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Show I mw valley b I Llew Humphries Says Everything Every-thing Now Ready for Actual Plant Installation. FORCE OF MEN AT WORK AT THE SITE j Mason Valley Mine Growing in ! fJiviitiiess as Deep Work ( Proceeds. For several niouihs local aud eastern ' oijolcs have been waiting for tho Ma- j fou Vnlley inanapemeni to issue a Matcmcnt reciting its smelter plans for ; the copper camp of Yorinpton, and it , was not until yesterday afternoon that Llow Humphries, consulting engineer en-gineer for the company, iravc tho first inrimatiou iu recard to the same. Mr. Humphries returned Wednesday evening from a visit to Ycringlou, during which he succeeded in gather-irg gather-irg up the vcrv latest, option which has stood in the way of definite action ly the company. , t. Mr. Humphries states that the Ma-on Ma-on Vnllev compunv now has secured i all the inquired water rights, and u smelter site consisting of loOO acres lias becu rounded out. located whore everv natural advantage will contribute-to contribute-to ease of smelter installation and operation. Mr. Humphries did not give the exact location of tho proposed , plant, simply stating that it would ba i erected close to the Southern Pacific, tracks. A force of uicu is now at work i on the site, aud by spring it is cx- ; pected that work will bo rushing mer- nlv alone. II Tins will be a mightv welcome an nouncement for every company , btockholder of Yorington, for it means the earlv arrival of the era of production produc-tion on 'a gigantic f-onle. It likewise means to those Yeriugton companies whose plnus do not contemplate smelter i installation, o handy market for tho product of their mines, and it. means to all western Novada practically tho same thing, for the plant, it is thought, wjjl be large enough to allow the management man-agement lo handle ores other than the Mason Vallev product exclusively Now tliut a railroad aud the smelter for Yeringtou no longer remain clouded in doubt or delay, the camp wiU assume oven u greater degree of interest, arousing arous-ing even a greater amount of enthusiasm en-thusiasm throughout the country, When asked regarding the present physical condition of the Mason Vulloy mine, Mr. Humphries said: "All who arc well acquainted with ton Mason Valley mine are delighted with it. Tbc mine is responding very generously to the efforts of tho com-pony. com-pony. On the "o. 1 tunnel level the work of the past three months baa doublod the tonnage of ore on that level. Tbc west vein ore body on the No. 3 tunnel level still is opening up big as over. This ore body is being foljowod still to the southeast, and the breast of tho drift shows no diminution diminu-tion of either extent or values in the oro. We h3vc followed and deuioD-' deuioD-' pirated this oro body uow for GOO feet along the strike, its width boing from thirty to forty feet. Wo have an-1 an-1 other ore body entirely independent of , this west vein resource which wo call ( the " Replacement ' 1 body lo dis- I tifguish it. It is a replacement in the lin'.n I' "Similar to this last named resource, we have a body on the Xo. 1 tunnel love! which we have gone into so far ' for eighty font, the present breast of I the drift showing a straight, smelting product. Out of this eighty feet of ore, t.lijrty feet arc smelting resources, while the Jisjauco is a tine grade of concentrating concen-trating ore. "Wit'uin the next few days this No. I or lower tunnel level work will be sent into the west vein ore body proper. Tbsre can be tio doubt of this, for the management lias demonstrated the permanency of the vein and its rieb-scss rieb-scss in copper beyond all question. T I predict that we will break into a very j large and rich ore bodv below tho No. I -I tunpel level .iust as soon as the pros- 1 enl working faces have been sent far I enough to allow sinking to bo started wjtbout interfering with the drifting apd cross-cutting." While Mr. Humphries was uuwijling to quote figures as to tonnagea of Mason Valley ore uow available, he did not decv'or confirm the couvictioij, well grpuriaed locally, that tho mine now shows a round million tons of !.;") I io 5 per cent copper ores. At the i first of the year it was stated on very good, authority that tho tonnage was 000,000, and since then the compuuv has , added generously to this amount. When i asked rolativc Jo the work now being done ou the Ne.vada Douglas Copper I property, Mr, Humphries said; j "AH the work on the lower levels 1 of the Nevada Douglas properties has I been suspended, as you know, so that Mia management ean be free in its work I or sending the incHce from the 400- foot level to the surface This task is progressing smoothly, and a distance of 137 feet during the month of February was gained. In eight to ten weeks this work all will bo accomplished, which will lower considerably the operating costs, and place the company in a pp-sition pp-sition to handle a greatly increased tonnage of ore. and at the same time allow redoubled energy on tho development develop-ment work to greater depths.5 ' Oro and Bullion, i The oro and bullion report foe Thnrsdav clvon by McCornlck & Co., was as follows-' Ore received, ?50.000, bullion shipped. 5123,000. |