Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1907-10-20
WOULDN'T TRADE.
If Gray Had Pinto Wouldn't Trade 1t
for Shoshone.

for ShoShOne.
II l had the Rio Pinto / wouldn't
trade it for the Shoshone in this
camp
The speaker was H. w. Gray of
Bullfrog, to a reporter for this pa
per. Mr.. Gray is just back from
trip of eighteen days duration in the
Ubehebe, the new and rather stirring
camp across the range in California,
whittier he had gone a few weeks ago
with Fred Hesson of the Ubehebe
Mining company. Mr.. Gray, natural
ly Conservative and inexcitable, was
somewhat enthusiastic over Ubehebe,
and especially over the Rio Pinto,
otherwise known as the INST Spanish
mine
II told Hesson," continued Gray,
"that in the crosscut he is now div
ing he would surely run into big
body of ore ON the Rio Pinto. like
the formation very much. On the
footwall is granite and on the hang
ing wall is green rock. This is the
primitive formation that indicates
permanency and richness.
The formation is a contact of
granite and lime, and where this con-
tact exists the mineral is found, as a
rule. This is proved by technical
knowledge, as we'll as by practical
mining, with which / am the most IA
niliar. In some places the formation
OF Ubehebe is capped with iron, and
in my experience in mining in Cali
fornia, South America, Montana, Ne
vada and elsewhere / have found but
two places where this formation did
not disclose copper. There is nc
iron Gaping around the Rio Pinto.
"Ubehebe is an immense mineral
belt and contact. There is, so far
as | observed, no white quartz in that
district. | never knew white quartz
and copper to live together. Pros
pectors need not look for good galena
bodies in white quartz. The proper
gangue is in granite. Lime is good
but granite is better"
Speaking about the old tumbled
down arastras and furnace at the
Lost Spanish mine, Mr.. Gray remark
ed:
THE Rio Pinto was mined by
white men and Mexicans in the sew
enties. | heard about it first from
fellow by the name of Antoine San
chez of Aurora, where | was then OPP
| Grating in 1876. The Mexicans had
the idea that they could arastra thu
Rio Pinto ore, which is silver, but
they found that roasting was not
sufficient to secure a chloride of sill.
| yer, which is the only form that will
amalgam with the white metal. Sc
the Mexicans, after building one aras.
ira, abandoned two Others that were
| in process of construction. The mer
would work until they accumulated
fifteen or twenty tons of ore and ther
they would pack with burros and
mules to point about ten miles from
the Rio Pinto, where they loaded II
on wagons and took the ore to Swan
sea, now known as Keller. / dom
know where the ore went, but l think
| it went to the Selby Smelling works
of w. G. Ralston. At that time M
w. Belshaw ran smelter at CerrC
Gordo. Mr. Nadeau, the Los Angeles
hotel man, used to handle the ore Of
the Mexicans at Swansea.
Mr.. Gray is an old California min
er and prospected for several months
with Governor Blaisdell and Warner
H. Myers. of old Virginia City Gray
was for "a long time connected will
the famous Benton mine in Mono
county, California, and says the Rit
Pinto ore in the Ubehebe district Il
similar to the mineral of old Benton
The Ubehebe Mining company, o
| which j. A. Small, cashier of tn,
John s. Cook bank in Rhyolite, i
! president, will at once institute
vigorous campaign of development a
the Rio Pinto.