Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-04-27
WILL EXAMINE
INYO DISTRICT

The great copper district of Green
water, Inyo county, will be examined
by direction of State M%ineralogist
Aubury and maps and a detailed de
scription prepared for the guidance
of investors, p%rospectors and others
who may be interested. Every road
and trail will be traced with care.
Every claim that is located or in
course of development will be de-
scribed. Water holes and all water
supplies will be shown on a map.
In addition, a summary will be
supplied in which the principal facts
relating to the district will be sup
piled. No section in California is
attracting more attention than Green
water. Large capital is reported to
be behind several enterprises. A
large amount of literature has been
scattered throughout the East by in
terested parties, the result of which
has been to stimulate inquiry abroad
and to make the district widely
known.
The preliminary work of preparing
an accurate report, which will be
honest and complete and not mis-
leading in any particular, nor favor
ing any particular set of claims, has
already been begun. DR.. A. Haus-
mann, field assistant in the State Min
ing bureau, has been dispatched to
Greenwater to investigate all copper
deposits that have been located and
to look over the entire country care
fully. The Greenwater district is
supposed to be about twenty miles
long. The width is less certainly de-
termined. New strikes may extend
the area in any direction, so that the
section may be very much greater
than has been discovered to date.
A general extension of the copper
fields Of California by new discovery
has been made since the state min
eralogist caused a copper bulletin of
California to be prepared a few years
ago, with maps and descriptive mat
ter. In view of this fact, Aubury has
decided to get out a revised edition
of that bulletin, bringing it up to
date in all districts as far as pos
sible. In addition to the Greenwater
district the Ubehebe district, also in
the eastern part of California, will
be visited by field assistants of the
State Mining bureau. Ubehebe is in
San Bernardino county. Copper de-
posits in Ubehebe are reported to be
rich.
Three or four districts in Inyo
county that have copper were not
known when the bulletin was pub
lished in 1902. Since that year the
copper fields of Siskiyou and Shasta
counties have been more accurately
ascertained and the copper belt has
been extended. Great sums of money
that have been invested in smelling
and mining plants in the northern
counties by investors from abroad
have given evidence of the confidence
of experts from Montana, Arizona,
Utah and elsewhere,
The latest news from the Green
water copper country is that marked
improvement has followed develop
ment work in several shafts. Three
Greenwater and Death valley shafts
are down to the 200-foot level and
one is down 315 feet. The men back
of the work are pushing ahead as
fast as they can, working three shifts
to bring ore bodies into sight. A
change has been discovered in the
formation as the shafts go down that
has encouraged the miners greatly,
At Furnace Creek, at a depth of 500
feet, the formation uncovered al
Greenwater has been observed at a
depth of 500 feet, as reported.