The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-12-24
Copper Deposits Have Attracted
Large Population in One
Time Desert.
MINES ALL SHOWING
FINELY BY DEVELOPMENT
Results by Spring Anticipated
to Convert All Present
Doubtful Circles.
Special 10 The Tribune.


GREENWATER, Inyo Co, Cal, Dec
23-The Greenwater copper mining dis
trict of today is far different com.
munity from what it was six months
ago. Three towns, equipped with plen-
ty Of lodging houses, restaurants and
saloons, have sprung up, each centering
about some OF the good properties OF
the district, and have combined popu"
lation Of probably 1900 people, Work
is actively prosecuted upon number
Of the better-known properties and has
been rewarded by satisfactory results.
Development thus far has materially
improved the district and there is
every reason 10 believe that by spring
there VIII have been opened up some
showings that will surprise that elc-
ment which invariably fails to find any
thing good in mining district, until
it has been producing for years. This
fact is strikingly demonstrated to one
who visited the district during the fall
and who again inspected its workings
during the closing days of the year,
Development work on the Greenwater
and Death Valley properties, controlled
hy the Schwab interests, Is being ac-
lively pursued, at present being largely
centcred about the Copper Queen group
of claims, lying a short distance from
IDc lO"n or NUIHStNs anu duIDlHiue IhO
Greenwater townsite Three gasoline
hoists have been frcighted over the
desert from Johnnie Siding, on the
Clark road, to the property. On the
Copper Queen No, 2. a shaft has been
started on a particularly promising sur
face showing, now about 90 feet deep.
A 50-horsepower hoist is being installed
at this point where it proposed to To-
cate the principal working shaft. owing
70 llN, sy Of
good csrbonates and black oxides which
have been uncovered by the small
amount of work performed. The shaft
is so located that il will save at least
100 feet of sinking, and with the equip
ment being installed, it will be posi-
BILE to sink the main working shaft to
4 distance Of 1000 feet,
The l5-horsepower hoist which has
been installed upon the Copper Queen
No. shaft. was installed some time
past Originally this shaft was an in
cline, 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
| future, 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 crosscuts from the perpendicular
shaft With the equipment now in
stalled, 1t will be possible to sink to a
| depth of 600 to 80 feet, permitting the
| development of the ore bodies along
the thorough plan which has been laid
| down by the Schwab engineers. \
large store house has been built. and
it is proposed to lay in a complete stock
of supplies and repairs, in order that
| teaming over the desert during the hot
summer months may he avoided as
much as possible. A third hoist is be-
ing installed upon the same group.
| Following up the valley which paral-
| lels the Furnace Creek range, one next
enters the town of Greenwater, which
was founded by Arthur Kunze. one of
| the original locators of the district. Ar
rangements have been completed. hy
| which the business men have been
given new lots in Ramsey. and they
are 10 be moved. bag and baggage, TO
their new home, the transfer being eff.
fected at an expense estimated at S50,-
600, 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, living
quite close 10 the Schwab properties
and equi-distant from the towns OF
Ramsey and Furnace. The West Ends
the Sulphidcs and several other good
groups of claims lie between Green
|
farther up the valley, possibly two
miles distant by air line.
Furnace, which is located near the
Furnace Creek Copper and the Furnace
Creek South Extension Copper compa
nies' properties. is the Youngest of the
three towns and the smallest in popu
lhtion. 1t is located on II portion OF
the Furnace Creek Copper company s
claims and almost Immediately adioin
ing the Sulphide group of claims, which
we're recently acquired by the Sullivan
Trust company Of Goldfeld. New. II
lies on the eastern slope. distant about
q mile from the summit of the divide
lying between Death Valley and the
valley lying to the east Of the Funeral
range. Most of the miners employed
on the adjoining properties make il
their home, and il is growing rapidly
owing to the increasing forces of mine
workers on nearby properties,
Lying 10 the west and q little north
Of the town is the main shaft of the
Furnace Creek Copper company. located
on the Copper Matte claim, This shat;
WAS originally an incline. but since tho
pitch of the vein and its course was
determined, it has been decided tc