Show PROSPECTORS WANT RANT TO GET IN Impatiently Awaiting Opening of Walker Indian Reservation in Nevada COUNTRY RICH IN MINERAL BIG BG MINES N NV W BEING OPENED NEAR RESERVE The opening of the Walker River In Indian Indian dian reservation in Lyon Lon and Esmeral Esmeralda da counties Nevada for mineral entry will probably occur some time durIng the coming taU fall Judging from the interest in interest terest that Is being taken all through the west thIs event will doubtless be bethe bethe the sIgnal for on one of the stam stampede stampede pede of prospectors in the history of western mining as sufficient Is known of one regions resources to say that ledges rich in copper and gold slIver silver and lead abound there Efforts have been made at various times for many years past pas to work pay veins discovered reached and the change shows a mag magnificent magnificent character of sUlphides This ore zone Is some feet In wIdth and Is destined to become in the judgment o of Captain Tibbitts one of the great co coper cop copper per producers of the country The Bluestone has a developed ore body feet wIde deep ep and long and a millIng plant using electric devIces to effect a separation of the metals from the gangue a plant smilar to that now In operation In this city is In successful operation at the property and turning out a concentrate The Dyer and properties both contain large bodies of sulphide ore varyIng in thickness from twelve to o over 1 feet These ores are of course but the tonnage promIsed is enormous while the total metal values range from 10 to 18 per ton The country abounds In the finest of iron and lime for fluxing purposes the two forks of the Walker river riv river er offer ample op opportunities for the generation of power which can and will willbe be electrically transmItted ThIs region like the east copper belt at Ely calls for tor local plants where the ores can be economically handled This condition can only be brought about by a combination of cap capItal capital Ital strong enough to exploit the mines and equip them with suitable plants for forthe forthe the reduction of the ores Capital s seeking investment where a fair per percentage percentage of profit can be assured for a along along long term of years and It will not be belong e elong long tm till the Mason Macon district is com commanding commanding manding attention at their hands Many discoverIes are now beIng made and work is be ngi ng pushed upon gold and silver properties to the west of and along reservation boundary line Une and while none ot of the values obtained are NV V VEDA E DA DAr DAi r n 03 i L cZ rr a tw t r 5 v i K c 4 1 ur C s sS I S 6 b n j c ic i 1 0 I orr orrT T T r i J 1 GuD wiG 1 i ws t 3 Ac uc 3 l lA 7 A AiK N a aG y G cc 7 4 i 4 Mason Mining District and Walker Indian Reservation within the boundaries the reserva resena ton eon but the government officials in charge have just as often compelled the operators to cease and keep out of the theland theland land of promise That Th t the metals exist in payIng quantities has been re repeatedly repeatedly proven and hundreds of men who by some pretense or another have been able to satisfy themselves on that point are now impatiently awaiting the day when Uncle Sam is at liberty to issue the Invitation to enter The task of making allotments to the Indians Is Isnow isnow now under way and when that Is fin finished finished it Is expected that a proclamation lion tion pro providing for the opening of the reserve will be issued Country and Its Resources F For r the drawn sketch ketch of the reservation much of the data con concerning the contiguous country The Herald is indebted t to Catain O 0 A the well weIl known mining en engineer has spent much of the past year and a half In that country The reservation as shown skirts the valley through which flows the Walker river rivert t the e Mason valley on the east cast It is miles long and about fifteen miles mUes wide The rhe Walker Walk l lake lak practically all at which is within the tion boundaries Is about thIrty miles I 1 gib and from six to eight miles wIde West from the middle if f the reservation in the Mason lIason valley vaHey is the town of YerIngton and west from Yerington in the range of hills on that ride of the valley is the Mason lIason mining distrIct YerIngton is about twelve miles south of Wabuska on the Colo Colorado rado Colorado Carson railroad and owing to the swarm swann of prospectors that are flocking in to await the reservations opening the plc has suddenly become a boomIng min rr camp amp The Mason lason distrIct Is being bein roughly v gone over overby overby by these prospectors and as a result many important discoveries are now being made there The chief properties now being opened in the district and in which the value of the ores runs prin principally in copper consist of the follow following following ing The Ludwig group owned and oper operated operated by Jerome Sommers and others of ofSan ofSan San Francisco The Douglas group own i 1 oper operated operated by Henry E Miller ar rS of ofSan ofSan San Francisco The Blu Blustone ton owned it Is by Captain J R Do De Lamar and oper operated operated by M J 3 Heller HeHer The Aiken group owned and operated by Aiken Sommers The McConnell group operated undEr the management of E W Clark of Ophir and owned it is understood by Senator W A Clark The and Dyer groups operated oper operated b by the Upson Valley Copper com company company pany of Salt Lake T The le Blue Jay group owned by Charles Holland HoIland and o others ers and the Taubert property owned by otto Taubert Tau Taubert bert and son Bon Production and Development Allot All of these properties have records of havIng produced very ery carbonate or ores but the chief values will willbe willbe be found In the Immense bodies of low grade copper sulphides whIch are only recently appreciated and de developed developed In the wor of the Lud Ludwig wig property water level has been J I 1 V startling they are good and some very meritorious properties are showing up As 9 a matter of fact the thc entire region Is one worthy of careful investigation and Captain TIbbitts considers that its future Is assured |