Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-03
AUSTIN COMPANY
TO OPERATE MILL
WILL START UP WITH TEN
STAMPS
King Midas Mining Company, owning
the Goodng Mines, Opens Up
Vein of $40 Gold Ore
in Tunnel
Especial correspondence)

AUSTIN, New, Oct. 30-1n Austir
the best news coming on the heels OF
the strike of the Panamint vein in the
Frost shaft is the decision of the Aus
tin Manhattan Consolidated to EQUIP
and start ten-stamp unit in then
mill. This will be completed within
sixty days. The mill plant will be IN
stalled according to the system reached
by experts in the metalurgical plant OF
C. w. Merrill at San Francisco. Mer-
rill will make the installation, ana the
company is anxious for all posi- H.
speed to be made.
The new eouipment to be brought in
will include a Chilean mill far recrush-
ing. cone classifiers, card tables, TUBE
mill cyanide tanks and the Merrill
filter process
The gold bearing ledge on the prop
erty of the King Midas Mining COM
pany has been struck at depth, ana
the rock will average between $40 and
$50 in gold to the ton. The King Midas
group of claims constitute the acreage
purchased last spring by Col. S. L.
Pearson st1d associates from George
Gooding and are situated up Reese
river near the Goodng ranch.
The ledge was cut in a tunnel that
has been worked on for the past few
months. the object being to prospect
the hill and ascertain the quality of
the ore at a reasonable depth. Before
the tunnel was started the splendid
character of the ledge had been DEM
onstrated by shaft and other cuts at
the surface. This strike in the tunnel
confirms the theory of Colonel Pearson
that the ledge would prove deep-seated
and in all reason, based on his wide
experience, prove the making of an
other producing gold property in the
upper valley tributary to Austin. MOI
only will the King Midas prove a pay
ing property to all interested in the
company, from these indications, but
there will be other properties opened
up on the strength of this strike, and
in all probability a camp of state
wide Importance will spring into eX-
istence within a stones throw of the
old Ophir mine, just over the summit
in the Twin river section of the Toiyabe
range.
The tide of mining activity is rising
with a permanent swing all up and
down Reese river from Berlin to Bat
tie mountain. 1t is an uneXploited
mineral empire. The King Midas strike
at the south comes close on the heels
of the marvellous gold showing at
Bannock, to the north.
Inc pig mill at austin belonging 10
the Austin Manhattan Consolidated
will before many weeks be dropping
stamps on Austin ores 1t is reliably
reported that George d. Kilborn, for
the Nevada Equity Mines company,
will build a mill here within the next
six months and begin the hoisting of
ore that is already blocked out. This
region has more of a variety of min
erals to keep ii in a prosperous state
than any other similar territory in the
west. 1t has gold properties as sensa-
tional as those that made the country
wild over Manhattan, Round Mountain
and Goldheld. 1t has at Austin the
richest silver mines on the continent
1t has great porphyry copper deposits
near Battle mountain. 1t has silver
lead mines in various stages of deVel-
opment at several points between Ber-
lin to twenty miles north Of Austin. 1t
has shipping quicksilver mines at
lone. Nine miles south of Austin are
antimony mines that previous to the
panic shipped ore to Swansea at a
profit. Until the marvellous find at
Bannock it was thought that all the
mines had been found. 1t seems, how
ever that the Reese river country is
still the El Dorado for the prospector
as well as the most inviting field for
the promoter and the exploiter of first
class prospects and partially proved
mines.