The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1913-12-04
LATE NEWS FROM COP.
PR CANYON PLACER MINES

Battle Mountain Scout: 4 couple
of months ago J. +. Yost secured an
option on the Goodwin and Plumas
mine, came here and examined it. He
returned east and has been financing
it. He has almost competed the for
nation of a company well able to
soon begin active operations and ar
range for the construction of a mill
and the bringing in of water. This
will be the first work of consequence
as the mine has in sight above the
250-focl level $4,000 tons of free
milling gold ore, which will be prof-
liable with present day machinery
and processes of recovery, that was
not profitable 25 years ago. The pur-
chase price is less than 10 per cent
of the assay value OF ore in sight.
Joseph J. Ternan has perservered
and finally has secured options on
all the miners interests in two of the
richest claims in the canyon, which
is the disputed ground. He has also
secured a right to the flow of 10000
gallons of water per hour, which will
come over the ground from above and
enable them to sluice everything from
the surface to bedrock, varying
depth of from 80 to 20 feet.
Joseph W. Donelly, who recently
managed the Gray Eagle deal, return
ed during the week from the east
where company to take over the
Tom Boy group of mines is being or
ganized. He reports the company
practically formed and work on the
ground to begin soon. The company
il composed of Philadelphia capital
lists.
After several months of preliminary
negotiations, various examinations
and tests, actual work has been start
ed on the Mcdonald and other groups
comprising 40 odd claims in Copper
basin, and with preparations in hand
for the early beginning of work on
the Copper Queen grounp belonging
to II. X. Lemaire and associates.
These properties have been taken over
by Fred ID. Novel; of Berkeley, Cal.
Reno Gazette: Guy Davis, original
locator of the Copper canyon plaeers,
said in Reno yesterday that he had
gwen an option ON his half interest
ia two claims last night to Joseph
Herman of this city. On account of
the suit brought by the Glasgow &
Western company, which is called for
trial both on the merits and on the
petition for an injunction, N the Fed
eral Court today, Davis did not give
any details on the option but said he
had received small payment down.
Up TO last April Davis was a
buekaroo,' as he expresses it. He
came to Nevada five years ago from
Illinois, began life in the west as a
cowboy and stepped into mining last
April
Although Davis thinks many peo-
ple may 60 into the Copper canyon
distritc net sDring. he strongly ad-
vises that nobody attempt to 90 in
nj this time who is not well supplied
with equipment and money, rs there
are already 100 persons in the dis
tiict and there are no facilities for
caring for them.
| Davis hegan mining where he did,
he says, because he secured paintings
on the surface. He sunk 60 feet TO
bedrock and ran drifts in the chan
mel. He would not say how much
money he and his partner, Fulbert,
have taken out during the summer
but he says they had IL men work
ing, paid 50 day for water hauled
to the spot, and sometimes rocked out
two pounds and a half a day of gold.