The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-30
GREENWATER TO
GROW GREATER
Home of Some Immense Cop
per Mines, with Unlimited
Possibilities.
CAMP IS BOOMING NOW
FURNACE CREEK SOUTH ExTEN-
sioN'S RICH GROUND.
CAMP IS BOOMING NOW
Especial Correspondence Herald.l

tS1SClal correspondence f1eIaiu.l
Greenwater, Inyo County, Cal, Dec.
1.-THE Greenwater copper mining dis
trict of today is q far different COM
munity from what it was six months
ago. Three towns, equipped with plen-
ty of lodging houses. restaurants and
saloons, have grown up. each centering
about some of the good properties of
the district. and have a combined pop
ulaticn of probably 1,500 people. Work
is actively prosecuted upon a number
of the better known properties, and has
been rewarded by satisfactory results.
Development thus far has materially
improved the district and there is ev-
cry reason to believe that by spring
there will have been opened UP some
showings that will surprise that ele-
ment which invariably fails to find
anything good in a mining district. IN
I'll IL has been producing for years.
This fact is strikingly demonstrated to
one who VISITED the district during the
fall, and who again inspected its work
ings during the closing days Of the
year
Development work on the Green
water md Death Valley properties.
controlled by the Schwab interests. is
being actively pursued, at present be-
ing largely centered about the Copper
queen group of clSims, lying a short
distance from the town of Ramsey, and
adjoining the Greelwater townsite.
Three gasoline hoists nave been freight
ed over the desert from Johnnie Siding.
on the Clark road to the property. On
the Copper Queen No. a shaft has
been started on a particularly prOmis-
ing surface showing, now about twenty
feet deep. A fifty horsepower hoist is
being installed at this point, where It
Is proposed to locate the principal
working shaft. owing to the unusually
strong Outcroppings of good carbonates
and black oxides which have been IN
covered by the small amount Of work
performed. The shaft is so located that
it will save at least 100 feet of sinking,
and with the equipment being installed,
il will be possible to sink the main
working shaft to a distance of 1000
feet
Copper Queens Vein.
The fifteen horsepower hoist which
has been installed upon the Copper
Queen No. shaft was installed some
time past. Originally this shaft was an
Incline. but when the pitch of the vein
was fully determined, work on the in
cline was abandoned and the shaft is
now being Strengthened up. In the fU-
ture this vein, which is one of the
strongest on the east side of the divide
that marks the rugged and swift de-
scent to the level of Death valley, is
to be opened up by means of levels
and cross-cuts from the perpendicular
shaft. With the equipment now in
stalled, it will be possible to sink to a
depth of 600 to $50 feet, permitting the
development of the ore bodies along the
thorough plan which has been laid
down by the Schwab engineers. A large
! storehouse has been built, and it is
proposed to lay in a complete stock Of
supplies and repairs, III order that
teaming over the desert during the hot
summer months may be avoided as
much as possible. A third hoist is be
ing installed upon the same group.
Following up the valley which paral-
lsls the Furnace Creek range, one next
enters the town of Greenwater. which
was found by Arthur Kunze, one of the
original locatOrs of the district. Ar
rangements have been completed by
which the business men have been Civ
en- new lots In Ramsey, and they are
to bSmoved. bag and baggage. to their
new home, the transfer being effected
at an expense estimated at $1,000
which is met by the owners Of the
Ramsey townsite. Greenwater is the
larger Of the three towns which have
been established in this district, lying
quite close to the Schwab properties
and euuidistant from the towns OF
hat0Sey dDC Il uFIdCe. Inc w SSb H%tiuo,
the SulDhides and several other good
groups of claims lie between Green
water and Furnace, which is located
farther up the valley, possibly two
miles distant by air line.
Town OF Furnace.
Furnace, which is located near the
, Furnace Creek Copper and the Furnace
Creek South Extension Copper compa-
. niec' nrorertieS is the Youngest of the
three towns and the smallest in pOpu-
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