Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-10-20
FROM NEVADA'S MINES.

and ignored for more than a decade,
the vast deposits of copper which
snuggle close to the farther crests
of the Funeral Range, in Inyo county,
California, seem at last to be upon
the verge of yielding up q hundred
mighty fortunes. Where less than a
year ago the only signs of human WIS.,
itation were the crude monuments
which marked the claims of itinerant
prospectors, there has sprung up a
feverish activity stream of immi-
grafton, two booming towns and a
great faith. Centering in the new
camp called Greenwater, the ring of
pick and shovel, the creall of wind
lasses and the sonorous roar of blast
ing make every slope, for miles to
the east and west, vocal of the bonan-
za-hunter From the moment when
the rising sun crowns the surround
ing peaks with a golden glory, to the
hour when the sunset streaks the
countryside with pink and purple and
russell gorgeousness, the pulse of ener-
gy beats increasingly. And the grow
ing mounds of copper-weighted ore
that border every trail tell how we'll
this energy Is directed.
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to these new fields of wealth, the iso-
lation from main travelled roads which
so long barred them from general ex-
ploration, the absence of rivers or any
drinkable surface waters peculiar to
all that sombre chaos of mountain
and gulch, it is not to be wondered at
that the earlier prospectors went from
these Businesses with a tale that
seemed incredible to the ears of the
gold-seekers in the Nevada camps. For
at least eight years such tales have
been told-tales of copper in such
bulk, of such great richness, that a
hole blown in the ground by cannon
cracker laid bare short cut to opu-
lence-and nobody, or practically no.
body, believed them.
Then came the day when the rumor
of the things came to the ears of
Patrick Clark, the millionaire mining
king of Spokane. Clark being a man
who long since learned that the val
liable metals of the earth are not Sc
gregated in parks or summer resorts
became curious. He likewise remem
bered that he had had an option or
the Jumbo and Florence mines oil
Goldfield, for $4,000 and $4,000, re
spectively, and that after he had lei
these options lapse both properties
had scared to valuation beyond the
dreams of avarice. He therefore raI
down the first rumor of Greenwatel
richness, and found it substantiatet
by a second and a third. Finally, be
ing thoroughly interested, he made {
searching investigation on the ground
The result was a purchase from Ar
thur Cleary and his associates, earl.
this year, of the big tracts at Green
water whence the Furnace Creek Cop
per company's shafts and dumps nov
dot the landscape.
1t happened that when Clark wen
down to Greenwater for his persona
inspection of what might be there
he passed through Goldfield. In pass
ing, he stopped over long enough t.
have a chat with his friends of tn,
L. M. Sullivan Trust company. A
this time, chagrined by the chances
he had forfeited in Goldfield, he an
nounced that he was going to maxi
no more half-hearted ventures tina
he meant to buy something in Green
water and hang onto it until Dealt
Valley blossomed. When he passe
through Goldfield on his return, there
fore, the Sullivan people, finding tina
he had really invested and that h
was enthusiastic about it, prompt
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