The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-06-13

a sulphuret.
All these ores are high grade, galena
having been found assaying as high as
six hundred ounces in silver and seventy
per cent lead. The average grade OF ga
lena Is about one hundred and fifty
ounces in silver per ton when yielding
fifty per cent lead and over. When
mixed with silver ores as ruby or ia hlerz
it has been found to contain as high as
from three to four thousand ounces per
ton in silver. The copper ores of this
district are of equally high grade, ship
ments having been made frequently Of
ores running from forty to fifty per cent.
At the southern end of the eastern slope
of the Battle Mountains the surface in
dications are the most abundant aud the
most of the work has been done here.
In this section of the Battle Noun
tains is situated Copper canyon and Duck
creek, the former running in northerly
and southerly direction, the latter east
CITY anu "cotciiJ. AZ thO hcat u thC
latter near the divide between Copper
canyon and Duck creek, Galena, the
principal mining camp in the Battle
Mountains is located. In Its vicinity a
number of parallel fissure veins or rather
systems Of veins running in northerly
and southerly direction, and from one
thousand to fifteen hundred feet distant
from each other have been opened, the
principal of which in their order from
west to east, are known as the Buena
Vista, Nevada formerly the Great East
ern). White & Shiloh The Trinity, The
Butte, The Humbug, The Plumas and
The Iron mine.
The principal rocks in which these
veins occur, are states of different kinds.
Graywacke, graywacke sandstones and
dykes of breccia, the latter probably
being the eruptive rocks which caused
the assures. These veins have been
traced for from three to five mi es and
show width of from two feet to seventy
five and eighty feet in places.
HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE
MINES.
Buena Nista:-
On this lode large amount of pros
pecting has been done, aud a shaft has
been sunk on the copper canyon side,
which is down probably two hundred
feet or over. Here the vein promises to
be valuable. The ores found III this vein
are principally galena.
There has been considerable orc ship
ped from this property to Messrs. Selby
and Co, San Francisco, for reduction.
Taking the average FROM their net re-
turns the results were as follows: Gold,
| 33.1O0 ozs; Silver, 1919 ozs and % per
cent Lead. Here is a property that if
properly opened up with judicious man
agement would make dividend payer.
White and Sh'loh:-
On the White and Shiloh vein, about
three thousand feet northly from the
Buena Vista, more work has been done
than on most any other locations in the
district.
On its northern part there hes been
proven the existance of a continuous pay
streak of one thousand three hundred
feet in length and of an average depth
of two hundred and fifty feet. The
width of the pay ore has averaged six
feet and the ore sixty ozs 10 silver, seven
dollars in gold and SIX per cent lead.
The ores of the White mine are dis
tinguished 10y the frequent and abundant
occurrence of ruby silver and argentfer
Gus gray copper ore. Beautiful specimens
of galena. covered with wire silver have
been found frequently. The property
has not been worked recently owing to
the low price of silver,
Joining the White and Shiloh on the
south are located the Avalanche and
Veritas and the Nevada mine The two
former claims are owned by r. G. Bios
som of Battle Mountain. The latter is
owned by Salt Lake people. The di
rectors are Messrs Dern, Henerich
Ayers and Gray with w. B. Andrews
general manager. There has been prov
en- to exist in all these claims rich ano
powerful vein. which, 10 the Varitas
Claim is about twenty feet in width
The ore found in the claims is argentif
erous galena, averaging from thirty tC
sixty ounces IN silver when containing
thirty aud forty per cent lead.
The former. Avalanche and Veritai
claims have not been worked for severa
years. The latter, the Nevada is nov
down two hundred feet in depth where
the vein shows strong and from which