Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-08
INTEREST CROWS
IN GREENWATER
STATE EXPERTS NOW VIEWING
COPPER BELT
New Map of Entire Inyo County Sec
ton to Be Prepared by Mineral
ogist Aubury-Ore of Im-
mense Value

The great copper district of Green
water, Inyo county will be examined
by direction of State Mineralogist Au-
bury and maps and detailed descrip-
tion prepared for the guidance Of in
vestors, prospectors and others who
may be interested. Every road and
trail will be traced with care. Every
claim that is located or in course OF
development will be described. Water
holes and all water supplies will be
shown on map.
| In addition, summary will be sup
piled in which the principal facts re-
lating to the district will be given
No section in California is attracting
more attention than Greenwater. Large
capital is reported to be behind several
enterprises. large amount of litera-
ture has been scattered throughout the
east by interested parties, the result of
which has been to stimulate inquiry
abroad and to make the district widely
known.
The preliminary work of preparing
an accurate report which will be honest
and complete and not misleading in any
particular, nor favoring any particular
set of claims, has already been begun.
DR.. A. Hausmann, field assistant in the
state mining bureau, has been dis
patched to Greenwater to investigate
all copper deposits that have been To-
Gated and to look over the entire coun-
try carefully. The Greenwater district
Is supposed to be about twenty miles
long. The width Is less certainly deter
mined. New strikes may extend the
area In any direction, so that the section
may be very much greater than has
been discovered to date.
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A general extension of the copper
fields of California by new discovery
has been made since the state mineral
ogist caused copper bulletin of Cali
fornia to be prepared a few years ago,
with maps and descriptive matter. In.
view of this fact, Aubury has decided
to get out a revised edition of that
bulletin, bringing it up to date in all
districts as far as possible. In addition
to the Greenwater district the Ubenhebe
district, also in the eastern part OF CAL
ifornia, will be visited by field as
sistants of the state mining bureau.
Ubehebe is in San Bernardino county.
Copper deposits In Ubehebe are re-
ported to be rich.
Three or four districts in Inyo county
that have copper were not known when
the bulletin was published in 1902. Since
that year the copper fields OF Siskiyou
and Shasta counties have been more
accurately ascertained and the copper
belt has been extended. Great sums Of
money that have been invested In smelt-
ing and mining plants in the northern
counties by investors from abroad have
given evidence of the. confidence of ex-
perts from Montana, Arizona, Utah and
elsewhere.
Encouraging Developments
The latest news from the Green
water copper country is that marked
improvement has followed development
work In several shafts. Three Green
water and Death valley shafts arc
down to the 200-foot level and one is
down S15 feet. The men back OF the
work are pushing ahead as fast as they
can, working three shifts to bring ore
bodies into sight. A change has been
discovered in the formation as the
shafts go down that has encouraged the
miners greatly. At Furnace Creek, at
a depth of 500 feet, the formation un-
covered at Greenwater has been OBJ
served at a depth of 500 feet, as re-
ported.