Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1907-10-09
CLOSE DEAL AT
BATTLE MOUNTAIN
LOCAL PEOPLE, TOGETHER WITH
PHILADELPHIA CAPITALIST,
PURCHASE MINE.

The firm OF Langley, Trimble G.
Co.. together with j. j. Rattigan OF
Philadelphia. have just concluded the
purchase of the Pedro group of
claims near Battle Mountain. Mr..
Trimble and Mr. Rattigan returned
yesterday from Battle Mountain,
after completing the deal, and ex-
pressed themselves as very well sat
isfied with their purchase.
Before completing the purchase,
they had secured an option on the
property and had 1t thoroughly ex-
amined and sampled by G. NJ. Corns,
the we'll known mining expert That
gentleman has examined many prop
critics in this section of the country
and this is the first that he has
found upon which he could give his
unqualified approval. 1t is a gold
proposition, mainly, and the assays
are most satisfactory.
There are, according to the report
of Mr.. Corns, twenty feet of sulphide
ore, which averages $164.20 a ton.
After concentrating this the result
was $154.4O, leaving $3.50.
The work that has been done on
the property comprises tunnel,
which has been driven in for dis
fanca of OK foot ava ~ go - 49,.
is in the ore. At distance of IS
feet in, crosscut drift has been run
for eighteen feet, and it is from this
that the assays have been taken. The
report says that for the first four
feet the average is 81 a ton, with a
width OF six feet: for the next eight
feet, with a width of eight feet
$3.50; for the next ten feet, next
ITO the hanging wall, the average is
$31.S0. All the values are in gold
no assays being taken for silver.
The sulphide ores that occur in
20 feet of the crosscut drift, the re-
port continues, on the hanging wall
side, average $164.2O. The average
of five feet of the su!phides ON the
footwall side is $34.60; and of IL
/ feet in the east drift on the vein
from the crosscut drift, eight feet
wide, $3.50.
| There were more samples thar
these taken by Expert Corns, all 81
1 which We're checked by w. F. Norris
and showed even higher values. Their
Mr.. Trimble took his own samples
and they were most satisfactory. The
vein is contact of two formations
one of porphyry alternated rhyolite
and the other of quartz trachyte
with a vein filling of very siliciou,
porphyritic quartz. carrying higl
grade of iron sulphide, which will
run at present about fifty per cen
Of the total values in free gold.
Il The trend of the vein is north O
| east and south of west, dipping t.
! the north thirty degrees. The vei1
| is very prominently exposed on tn,
4 surface. There is plenty of waite,
on the ground for the operation of !
twenty-stamp mill, and there is :
fine spring, besides, for domestic
purposes. Mr.. Corns, in his report
! says that the ore can be treated tt
80 or So per cent of it's value b,
amalgamation, concentrating and cy
aniding, as the iron sulphide at pres
ent is absolutely free of refractor,
mineral.
! We will proceed with the develop
ment of the property as fast as pos
sible.' said Mr.. Trimble, last night
and ten thousand dollar plant will
be installed, with. capacity of sink
ing a thousand feet, with power 70.
pumping and the machine drills,
| Mr.. Rattigan, who is interested
/ with the Langley, Trimble Compan,
in the deal, will leave for Philadel
i phia tomorrow, in company with Mr.
4 Corns, and he says that he will hav,
no difficulty in raising fifty THOUSAND
dollars to push operations. He is
himself, heavy stakeholder in thu
Monongahela Trust Company, and /.
a director of the First National Banl
at Homestead,