The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1870-06-07

serNatl0n and from the most reliable
sources accessible to US, Following is
/ our general basis of estimator
Mines. Tuns
I Original Hidden Treasure. e......,........... 10
s. II. Treasure, Montauk, Wedge, &c........ IS
Bromide Flat, MONDAY, &c................ IS
Chloride flat series 100
Pogonip-NabaHh rOup.........-........... 10
Aurora nsolidated. d........-...........,... rs
Aurora South Observation-Disclosures. rs
Mazeppa Hui, California. &c,t.............. so
Mahogony Canyon and Argyle Hill ......... 100
last slope Of Treasure Hill ................. 80
North slope Of Treasure Hill.............. %
n. w. slope of Treasure Hill.............. 25
Blue Hill and north OF Hamilton. 100
Babylon or Bullion Hill. Hill........,...-....... 80
Total yield of free ore per day...........1.0 ]. 900
This estimate is intended to include all
free ores that will yield in the mill $50
per tun and upwards. 1t is well
known among intelligent mining engin-
GERS, mine superintendents and mill men,
that the average cost of mining, hauling,
aud milling our free ores, should not ex-
coed 81 per tun, under economical and
intelligent management; thus leaving So
per tun profit from the lowest grade of
ore estimated. When you take into con-
nlAlHlhllpu Aht laLl tllAA huAl u Abf VI Z
would be of higher grades-ranging
from $40 to 500 per tun-you will readily
perceive the estimate is moderate and
safe when we place the average at $50
per tun This would give us in fine bull
lion II product of $50, 900 per day. In
counting only 20 days for the months
work, it gives us S600,000-or S7.200.-
900 pei annum.
The base metal mines are the next in
order, but really first in Importance to
the permanent prosperity OF the district,
on account of their number, their ex-
tent, and their capacity for supplying the
principal items of freight TO the outgoing
trains.
The base. ores are foand in almost
every part of the district, but are most
abundant in certain zones or belts, hay-
ing northerly and southerly course,
called base ranges, IN contradlstlnc-
ton to the belts of chloride or free mill
ing ore; but even in the base ranges
there is found occasionally good deposits
OF free or milling ores.
The Developments in he base mines are
far behind those in the free mines, owing
mainly to the fact that it has only been
"A few months since the business of
smelling has been an established success,
demonstrating the important fact that
the ores could be worked, prohtahly,
and with much less outlay of capital
than is required for the reduction OF
the free ores.
1t is the opinion Of your committee
that the base mines are even more nu-
merous and extensive than the chloride
deposits; but owing to the limited ex-
plorations we are compelled to restrict
our estimates much below what we be-
lieve to be the real facts.
The entire west side of White Pine
mountain contains, with few excep-
tions, smelling ores, distributed over an
area of six or eight square miles. rms
western zone, or section, IS capable OF
yielding about 800 tuns of good ore
per day, some of it high grade, snita-
Die for shipment in the crude state.
The east side of the mountain is also
rich in base ores, and can produce about
100 tuns of ore per day. The middle
ridge, living between White Pine noun
| tain and Treasure Hill, is called Baby
lon, or Bulion Ridge. and extends from
Swansea, northward, distance OF about
/ four miles, where it terminates at the
junction of Sawmill Canyon, two miles
/ northwest of Hamilton. This middle
range is especially rich in carbonates and
oxides of lead, aud is estimated capable
j of producing 250 tuns OF ore per day.
/ The third belt or range of base ore com
4 mences near the Shermantown Pass,
south of Hamilton, and includes the west
/ base and spurs of Treasure Hill, extend
| ing southerlN Nto point opposite OF, and
| cast of Shermantown. There Is Ill this
/ subdivision over twenty locations SNOW
/ ING good ore, some of which prom
/ ise great extent and value. The es-
timated capacity of this range OF mines
| is about $50 tuns- handsome proper
ton of which is high grade ores suitable
! for shipment, or smelling by mixing 1t
with the soft carbonate ores OF Bullion
| Hill.
These base metal ranges cover two
thirds of the entire area of the district,
and we confidently believe that the pro-
ductiye value from the base ores will
hold like proportion in the total values
nroduced in the entire district. The
foregoing estimates stand as follows:
Tuns.
Entire west side White Pine Mountain 800
East side OF same. lVu
Babylon or Bullion Hill. entire ............ 800
West flank of Treasure Hill. ...........lo .loo
Total yield per day. to""
Out of this amount we estimate 20O
tuns as suitable for shipping to market
in the crude state; and out of the remain
ing 600 tuns we can safely calculate an
average yield of 100 tuns of bullion per
day thus making up Il freight list OF SUI
tuns per day from our base mines alone,
TO be sent to market. The value OF the
300 tuns of shipping ore in the New York
market will, probably, average Sl50 per
tun. The crude bars can be made to
average value of 5000 per tun, If the
ores are properly mixed, and the furnaces
/ skillfully operated.
These two items of export would
amount to a gross value of 500, 900 per
day, and estimating only twenty days pei
month, it gives the handsome sum o. o.
81, 100000 per month, or Sl2, ,ooC
per annum-making the total bullion
product of White Pine per year w.
200. 600.
With the above exhibit, we are pre-
pared TO give an intelligent answer to thu