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Show I in i wo weeks this tiack should be laid Most of the material for the line into Smith Valley rrom Mason Is I on hand, and most of the grading for , this extension is completed, leaving J seven miles of construction woik to do to the Nevada Douglas mine. This line will be constructed within ninety days. "Crop conditions at Mason are very good. There are a great many men coming In looking for farms, and many of the large farms In the Mason and Smith valleys will bo broken up into smaller tracts. Unless the extent of gardening for instance. Is increased before next summer, when the mines and smelter will be ready for operation, opera-tion, we will have to ship vegetables Into this section. Mason i only UiO feet higher than Salt Iake, ,md the climatic conditions are practically the same; If anything, we have more sunshine sun-shine there than yon do here. These valleys present ,-in ideal opening for the farmer, aud the time is near when every advantage will he taken of the great acrlcultnral possibilities of this section." NEW RAILROAD IS I SUCCESS ALREADY Nevada Copper Belt Railroad Line Making Good on Partial Completion. Salt Uake. Sept. I .--"In the Mason and Smith vnlleys of Nevada we have that very happy combination that you have hern in T'tah. namely, mines and I farm lands band in hand, a colncl- I rience that soldoui occurs," said G. M, Fraser. superintendent of the' Nevada -Copper Belt RaMroud company of NV vndti, who 1.4 in the city for a day or two conferring with the local officials of-ficials of the organization, Mr. Fraser Is well known In I'Lih, having been with the Illinois Central, with head-quarters head-quarters in this city, for several years before -solng with the Nevada Copper Belt. "The Nevada Copper Belt line." ho continued, ' is doing a good business, although but fourteen miles of the line is In operation. Wc are row constructing con-structing the spur line from Mason to the Mason Valloy ore bins, to which latter point the ores will be trans, ported by moans of tho tramway. The materials for this tram should begin arriving within thirty davs. All thi-materlals thi-materlals for the track to the Mason Valley smelter elte are on hand, and |