The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-11-02
SHELTER FOR BEATTY.
Report That Brock Interests Will
Take Over Tecopa Mines.

If John w. Brock and associates
take over the Tecopa Consolidated
lead mines, and there is every reason
to believe that they will, the Bull
frog district will get a LEGO ton
smelter, for that is the principal part
of the program.
This information was not volun-
teered by the Tecopa management.
but was given to the Manhattan Her
aid by a prominent mining man
whose integrity is not questioned in
Nevada
Recently James L. Freeburn made
an extensive examination of the Gun
sight and MONDAY mines of the Te-
copa estate for Mr.. Brock and his
Philadelphia and New York crowd.
Upon his report will depend the con-
summation of the deal for the con-
troll of the mines and the success of
the big scheme which will mean so
much for southern Nevada mining in
terests and the commonwealth in gen.
eral.
The Herald is informed that the
one feature on which the deal hinges
is the question of ore tonnage. The
Tecopa mines are shipping regularly
about 100 tons of ore per day, which
output is being gradually increased
as teams can be secured and the COM
pany is getting the ore treated at Salt
Lake at a figure which is insignificant
in comparison to the usual rate charg
ed, the lead values for fiuXing pur-
poses making this rate possible. The
returns show that Tecopa ores are
running from 10 to 20 per cent iron.
If the Tecopa mines can be depend
ed upon for $50 tons daily, the smelt-
er project will be feasible. Superin-
tendent Jerry O'Rourke has recently
made the statement that within six
months time a daily output of SOC
tons will be possible from the Noon
day alone, and with an output of one
half that capacity from the Gunsight,
the required tonnage would be met.
The Tecopa company is making
every effort to open up new ground
and further explore the big ore bod
les exposed, with a view of making
as great a production as possible.
The smelter proposition rs being
considered in the strictest business
sense so the Herald is informed, and
the plan is to make Beatty the smelt-
ing center for the silicious ores from
the Tonopah, Goldfield, Bullfrog and
other districts, with the Tecopa mines
as the principal source of the lead
ores. The town of Beatty has been
selected as the site, owing to the
abundance of water and the excel
lent railroad facilities, three railroads
leading into the town from all parts
of the producing territory.
Another part of the program is to
build 500 ton concentration at Te-
copa, which would be an important
factor in connection with the smelter
project.
If this scheme is consummated it
win mean the investment of from
three to four million dollars. A
smelter of 1000 tons daily capacity
will cost perhaps $1,500,000, and the
| company needs fully an equal amount
of capital for fuel supply and ore
purchases. 1t is plainly to be UNDER
stood that if the Beatty smelter is
built, it will be on a gigantic scale, as
the present output from Tonopah
Goldfield and Rhyolite alone would
require a plant of no mean capacity
To just what extent a local smelt-
ing plant would stimulate the opening
of the numerous lead prospects in this
part of the country is difficult to pre-
dict, but with the 1NilenSe lead-Sll-
yer showings in the Funeral and
| Grapevine ranges in the Bare noun
tains and in the old Gold mountain
district, near Bonnieclare, it is a fair
prediction to say that every streak of
lead ore, for hundred miles in all
directions would be worked to the
limit. resulting in a large local pro-
duction. In some of these lead-silver
prospects commercial ore bodies have
already been developed.
Neither Mr.. Overbury nor Mr.. Nc
Mahon of the Tecopa company would
talk for publication concerning the
smelter project as noted above. 1t
has been previously published, how
ever, that Mr.. Brock had serious in
tentions of taking over the control
of the mines, although the smelter
project as part of the scheme, had
not been given out.