Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-08-24
ENCHANTED With
The PROJECT
WEALTHY EASTERN MEN VISIT
THE UBEHEBE COPPER
DISTRICT.

ed from the southland enchanted
with the prospect. Il. NJ. Nettleton
and E. G. Hirons of Virginia are the
last to make the trip, and they re-
turned here yesterday afternoon with
Jack Salsberry in his automobile, and
the rapid trip was not the least Of
the pleasures that they experienced.
Mr.. Nettleton has more years over
his head than has Mr.. Hirons, and is
inclined to be conservative, while his
companion has all the enthusiasm Of
youth, and is proud to say that he
was surprised and pleased beyond
measure.
Both are men of wealth and have
been brought up in the iron regions
of Virginia, where mines are common
things. They went into the syndicate
on the presentation of the PROPOSE
ton of Henry Merry, one of the
greatest experts in the country on
copper and copper mines, and he did
not give his opinion until he had
thoroughly explored the mines of the
Ubehebe.
1T is certainly a wonderful coun-
try" was the estimate of Mr.. Nettle-
ton, Notwithstanding his conserva-
tism, land l must admit that l was
surprised at the showing. | expect
ed to see something, but nothing to
what | did see. Why, there is cop
per all over the district. | am not
an expert on copper, and | had to
take the word of the people there as
to the character of the ore. But they
would not attempt to deceive me.
No, they could not do that, there
would be no object in their doing so.
| have seer the same kind of samples,
which we're taken East from there,
and l have eel the assay returns
from it. You can see the ore on all
sides, on top of the mountain, on
the sides and on the bottom. Be
sides the copper there is a good per-
centage of silver and gold"
II can hardly talk sensibly of the
place" said MI. Hirons, Il am simply
carried away with it. We were to
have come out with Mr.. Salsberry
and the party a month or so ago, but
we could not make it. Harry Merry,
a son of Mr.. Merry, came out at that
time, and he is so carried away with
the proposition, that he declares he
will not return to his class at col
lege. He is a young man who was
. reared in the midst of every comfort
, and luxury, and this is his first prac-
tical mining work. You should see
him down at the mines. He says
Y that he never wants to wear good
clothes again and that he won't &c
g back to civilization until his heel:
$ wear out.
S we MtHt ulbuHn u hhAN9 -"
= terday on mule back, and we saw
' great deal of the district, but by M
I means half of it. The mules kickeC
up the copper on the trails, and there
was copper wherever we went. W.
n will never see the day when they cal
| exhaust the ore in that great noun
tain. Why, it looks as ii they coult
i shovel the stun out. but of cours
4 they can't. They are talking 10Y o
shipping the ore before the railroa'
A is built. They figure that they ca
do this at comparatively small cos
for the reason that the ore can b
n shipped in the teams as back freight
The teams are going in there now a
" a rapid rate, hauling all kinds of ma
terial.
The country looks lively, too, TO
there are no end of prospeetors
A. there, attracted by the wonders {
the camp, all making new Locations
&c Then they are getting water right !
AZ the camp, or at least they are goin
10 after it, with every indication {
m finding a good supply"
ut is really a fine showing sal
20 Mr.. Nettleton. THE finest, in fac
n that | have eve set my eyes upoi
NJ There has been a great deal of wor
NJ done there, and that was a surprisin
= thing to me. There is n plat
where the ledge has been opened Il
II a width of 1876 feet, and that there
no copper there, there is no doubt. fc
y. go to some mines and are told VIII
be 1t is expected TO prove at this or tn
depth, but here 1t Is exposed at Il
NJ depth. That is the most gratifyiI
part of It."
~ Messrs. Nettleton and Hirons W
leave on this mornings train and
~ as far as Buckskin, where they al
,et have mining interests. From Buc
no skin they return home, Mr.. Hiro
q. will be back here sometime ne
en- month.
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