Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-29
MINERAL VALUES
IN COPPER FIELDS
WEALTH OF THE BELT ASTON
ISHES MINERS
searchllsht Is Located In the Largest
MineraIlzed Section In the World,
with Excellent Railroad
Facilities
special to The Herald.

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SEARCHLIGHT, New, April 2s.---
Verify there appears to be no end to
the mineralized belt of eastern Me-
vada and western California, for just
at q time when the average prospec-
tor and mineralogist concludes the
boundaries havs been reached some
new find upsets all calculations and
leaves the wise ones as far at sea as
ever. Day by day the limits are be-
ing extended until one can travel fifty
miles in any given direction and still
be within the wealth-laden territory.
Searchlight is fast finding itself lo-
Gated In the center of the largest min
eral belt in the world, and it's railroad
connections are making of it the trad
ing center and distributing point for
dozens of new camps that have sprung
up like mushrooms in a night.
KIinepeIter Copper Field
The latest discovery and one which
promises to make it's presence felt Is
the new copper fields of Klinepelter, To-
Gated on the main line of the Santa
Fe railroad, forty miles from Search
light, and across the line in California.
This camp is comparatively new, al
though the knowledge of rich min
eral deposit has been out for some
months.
At present there are two outfits be-
ginning development at this camp, and
already the shallow workings have
demonstrated that a large copper de-
posit is present, and surface indica-
tions warrant the prediction that this
new field is destined to become one of
the largest copper camps in the south
west.
When this camp was first discovered
the field examiner of the Cave Hill
Copper company, one Of the big con-
Germs just now preparing to begin de-
velopment on large scale, was given
a tip by a prospector. He was in the
Bullfrog district, $50 miles away to
the north, separated from the diggings
by desert waste. At the same time
the news leaked out to the field men of
immense copper interests, and within
few hours three automobiles, laden
with supplies, were speeding across the
burning sands for the new discovery.
The Copper Cave man was left in the
lurch apparently, but judicious use
Of the wires soon landed a high-power
auto at a Santa Fe station, and by TAX
ing the train to the place of disem-
barkation and the use of the auto
thereafter he arrived three days in adj
vance, the other parties encountering
untold hardships with stalled autos
In the middle or the desert.
Gehagan Got Busy
The Copper Cave representative.
Thomas Gehagan, Immediately se-
cured one of the choice groups, and
how good his Judgment was is proved by
subsequent results.
A vein has been traced 1900 feet, car
rying width of from fifteen to fifty
feet, and is iron gosson, stratified with
veins of heavy spar, carrying about
per cent copper and from one to two
ounces in silver. The formation is the
same as the Greenwater, Gina, Silver
Lake and Arizona, and is traceable
through these regions clear across San
Bernardino county, California, and into
Arizona.
One hundred assays have been taken
across the entire vein and they show
from to per cent copper. In open
trenches, run to open up the vein, two
parallel pay streaks have been uncov-
cred averaging three feet, that range
all the way from IL to 18 per cent
copper and with silver values shows
$45 to $50 per ton.
Four assays taken in the trenches
on these pay streaks run as follows:
$21.3S, $19.4O, $45.96. $52.15.
Philadelphia and Paystreak
ISIldIh hdDlc SuLldCS bHOWluE mas
created considerable excitement, es-
pecially among copper hunters, and be-
sides the Cave Hill outfit, Philadelphia
capital is now developing the Pay.
streak group by 300-foot tunnel that
will tap the vein at about the same
depth. Showings as high as Is per cent
copper and good silver values have
been obtained.
Thus far the known limits of the
copper veins start from point about
one mile east of Ibis and run south
parallel with the railroad four miles,
where the railroad crosses the belt,
which continues for about four miles
south.
Railroad facilities, immensely rich
surface indications, abundance of water
and intelligent development will doubt
less make of this large and productive
area, and already this latter work is
in progress, backed by heavy financial
interests.
Greenwater Merger