The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-07-24
DISCUSSES PLANS FOR
BIG ELECTRIC PLANT
Extensive Operations to Be Carried
On Here BY Amalgamated Ne
vada Mines & Power Co.
From Salt Lake Tribune.

From Salt Lake Tribune.
After a ten days roundup of the
property holdings of the Amalgamat-
ed Mines & Power company in White
Pine county, Nevada, John w. Cav
ley of Boston and Willard F. Sny-
der, the men responsible for the re-
organization of the company and the
placing of the enterprise in powerful
and responsible hands, reached the
city Sunday morning. Mr.. Cawley
will go on to Boston today and re-
turn during September. Mr.. Snyder
will attend to some business matters
here and then go back to Nevada to
look over other propositions with
which he is so prominently identi-
fed.
There is not a great deal that
can be said concerning the cOmpany's
affairs at the present time" said Mr..
Cawley. I'VE have been going over
the properties and checking up on
the various reports that have been
made and learning, in a general way,
the physical conditions existing in
that region. H. S. Anderson, an cleo
trical engineer and water power ex-
pert of New York, made the trip
with us, as did also Major Frank M.
Foote, of Evanston, Wyo., who is
one of the directors of the company,
and Grant Snyder of the National De-
velopment company. The plans of
the company contemplate extensive
operations and it will require year
or more to get them into full swing.
1.-The company controls, for power
purposes, the waters of several big
streams, the most important of
which are Williams creek, Baker
creek, Lehman creek, Strawberry
creek, Snake creek and South Water
creek. Reservoirs are to be con-
structed and power plants erected on
some of these streams and the wa
tiers of all of them will be turned
to some advantage for the company.
Baker creek affords one of the finest
reservoir sites imaginable, while the
waters of Williams creek, owned by
the company, will be carried through
the west ditch, so called, for over
sixteen miles, and used to supply
the six hydraulic giants with water
for gravel-washing purposes on the
200 acres of placer gravel former
ly the property of the Osceola Gravel
company at Osceola. This ditch and
the different sections of connecting
f1ume is now being repaired and,
while we do not hope to get it shaped
up in time to do much II anything
this season in the way of placer min
ing, everything will be ready to cut
loose next year"
Mr.. Cawley expressed himself as
being highly pleased with what he
had seen during his rather rough
trip. He exhibits many fine photo
graphs of the splendid streams which
the company proposes to harness up
and supply Ely, Osceola and other
camps with light and power. In his
collection are also scenes at the
properties of the company, including
the San Pedro, Mabel, California,
Cyclone and Buchanan, embracing
all told over sixty mining claims in
the Black Horse district, as we'll as
the great gravel banks of the Osceola
placers, counted as the richest in the
world.
There is a great deal to be done
yet, but the plans of the Amalgamat-
ed Nevada Mines & Power company
contemplate the rounding out of one
of the biggest mining, milling and
power enterprises in the western
country. There has been more than
1000 feet of development work done
on the mining properties Of the COM
pany and great deal of fine ore has
been piled on the dumps and left ex-
posed in the workings, but for all
that these properties are designated
as prospects, rather than mines, so
that no unreasonable estimate shall
be placed on their present resources.
There has been shipped from them
more than ESQ tons of high-grade ore
to demonstrate their value, but this
is counted as merely incidental.
When water has been conveyed to
great bitches and when mills have
to treat the ores then
the world will be made to appreciate