Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-11
FIND RICH COPPER
IN GOLD DISTRICT
SCHWAB TRIPLES POPULATION
IN THREE DAYS
Great Excitement Prevails over Aeel-
dental Find, and the Country ls
staked Out in Every
Direction

Special to The Herald
RHYOLITE, New, Feb. 1O.-Charles
Gentry, q miner and prospector who
has been operating in Colorado, Utah
and California for the past five years,
has made strike four miles from
Schwab that has proved the sensation
of the new year in southern Nevada.
The strike was made in copper in the
heart of a district in which only gold
bearing lodges were thought to exist.
Four miles northeast of Schwab and
twenty five miles south of Rhyolite
Gentry picked up a piece of ore that
looked good" He Immediately staked
out five claims and brought his speci-
mems into Rhyolite for assay.
The specimens taken across 4S-inch
ledge averaged from 20 to 63 per cent
copper.
Gentry told the assayer, N. M. ST.
monds of the location of the strike, and
that night Simonds and Jack M. Kelsey
of Los Angeles left Rhyoltte for the
scene of the strike in the van of one of
the most sensational stampedes of
southern Nevada.
Every automobile in camp, with
horses and wagons, burro trains and
mule teams were pressed into service,
and before noon of the day on which
Simonds and Kelsey located the ad-
joining property to the discovery the
country four miles along the ridge had
been staked out.
On their return from Schwab, Simonds
said in regard to the new property
"The strange thing is that it Is rich
copper ledge in the heart of a gold dis
trict. Since the first gold strike in the
Lee-E Echo district prospectors have gone
over this ground time after time, look
| ing for gold ore, but no thought has
| been given to copper.
1.-The country is of such a character
| that few lodges show on the surface, as
the gold and copper does not leech read
| lily, and not until development work is
started does the value of ore below
show.
Great Excitement Prevails
"The Gentry strike was made possible
through the melting Of the recent snow
that has been on the mountains, for a
little wash had been scored out on the
mountain side, and as the ledge was
| but three feet below the surface bed
rock had been uncovered.
There is great excitement in the
Lee district over the recent finds. AS
we finished stalking out our five claims
we could see party after party of pros
pectors who had learned of the strike
building monuments along the adjacent
hills, and even after all the good prop
erty had been staked out the rush was
not diminished. AS we crossed the
desert on our return to Rhyolite 1
counted twenty belated outfits going in.
The first prospector we met was carry
ing his blankets on his back and was
hurrying in the direction of the seat of
war. He was nine miles ahead of a
man with a burro pack train, and be-
| hind this outfit wagons and buggies,
automobiles, pack trains and horsemen
were strung out across the desert.
Hotel Started
"Schwab, which before the strike was
marked by only a few tent saloons,
boarding houses and camping grounds,
has tripled its population within three
days. An assay outfit has been ordered
from Salt Lake City, and new hotel
has been started.
"Prces for lots in the townsite have
jumped 100 per cent in the last twenty
four hours, and as the strike is of the
kind that promises even greater things
for the future the Lee district has an
added asset.
"The fact that Schwab lies in the
direct line of the "Borax" Smith extern
sion of the Santa Fe will make trans
portation for this district an easy mat
| ter.
"As to our own property, of course
we know little about it, but we will
start operations at once. There will
/ be no stock put on the market, as Mr..
Kelsey and myself have the capital
necessary to carry on the development
work to find out just what we have
there. If it is good we certainly will
hang on to everything we already
have"