Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-12-19
RdWhide a Great
Milling Camy

RAWHIDE, Dec. 14.-F. l.. Pro-
bert, g~eologist in the employ OF the
Lewisohns and Hayden, Stone and
Co., Of New York and Boston, COM
pleted an examination of the ore
bodies of the Rawhide mining district
last Tuesday morning. Upon the
tenor of the report on the camp
which he will submit to his employ
ers hinges a merger of the Rawhide
Coalition mines, Rawhide Queen
mines and Rawhide Western railway
companies, with the Lewisohns and
Hayden, Stone and company in con-
troll of the holding company.
In advance of public announce
ment Of the Probert report your rep
r%esentative will state that he has rea-
son to believe it will in the main be
favorable, and that it will sanction
the proposed merger. The informa-
ton to that effect came to your rep
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though not expressed to him by Mr.
Probert in person. That gentleman,
quite naturally, prefers to have his
employers make announcement of his
opinion on this camp, rather than to
forestall any plans they may have in
connection Herewith by expressing
himself prematurely.
Mr.. Probert did, however. state
that he believes Rawhide gives prom
Use of developing into n of the
country's most prosperous milling
camps. He did not state that this
camp Is the most wonderful, and the
largest FREQ milling proposition the
world has ever known, nor that il
will ultimately become such. Whai
he did say is that Rawhide offers
great possibilities in the way of mill
ing grade ore tonnage and that it il
not unlikely that a $40 a ton ore car
be milIed here at profit under an 81
per cent precious metal extraction
AS ore having a value from $40 t.
$40 the ton prevails here Throughout
an area Of three by five miles. Mr.
Probert's remark anent the treat
ment Of $40 ore takes on consider
able significance.
SURPRISED AT AREA.
The comprehensive area owe
which pay milling grade ore is dis
tributed here was a surprise to th
noted geologist, and he so espresso
himself when speaking generally q
the camp and its possibilities to locs
mining men and engineers wit
whom he has acquaintance of som
years standing. He is likewise i'm
pressed with the signs of persistenc
at depth which the ore bodies pre-
sent at surface, and in what ma
justly be termed s'near-surface work
ings.' 1t is by these signs he read
the future of Rawhide as a millin
camp. BY the foregoing it is not t
be understood that Mr.. Probert CAV
no recognition to the ore shoots {
excessive gold contact which preya
within the area of secondary preciou
metal enrichment, but simply the
they did not enter so largely into h
summing up of possible tonnage an
its value as they do at times in tn
copy which we mining news writer
submit for publication.
PLEASED WITH HOOLIGAN HILL
The deposits exposed in the Truet
Miller, Sunbeam, Portland, Rickart
Holland and other leaseholds Il
Gated on that portion of the Coalitio
estate obtaining on Hooligan hill. in
pressed Mr.. Probert as oferfn
marked ore yielding possibilities bot
in the area Of secondary enrichmeI
and In that of primary enrichmen
Also, he is of the opinion that I'll
paralleling assure obtaining in IL
immense Coalition dyke continu,
well to the north of H~ooligan hill
This means that they prevail upc
the estate of the Rawhide Minir
company, that of the Rawhide Tara,
tula company and upon other acr
ages located beyond the northel
confines Of the Coalition property.