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Show 3HEIIES EQUIPMENT FOR MASON VALLEY IS BEING DELIVERED Ktery effort la being made to hurry the const ruction on tin) Mason Valley smelt trig plant at Thompson, home delays de-lays have been experienced In tlie delivery de-livery of- material and equipment. ' but more , supplies are now being received. The new engine and ore cars are arriving and Ihe Mason Valley News, chronicles these events as follows: Homewhere on Ihe road between a steel plant of American Bridge company and Thompson fifteen csrlosds of Ihe structure! struc-ture! eleel for the smelter construction Is heading this way. The ahlpment wee started some days ago. and is expected to reach Wabtiska at any time now. Scattering shipments of steel have been drifting In. mostly of the kind that Is to he used for the dust chsmber arch supports; In this coming consignment, however. Is sufficient material to employ a lot of men In erecting the buildings. Thia work will he undertaken aa soon aa the alack la completed, and hoisting machinery ma-chinery can be taken from that feature of the worke. The suck will likely be topped off by July II: the work there haa on several occasions been retarded by extremely high winds. Ihe velocity attained reach-Ing reach-Ing a point to drive the maeons below, fin Tim ads r Iht 1"P at ' belch work measured I0J feet above the foundation, showing that more than half the material In this structure Is laid aa the circumference circumfer-ence diminishes WIU the helghth. Crusher Negri Completion. The heaviest portion of the great crusher la 10 place now. down In the pit of the sampling mill, and a force of men la engaged In lowering the auxiliary crushers and Installing the Incidental parts and fixtures. At the machine ahops temporary power haa been Installed to operate some of the lathes and drllla, and a few machinists are to be noted working In that depart-I depart-I ment. The master maclianlc, 'Mr. Neshlt. says there Is now plenty of work for hla men. and things are beginning to mov along toward great activity at that point of the works Bland poles and electric light and pnwea wlrea are being strung over every part of the smeltery works, aa well as along the atreeta of Thompson, preparatory prepara-tory to Illuminating the whole. This week surveyors laid off HM linear fast of concrete sidewalks along the atreeta or Thompson, and the Hughes Construction company Is pulling thsm down. The pe-destrlaua pe-destrlaua there will not have to plough Along with numerate carloade of brfck received this wee waa a carload of well casing, to b used In connecting the water wella with the reservoir fhat stands abovs Ihe entire works and will supply the smeltery proper. This reservoir reser-voir has the capacity of loO.ooo gallons. Engine No. of Ihe Copper Belt railroad rail-road was pulled. Into the roundhouse here and ahe la being put In shape for a trial spin over the tracks; after careful Inspection In-spection ahe will go Into eommltslon at once, and No. I will be given the overhauling over-hauling ahe deservee and needs. Equipment Ia Oood. The new engine la of the latest type built by the Lime, locomotive works, and la Just out of the shops new. having been constructed under orders to turn out a locomotive that will be best adapted to the particular uasa of the Copper Belt, la transporting ore to the smeltery works at Thompson. She la an elghty-flve-ton engine, having about twice the capacity that the engine heretofore used has, and the heavy climb from Wabuska to the ore bine will be taken with ease under aa faeura I ere trass fs The new locomotive left the factory on ths flrat day of June, and was sxactly thirty dsys on the road to atsaoo: a hostler hos-tler rams with her. living In the cab, and he pronounced It tha most desolate trip of his life. The locomotive ram as dead freight, and owing to Its weight waa attached at-tached to ths slowest trains operated. Engine No. ia the advance Installment Install-ment of th Copper Belt equipment for th ere haul. The ors care, forty-live In number, will leave th eastern steel works during July, and are expscted to reach Mason by August 1. The care are coming as far aa Utah loaded with coke, by special arrangement, and efforta are being made to load them out of Utah with Castle Valley coal, a product that Is owned by the saros Interest that control con-trol the Copper Belt. The difficulty has been Is And a market for a shipment of forty-five carloads of coal at tola season. In Nevada, |