The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-29
WILLOW CREEK
IS LOOMING UP
Several Rich Strikes Reported
in District in the Green
water Country.
Especial to The Herald

Greenwater, Cal. April 3s-Severai
strikes of Importance have been
made on Willow creek, In this district
during the past week, the most notable
being that in the property OF the Green
water-Nevada company At a depth of
only eighteen feet fifteen-foot lead was
encountered of sulphide copper ore. 1t
JOINS the noted Oddie claim and sufficient
Is known at this time to warrant an out
put OF high values from the start 1t is
men.
Another strike of Importance In that To-
CAVITY was made in the Baltic on which
there was an iron Gaping, and In under
Dody OF sulphide copper six feet be-
tween mails all being Of a shipping quality
these ores run high in both gold and
silver. and the country in which they are
discovered is much lower in altitude than
that in the immediate vicinity of Green
MdteT proper The Baltic is operated by
1t has been definitely determined that
water Will be here within q reasonable
time, and for that matter the water would
have been here at the time stated by the
promoters OF the Ash Meadows Water
company were IL not for the delay caused
Dy Washouts and other inconvenience on
the respective railroads leading into
Greenwater district. Money and men have
have been provided for Immediate con-
struction. Nine carloads of the pipe are
on the ground and four others which
ought to have been delivered long ago,
became tangled I'D in railroad wreck
and as soon as they can be gathered they,
too, will be strung out and on the way 1t
to be laid to all the prominent mines of
the district and for mains in the various
towns about Greenwater, and when the
water has reached those places the gaso-
line hoists now in use will be replaced BY
steam, as the many shafts have reached
the depth which require more expeditions
hosting than can be done by gasoline
This is about the best news this camp
mas received. for the reason that water IS
luxury here and commands money
Every particle of water used is hauled in
Tor distance of eighteen miles. and when
they intended to get water into the dis
trtct was the leading issue that most
affectSd the people. Now that the water
VIII be here and there can be no doubt
about 1t, has had tendency to buoy up
dropping spirits of many of the people
who in some instances have been COM
PEELED to pay more for it than for the
other necessaries of life on the desert
Seven miles from Greenwater in a west
erly direction has been discovered a pc
culiar substance, owing TO the fact that
1t contains 60 per cent moisture. 1t is a
very white formation. much resembling
lime, and what is called suphide Of sui
phur. but the fact is that it is an unknown
material which even the chemists in this
vicinity have passed up.
1t was first found by following a we'll
beaten path made by wild sheep and other
four-footed animals, and there was sucn
a mystery about it that it caused a critical
Investigation. c. w. Patrick, more cur
ious than any resorted to every known de-
vice 70 determine its worth. He had
trailed his burro to this place and found
him feasting on the substance and he
took some of IL to camp tested it by fire
like substance contained 90 per cent
moisture. and it was with this material
supposedly the wild animals had Quenched
their thirst and where they had been sup
piled with a substitute for water in the
absence of any liquid form in that for
hidden part of the desert.