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Show - i ILL wJAiiiii 'uJ ii)diLi San Pedro Officials Return From Hew Camp. Enthusiastic En-thusiastic Over Conditions Condi-tions They Found. ' Tonopah has made a most r&vorable impresdion on. the .members of the party of San Pedro officials who spent four days there examining the. mines and investigating conditions with a view of extending- the Ban Pedro to the .new camp. Senator Keafns,' Darid Keith and Perry S. Heath returned to Salt Lake last night, and when seea by a Tele-gram Tele-gram reporter today spoke so enthusiastically enthu-siastically of what they saw that there Is every reason to believe the proposed road will be built within the year. They all agree that Tonopah has a wonderful wonder-ful future and that It will In time become: be-come: one of the greatest mining camps In the world. They say there Is ore there In undreamed un-dreamed of quantities of values rang- -tng as high as S6000 a ton and that it is comparatively easy to get at and work. At the present time the ore must be hauled by team a distance of 65 miles to Sodaville. the nearest railroad point, and shipped at a great cost from there to the smelters. This operation Is so expensive that only very rich ore can be handled and as a result there are millions of tons of ore of an average value of close onto $100 that ts lying on the dumps classed as second-grade, that could be handled at a reat profit over a road to Salt Lake. "What Tonopah needs most Is a railroad," rail-road," Bald one of the members of the party. "Not only to handle this great quantity of Valuable ore, but to supply the daily need of the camp. There are now more than 5000 persons employed In and about Tonopah and the number Is Increasing dally. The camp Is well provided with water, electric lights, an ice plant, good hotel accommodations, etc., but there are many things still needed that cannot be had until a railroad rail-road is built." At a public reception tendered the party, R. C. Kerens, vice-president of the San Pedro, assured Tonopahans that he believed the building of a road into the camp by the San Pedro would be a profitable undertaking and .said he would favor the project. This was loudly cheered by the assemblage and the party was given to understand that Tonopah would do everything possible to encourage such an enterprise. |