The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-11-08
Big Party of Eastern Men
Consider Its Prospects
Best in Union.
PLAN BIG OPERATIONS
In Ubehebe District...Think 1t Great
Copper Section, Which May
Some Day Compare With Ely.

A party of wealthy eastern bust
ness men who are stockholders in Ne
Ubehebe Copper Mines and Smelter
Company, arrived in this city at an
early hour this morning from the
Ubehebe copper fields, where they
have been inspecting the great copper
| deposits in that portion of the state,
:, says the Reno State Journal. During
| the trip the men were accompanied
lby Jack Salsberry, the president of
the company, and while there COM
| plete arrangements were made for
| the construction of an electric STAN
dard-guage railroad from Bonnie
| Claire, on the Goldfield & Bullfrog
railroad, to the Ubehebe mines. A
corps of engineers is now in the field
and the actual work of constructing
the line will soon commence. The
station of Bonnie Claire, while ON the
Goldfield & Bullfrog railroad is close
to the Clark line, and when the cleo
trio line is completed to the Ubehebe
mines the mining company will be
able to ship to smelters over both the
Clark and Brock roads.
Those in the party now in Reno
are: H. G. Merry, vice-president and
consulting engineer of the company,
from Baltimore; Edwin Thomas of
Catasaqua, Penn. IT F. Peard of
Baltimore, Dr. T. A. Ashby of Balti-
more, Carl Harrington of Balti-
more, Henry G. Off of Philadelphia
DR.. Henry ]. Off of Philadelphia, W.
B. Allen of Norfolk, Va, James 7.
Robertson of Cumberland, Joseph II.
Kitchens of Frostburg, Nd, Captain
Nathaniel HILBERT of Basis City, Va.
Walter d. Young of Baltimore, r. H.
Mcbride of Toronto, Can, E. G.
Herons of Covington, KY, and A. l..
Mccormick of Baltimore. Jack Sails
berry, president of the company, was
with the eastern capitalists in the
southern country, but left them at
Goldfield.
These gentlemen are all heavily
interested in the Ubehebe district
which they believe is among the
largest deposits of copper in Nevada,
and expect that some day it will COM
pare with the copper field of Ely
which is today according to develop
ment the greatest copper district in
the west.
In speaking of the Ubehebe dis
trict this morning Mr.. Merry, who is
vice-president of the company, said:
I'VE have more than 1000 acres of
copper land in the Ubehebe district
and have a ledge that will average
more than fifty feet in width, for a
distance of more than 500 yards
This ledge gives values averaging %
per cent in copper, $I2 in gold and
several ounces in silver We have
millions of tons in sight and have
plenty of water and wood to operate
a large smelter.
"The Bishop power line runs close
to the mines and with the power
from this line we will be able to
operate the electric railroad we are
now having surveyed from the mines
to Bonnie Claire.
1--WE now have a large force of
men working at the mines and intend
to develop them and take out the ore
as rapidly as possible and will soon
begin the erection of an immense
smelter Ubehebe will in the not far
distant future be considered the
greatest copper district in the whole
west and will do much to make the
resources of Nevada more substan-
tial than they are even at the present
time"
While in the city the eastern cap
italists were entertained at the Elks
club by George Turrittin, and in
speaking of Nevada said that they
believed this state to be one of the
most prosperous at present and with
better prospects than any other state
in the union.