The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-30

The Death Valley range of mountains
has bsen Known for years. They have
have been looked on with fear by the
courageous prospector who wanted to
penetrate and prospect them. Slowly
did they attain their ambition. but at
what awful cost They came across
Death valley and the PanaInint and
from the faroff east, and many a life
was sacrificed and the bones of many
ia venturesome prospectOr were left to
bleach on the sun-parched desert.
It was many years before they gained
a footing anywhere near the Funeral
Range, and when once they gained the
goal they did so only to endure the
pangs Of hunger and thirst. The coun-
try never having been explored, the
whereabouts Of water at that time was
unknown. 1t was very scarce. and long
stretches OF barren wastes had to be
Travelled without water. A prOspectOr
would be required 10 get along with
only lust the water needed to sustain
life, and by enduring the pangs and
sufferings of the damned he would only
once in many ventures make the trip.
First Find of Copper
II WIS after one of these dangerous
ventures that party in the early EOS
reported, fabulous riches Of copper in
the torrid region Copper in those days,
and at so early date and so far from
the scenes Of life and civilization, was
considered valueless; as much so as the
barren waste over which the prospectOr
ahd to travel There was not q year
but others would venture. None found
other Indication of any values except
copper. copper leads and lodges. They
were here. there and everywhere.
Tonopah was discovered and placed
on the map. Soon e thriving city arose
from the desert, and not long after
other rich discoveries were being made,
all making a base from which pros
pectors could penetrate the eternal fast
nesses Of the Funeral Range. The pop
ulatiOn kept increasing. All about
steady advance was made, and after
the railroads had made Roadway the
industrious throng kept pace until II
dayned on some one that the rich cop
pe- deposits had actually come within
fha possibilities Of being successfully
ope-ated Prior to this time the loca-
lions on some Of the more pronounced
veins had been kept alive and con-
ltinuous ownership had not been inter-
fered with II was those lodes Which
now comprise the Greenwater ana
Death Valley and the United Greenwa-
D group OF claims. These properties
have since passed to the OWNERSHIP =
z. A. Schwab, Don ellis and Malcolm
Macdonald. as well as to others VINO
were fortunate enough TO have gained
Identity either by location or by puF-
chase.
Some Early Settlers.
John Salisbury, Arthur Kunze and J.
V. Stewart realized the true value or
the country IN the early days, and for
years they staked and banked their NJ
ture 1t was these men, together with
still Wandell and the Furnace Creek
kid" who gained possession of a great
norton of the mineraliZed portions OF
the pronounced ore bodies before the
world had learned that the richest,
from surface evidence, of all copper dis
tricts this world has ever known had
been discovered.
About the time when locations We're
being made and as the iron horse av-
reared in the distance on the desert,
Patsy Clark "grub-staked' a party of
prospectors and sent them into the
country ahead Of puff and steam, and
they located what is now known as the
Furnace Greek group of claims. Here
the oxide green glistened in the sun
light and daZZled the eye with its
beauty 1t was here where the first er-
fort was made to properly develop the
lode IN a scientific and proper manner
under the management OF James Har-
yey, an old and experienced miner. He
had been assisted by Patsy Clark, jr.,
whose experience extends from boyhood
in the mines which his father had made