Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-13
WILLOW CREEK IS
BONANZA DEPOSIT
NEW DISCOVERY MADE SOUTH
OF GREENWATER
Harrison DIbbIee Of San Francisco and
Los Angeles Owner Of the Wall
liable Property-copper
and silver
BY DEL REYNOLDS

Special to The Herald.
RHYOLITE, New, May 12.--Willow
Creek will be the scene of Southern
Nevada activity during the coming
summer months for in spite of the
coming heat Of the summer q deter
mined rush is being made to the new
district.
Willow Creek is just south of Green
water, twenty miles by auto road and
but ten by the trail, and steady
stream of prospectorS and investors
are pouring over the trail daily. Three
weeks ago there was no excitement in
this district. Owners of property were
systematically prospecting, and few
small sales had been made, but the dis
covery of immense ore bodies, especially
I'M copper, underlying the iron ledges
brought on the excitement. WliioW
Creek men were hardly prepared for
the sensation which was sprung when
high grade silver-lead ore was brought
to light on the Battles less than two
weeks ago. Samples were brought IN
by Tom McCauley from this property,
owned by Harrison Dibblee Of San
Francisco and Los Angeles, that ran
| 1000 ounces of silver to the ton and
carry copper and lead values. The
| ledge is unusually rich.
At four feet the Gaping of the ledge
was broken through and ledge six
| feet wide was uncovered. At depth
| Of seven feet the leaching point was
reached and the high values were re-
ceived in a ledge fully nine feet wide.
Caused Big Sensation
| The news of the strike few like Wild
| fire through the southern country and
Dibblee was called from San Francisco
| to see the property. He reached VIII
low Creek on Tuesday and had hardly
1 Lit TON 10 l,<.
was besieged by lease hunters. To
/ each of these Dibblee declined to- make
| a definite answer until after the meet
| ing of the Baltic stockholders in San
Francisco. Upon visiting the property
he at once ordered the central three
| feet of the ledge to be broken down on
canvas and sacked without sorting for
| the smelter.
The Battles have a trace of romance
about them, for it is only by chance
| that the title remains in Dibblee's pos
session. When the Greenwater rush
was at it's height AL Morrison, who was
| Dibblee's representative in the Bull
frog district, took an unauthorized
trip to Willow Creek. He was shown
the Baltic group and bought it, maxi
ing a first payment. He Immediately
, notified Dibblee that he had purchased
a property for him in Willow Creek,
and Dibblee, accompanied by an ex-
pert, hurried across the desert to look
into his purchase. After carefully ex-
amining the property Dibblee stated
most emphatically that he would throw
no good money after bad but agreed to
! look over the district In view of maxi
ling other purchases. Just before leav-
ing he visited the Royal Blue group,
/ owned by Tom McCauley and Jack
! Robichau. The Royal Blue showing
| was so good and Morrison was so insis-
| I,of "
| to make the remaining payment. Men
were put to work on the property to
| prospect it, and less than two weeks
| ago the bonanza ore was uncovered.
4 Comparison of Willow Creek and
other silver and copper camps are
made daily, and the weight of opinion
| is that Willow Creek shows ore typical
4 of Butte, Bisbee and Cananea. Other
| properties in the district are doing al
| most equally as we'll. On the Stevens
| property work is being pushed rapidly,
| and in the shaft the ore body had wild
ened so that at 80 feet the entire bot
tom of the shaft is in ore with no walls
/ in sight, while the ore now being
/ hoisted runs from ten to fifty per cent
copper.
The property which called Dibblee's
first attention to this district-the
Royal Blue-was purchased by Nc
| Cauley and Robichau more than six
months ago. Robichau established his
camp at the foot of his mountain and
prospected thoroughly. In places he
| found stringers of high grade copper
and in other places were lodges thirty
feet wide that showed copper ore plas-
/ tered with sulphides. He now has 20
| showings on the property, and, as he
puts it, "could put more than 200 men
at work and have them working IN
! ore.'' On the Cherokee group, two
miles from the Royal Blue, he has
values of 80 per cent in copper and IS
| in gold.