The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1888-08-11

cut has penetrated to deposit of ore
which lies nearly fiat, but has n slight
inclination north ward towards dyke
of porphvry. Here four men are en-
ploved IN stopng out ore. One OF
them is Sam Rutledge, the foreman
Of the mine. He is also the Mining
Recorder of the district, and to him
we are indebted for kind courteses
extended to our reporter during his
visit to this valuable property. There
are about 12 vertical and incline
shafts on this mine, from five TO TWEEN
ty feet deep, having ore in each of
them. Hitherto the richest of the ore
has been selected and shipped TO the
furnaces in Eureka for reduction, and
as the cost of hauling is $15 per ton,
nothing has been sent here unless it
would run up into the hundreds of
dollars per ton in working value.
There are now from 200 to | 800 tons
of ore on the dumps ut the mine ready
for treatment, from which number
of samples have been taken and an
alyZed. The results obtained are as
follow: Forty parts silica, 20 of lime
~ of magnetic IRON, 8 of black oxides
of manganese, ) of sulphur, 3 Of lead,
and | of copper, the residue being
about 10 per cent The average guam
tity of silver contained in the ore is
about so ounces and the gold value
runs from 81 to SIS per ton. Messrs.
Reynolds & Featherstone are contem-
plating the erection of teaching mill
with capacity to treat 10 tons of ore
per day.
There is probably not mining To-
cality in the State of Nevada that
shows more mineral on top of the
ground or better prospects for the dis
covery of large mines awaiting devel-
opment than Robinson District. Be-
sides the gold and silver there are also
argentiferous lead and
COPPER MINES
In great number. Within the district
is strip of country, veritable cop
per belt, being eight or ten miles long
and from two to four miles wide,
part of which is esignated as West
Camp. Some of the copper ores are
very rich and occur in yarios miner
illogical forms.
A group of copper mines on this
belt known as the Star, Grand Cen
trail and Star of the West, owned by A.
r. Watson, a resident of the district
and Mr.. Walcot of San Francisco Cal. :,
look very well in places where the
lode has been stripped and exposed,
blue and green copper carbonates be-
ing very CONSPICUOUS in the cleavage
of the rocks, and red and gray copper,
sulphides, exichorides and other
forms of copper ore showing up in
different places. 1t appears like a big
slice of this country is an unbroken
bed of copper ore. Messrs. Watson
and Walcot own other mines that
give ample eyidsnce of great value.
The Pilot Knob mine has immense
groupings of hematite winch assay 50
per eeni of iron aud $ll IN gold.
Three hundred tons of this was ship
ped to Ward and was there pronounced
by the smelter, +. +. Thomas, the
best flux on the Pacific Coast. When
ever railroad communication is made
to Salt Lake this material will be
valuable to ship there. A vertical
shaft on the Brooks mine winch adjoins
the Pilot Knob has developed some
fine looking copper ore.
Mr.. Watson owns the Ontario, near
Mineral City, from which 400 tons
of ore were shipped TO Ward IN 1877
and worked at the rate OF SCI IN gold,
$iS in silver and AZ per cent. lead.
Two or three openings on tins prop
erty disclose good deposits of ore that
will pay proftably to work. A tun-
mel has been driven through the por-
phyry 700 feet and has about $50 feet
further to run to tap the mine 500
deep. There is fine vein of ore ex-
posed in an incline shaft some four or
five feet thick, which looks exceeding
ly promising. Mr.. Ragsdale has
valuable silver-lead mine, and there
are also number Of others in the dis
trict that it is not necessary to men
ton.
Convenient to the mines of this rich
district is an abundance of nut pine,
cedar and mountain mahogany trees
suitable for fuel and the manufacture
of charcoal. There are also a number
of springs in the mountains from
which an ample supply of water may
be had for milling and smelling pur-