The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-04-07
A Write.up of this District.

ing Review" contains q write.up OF Bat
tie Mountain Mining District, the ar
ticle being written by ". G. Higgins,
editor of that lively mining journal who
paid the district a visit a short time ago.
The write-up is mostly devoted to the
progress of development in the Boston &
Maine mining company's property, stu
ated at the mouth of Philadelphia cam
yon and Of which property William Eek
man is manager. 1t also gives a good
description of a number of other mines
IN the district. There are a number OF
half-tone prints of the Boston & Maine
property shown in the book.
We clip The following which may be of
interest to our readers:
"The first locations in Battle Noun
tain district were made in the year 1856.
10 Copper canyon. just over the divide
from Galena, the principal mines filed on
at that time now being grouped into
what is now known as the Cooper Mine,'
now owned by the Glasgow q Western
Exploration company, of Scotland, and
which, by the way, is n of the greatest
copper properties to be found in the
west.
But, the prospectors OF 1866 were not
looking for deposits of copper, but for
lodges and veins Of silver. lead and gold.
So the pionsers who had found their
way into Copper canyon soon drifted
over into Galena canyon, at the very
head of which they soon discovered
promising indications of the presence
and existence Of silyer-lead ores, a little
work soon proving that, almost at the
grassroots, Dame Nature had stored a
wealth of treasure in the form of silver
lead ores, and of SO high a grade and in
such quantity that it was not long before
the mining world became greatly excited
over the discoveries, resulting in a STAN
pede for the new Eldorado that has not
been eclipsed before or since. The first
important discovery at Galena is now
known as the White & Shiloh mine,
a property that, from all accounts, has
produced from a million and a half to
three million in the precious metals
since its initial discovery. the ores in
this mine being 10 the form of lead car
donates, chlorides and heavy g%alena; the
silver contents Of the ore often running
as high as 5000 ounces to the ton, while
a uniform value of at least 45 per cent in
lead was maintained, the average in sill
yer being 100 to 500 ounces, 100-ounce
ore, 10 those primitive times, being
deemed Of too low a grade to be handled
at a profit. And yet, with a production
record Of millions, the White d Shiloh
has never been worked below the $780,
foot level.
Other properties at Galena have made
goodly records in the past, among them
being the Little Giant, With a produc.
ton of S3,000,000; the Buena Vista, with
100000 to its credit; the Avalanche and
the Trinity, the two latter having been
productive of exceedingly rich ore; the
Trinity, especially, being noted as a
mine that had been worked for twenty
years or more, and for which works were
installed in the canyon below. As for
the White d Shiloh, the remains OF huge
Bruckner furnaces are still to be seen at
the mine, and the great tailings dumps
attest the fact that in the early days of
Galena there WAS something doing" in
this once lively and prosperous camp.
Yes, Galena was a prosperous camp
before the decentralization of silver in
the year 1873, and the subsequent de.
cline in silver and lead quotations. In
the year 1868 Galena cast 120 votes,
which was a good showing, considering
the floating population of a mining town.
Now, however, but three or four families
live in this almost deserted camp, the
mines Of which as yet, although pro-
ductive OF millions in the past, have
hardly been scratched as yet, although,
almost at the surface large bodies OF fine
milling ore still abound which should
prove to be bonanzas to the mining and
milling men of to-day, with their i'm
proved mining and milling methods and
their higher range of metallurgical
knowledge.
Other mines in the district which re-
ceived mention were the Humbug. the
Goodwin & Plumas, the Red Cross,
Cleveland, the Iron Mine group of seven
claims, and the Bamberger Il Wood
group of sixteen claims, the Victory
group of four claims, and the Bryan
group
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