The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-06-13
THE M'kINlEY
COMPANY
Summary of a Report Just
Made by James Angus
Sneddker

The following is a summary OF the
report recently made upon the proper
ties of the Mckinley Mining & Smelt-
ing Co, of Ely by James Angus Sne-
daker member of the American Insti-
tute Mining Engineers and American
Association Advancement OF Science,
who is well known and has large In
terests in the Giroux Consolidated
Mines at Pilot Knob. Being thorough
ly familiar with the district, Mr.. Sne-
Gaker knows whereof he speaks.
His report is a beautiful right-hand
tipped cut to the few little pin heads
who have tried to create the impress
sion that the company controlling this
mine had swindled eastern investors
by selling the stock for far more than
it was worth, on the stength oil the
fact that Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Mckinley
we're heavy stockholders in the COM
pany. Mr.. Sneakers article. publish
ed in the White Pine News is as fol-
lows:
In the summing up the merits OF
your property the vital facts Will be
entered into simply and concisely.
First, the vein as covered by the
Saxton group and Jupiter group, COW
ers $50 acres of ground and the out
crop of this great vein $500 fet in
length, or 80 feet less than n mile.
Throughout the entire length OF
this territory, there is exposed on the
surface a mineral bearing vein from
200 feet in width to an extreme width
Of 412 feet between walls, having a
limestone hanging wall and a foot wall
(which is heavily mineralized), 1t pos
sibly being a hornblendic andesite
and quartz porphyry, which is the ore
PRODUCER and is noted throughout the
precious metal mines of the world
as a rock that in connection with lime
stone in particular has created some or
the greatest ore bodies in existence.
THE geological conditions existing
upon this property are such that tax
ing it in comparison with some OF the
great mines of Mexico, Arizona, Utah.
as well as the state OF Nevada and also
the Leadvile district of Colorado,
where the same conditions occur, have
the wonderful ore bodies that
exist upon this property and the ore
are similar in their nature.
From the ore that has been ex-
from the surface, containing
the precious metals, the quantities OF
the same and the mineral conditions
and the enormous masses and cliffs of
mineral as exposed particularly upon
the Jupiter group, there is no other
reasonable deduction that can be made
but what when the development work
has been so far advanced there. this
will be one of the great pro-
ducers of this region, for when the
state Of Nevada gives to the people a
mine, it is ~geneally n of the great
est.
In your property, particularly the
Saxton shaft development there Is
some rs feet of ore in width in the 212
tot level and the intermediate level
between the l20 and PIP.
Taking the amount of ore that is
in sight in these two different levels,
estimating that there is at least % feet
thick of ore that will average & to 10
dollars in gold that is favorable 20
treatment by the cyanide process,
there is enough ore in sight to justify
the operation Of a teaching plant upon
this particular ore, but l would ad-
wise your company not to extrace these
ores and treat them by hat process
at present. but to hold these ore re-
serves until such a time that the cop
per sulphide ores in your property are
sufficiently developed; then the COM
pany can utilize the ores lying nearer
the surface in their smelling plant,
as that will be the future process OF
treating all the ores of your COM
rany. | would not advise the erection
Of a smelling plant until further de-
yelopment.
AS to the probable future of these
mines and the life of them, there is nc
reason that I can see. but what these
mines should last, at least, for fifty
years and they should be profitable fol-
that length of time, as they are con
tact assures OF such great size and
strength; and as the limestone and
other ~sedimentary rocks which form
the hanging wall of this vein are in
the neighborhood of 1000 feet thick
as never can be a~scertained. and your
vein should extend in depth, at least
that far and be profitable.
You have an ore shoot several hun.
dred feet long upon the Saxton grount
and the ore exposures upon the Jupi.
ter group is nearly 1000 feet long;