Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-11-13
GREENWATER HAS
GREAT FUTURE
Some Pertinent Facts Regarding
Mines and Methods in
Vogue.
WATER is NOW PLENTIFUL.
Population Growing Rapidly, Labor at
A Premium and Principal Mines
Look Good for Centuries.

Goliflcld, Nov. 12s-To describe the
rush OF men and money into the new
copper district at Groenwater would
be to describe stampede. since the
sudden realization of the tremendous
strike on this bleak crest Of the f'uner-
al range, trumpeted TO the world iess
than fortnight ago, the trails across
Death Valley and the Amargosa des'
ret have day by day become almosS
eonrested. Automobiles, stages, bur
ros, nudes, wagons and bronzed men
ploddlng afoot have defined the WIN.
ing highways IN thick clouds OF uust
from dawn to twilight. Kings OF tne
mining world have lived on prean anu
water and slept on barren Lodges III
miles to the east and west OK treeh-
water for the sake Of missing nothing
their money could buy. The plutocrats
created by the dozen IN Goldfeld's great
hoom have grabbed their profits ana
raced to this latest copper bonanza 10
double their wealth. From every camp
throughout Nevada Greenwater mas
arawn brains, Drawn and gold as
magnet draws IL needle. Ana the ehu
is not yet
CAMPS RAPID GROWTH.
Tho Greenwater OF month ago was
a camp Of dozen tents. Today IL II
n thriving town. New buildings are
going up as fast as lumber cah pe us so
1 liyored A census taken on Oct. ~
would have totaled the population OF
F.. Greenwater at 70. Yesterday this total
: reached 600 Not less than 100 per-
manent residents pour In every "a
h>prs The 500 experienced miners now
on the ground went to work on tne
clark and Schwab properties an hour
after their arrival The demand ior
labor far exceeds the present supply
Far down all the trails leading TO inc
camp pickets are posted by the mine
superntendents for first can on the
services OF incoming workers.
SCARCITY OF WATER.
To get water for this crowding pop
; ulation has been strenuous task.
Water in Greenwater two months ago
cost SIS barrel A month ago II
cost $3.50 barrel. In another week
all the water that the camp can use
will BIO pouring into It's huge tanks
through pipes running all the way
from Ash Meadows. Machinery for
the development Of the mines is being
hauled from Johnnie In mule~team
caravans. Yesterday there were four
carloads of such machinery side
tracked at johnnie, the nearest rail-
read station. The freghting of the
goods and passengers into Greenwater
has reached so great a volume that
the firms engaged in this business
will Immediately add 900 horses and
1850 wagons TO their present outht-
Yet the inadequacy of all these In
creased facilities, under the tremen-
dous pressure of increased demands,
seems to diminish little. IL you want
thing brought to Green water, and
cared for In Greenwater, you are wise
TO do your own getting aud providing.
That Is the way that w. j. Cleary,
representative of the Furnace Creek
South Extension Copper company,
pushes forward the work on the Cop
per Shoe claims of that company. He
goes to Rhyolite and hires his men,
buys the tents to house them, the
supplies 10 feed them. the tools TO
Keep them busy. Then he stages them
over the desert day and a night and
beats his competitors by week.
SURFACE sHoWINGs.
Tho reason for Greenwaters aug
menting boom is not hard to find. All
the experts investigating the big belt
OF copper deposits here conferred agree
on two luminous facts, the surface
showings in this district surpass those
made in any other copper territory;
the extent Of the deposits Is greater
than that OF Butte. or Bisbee. or a
combination of all the rest Of the cop
per districts In Montana and Arizona.
The big investors In Greenwater
claims are satisfied on those points.
They are now seeking the values TO
be found at depth, And q token of
what they are likely TO find is furnish
ed by Patsy Clark. He has sunk u
shaft on his Furnace Creek Copper
company property 275 feet deep, with
n crosscut at a depth OF $50 feet. The
result was the uncovering of an ore
body 800 feet wide,
PRINCIPAL PROPERTIES.
This Clark property, being the most
developed among the Greenwater
claims. ranks first In value. with the
Schwab property close second and
the Copper Shoes OF the Furnace
Creek South Extension Copper COM
pany an easy third As the Copper
Shoe claims have Just been opened this
estimate of its worth might seem to
an outsider more flattcring than accur-
ate. But the estimate is based on the
ottleiitht OF NlsltlnB engineers ana
Nevada mining men that these claims
show the same groupings, the same
iron Gaping, the same copper stain,
and the same general characteristics
as Patsy Clark's best territory showed
at the same stage OF development
and adjoin that territory. The edu-
Gated money of mining men on the
ground Is going into stock of the Fur
mace Creek South Extension Copper
company II IS the first opportunity
these mon have had TO invest In one
OF the really great properties OF the
Greenwater DISTRICT. The Furnace
Creek Copper company was promoted
I'm Spokane and Los Angeles, while the
Greenwater and Death Valley Copper
company was Iloated almost entirely In
the east.
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