Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-10-12
CLOSE DEAL AT
BATTLE MOUNTAIN
LOCAL PEOPLE, TOGETHER WITH
PHILADELPHIA CAPITALIST,
PURCHASE MINE.

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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 it thoroughly ex-
amined and sampled by G. M. Corns,
the well 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 $154.40, leaving $3.50.
The work that has been done on
the property comprises a tunnel.
which has been driven in for a dis
lance of 275 feet, and Is feet of this
is in the ore At a distance of is
feet in, a 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
to the hanging wall. the average is
$31.30. 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 $164.20. The average
of five feet of the sulphides on the
footwall side is $34.60; and of IL
feet in the east drift on the vein
from the erosscut drift, eight feet
wide, $3.50.
There were more samples thar
these taken by Expert Corns, all ol
which We're checked by w. f. Norris
and showed even higher values. Ther
Mr., Trimble took his own samples
and they were most satisfactory. The
vein is a contact of two formations
one OF porphyry alternated rhyolite
and the other of quartz tracnyte
with a vein filling Of very silicioul
porphyritic quartz, carrying a higf
grade OF iron sulphide, which vii
run at present about fifty per cen
of the total values in free gold.
The trend OF the vein is north o
east and south Of west. dipping t.
the north thirty degrees. The veil
is very prominently exposed on tn,
surface. There is plenty of waite
on the ground for the operation of
twentg-stamp mill. and there is
fne spring. besides, for domesti
purposes. Mr.. Corns. in his report
says that the ore can be treated t,
80 or 50 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.
I'VE will proceed with the deyelof
ment of the property as fast as pos
sible, said Mr.. Trimble, last nigh
'and a ten thousand dollar plant wi
be installed, with a capacity OF sink
ing a thousand feet, with power fo
pumping and the machine drills"
Mr.. Rattigan, who is intereste
with the Langley. Trimble Compan
in the deal, will leave for Philade
phia tomorrow. In company with NJ
Corns. and he says that he will hay
no difficulty in raising fifty thousan
dollars 10 push operations, He /
himself. a heavy stakeholder in III
Monongahela Trust Company, and
a director of the First National Ban
at Homestead.