PURPOSE: To provide an end treatment method of a wire rope capable of ensuring adhesiveness between a metal socket and stainless steel wires constituting the wire rope and easily carrying out a preplating by anyone without any skill.

CONSTITUTION: This method for treating a wire end consists of a degreasing process where an end of a wire rope made of stainless steel is degreased, a first cleaning process where the degreased end of the rope is dipped and cleaned in a concentrated hydrochloric acid solution containing 3-20wt.% zinc, a second cleaning process where the cleaned end of the rope is dipped and cleaned in a zinc chloride solution, a preplating process where the cleaned rope end is preplated with a metal or an alloy having a low melting point and a socket making process where the preplated rope end 14a is surrounded by a mold 26 and a metal socket unit is formed by casting the molten metal or alloy having the low melting point into the mold 26.