Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-11-24
WORKINRS OF
GREENWATER
Report Showing What Has Been
Done With Pick and Shovel
in Copperdom.

This new copper camp is the scene
of ever-increasing activity, a vast
amount of developments work now
having been commenced, and more
would be undertaken If miners YER
available. At present there are about
100 men employed, the Furnace
Creek Copper company having about
forty men at work. The company's
main shaft is now down 800 feet
and crosscuts from the 250-foot level
have opened up twelve feet of ore. A
gasoline hoist is being installed on
the incline shaft, which is being
sunk on the ore body about 300 feet
from the main working shaft.
A number of men are also en-
ployed at the Furnace Valley Cop
per company's property, and the
Furnace Creek Extension company
is working eight men and has com
menced to sink a working shaft on an
ore body north Of Patsy Clark's
main working shaft.
The Greenwater and Death Valley
Copper company has about thirty
men at work, and the dumps at the
three shafts show a considerable
tonnage of high grade ore. Gasoline
hoists are being installed on every
shaft and houses are being erected
for the miners. The company has also
commenced boring for water in the
fiat about one mile north of the
town.
The Greenwater Red Boy company
is working five men and sinking on a
big vein of high grade copper ore.
The Greenwater Bi-Metallic Cop
per company is working six men driv-
ing a tunnel to tap at depth a large
ore body which outcrops on the sur
face.
On the Hank Knight-Bethune
group, under bond to Roger Knox,
eight men are working under the SUI
perintendence Of George +. Badgett,
and a gasoline hoist. capable of sink
ing to a depth Of 700 feet, has been
purchased and will shortly be in
stalled on the property, The devel-
opment work done here so far indi-
Gates that a big body of copper ore
will be opened up at depth.
The Consolidated Greenwater com
pany has commenced the survey of
its property, consisting of twenty
three locations, including three very
valuable fractions, and work on this
property will be commenced at an
early date. John A. Kirby, president
of the company, is now at Green
water, and during his stay there will
decide upon the most favorable place
to commence operations, there being
three veins on the property carrying
high grade ore.
At Willow Creek the Greenwater
Areturus company has a force of six
men at work sinking on the outcrop,
and the Greenwater Copper company
at Hidden Springs is sinking two
shafts on two separate ore bodies.
A new part of the district that is
exciting a great deal of attention Just
now is what is called East Green
water, about eight miles east of the
town. Here some very important
discoveries have been made of high
grade copper ore on the surface, and
work has already been commenced on
the Hercules group, in which Charles
4. Knox, Roger Knox, R. P. Dunlap
and others are largely interested. The
district promises to excite as much
interest as the vicinity around the
original discoveries.
1t is announced that the Borax
Smith railroad, which has now
reached a canyon near the China
ranch, through which progress is
very slow, has decided to build a
temporary road around the canyon
and rush the construction of the rail-
road through to the Lila c.. mine
and thence on to Greenwater,
through East Greenwater, and sur
veyors for this part of the line are
now in the field.
The town of Greenwater is grow
ing with great rapidity and notwith-
standing the fact that lumber costs
s160 a thousand, frame buildings are
being erected on every hand. The
number of teams on the road has
been very largely increased and sup
plies arrive with regularity and
water is not so scarce as at first.
The travel to Greenwater increases
daily. The stages from Johnnie are
crowded with people coming in from
both north and south, and it is in
contemplation to run regular auto
mobile lines from Johnnie Siding into
camp, a distance of ifty-ive miles.