Show SAYS SAY S YERINGTON ORES WILL SMELT READILY Surface and Near Surface Showing Best Ore Walker Has Seen NEVADA DOUGLAS IS GREAT Mason Valleys Valley's Ore Body Opens Possibility Big Custom Smelter George Georgo I I. I L Walker In his hla 10 latest test Weekly Week Week- ly Iy y Copper Loiter Letter Lter gives some Hom of oC the re results re- re suits HUlS of his recent examination of the district JI Ills Ill findings are altogether favorable ost import- import lit feature perhaps In view of or a n state state- nent recently made by an unknown so- so expert that thal no 00 successful rul process pro- pro cess s ce es of smelting Yerington ton ores ho had hadet yet et been tred discovered disco Is i Mr Walkers Walker's Ino statement in lemon t on th this Is subject I Tests have IUle he been n made recently which I that Yerington ores will wil smelt melt readily he ho says an arid and also that when GO CO per por cent to 75 per cent of the char charge barge e Is sulphides they thy ar are self flux sell sell-rux- In ing ng Time The h quite extensive development work w k ork done during the past year car or 01 two has us opened moi e or l less ss sulphide e ore on In very every elY e in mimic mh I no of Importance In the camp compo compoI If I f therefore seems probable that th time i net alY sulphide will wi be bl supplied by byu time u- u time that smelting operations begin Magnetic concentration has immis his been tried on Oil n the time low gr c sulphide e ores with wih very cry r satisfactory resu results Its Systems o of leaching caching arc re being considered also as apparently very ery large e of ot 01 carbonates car car- hon tes silicates and oxides which will wil a average v crae 2 per pel cent In t to 3 per jer Jer Cn cent cont t cop- cop per or wl wilbe be be developed on the surface The surface and surface near near showIng showing show- show Ing ng In Iii the tn district is one of time ic best I have ho ever evel seen and I have seen en cn nearly all al Of r the Important copper distrIcts in iii the the United States Canada an and id Mexico For the amount of or work worl that tat has been done ilone cone an astonishingly astonIshing lr large irge 1 amount of commercial OIl ore has been e een developed There are arc Innumerable nail pi piles s of good shipping ore ort S per nt L-nt nt to 20 O per cent copper l by the sIdes or r prospect holes and mil tunnels throughout through- through out ul the camp These can cnn be seen on onery very every ery operating property except tot those te t e ot of t tho few companies whose whole TroP r les ctr n Jn ll tl tho ln tt wh where re n nd no oat oU on n the tho te desert ert In iii the time sund sunil rh ores res run low Jaw In gold oll nn and sliver silver 91 1 ca car car- vying an nn average of 75 to t 80 SO c cents nl lot to lo toie t the he ie to ton toil I Of the Nevada Douglas property Mr 1 In Walker sa says i s part Slum i lug ing The surface showing on the prop- prop is one of the mo most t remarkable to tobe tobe be ic found anywhere Over O the tops o of the he hills his which occupy about the tw center center cen- cen ter er of its Is group of or claims there Is one ole con unbroken area of or mineral mineral- An en engineer who sho sampled anti and measured It carefully says sars that there i are arc re square feet of area which Is 11 s to within two to four feel feet of t the tIme surface with carbonate and silicate sill sili sil- sil cate ores ons which carr carry an average of 2 pe per percent r cent to U per cent copper This ore rc probably averages a s five fhe to ten feet In n depth with wih the hod body breaking up nj nto inlo veins eIns und deposits of richer ore ole I belo dow a A large o open cut e cut n-cut quarry on the side of the hill bill exposes extensive faces of or orore 0 ore lC which sa sample rn o iii all al I t the h e iv way y from 3 Iel cent to 15 per I cent and anti cra a average averageS c S 8 pet per cent A tunnel through the bill 1111 11 90 feet below bolow the crest which with drifts drits raises etc make iOU feet eel of oC openings Ol Is almost entirely In hi ligh h. h grade oxidized ore with Uh some somo sulphides A sunk SO 80 feet deep dep from mm the bottom of or this tunnel Is all al the he wa way m in the same character 1 of ore are Th These sl openings s have iuie put In iii sIght bight I ht one block of ot tons o of ore Oe which averages aver r ag ages s G C CJ per tiet CI cent copper Go Gold lit for fur J Lii n rge e Commercial 0 ore Is exposed In more than three quarters of oC the thc openings g on the time Nevada Ne DOl Douglas Douglis pro property pert There are so many faces o of gold old ore that it would seem scorn an eus easy matter matel to put the property m in I shape within a few rew months to supply a smelter with wih 1000 tons of oC ore dally daily daly erecting a reduction plant however el a goo good supply of sulphide sul stil- ores should be available and anti time the tle 1 l work now under v 1 iy ty has this object in view vIes W A deep work working In tunnel Is ls being driven from the time southend south end n of time the property properly In such a direction that It will win pass n near aJ time the most alit uni Ul ore bo bodies les which will wil be bo reached ami nm mined I ii b by Is Tb This is to lunen ii eim I will wil n the time several e veins and amid ald deposits JOO 2011 on to GOO COO feet teet below their outcrops 1 it I has already one ne b hod d k of oC sulphide ore ort The Tile Nevada Ne Douglas company is I shipping bout about 10 tons tolls of or ore are weekly Irom the time I Ludwig mine and anc this til Is 1 giving iving iv- iv In ing It Il a monthly month profit o to 10 10 0 II aUt after r paying operating expenses and alli al also io for or quite bite e extensive e develop develop- elop dt r work worl In the tIme mine It I Is probable that there will wi be a broader selection o of the tw ore from rein now on OIl U and 11 1 that the tho tonnage will wil bo 11 sufficiently sufficient to bring the time average 3 of the tho shipments shipment down to tn 15 If per iier pel cent or 17 37 por veu cent copIer copper copper cop cop- per Ier as a good deal leal al of ot the tIme lower grail grade ore arc will wi pay to lo ship Recent shipments ship ship- ments from Crom the time L Ludwig have carried carrell ui un una a average of or 20 Q per pea I cen cent t copper r.- r. Uncoil Valley 11 On Ori nII Rudy Mason Io on an Valley copper Is developing Ile what promises to Lo piove L IIO a 11 very large larg e body u of massive lion Iron copper ore Assays ASs so fir far taken Indicate thuIt that thu It can lex about 4 I per cent copper cOPl r am and anc 1 in iii Il gold old and ali sliver silver It I was to red In the time company's tunnel which Is now about I 1000 feet lUl long and cu cut through and tI t drifted upon Apparently Apparent It Is a n great grat ionic lenze or replacement bod lol body which has Imas been opened near h Its top lOp At the tunnel level leve it is 70 0 feet Ion long b by 50 feet feN with will arid and anc It promises to b lie he still sti lar larger lI nt at ft greal greater l' l depth This holy body of ore In time the Mason taRon Valley Val Viii- nl I ley mine mi in 14 11 a I cleaner sulphide and carri car car- ri rb's f. f larger er excess s of oC Iron titan than an another any other o fur far developed In the district It I cannot fall fail to be hf oC of value alue for COl smelting smelt smelt- lug ing as there Is a very iery heavy la t e IH er r of silicate anti and l carbonate a n ore oro e In time G district dl for y such uch a fluxing ore Is absolutely necessary This Timis ct development In the tIme Mason Va al I al alIcy Ie Icy ley also alfo opens up tIp the tIme possibility of th tint time 4 o of a ll big custom smelling plant at nt Yerington ton If I limo tho Ma Iason son Val Val- 1 icy loy or any other OUI mine mile thero develops L a. L sufficient supply of the sulphides It lull can fn enter the time custom smelting field and treat Tonopah and uld ores it at at giat Heavy shipments of or Ir Tonopah ores are aie going t out ut Ul past time the and nd I on 40 to lo GOO unties to lo the tIme Salt Lake hake AI and mill 8 L valley talley northern north north- ern in California If It I the they could coull be he treated at ton a freight ht charge of oC 3 i to lo loJO toG JO 0 G i or r ton toil tl would be le saved u dIn d. d in Ium addition to the hi big hI body of or sulphide simi sul ore are described the tIme Mason ason Valley aloy property Is crossed I b by two oIn and perhaps by three a distance of nC sOfiO feet feel One Ole o of those thole h hul been heen cut cut cut-by by th tim h i I tunnel with the thc result resul described Both Ol show atm ong promising From pits pis and tunnels n el lar Jorge o lI jules 1 of or high grade tralle carbonates and anui anc silicates 11 have e been taken ou out t and ind ald ma may be seen now on the time dumps Many years nars ago SI shipment were made malc from flom those thoi tholf cropping b by Iho former owner tot cot Iho timo thI property S SSt St kj k- k r j i 5 SS ff i A 1 i i t 4 t |