THE OPHIR CANON MINES COMPANY OF NEVADA

(Nevada Mining) THE OPHIR CANON MINES COMPANY OF NEVADA.  Denver: The Merchants Publishing Company, Printers, Stationers, n. d. (ca 1907).1st. 1st. 6" x 9" oblong, string-tied, printed wrappers, 23 pp., double column, photos, maps, plats. Color map titled SKETCH MAP OF NEVADA AND THE SOUTHEASTERN PORTION OF CALIFORNIA bound in at the front of booklet that unfolds to 18" x 14 1/2." published by The Clason Map Company, Denver, Colorado in 1906.

“In issuing the following statement concerning THE OPHIR CANON MINES COMPANY, we desire to emphasize at the outset that the Company is strictly a business corporation. Every step taken in acquiring property, in organizing the Company and in planning the re-opening and the extensive development and operation of this valuable group of mines, has proceeded carefully and under the best advice the Company could procure. The chief object of this corporation is to put these mines again on a dividend paying basis at the earliest possible moment; and to that end modern mining machinery, old drifts and shafts will be cleared out and extended; water rights will be developed to provide power at minimum cost; and the drainage and operating tunnel will be driven to unwater the mines, to explore the virgin ground, and to provide the cheapest means for handling the immense quantities of low-grade ores standing in the slopes of the old workings.”

“The ore is there, and the task of this Company is one of converting a crude commodity into a refined product, differing from the work of a great manufacturing concern only in this, that the output never need search for a market.”

“In the prosecution of these plans funds are required. All who desire to participate in the extensive development scheme the Company has undertaken are invited to subscribe for Treasury stock.”

First discovered in 1865 by S. Boulerond and friends, the Murphy mine was the leading producer in the area. However, after a successful few years the mines closed in 1887. This company feels there are valuable mineral deposits available and with some new investors and cash the mining benefits will be quickly realized. Some nice photographs of the mines as well as some interesting plat sites.

Fine, bright copy with original mailing envelope. Map in fine condition.