The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-13
WILLOW CREEK
FINDS ARE RICH
Region Southwest of Green
water DiScIoseS Fine
Values.
Especial to The Heraid.)


Greenwater, May IA wonderful strike
has been made in the Willow Creek mines
about five miles southwest of Greenwa-
ter. The first discovery of Importance
was IN the Baltic. The shaft had been
sunk but eighteen feet when the miners
penetrated the iron Gaping and encoun-
tered a rich copper sulphide running high
in both gold and silver. AS far as work
has been prosecuted. the lead continues
to carry the same character of ore with
no falling off in values.
The ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS is another
property in which the same ore has been
encountered, Patrick Mooney, secretary
and treasurer of the company, was notf-
fled by wire of the fabulous find and he
made record-breaking time from Tonopah
TO this place in his automobile. He ar
rived here Monday, and on the follow
ing morning went to the scene OF so much
excitement He came back to Greenwa-
ter Friday ,adened down with samples of
the ore, and it created great excitement
for the reason that everybody expected
ore to be found. but they believed that 1t
would be discovered first in one of the
deep shafts now being exploited adjacent
TO this town. The ore was certainly of a
high grade character. and the values
could be easily distinguished bristiing out
of the ore from the copper SuiphideS on
all sides.
Ore Worth Thousands.
He reports the showing on the Baltic
of ten feet of ore of the kind described
that will run all the way from $1,000 to
s. 900 TO the ton He says the ore Is Of
the same grade in the Greenwater-Copper-
head, and to use his phrase, lit is simply
astounding and the showing is across
both shafts at the bottom. still sinking,
and values going right along with every
shot. The Baltic people have been trench
ing on the surface, and in one place the
-I-.~1 amir
the values show as distinctly in the trench
as in the vein
Manager Mooney commenced a shaft
on the Creenwater-Copp where the
remain and devote his personal time and
attention to the prosecution of the work
on his property himself.
Townsite Is Located.
Since the strike the people over in Will
low Creek have got busy. A townsite has
been laid out by Ernest Matherson, and
the town has grown to proportions IN a
single night. A petition is being clrcuiat-
ed to have a postoffice established. and
the hills and valleys are full of prospec-
tors taking up fractions and other ground
which had escaped the. early, pioneers
Rodger Knox, representing the Wing
field syndicate of mining men at Gold
field. is on the ground, having gone out
with the company expert Sunday. Auto
mobiles are continually on the go. trailed
by burros, men on foot and by every
conveyance, supplies and material being
pushed forward into the new camp.
]. J. Sullivan, Robert Knowles and
Michael Henry are the boys be hind the
picks who laid open the rich strike in
the Willow Creek country. For whole
year they have been roaming the desert
first here then there. and at last We flnd
them in GTeenwater again exhibiting the
fruits of their labor Rich specimens of
cOpper-gold-silver ore they possess run
high up into the thousands of dollars!