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TRUTH ' I
FROM NEVADA'S MINES.
Goldnclil, Nov., Oct. 14. Neglected
and Ignored for more than a decade,
the vast deposits of copper which
snuggle close to the farther crests
of the Funeral rtange, in Inyo county,
California, seem at last to bo upon
tho verge of yielding up a hundred
mighty fortunes. Where less than a
year ago the only signs of human vis-.
9 ltatlon were tho crudo monuments
which marked the claims of Itinerant!
prospectors, there has sprung up a
feverish activity, a stream of immi
gration, two booming towns and n
great faith. Centering In tho new
camp called Greenwater, the ring of
pick and shovel, the creak of wind
lasses and the sonorous roar of blast
ing make every slope, for miles to
the east and west, vocal of the bonan-
za-hunter. From tho moment when
1j tho rising sun crowns the surround-
Jl ing peaks with a golden glory, to the
In hour when the sunset streaks tho
ft countryside with pink and purple and
russet gorgeousness, the pulse of ener-
gy beats unceasingly. And tho grow
ing mounds of copper-weighted ore
that border every trail tell how well
this energy is directed.
Considering tho tortuous approach
to these new fields of wealth, the Iso
lation from main traveled roads which
so long barred them from general ex
ploration, the absence of rivers or any
drinkable surface waters peculiar to
all that sombre chaos of mountain
nnd gulch, it is not to bo wondered at
that tho earlier prospectors went from
these fastnesses with a tale that
seemed Incredible to tho ears of the
gold-seekers In the Nevada camps. For
at least eight years such tales have
been told tales of copper In such
bulk, of such great richness, that a
hole blown In the ground by a cannon
cracker laid bare a short cut to opu
lence and nobody, or practically no
body, believed them.
Then came tho day when the rumor
of the things camo to the ears of
Patrick Clark, tho millionaire mining
king of Spokane. Clark being a man
who long since learned that the val
uable metals of the earth are not se
gregated In parks or summer resorts,
became curious. He likewise remem
bered that ho had had an option on
tho Jumbo and Florenco mines of
Goldfleltl, for $50,000 and $30,000, re
spectively, and that after ho had let
these options lapse both properties
had soared to a valuation beyond the
dreams of avarice. He therefore ran
down tho first rumor of Greenwater
richness, and found it substantiated
by a second nnd a third. Finally, be
ing thoroughly Interested, ho made a
searching investigation on the ground.
Tho result was a purchase from Ar
thur Cleary and his associates, early
this year, of tho big tracts at Green
water whence tho Furnace Creek Cop
per company's shafts and dumps now
dot tho landscape.
!It happened that when Clark went
down to Greenwater for his personal
Inspection of what might be there,
f. ho passed through Goldfleld. In pass-
ing, ho stopped over long enough to
have a chat with his friends of the
L. M. Sullivan Trust company. At
this time, chagrined by tho chances
ho had forfeited in Goldfleld, he an
nounced that ho was going to make
no more half-hearted ventures, that
ho meant to buy something In Green
water and hang onto It until Death
Valley blossomed. When ho passed
throuph Goldfleld on his return, there
fore, tho Sullivan people, finding that
ho had really invested and that ho
was enthusiastic about it, promptly
sent an automobile of theirs scurry
ing to tho new country.
Tho second big investment at
Greenwater was conseauently made by
tho L. M. Sullivan Trust, company,
which bought several claims lying
snugly against tho Clark property,
f
where tho outcrppings of tho Clark
master vein bobs up over and over
again, and where there were enough
supplementary outcrops and ledges to
cheer tho investing purse. Then the
Sullivan interests waited to see what
would happen to Clark when he began
to develop his holdings. While they
were waiting, Charles M. Schwab, Au
gustus Helnze, Joseph Brock, T. L.
Oddle, Frank Keith, F. M. Keith, F.
M. "Borax" Smith, Charles It. Mil
ler, and other leading capitalists got
possession of adjacent claims. And
now, all their Greenwater neighbors
having begun to wring riches from
tho Funeral Itange, the L. M. Sullivan
Trust company Is patting itself on the
back. Somo people call this kind of
thing luck, somo foresight, and It
seems to work ether way.
When tho first tent was pitched in
Greenwater, tho man who pitched it
mist have wondered somewhat ruefully
how long It was to stand. Tho near
est water of which ho could bo cer
tain was at tho Amargosa river, twenty-four
miles away. The vegetation of
tho sprawling or beetling mountain
ranges stretched to every point of
tho horizon alfording nothing that
could reasonably be termed fuel. Just
over tho crest against which tho now
town had been inaugurated was an
almost sheer drop of 5,000 feet to the
sickly waste of Death Valley. And
every mouthful ho ate must be freight
ed in by pack animals or mule teams
that often perished In tho endeavor to
reach him. Even tho lone and wind
ing canyon which leads, just now,
most directly to Greenwater carries in
tho namo It bears a significant re
minder of those earlier difficulties -Dead
Horso Gulch.
Since tho Clark and Schwab re
sources have been drawn upon for
the new camp's sustenance and growth
however, these difficulties have rap
Idly dwindled. Where there was but "
one tent, a year or so ago, there are (
now two hundred, and structures ol I
moro enduring permanence for the
housing of stores and offices. There I
aro printing shops, barber shops, gro
cery and provision stores, as well as
tho Inevitable and omnipresent sa
loon. The talking machine holds forth
from both ends of tho little town, in
the cool of tho evening, and nobody
thirsts or starves who is willing to I
work. Moreover, what Is true in these
respects of. Greenwater is also true
of tho twin town of Kunze, distant
a little less than two miles.
Every day the railroad, which Is to
tap tho entlro Greenwater region,
creeps just so many rods nearer. On
tho plateau of Furnace creek canyon,
whero tho sharp descent from tho new
mining district halts, in its dip to
ward tho Amargosa desert, water is
being drilled for and found. A big
smelter Is to go up immediately at the
Amargosa river. And thus the march
of prosperity, which so long merely
marked timo in this region, has be
gun to forgo steadily ahead. Every
day sees tho Investment of new cap
ital In this latest and most promising
of the copper belts. Every day sees
tho population grow by leaps and
bounds. With men and money and
mountains almost literally mado of
copper, It looks as if Greenwater
might become one of tho chief mining
metropolises of tho world.
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