The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-21
PLANNING BIG
WORK IN NEVADA
Amalgamated Mines & Power
Company Officials Go
Over Field.
CONTROL MANY STREAMS
AND WILL OPERATE EXTEN-
SIVELY IN NEAR FUTURE.

After a ten days roundup OF the
property holdings OF the Amalgamated
Nevada Mines & Power company in White
Pine county, New, John w. Cawley of
Boston and willard +. Snyder, the men
responsible for the reorganization of the
company and the placing of the enter
prise in powerful and responsible hands,
reached the city yesterday morning. Mr..
Cawley will go on to Boston. today and
return during September. Mr.. Snyder will
attend to some business matters here and
then go back to Nevada to look over
other propositions with which he is so
prominently identified.
There is not a great deal that can be
said concerning the companys affairs at
the present time" said Mr.. Cawley. eve
have been going over the properties and
checking up on the various reports that
have been made and learning. in a gen
eral way, the physical conditions existing
IN that region. H S. Anderson, an cleo
tricsl engineer and water power expert
of New York, made the trip with us, as
did also Major Frank NJ. FOote of Evan
ston, Wyo., who is one of the directors of
The company. and Grant Snyder of the
National Development company. The
plans of the company contemplate extern
slve operations and 1t Will require a year
or more to get them into full swing
Controls Many Streams.
THE company controls. for power pur-
poses, the waters Of several big streams,
the most important of which are williams
creek, Baker creek, Lehman creek, Straw
berry creek, Snake creek and South Wa
Ter creek. Reservoirs are to be con
stTucted and power plants erected on
some of these streams and the waters
of all of them will be turned to some ad-
vantage for the company. Baker creek
affords one of the finest reservoir sites
imaginable while the waters of williams
creek, owned by the company, will be
carried through the west ditch. so called.
for over sixteen miles, and used to supply
the six hydraulic giants with water for
grdvel-washing purposes on the Leo acres
of placer gravel formerly the property
Of the OSceOla Gravel company, at OS-
ceola. This ditch and the different sec
repaired and, while we do not hope to get
shaped up in time to do much If any
thing this season in the way of placer
mining, everything Will be ready TO cut
loose next year.
Mr.. Cawley expressed himself as being
highly pleased with what he had seen
many fine photographs OF the splendid
streams which the company proposes to
harness up and supply Ely, OsceOla and
other camps with light and power. In
his collection are also scenes at the prop
critics of the company, including the San
Pedro, Mabel, California, Cyclone and Blu
chanan. embracing all told over sixty min
ing claims in the Black Horse district,
Osceola placers, counted as the richest
in the world.
Big Things Are Planned.
There is a great deal to be done yet,
but the plans Of the Amalgamated Ne
vada Mines & Power company contem-
plate the rounding out of one Of the big
geSt mining. milling and power enter
priseS in the western country. There has
been more than 1000 feet of development
work done on the mining properties of the
company and great deal of fine ore has
been piled on the dumps and left eX-
posed in the workings, but for all that
poets rather than mines, so that no I'M
reasonable estimate shall be placed on
their present resources There has been
shipped from them more than go tons
of high-grade ore to demonstrate thelI
value, but this is counted as merely Incl
dental When water has been conveyed
TO the camps through the cOmpany's greal
bitches and when mills have commenced
to treat the ores then the world will be
made to appreciate what the company
owns. The company is planning every
thing with care and during the fall there
will be a great deal of telling work done.
William y. Johnson. a prominent man
dent Of the reorgsnized company; John l.
Matthias a banker of MahOney City, Pa,
is vice president; Charles n. ProUty, the
big shoe manufacturer of Spencer, Mass.
is treasurer and Merrill A. Smith Of BOs-
ton is secretary. These officers and Viii
lard F. Snyder OF Salt Lake. w, J. Cal.
kins Of New York, Frank NJ. FOote of
Evanston, Wyo.; John Q. Mcguire of
Brooklyn, N. Y; G. o. EIlingwood of New
York Ernest R Woolley of Salt Lake
and John w. Cawley Of Boston comprise
the board OF directors.