ash ashal ashall all of the th material required for fluxing the ores ores The site is that of the old mill mi of the Merrimac mine which is owned owne by the Material for the first first section of the smelter has all been ordered Mr Caine says sas sI s and the work of constructing buildings building and foundations is under way i It I is the intention to have the first sec see section I tion In operation not later than April 1 The site sie of the tie smelter is about forty I miles mies from the mines of Yerington It Itis I Itis is on the Virginia Truckee railroad which connects with wih the Southern Pa Pacific cic at Tile The Tie matter mater of a maximum rate for transporting the ores or has already been arranged This assurance of a market for the te ores ore is already awakening new activity at the mines Mr Caine says and it I Is not un unlikely Unlikely likely that Yerington Copper in which he is interested will wi be one to redouble its energies In the way of preparing for production Yerington Coppers Showing While hUe Mr Ir Caine has kept reasonably r l well wel Informed concerning developments In Inthe Inthe inthe the Yerington Copper mine he says that the showing of ore Is better beter than he had anticipated seeing On the level the westerly drift has been ben run forty feet and ad the easterly drift eighty feet fet both following the rich ore which is eight feet wide and runs from 5 to 11 per cent copper and several dollars in silver siver A crosscut driven sixty feet from the bottom of the shaft has not yet ret en encountered encountered countered the hanging wall wal but as the hanging wall wal is approached the values be become b become come smaller It is the belief belef of oC engineers that the th workings working of this level of the mine are skimming the top of the sul sulphide sulphide zone The work of laying la steel on the Copper Belt Bel railroad at Yerington is being pushed Mr I Caine reports The Y connections with wih the Southern Pacific line lne at Wabuska ka were complete when ho lIe was there and anda a half hal mile mie of ties and steel had been laid toward camp Speaking of Mason Valley Vale and the pos poe possibility of a reason for the slump in the tile price of stock Mr Ir Caine said that he went through the mine min and he is peel positive po l tive that its is ore reserves have been trebled In the last six months with no reason ren rento to believe beleve that the blocking bloking out of ore will wf not be continued without interruption |