Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-09-21
WHALEN CON.
The New York Daily Stock Report
Corrected I'm Some Particulars.

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Corrected IN Some Particulars.
EDITOR SENTINEL: I notice an article
from the New York Daily Stock Report in
your mornings issue OF this date, and, in
justice and fairness to Mr.. Whalen and
our camp, do you not think it we'll to at
least give the public the facts and the
Whalen Copper Mining Company j~ustice9
The New York Daily Stock Report tells us
copper etc., etc. Now. while we are not
prepared to say that the ore has been
worked, we do know that Mr.. Whalen
shipped to Boston two car loads OF copper
ore and disposed of 1t at a profit, after
paying freight to the Eastern seaboard. l
do not believe that the New York Daily
Stock Report owns q controlling interest in
the Copper Queen, and very probably no
interest; but if not, their informant as to
Eureka County has placed them in a false
position. as we have many good copper
prospects in our county and sister county,
White Pine. Our high railroad trans
portation and little demand for copper
claims nave in the past rendered our cop
per interests comparatively valueless, but,
in my judgment, Antelope District, Eu-
reka County, has good copper mines. and
Bald Mountain, Taylor District and Ruby
Mountain District, better known as White
Pine County. have large copper deposits
and the making OF mines equal to the
Copper Queen, or any other tirst-class
mines. w. H. REMINGTON.
EUREKA, Sept. 20. 1882.
SOME ADDITIONAL FAcTs.
We learn from P. n. Hansen that the
Whalen Con. mine is located about thirty.
four miles north Of Eureka. 1t is e cop
per miLe. The ledge crops out 100 feet in
width. 1t has been prospected by three
shafts which are from forty to eighty feet
deep. The ledge is not solid, but made up
Of stringers from SIX inches to three feet in
width which indicate that they will terms
nate in one large ledge when depth is at
tanned. Mr.. Hansen has no been down IN
the mine since it was more than fifteen or
twenty feet deep. At that depth, he says
| there was nothing between the stringers
but red sandy clay, while on the surface
| they were separated by quartz. This con
| dition was found, he learns from men who
| tom of the shafts, except that
| the clay intervening between the stringers
had become more mineralized. This work
has been lone by windlassing. There are
no buildings over the shafts. There are
| cabins on the ground in which the minerf
| live, a blacksmith shop and q boarding
| house for the men. At present there Is nc
work being done on the property, nor oar
any etfectual work be lone further unit
better facilities are had for hosting and
airing underground. The gases are bad
There il a prospect for a big mine In the
Whalen Con. Ore has been taken out tina
averages 80 per cent copper. This 10 av'
erage ore obtained without picking over
Two car loads were sent to Boston anc
Melted something like $500 per car above
transportation and reduction expenses
The reason more has not beer
shipped East is because it is too expensive
There are abundant facilities for the re
duction of the ore in the immediate
neighborhood. Plenty of water and woot
for charcoal. The Eureka & Palisad'
Railroad runs within three miles OF thu
mine. a..
These are the facts in regard to tn
Whalen Con. as given ia by two or GU
most prominent business men. ana W
have no doubt Of their integrity. Whei
the SENTINEL repablished the STOCK nc
ports article II was not with any intent u
iniure the property, but merely to repro
dnoe what MAS regarded by ua a. a piec'
Of mining news. We are glad that W
have thus been led to get the Information
given TO the public by US this morning