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Show TONQPAH ORES AND VALLEY FURNACES With the completion of the railroad Into Tonopah, the receipts of ore from that extraordinary Nevada camp at the furnaces In this valley will have been Increased to 1B0 tons of ore dally, with this to be Infinitely exceeded as soon as adequate rolling stock can be provided, pro-vided, said Manager C. W. Whitley of the American Smelting- and Refining company during the day. To tax the capacity of the present road equipment equip-ment It will not be necessary to do any stoplng for an Indefinite period. On the contrary, there Is sufficient ore at the surface to keep every wheel with which the C. & C. 'railway Is now equipped ln motion for many months. These ores, under the old method of transportation, were necessarily characterized char-acterized as ores of the second class, said Manager Whitley, although. 'he was assured by every miner with whom he talked during a recent visit to the camp which has become one of the most formidable for-midable of his company's customers, that they would show "averages" Varying Vary-ing from 560 to 5100 per ton some in excess of this. It will not be necessary, neces-sary, he explained, to add to the battery bat-tery of furnaces at the Murray plant to accommodate the Increase In consignments con-signments from the great Nevada camp. Then, the company Is Che possessor pos-sessor of some other plants. |