The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-07-24
HAMILTON AND
.:...BALD MOUNTAIN
These Districts, Together With
Sprucemont, Are Very
Promising.
EAS1ERNERS ARE INTERESTED.
They Are Now Doing Business On a
Large and Comprehensive
Plan.
fasteners ARE INTERESTED

Editor News: The people of Rob-
inson district don't want to get pulled
up with the idea that they are the
possessors of the only strip of red in
the rag carpet, for If they do, they
are very likely to be rudely awakened
to the fact that there are others who
have as much right to claim at least
part of the vermillion fioor-covering
as they have. True, Robinson dis
trict has been developed beyond the
degree of uncertainty, and in that
particular it has the advantage. 1t
also has the advantage of having
millions of dollars to build railroads
and to erect smelters, as we'll as the
But Sprucemont, Hamilton and Bald
Mountain "am comm" To my
mind there can be no question of the
bright future in store for those dis
tricts. But let me get down to facts
and leave the realms of speculation.
Bald Mountain is in the extreme
northwestern part of White Pine
county, and is q camp that is as yet
but little known by the people living
almost under its very shadow. Capt.
Mountain Mining district, and at this
very minute it has its greedy eye on
the bold, bald hill that sticks its head
5000 feet above the place where the
tide regularly GIBBS and flows. The
rugged old canyons are dotted from
end to end with prospect holes, and
their sides are covered by thick
growths of mahogany and nut pine.
When r. e. and Charley Skeggs ct al.
located a group of claims on old Bald
Mountain they had something in
their heads besides nits, for they To-
Gated wisely, and after years spent in
depriving themselves of the comforts
of more thickly settled communities,
and undergoing many hardships Incl
dent to a prospector's life, their pa
thence and perseverance has been re-
warded, for they have sold to Boston
and New York capital the Bald
Mountain Copper Basin group of
twenty-five claims. The sale was
made one year ago for, 1t is said,
100000, the last payment of which
has but recently been made, and now
Bob" Skeggs has more time to de-
vote to the study of constitutional
law, and if he ever again represents
Elko county in either branch of the
legislature every other member Will
have to take back seat when Bob
takes the floor to argue some point
where constitutional law is involved,
for he has money enough to put him
without the pale of want, when in
former years it was somewhat OF
bread-and-butter proposition tnat
confronted him and detracted from
his constitutional mind. The Skaggs
brothers located first on or near the
top of Bald Mountain, in what is
known as Copper Basin, containing,
should say, about 400 or 500 acres,
around which are large dykes OF in
trusive porphyry-on the southwest
lime and quartzite and on the north
east diorite, and all between these
formations is the mineral zone.
New York and Boston capital, as
have said before, put Skaggs ct al. on
Easy street by purchasing the group
of claims for 100000. company
has been formed and will hereafter
be known as the Copper Basin Mining
and Smelling company, and stakes
have evidently been driven on Bald
Mountain, within the limits of which
will be carried on very extensive OPP
erations in mining way. The COM
pany is doing business on large and
comprehensive plan, but its move
ments have not yet excited the COM
ment their magnitude would seem to
warrant Perhaps that is because no
one connected with the company Will
talk, but | have seen enough to con-
vince me that the Copper Basin COM
pany will have one of the largest and
best copper mines in the world before
long, and the methods being used
convince me of the further fact that
the men behind the enterprise know
Just exactly what they are doing and
are fully capable of working to the
plans laid without any assistance;
with money or otherwise from any
quarter. Ninety tons of machinery
are now at Wells or Elko in transit to
the mine. A portable sawm1ll mas al
ready been installed and Is running
on nut pine timber, being hauled 10
the mill from nearby canyon, when
is being sawed into mining timbers,
and before long another and larger
mill will be put up and operated
about twenty-five miles from the
mine, in a tract of much better tim
ber-fir and spruce. A tunnel is now
De1ng driven lutQ Tie Hi " TAP IiiO
ledge at a depth of 800 feet. The
property has very recently been ex-
perted by Mr. Smith of New York,
who is highly pleased with what he
has seen from the topography of the
country from the grass roots, and
from the roots on down. A large
amount of high-grade copper ore has
already been blocked out. The SUI
perintendent was away from the
mine, but the foreman, J. ]. Keenan,,
was there in charge of about fifty
men. While he was very reticent, j
tapped him in a place or two with
my gimlet and pulled out a lutte in
formation that has never been told to
the world, and by weaving this and
that together l can see a bright fu-
.ture for the big company now operat-
ing on a large scale, as well as that