The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-08-27
COPPER CAMP
Of GREENWATER
District on Nevada alifornia
Line That Is lust Now At
tracing Wide Attention.
FACTS CONCERNING IT
BIG COMBINATIONS CONTROL
COUNTRY FOR MILES.
FACTS CONCERNING i
Especial Correspondence)

Especial Correspondence
Greenwater. Cal. Aug. 22,-That there
Is copper here in paying quantity there
Is no doubt The wonderful showing has
excited the whole mining world OF both
California and Nevada. There has been
rs many as n half dozen automobiles In
this place at time during the last week
Ihey come mostly from Tonopah. loaded
with the leading mining men of that city
LAST Last week Malcolm Mcdonald sent Pro-
lessor Jenney into camp to make a min
geological and geological report on the
country, and the cost of the automobile
amounted TO 1872 for a two-day trip and
SV xor each day the auto was detained
mere while the professor was completing
his Investigation
Three Towns In Evidence.
The most prominent town at this time
IN this country is known as Copperfield
III ls 1ar up among the mines along a
tWssn. the hardest piece of road in this
whole desert One other town. that of
skamsey. has been started farther down
Inc valley. and is more easy of access.
mat town sprung I'D as one may say in
lfore there was no indication OF a town.
while On tho following morning numerous
tents had been erected and business was
being conducted in nearly all Of them
There IS some talk of establishing an
other TO the west and in the vicinity of
the Patsy Clark mines. but It is limited
ltownsites. but is here Cor mining, and
tthat ~ Is doing and combining itself to
that exclusively.
From the notor1ety that this district
mas gained one would think that this
Town was ono OF considerable proper
lions, but E is not. Greenwater contains
less than twenty tents, including even the
IhapttsfaonD or the proSpectors. There Is
"a store here The prices range in con-
.forn1tty with the isolated position of the
place. A restaurant is run in connection
unit efwrEe 49,. q
board can be had for S45 per month
There were two saloons here yesterday
but today there IS but one. a man by
hthe name of Phelps arrived with a whole
louttit along those lines: he opened up
IN the bit plan. and the other fellow
went out OF business. The whole town.
with few exceptions, celebrated, for they
had been In the habit of putting up their
Two-brS for their mornings morning.
Water Costs Money.
The greatest drawback to the camp at
present is the want of an adequate water
supply. The water Is hauled in from a
distance of twenty-eight miles and ned
oiled to the citizens at Is cents a gallon
20 cents for five-galfOn can or $3.50 for a
iforty-eight- gallon barrel and ii is not
always one can get water II is safe to
say that were the teamster to give his
animals all the water they required on
the trip he would reach camp with little
for the people. There is talk of getting
water from Ash Meadows, and it will
camps distance of something like
twenty-five miles.
Greenwater is connected with the out
side world now by the Kimball line of
stages that formerly ran between Las
Vegas and BullfrOS mining district The
fare is higher on this line. we believe
than what 1t is on any stage line in this
or any other country. Your correspond
ent used pedOmeteT OF the road in and
he determined the distance as being be-
tween thirty and thirty-five miles from
-r-re II.
Senator Clark Tonopah line. for which
the stage company expects from each
passenger the extortionate fare OF SIS
for the trip one way Everybody does not
stand for the game so they come I'm and
go out on foot by freight teams and by
any way other than on the stage al
Though II must be said that the stage is
mot suffering for patronage even at the
prices exacted.
Ground Is GobbIed Up.
II can be safely stated here that very
nearly all Of the ground within a rea-
sonable distance of the copper leads and
hedges has been located and filed upon
EGround of any kind and description is
valuable. and when there is a vacant
Ipiece found it is soon taken into the fold
by one OF the many prOspectors who are
iall about the district running lines and
hooking up corners. The claims OF this
district have all been taken up in large
groups, none of the large companies hav-
ing less than 200 claims, and IL is reported
there IS one that controls as many as
300 Even In the very face OF the large
companies having gotten control of so
fmuch ground, there is many a prospector
who got In st the proper time and in the
proper place, and as a great many say.
iholding for a price that will give them
the stake for life for which they have
so long waited. The ground is staked I'm
every direction of the compass for miles
even to the slightest indication of min
eral, although there is a place once I'm a
while that has been overlooked by those
who were ravenous in running out lines
and establishing corners. A country was
never staked out as Is the Greenwater.
'and we believe that no country will ever
be again. The way that ground has been
located here has established the fact that
other laws should be enacted so as to
prohibit any one man or corporation from
locating a whole empire as has certainly
been done in this district
District Organized on Sunday.
A mining district was organized here in
July. before your correspondent got onto
the ground. The singular part was that
all of the business was transacted on a
Sunday. and n great many have doubts
as to the legality of the proceedings DR.
Benson was selected chairman and A ]
Messer secretary: B. n. Donnoly and G.
+. Blunt tellers. There were seventy
nine votes cast for district recorder of
which Davidson received thirty-five and
A L. Nelson forty-fOur. Nelson was de-
ciared elected. and he now transacts the
duties Of the position, regardless as to
whether il is Of legal standing in the
eyes of the law OF not. A constitution