Show STREETS OF TONI TOWN TOW N NARE I ARE COPPER PAVED Unusual Condition Obtains at atY errington Y Nev Says Visitor MUCH ORE AWAY Town Tool Took I e of Situation Sit SIt- nation and o Novo Paving hl lug ing Material clo all Jon longing to go So to the laud land where the streets are aICO paved with gold goldsome goldsome old some day but hut In ht this dt day and ago aso poo- poo pie pIc might content themselves cs with streets paved with copper and copper and such is the actual condition at nt ton Nevada Nc said J. J S. S Turner stopping at tho the Wilson who has just returned from time the copper fields You may In laugh ugh at the statement jut but its it's the thc truth You see In hr the lie old lays days there were prospectors In that district list and much copper oro was wn mined and crushed But nut the prospectors tors tOl'S ors wanted nothing but gold or 01 silver 1 and find great piles of the ore on havo have boon been left eft out there thero in tho the open for many I rears yeav The Thc town officials in casting I about for Cor something with which to I pave thc the streets came camo across those I plies piles lies of or crushed rushed ore and they grabbed at t the chance So the they paved the the- I streets of the thc town with the thc valuable metal In some instances that ore ole will assay 20 O per perr cent too though this is far Car above the average of or course Cumin Conning Coining Copper 1 I believe the thc la 1 Mason on onalle alle valley covering cov cov- covering ering an area aIa about 15 16 miles wide by 10 40 miles long and anel situated in about the center of ot Nevada Novada will soon be beono one ono of or the greatest copper mining districts dis dis- n ets in the country The town of ton contains about people with a floating population of ot approximately approximately prospectors It I is the general general gen Sen eral Ial belief In the valley valle that the thc Walker Walk Walk- er CI Lake L. reservation will be thrown open In October when some rich claims can Be tie staked slaked out There Is a good deal of ot Salt Lake capital Invested In this region as well as Colorado anti and Nevada money Many elan people people peo peo- pIe are aIe now putting mone money Into the thc new field The Mason valle valley Is under a high state of cultivation atlon the farmers arc are prosperous and everything e seems ideal The rho altitude Is about 1000 feet lower than that of or Salt SnIt Lake There Is plenty of or water Vatel in iii the Walker river the year around for COl irrigation purposes purposes pur pur- poses an average of 2000 second-feet second bei being lg obtainable There Is water enough to put every cry foot Coot under cul cul- Besides this I believe that facilities are aIO ample amplo for Cor generating electric and other power by the thc water Queerly enough Is living very cheap for Nevada Nc Besides mining there Is Ig much farming and ranching In th the valley all alJ proving profitable So far faras faras faras as I have been able aule to learn the first unsatisfactory piece of development work Is to be bc Icor recorded cd |