The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1914-02-05
MURRAY SCOTT
TELLS OF BUCKSK|N

Few men in the west, from a min
ing viewpoint are better known than
M. d. Scott, more readily recognized
as Murray Scott, the founder of
Wonder and Awakening, Nevada
producing mining camps and now so
strongly interested in the rich placer
deposits of Copper canyon, "a miles
south of Battle Mountain. Few men
sense or possess a better knowledge
of mine features or have been more
successful in picking winners
Recently this wholesome mining
figure trekked to Buckskin, looked
nights ago, before he went to Seven
Troughs, said the following in re
Buckskin 8 opportunity for gain and
winnings. Scott, as a matter of fact,
personally is an exponent of nothing
the matter with prospectors, for he is
of the best and has made q number of
fortunes. Here are his sayings:
"The limited time / put in at
Buckskin fully impress me that
missed great opportunity in not
/
Buckskin to my mind is one of
the best mineralized sections of Ne
vada and that conveys a great deal.
It sure has every ear mark Of making
great district with as rich pro-
duction as any Nevada credit hereto
fore.
"The minerals found in the main
are gold and silver. These, through
recent developments, are abundant
and will bring owners and investors
fortunes.
Geologically the district is
complex, showing porphyries, rhyo-
lites, obsidian, docittus, lines, states,
schist, argentite and an altered
granite. The large intrusion igneous
dikes are most significant and rent
that country fore and aft, thus as
suring causeways for solutions and
the displacements of soluable matter
and the replacement of large bodies
with rich mineral substances such as
gold and silver The limited amount
OF development proves in an assert
i've manner the rich and great wealth
to be anticipated in and about that
great mountain rising and looming
above the surrounding country like
some majestic sentinel or singer mark,
reckoning the traveller to pursue the
right and successful way.
! "Prior to the discovery of Nation
al, off and on work was done on Buck
skin. 1t was slow development until
the very rich Bell strike was made.
This showing is rich and means great
fortunes for the owners, but it caused
much new prospecting and more work
until it is more than a prediction to
say that the workers have proven one
of the great rich gold and silver
zones of western America. But be-
yond this proof there is the further
fact, and most important, that with
depth the proof of consistent ore
bodies that are rich beyond anticipa-
tion, like in the Bell property, exist.
The surface evidence of these more
advanced properties was only in the
nature of inducements and guides, but
these lead on until Buckskin noun
tain today can boast of one of the
great mine properties in the west
with others, such as Buckskin Mary,
Leddell-Lyons properties and the Ma
tional Buckskin Mines properties
showing the quality in stronger form
than the early day showing on the
Bell l-Stauffer bonanza.
"The prospective work on the Ma
tional Buckskin Mines company, the
property controlled by Flynn, Wei
shons, Martin and Bradley, in the
deeper workings shows all for the
good. From what is shown in the
upper workings of the National Buck
skin Mines workings the indications
are that large profitable ore bodies
will be encountered at depth both by
drifting on the vein and by crosscut-
ting the great mineralized zone, just
as that wonder zone of mineraliza-
tion known as the Comstock, of Vir-
ginia City, bore fruit to the extent of
hundreds of millions of dollars in gold
and silver and from which the min
ing, political and industrial fame Of
Fair, Jones, Mackay, O'Brien,
Sharon, Stewart, Flood, Skea sprung
and through which a nations credit
was established and to which Sacra-
mento and San Francisco owe their
greatness.
"From the nature of the formation
and the way the vein makes there is
little doubt in my mind but that
Flynn ct al. will encounter great,
richly profitable ore body at depth.
"From my calculations the Flynn
Martin tunnel on the Buckskin Ma
tional will have to go some hundreds
Of feet before they vail intersect the
real vein carrying the richer ore, but
as it is thy are in silicious rock
quartz which at intervals shows free
gold in response to pan action.
81 have great faith and confidence
that what Bell and Stauffer have
done in proving the bonanza on Buck
skin National area will be duplicated
III more ways than one on that great
mountain so rich in gold and silver
opportunities.