Show r 7 LOS EMS ANGELES ANEES WOULD BE SMELTER TOWN California City Evidently Sees New Light in Mining Matters MAKES BID FOR BUSINESS Ores Oles of or and Leo Loo Tributary to Proposed New Nov Nev Feb Feli 22 Southern Southern Nc a Nevada a mining men are arc deeply Interested Interested interested Inter Inter- ested in tile the proposed building of or a smelter in iii Los Angeles to take care of southern California and antl southern Nevada Nc ore the Lee district district dis dis- dis- dis l From rom Green water new triet and from the Bullfrog mines shipments now are mo being made 1111 to Salt Lake Lalee smelters and antl Los Angeles has been cut entirely off the tho shipping list The building of or the Los Angeles smelter coming as ns it may with the time opening of the tho short route from Crom southern south south- ern en Nf Nevada vada to Los Angeles eles by hy way of the Block extension of or the time Santa Ranta Fe would make mal Los Angeles the logical shipping point Nevada N a and anti southeastern t California mining men estimate that as soon as the railroads are open the Lee Jee district Is Js supplied with water wah l' l from the propose Furnace creek creel line a n. atrain train load of ore 00 a n day can bo ho shipped to Los All Angeles The estimate I I is not overdrawn fortim for tho tim Lee district alone will ship thousands ands antis of tons tolls within the next six months and amI as yet there is har hardly ly a a. amine amine mine In full fun operation In tho the district to Do no Quick Work orl I In the new Lee Lee district leasers have ha mave taken Cn contracts in Echo canyon and andIn In n the Amargosa slope of ot tho the Funeral range These leasing contracts will insure the rapid opening of the countr country coun- coun tr try ry for n as the men are mining against time line nothing will be allowed to stand In n the thc wa way of rapid shipments From the top of the Lee Echo-Lee pass pas ore oie will be shipped within the next live five weeks as tho time recent rains have filled 1 tho the water tanks in the higher mountains anti and work worl can be lie pushed rapidly both in mining and road building build build- ing lug The now new road which will open the district and antI connect with tho the railroad at either Lee Nevada Nc or Lee Calif California California Cali Cali- f fornia passes the thool old 1 Indian camp an and 1 winds up UI Burro mountain for a height of ot four thousand feet Ceet Then down tho the center of the mineral belt helt over the Echo Lee pa pass and into tho the Death Valley end of the canyon the road can b bo be built without any great amount of or grading Already the road is built to the tho foot toot of Burro mountain and William Brunn is financing the gra grade over o Burro mountain as he already aheady has haM ore rea ready y for sacking at the time head hea of or the pass Seven SC N 1 Mines lucs Heady to Ship There are arc at least seven mines that will ship the minute the new road Is built hullt to their camps as their backers backers backers back back- ers are anxious to send ore to the smelters to ald aid in in paying the enormous expense of opening the district and of bringing in water Until tho the completion of oC the tho Los Angeles smelter smeller Salt Sait Lake Lale will receive all the benefit from the shipments but after that time Ume there will bo be close competition between the two cities |