The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1913-03-20
C0PLAN THINKS HE
HAS It At ROCHESTER
FORMER COEUR O'AlENE GOLD
MINER TALKS OF THE NEW
NEVADA CAMP.

Alonzo ID. Coplen of Spokane has
returned from the new Nevada camp
of Rochester and gives IA glowing ac
count to the Chronicle of what he
found and saw there. Mr.. Coplen will
be remembered in the Occur d'Alenes
as having been Il pioneer operator i'm
the gold belt with his brother George
Coplcn. Robert T, Horn and other as
sociates he opened the Daddy lode
mine at Murray and built and oper-
ated for years the stamp mill upon
the property. When built this mill
was up to date and was the best and
most modern in the camp. The Dad
dy lies adjoining and below the fam
Gus Mother Lode. Later the Daddy
company bought and worked the
Meade ledge. on the hill above the
Daddy holdings. The operations of
the Daddy company were very sue
cessful for number of years. They
took out large amount of gold, sew
eral hundred thousand dollars, prob
ably as much as any other gold quartz
company on the North Side, barring
perhaps the Mother Lode people and
the Chest. One year they were said
to have cleared over $4,000 and there
was satisfactory profit for several
years, though in the last days of OPP
GRAFTON some reverses were met.
IL L.c
of cyanide was perfected, and several
fortunes from the Daddy mill as well
as from the Mother Lode mill and
still other gold mills. were scattered
down Pritchard creek in the tailngs.
The Chronicle gives the following
from Mr. Copen:
Rochester New, has two good
mines, the Big Four and the Nenzel
Hill. over which a considerable part
of $500 persons are wildly excited. and
northern Nevada Is filled with I'M
staked opportunities for the skilled
prospector.
"These are the conclusions of A. y.
and A. d. Coplen, cousin, both resi-
lbtlliS VI cBbhdIE, blttl cptDutbS sih
weeks on the desert. a. D. Coplen is
the owner Of the Colonial mine in
British Columbia and prospcctor of
80 years experience.
Locate Gold Mine.
The Coplens brought back to their
grubstaking associates in Spokane a
certificate on property of their 10.
cation which promises to yield enor-
mously in gold and an option on a
copper property which has a ledge of
such liberal dimensions that glory hole
operations will be advisable. Neither
property is in Rochester. although
both are in the Humboldt range, on
which Rochester is located
",rhe Big Four has three feet of ore
that NAV have silver value of SIS
to the ton. although higher values are
reported said A. D. Coplen The
value of the ledge. across four to six
feet. is probably $50. The Nenzel Hill
yields free gold in punches that range
in value from 1925 to $50 to the ton.
A tunnel is being driven from the low
side of the hill to penetrate its lodges
at depth. | have no doubt but that
some mines will be made in Roches-
ter
"'When we entered the camp on
February there were $500 persons;
at the time of our departure there
were $500 and there Us continuous
flash of specimens and money. Build
ings were going up everywhere and
the crowd still pouring in.
eve climbed a hill and traced the
main vein for $50 yards, every yard
of which was staked. But the coun-
try about us. stripped of timber and
often of wash, showed network of
lodges that invited prospecting.
1.-The incidental mention Of a
chance acquaintance that fine pros
pect had been vacated through the
death of it's owner started us off in
an automobile early in the morning
for q 2O-mile run north in the unbrok-
en- desert.
1--WE found ledge of quartz prob
ably IS feet wide that had been pene-
trated by two tunnels, by one for 80
feet and by the other for 125 feet.
Samples of ore from the dump as
sayed as high as $32. The walls of
the longer tunnel were entirely of ore
The ore yields nothing in the pan II
is perhaps a subject for cyanide.
1.-The property lies five miles from
the famous Rye Patch, a mine 40
years old abandoned long ago after
it had yielded s1i,0oo,ooo The con-
dition Of the property indicates that
the men of those days were anything
but poor miners
1--WE will return TO Nevada equip
ped with a runabout with which to
search the hills, and supplies for q
long period of exploration