Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-11-09

y better part of two days was
= spent in the camp trayersing =
. the hills on foot, crossing rocky =
= gorges on mule back, scaling =
. peaks to find the finest kind OF =
= copper specimens, delving down =
. into the depths of the valley to =
y find great bodies of the pure y
. quill. The gentlemen from the =
= East and the South were simply
D entranced. They had expected y
. to see something out of the or .
. binary, but they had not dream =
. ed of the marvellous treat that =
= nature had in store for them. ~
Everything was new to them. They
had speeded along fine roadways in
automobiles, but they had not seen
machines before that could climb
hills, or go plunging down into the
depths of a mountain side. They
found vegetables and fruit out in the
desert, they were the guests OF the
i~rrepressible Seotty in his white
shirt, patent feathers and full dress
trousers. They slept in tents, and
learned that their vaiua6les were
Just as safe in the desert as they
would have been at home.
John S~alsberry they voted as one
OF the greatest of hosts, and the peo-
pie of Nevada the most hospitable
they had ever met. They liked the
mines because there was copper in
:. plenty. and they liked the company
because the best of people Were at
the head OF It. There had not been
a moment of the trip that was not
of interest. and the objective point
, Ubehebe. the most interesting of all
There is a mountain of copper
: at Ubehebe that cannot be exhausted
:. in a hundred years, said DR.. I. \
:, Ashby. at least that is my opinion
after having seen as much of it as
have. It is one OF the biggest camps
: have ever seen, outside of, perhaps
! Tonopah. | mea by that, that
will be. There is the ground, tn
: site for the town. and the cope
deposit to back It.. They have al
. the water that is needed eight mile
away. and will probably get NOR
than enough by sinking whiting
mile and a half of the camp. w
went over a great trail on burro'
. which was a pretty stiff experienc
for most of us who had not been o
!. a horse for twenty years, But tn
trip was well worth the time, an
:, the discomforts that w endured.
: one of us had ever tumbled over tn
! cliff he would have gone rolling
thousand feet without stopping, bl
we all came through without
scratch"
IAN that is needed to make II
oh proposition complete said A. l.. NJ
So Cormiek. is cheap tr%ansportatio
"a and that is a problem that is alreat
no solved. They have. besides cope
Of gold and silver, but the copper
nj enough for anybody. Ubehebe
ffty-four miles from Bonnie Clair
oh where both the Clark and the Ton
hol pah and Goldheld roads pass, al
,n- afford competition to the shipper.
II understand that a survey of a no
from Bonnie Claire to the mine h
no. already been made, and hat the &C
struetion of the road is a most fei
ible proposition. Viewed from a
point. 1t is certainly a great proI
Tod sition. They have the copper
abundance, and the method of sh
ping it out is simple"
'Ubehebe is a wonderful propo
the ton" said C. j. Rainear. The PR
cry lem of transportation is easy, Thu
use would be no trouble at all in bui
ing and operating an electric 70
and the townsite has a splendid
the cation. am in the brass and II
|, as business. and | would like to be
the of It and have 1t all converted !
nee the Ubehebe. | have a son a sto'
YES. boy of nineteen, and | would like
see him come out to Ubehebe.
arts wager that he could come out h
bas- with a thousand dollars, and in
8 10 years he would be worth more tina
was am today. 1t is the country Of
p|ortunity for young men.
Il have certainly been surprise
said X. II. Mcbride. II never
,tice seen anything like it before. ] h
seen lots of copper, but | am fire.,
confess that | never saw it in S
Jer- amounts or in such a state. The
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