Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-09-14
COMING NINE CENTER.
jackson Mountain Abounds in Cop
per, Gold and Silver.

JACKSON MOUNTAIN, New, Sept.
Seven years ago j. A. Nelson,
Henry Ragan and H. j. Bender found
a score of copper properties on Jack
son mountain, seventy miles north of
the Southern Pacific railroad, richer
than any in Montana and carrying sill
yer enough to pay for smelling. But
for four years they could get 10 men
of means to look at them. Bender
and Nelson kept doing their assess
ment work. Ragan quit, but sold out
to Josiah Copley, now of Salt Lake
City, who has since been developing
his eighteen claims, mostly of his own
location. Nelson sold a 100000 OPP
ton on his new claims in March,
1905, to the Humboldt Copper Com
pany of San Francisco, which blocked
out enough ore to warrant building a
sm~elter, but had not funds enough
left to pay the $4,000, and so had
to let the potion lapse after holding
1t for a year.
Nelson next gave the South Afri-
can, Captain j. A. Hassel, a like OPP
ton at a higher figure. Hassel got
United States Senator Nixon and
T. L. Oddie, another millionaire min
ing man of Tonopah, in with him, and
they are working several men on the
nine claims on Jackson creek, and
promise big things when Gould's new
Western Pacific railroad comes
within a days easy level wagon
haul. Benjamin Gratz of st. Louis
also waits for the railroad before do
ing more than the law requires on
his rich claims at the mouth OF
Jackson creek canyon, n and a half
miles below the Nelson claims.
Thomas Fox has some well developed
claims between these two groups.
All these, with those of Mike O'Brien
and three Lay brothers, warrant a
smelter at the mouth of the canyon
J Four miles from Jackson creek are
) the deep canyons of the north and
south forks of Deer creek. Here are
, a score of yet richer copper claims
? held by II. j. Bender and Josiah Cop
: ley, of which a San Francisco mining
paper said more than a year ago.
lone of the greatest copper districts
: on earth is being developed in North
e ern Nevada, but a mining man from
Kansas, named Copley, has gone ant
$ taken the best of it." That seems so
/, His claims are richer and t.
I have more solid ore in them than al
e the rest put together. Some of it i
nearly half copper, besides a few dol
/ lars of silver to the ton. Copley i
not anxious to sell, and says he won
shave his asking price, nearly 500.
900 for fourteen and a half claims
He is preparin gto ship early mex
spring. Only three lei are at wor
on them, but they know how to dc
i. velop copper mines.
This year Jackson Mountain rang
has had a gold and silver p%rospectin
boom, which has resulted in two mos
notable successes. j.. ID. Giodwil
:. backed by men of means, has ha
three or four men at work for thre
: or four months at the head of Happ
creek, and has opened up several ric
claims of fine milling gold ore. For
miles from the old stage road,
Saddle gap, between Happy creek an
Deer creek, Early and Johns of Col,
:, field have located a long six-foot
bromide of silver, assaying hundret
of dollars to the ton. 1t cuts accro
the range for half a mile. They ha'
a deal pending, but now they wou
rather 1t would lapse, for their CLAIM
20 are developing beyond their hopes.
j.. Bell, of Bell & Stevens, h
middle of Jackson mountain, ru
ming over $50 a ton. This will n
!. pay to ship, but the ore is easily /
- duced, and there are hundreds
: acres of mahogany close by, viii,
makes the best and solidest of cha
:. coal. They have also a gold and S
:. ver claim on the summit OF the rang
the ledge being $50 feet thick. JOSH
Copley has taken an extension of tn
which is equally good and much mo
accessible by a short road from t
lower end of his claim to the O
wagon road down Happy creek. !
has four such claims less accessit
and of more doubtful value.
This is a new district for Salt La
City mining men TO enter on t
ground floor, and nothing solder h
come to the front anywhere Il
year. Free milling gold. copper
practically unlimited quantiti,
:, thrice as rich as any in Montana, a
silver ore worth hundreds OF dolla
:. per ton, easy to quarry or to sto
out, like the copper, without hoisti
- or pumping-these are ~propositio
= that mean business, safe and pui
and big as they choose to make it.