Show r Mines and Mining ining M Stocks r JOHN DERN 1 YERINGTON CAMP Says the Copper District Is Large and Well Loaded With Red Metal IIi BINGHAM MARY HAS STRIKE j COPPER SULPHIDES CUT AT DEPTH OF FEET Another enthusiastic exponent of oC the merits of the Mason lason valley valle or Yering Yerington ton fn on copper region has been added to tho rinks in the person of John per Dern the I millionaire operator of this city Mr 11 Dern has just returned from a weeks trip into the district dl where he went at atthe atthe Si the solicitation of C L Dignowity the mining engineer and promoter of Reno who wanted Mr 11 Dern to look at prop property I erty which he is s holding under option Of the particular property he ht went to examine Mr 11 Dern Dorn had lied nothing to say sa probably for good business reasons of Ills ils own om but with the camp in general Jle expressed himself as being much im irn J I 1 went over oer the camp with Mr Dig DigI and aw w considerable of it said I Mr Dern I found the to 0 be quite general over an on area several I miles in extent and from flOm all that I saw and learned during the trip I have no I hesitancy in saying that the region Is 1 destined to b come noted as a copper nd one It would take takeI I ZOO too much time to describe all of the properties I had the good fortune to see KO ico 0 I will pass most of them by b with the statement that I found in them irany rany evidences of f greatness and in not n few genuine surprise surprIses The Bluestone nInes mines being operated by b Captain J R It RDe De Dt Lamar are art in a high state of devel deel development development and the ore bodies are tremendously tremendously extensive An experimental mill employing the th magnetic separating frn of concentration of values is being tried 1 ed out at the properties and the su superintendent in told old me that tho the method was proving highly 1113 11 He did not offer and I of course did not ask for detailed d information I wa was particularly interested in what the Ow prop looked hooked like because the man manfrom manfrom manfrom from whom the present owners secured it St a Mr Miller whose who initials have slipped shipped 1 me for the moment was one of the three men who originally owned t the old Mercur compans property bought by myself and anu associates many man tars ars ago and which is still being op operated rated and which is still producing 1 heavily as a part of the Consolidated Mercur properties Well Veil I never saw MW 2 p finer surface suree e showing j on any an prop property I erty Ht c than the Douglas s presents A 4 great deal of oC development has been heen done during the last year or two and this work shows bodies of ore that are almost inconceivable and the formation and an every eYer condition surrounding it give unmistakable denee that the ore bodies will go to the de deep p A tunnel tunnell l is to i now nov being bein driven from the base of oC the he 1 mountain that will open these ore orebo bodies bo ies at a maximum depth of oC feet l 1 by y survey sUre within a distance of oC 1500 feet Immediately north and adjoining the Douglas is 18 the I Ludwig a famous prop ro of the camp which regularly ships I I 2 per pcr cent copper ore to the coast and d ti 38 s mien sueh remarkably rich lreh richand 4 and hard and rock reek I that it sells in San an Francisco for 1 a pound and is u in shaping gem gemstones gemI I stones While hile Mr M Dern would not on the I the belief Is that he has lias de tie tided to take a hand in hl the development d o 0 the district on his own account |