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Show I- MOUNTAIN WILL BOOM. Smelters and Railroad Provide All Essentials of Complete Success. General Manager Moats of tho Ohio Lead Mining and Smelting company, -who arrived In this city for tho purpose of attending a conference of the officials of tnat company, stated Thursday that the Ely Northern railroad now being built will bring to the Spruce Mountain district dis-trict all the moans ot developing that district dis-trict which it has so sorely lacked for yenrs. .Spruce Mountain Has Future. In his opinion, and ho has been for several sev-eral months studying the situation, the Spruce mountain country will be next to the Kly camp The greatest mining district in Eastern Nevada. Theio has been quite a grca deal of quiet development work going, on for the past winter, no properties proper-ties being more active than the company of which he Is the manager. Two Smelter3 Being Built. It is not generaly appreciated that in tho Spruce Mountain district there are two smelting plants ncanng completion, which, added to the improved transporta-i, transporta-i, t-.ori facilities, will bring to boar upon tho iletrlct all the essentials to success. The Ohio company's plant will be completed r and ready for operation by July. Tho Binck Forest company, adjoining tho former, for-mer, will bo In readiness with their smelter by July 15. Ore Runs High in Lead. The oro being mined by Hjc Ohio company. com-pany. In which organization there are many Salt Lakers Interested, contains lead averaging 2S per cent, about fifteen oLnces of silver and from 1; to 5 per cent copper. There Is an enormous ton-i ton-i nge blocked out for the smelter when rendy. President Black of the company If. expected in this city within a few dnys. He has- boen making a visit to the Vroperty. and will be in possession of st 1 1 the facts necessary to a full understanding under-standing of tho Immediate needs and future fu-ture of the company's possessions. |