Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1915-09-01
DLD TUSCARORA
no. COME BACK

ONE OF the most important news
items Of the past week was the in.
formation contained in the Tonopah
Bonanza in regard 10 the installation
Of the Holden process in the old camp
OF Tuscarora.
Tuscarora was a great producer in
the early days but it has now beer
nearly twenty years since il was &C.
lively worked. There are people who
knew the camp in its palmy days and
they tell you that Tuscarora is not
worked out by any means. There are
vast bodies of low grade ore lying of
in the porphyry. And they say too
that depth will nco other bodies
of high grade.
But 1t is with the low grade pres
that the Holden process has TO deal
Prof. Edward r. Holden, a famous
mining authority has perfected an
elctro-chemical process that marks an
advance In mining equal to the cyanide
process. The new process is for the
treatment of low grade refractory
ores.
The Bonanza has this to say of the
new Developments. "The standing OF
Prof. Holden is such that when he
makes a statement of that sort it is
taken without discount. Best of all
is the information that the first plant
to use the new process will be in Ne,
vada, in the old camp of TusCarora,
which has produced upwards of 800,
100000, but which has been practical
ly abandoned for years. owing to the
fact that the immense tonnage of low
grade ores in sight there could not bc
probably treated by any known pro,
cess.
THE Tuscarora-Nevada Mines com,
pany, and the DeXter-Tuscarora Con,
solidated Mines company, owning the
principal properties in Tuscarora, have
been involved in litigation which is
before the federal district court OF
New York, the former company being
In the hands of a receiver. Judge
Julius NJ. Meyer. of that court, has au
thorized a Zeal whereby the property
will be leased to the Holden Smelt
ing and Milling company. which is the
name of the company to use the new
process. 1t should not be many
months before the mill is built at Tus
carora and in operation"
There was a time at Aspen, Colo
RADIO, when anything less than one
hundred dollar ore was thrown in the
waste dump. Prof. Holden is one OF
the men who has enabled Colorado to
work her ten and fifteen dollar rock,
Even today in California $40 to $50
ore is considered high grade. But
In Nevada this Is low grade. and up
at Lone Mountain $50 ore is too low
to ship. Out at Bullion $50 is the low,
est grade OF ore that pays to ship,
Hence the smelter that is going in at
Bullion to reduce fifteen dollar ore.
But up at Juneau, Alaska they are
working ore whose total value is on,
ly $3.50 in gold, and it is said that
this one mine will yield a profit OF
STE, oO0,OO
- These figures are not guess work,
The mine is in actual operation and
a half million tons of ore a month is
being reduced.
II IS safe to say hat there are many
millions of tons of ore al TuscaroTa
that run better than this Alaska rock.
Now that Prof. Holden has found a
new process to save these values
what may we not expect from the old
Z camp of Tuscarora?
Is history to repeat itself, and may
we not expect Tuscarora 10 duplicate
! its record of a hundred million dollars
production?
Tuscarora is only eight miles in a di
rect line from the new camp of hi
vide. Jess Workman, the ]discovcreI
Of Divide, says that it is the one for
nation Of andesite and rhyolitc all tho
way from Tuscarora to Divide. Mr.
Workman believes that the mining era
Of that district is just starting and
that there will be other camps as great
as Divide and Tuscarora.
1900