Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-09-07
Sing The PRAISES
OF The UBEHEBE
PROMINENT MINING MEN VISIT
THE DISTRICT AND ARE
LOUD IN PRAISE.
(Erom wednesday,s paily.l

be opened the greatest copper camp
in the world"
This is the summing up of the inn
pressions gained by John w. Lang
ley in a trip through the wonderful
copper country, which has of late at
tracted the attention of the mining
world and which has brought people
to the section from all parts of the
East and West. Mr.. Langley was
accompanied on his trip by Eugene
Howell, cashier of the Tonopah Bank
ing Corporation, and l.. l.. Mushett,
the broker. All three were unani-
nous in their praise of what they
saw in the Ubehebe mountains.
Il never saw such a wonderful
country in all my experience" con
tinued Mr.. Langley, "and l / have seen
a good deal of copper. Why, it crops
out all over the mountain, and the
lodges have been proven for thou
sands of feet, and at depth has also
been proven by the manner in which
the development work has been done.
A shaft has beer sunk to a depth of
eighty feet on an iron blowout, and
the bottom of the shaft is in copper
ore which will go fifteen per cent.
They have been prosecuting the
vein. and have gone sixteen feet,
and have not yet got through the
ledge. All of this will average fiji
teen per cent.
Besides this showing, there are
a number of tunnels which have been
run into the mountain, all of which
have fine showings, and as a matter
of fact there is the green stuff stick
ing out all over the mines. A rail-
road will open a rich and productive
country. Across the valley from Ube-
hebe, and about five miles away; is
the Tin Mountain range, where is To-
Gated the Lost Burro, a copper and
gold property. There are fifteen men
at work here and they are taking out
ore of high grade.
Eight miles south of Ubehebe is
the Ulida copper mine, which is own
ed by Sam C. King and associates OF
Salt Lake and Provo. This is a big
: property, and there are other prop
| critics in that country which will be
+, developed into great mines. The rail.
road, without doubt, will be a paying
proposition, for they can run far t.
t the south and tap rich and proven
districts"
: Il certainly saw lots of copper il
Ubehebe," said Mr.. Howell. "Tht
r formation is in lime and granite, and
r the Sanger ledge is 800 feet wide
: There are two separate lodges witt
4 the same formation, but the copper
t crops out everywhere. The ore is ex
J.. posed in one place, where it has beer
e opened to a depth of eighty feet, anC
is fifty feet wide. Further up on tn,
mountain, it widens to sixty feet ant
g the entire body will go ten per cen
d in copper, while ten feet of it will
e average twenty per cent, The San
e ger vein has been proven for 500
feet. All the money that has bee
put into the mine thus far, has bee
spent in locating, trenching work
surveying, and the sinking of severa
shafts.
This vein is on the western sid
of the mountain, and below it, at tn
base of the mountain, is the Near
vein. Both these veins are in tn
same formation, but are of two Ell
' tirely different contacts.
The Mears vein shows a width o
seventy-five feet, and in the center o
it a tunnel has been driven for abou
100 feet, showing copper for the full
extent, some of which is very higI
grade, The vein is proven up o
the surface for several hundred fee
by trenching and small shafts.
The possibilities of such a coun
S try can hardly be imagined, let alon
NAplCSoVus IHSIt 10 ldlh Vi putin
a railroad in there, and this will no
be a difficult task, for the gradin
will be comparatively easy. An
that the railroad will be a payin
proposition there is not the slightes
h doubt. Ubehebe alone will guaraI
d tee that, and there is besides a tire
d mendously rich country"
h Mr.. Mushett was equally enthu
%siastic with his fellow passengers o
the trip.
h when all copper people have ha
an opportunity to see U~behebe," sal
IS he, they will be all going JAG
n Salsberry's way. We walked TO
miles, it seemed TO me, over cope
groupings, the lodges being all tn
way from ten to one hundred feet il
d width. The mines have been opene,
n up everywhere, and there is no plac
d where they haven't struck copper
which goes all the way from ten t
e seventy-nine per cent. They have al
ready laid out a ~townsite, which /