Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-10-05
return FROM
TRIP TO SOUTH
PARTY CHAPERONED BY JACK
SALSBERRY VISITS GREAT
UBEHEBE.

John Salsberry, the Ubehebe cop
per king, returned Wednesday from
Ubehebe with the party that left for
that place on Monday. The party
comprised Mr.. and Mrs. ]. G. Rich
ardson of Atwood, DR., Stephens of
San Francisco and J.. Walsh OF Los
Angeles.
Mr.. Richardson is associated With
the McCornicks of Salt Lake in At
wood properties, and had heard so
much Of Ubehebe that he seized the
opportunity of making the trip. He
was more than pleased at what he
saw, and says that he was surprised,
not only at the showing, but at the
amount OF work that has been done.
mir, S%alsberry," said he, must
have spent more than a hundred
thousand dollars on the work that he
has done; yes, a hundred thousand
dollars would not cover it. The place
is covered with tunnels, shafts and
open cuts, and the copper sticks out
| everywhere. The work has been ex-
c~eedingly we'll done, for it shows
what is in the mine. The tunnels
that have been run show at least
$500 feet Of backs. and there are
found some Of the richest specimens
of copper that were ever found any
where. Then there are big bodies of
it that will go from 30 to 35 per
cent.
Right at the base of the Ubehebe
mountain they are laying out a town
site, and it is a most ideal site. 1t
will be a great town some day, and
that not far in the future, judging
from the way that they are progress
ing, for there is nothing there in the
way of work but energy and hustle.
They are going to run a railroad in
there and it will be an easy task tc
do this. should judge that it would
not cost any more per mile than tc
build the Brock road. There is q
splendid country which will be tribu,
tary TO the road, but the product oil
the Ubehebe Mines and Smelter Com.
pany alone would more than support
the railroad"
Mrs. Richardson, who accompanied
was the third woman to pentratt
the wilds OF Ubehebe, The first wa,
Mrs, Grissim. wife of DR.. Grissim
the next was Mrs. Scott. wife o
Round Mountain "Seotty."
1T is certainly a wonderful eoun
try" said Mrs. Richardson. and
most fascinating one 1t grows oil
one, When I first saw it I wondered
what all the talk that | had heart
of Ubehebe could be about. But tht
more one looked the more one wante,
to stay, and when the engineer
showed me the copper lodges and tn,
real copper, | no longer wondered a
the great hold that mining has OF
men, 1t seemed TO me that Their
was a mountain of the ore. At an.
rate, we went away up to the top o
the mountain and there saw wha
they called immense groupings, an,
then We went down, down, down
the side of the mountain and saw tn
, same stuff all the way.
| 1T was a dizzy climb down tina
mountain, and the men declared tina
| could never do ii but | did it. w
went down on burros and in som
of the turnings the animals bent a
r most double. Below us was a preet
4 pice and | don't know how deep tina
r was. Truth to tell, / didn't loo
down more than once or twice ia
fear OF growing dizzy. But Their
were two men ahead of me and NOR
4 behind me and l thought if the
4 could make the trip safely there wa
q no reason why / should not. l woul
a not have missed it for anything, fo
y it was a most delightful experience
= IF | we're a man / would have II
q other occupation but that Of mil
ing.