The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-11-06
G. A. Haas Returns Enthu-
siastic From Contact,
North of Wells.
ORE HIGH IN COPPER
Also Makes From So to S. in Gold
and 81 to 50 in SiIver...Consid.
cradle Development Underway

G. A. Haas, who has been in the
Contact country for the last thirty
days, returned to Ely last night, en-
thusiastic over the prospects of that
new section.
The Contact country is bound to
be winner, he said to The News,
and those who are in on known
copper ground and hold onto it for
while will be well repaid for their
time and their work
Contact is fifty-five miles north of
Wells, and sixty or sixty-fve miles
northwest of Cobre. The country is
as nearly tributary to Twin Falls,
Idaho, as it is to the Nevada points
named.
The country gets it's name from
ridge of mountains that comes to-
gether, the contact being like huge
saucer or basin, with the mountains
on all sides of the basin.
THE ore is found in the contact
of the lime and the porphyry There
are very rich porphyry dykes, heavily
|impregnated with copper.
There is an abundance of good
water, the Salmon river flowing
through the section. AS for wood,
there is plenty of mountain mahog-
any back in the mountains twenty
or thirty miles from the point of set
Element, plenty of fuel for as large
a settlement as there will be for
many years.
Wood for general purposes, for
building and for mining is brought
a distance of from thirty to forty
miles. z.
'They are talking of a rallroad
now, a survey having been run DUR
ing the summer from Twin Falls to
Wells. This was presumed to have
been for a power line ultimately to
connect with Ely and the mines, but
we believe in Contact that it is for
a new road to be built by the Oregon
Short Line.
Associated with me in the sec
ton are August Schlaak, butcher;
Frank Lawler and S. W. Miller of
Colorado, but well known in Ely,
where he has been interested in min
ing for some time.
1--WE have total of eighteen full
claims: the Campbird group of sew
en-; the Selma group of seven: the
Monta Vista group of two, and the
Riverside group of two.
THE most important of these is
the first group, the Campbirds.
In these claims we have a fine
showing in the porphyry dyke. There
is a seven foot lead of high grade
copper ore, the assays running from
30 per cent to 30 per cent, with from
So to IS in gold and from 81 to 81
insilver. This is below the contact
with the foot and hanging walls per-
fectly defined and in place.
1.-THE other groups are equally as
promising, but we have centralized
our efforts on the Campbird group.
1.-The country is teeming with
game, antelope, deer, sage chickens,
and fish. One can get all the fresh
meat he wants. With plenty of wa
ter of first-class quality; with the
country rich in minerals; with fuel
only thirty miles away, it is good
country with a brilliant future.
1.-The rich farming lands between
Contact and Twin Falls, which are
being brought under cultivation, will
add greatly to the resources of the
section. This entire country will
Eventually be opened by railroad
and it will prove to be wonderful
Shields of Salt Lake is doing we'll
On January | he will begin to sink
"a 500 foot shaft. He has brought
in four big loads of timber from
Twin Falls.
"Kemper of Butte is down 3 5 feet.
He has struck water and good sui
phides. He mined there thirty years
ago.
THE Trout Creek country lies nine
miles northeast of Contact. Very
good showings are being made there.
Three men are putting down a $50
foot shaft The formation is the
same as that at Contact.
at is certainly wonderful coun-
try, and its value will only be fully
demonstrated when railroad reach
es it."