The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1916-04-25
DISCOVER TIN NEAR
BATTLE MOUNTAIN

Last Sunday, says the Battle Noun
tain Scout, party from town, consist
ing of DR. ". E. Wells, Karl Mitchell,
Cliff Good and representative Of the
Scout, took trip out to the Isenhood
tin discovery, 20 miles north of Battle
Mountain, and were taken over the
ground by Mr.. p s. Brooks, one of the
owners of the claims The party found
much to interest them in this only oc-
currence of tin in Nevada, and one of
the few places where the metal is
found in the Western hemisphere.
Geologically, the tin is found in
seams and fracture planes of a ira
chyte ridge striging east-west about
four miles long and rising to height
of four hundred feet above the valley
at the Isenhood ranch one mile dis
tant.
Cassiterite, the dioxide ore of tin,
is the mineral found and in quite a
number of spots along the course of the
ridge it shows in place, while all along
the fiat bordering the ridge and in all
the gulches running down its sides,
stream or placer tin is found. Erosion
of this trachyte mass has been pro-
nounced and long continued and it Is
fianks its extremities that large guam
titles of tin ore are expected to be re-
covered. Water for this purpose, as
well as for placering the higher grav-
els along the head of the gulches, can
be developed FIVE miles distant and
piped to the scene of operations.
Mining operations at present being
conducted by Mr.. Brooks and his as
sociates consists of sinking upon a
well defined exposure of cassiterite
near the eastern end of the group of
65 claims controlled by the partner
ship. Upon this showing shaft is
now down ten feet and has produced
| FIVE tons of ore, which was stated to
run better than 25 per cent tin. The
ore shows in the bottom of the shaft
| for a width of over three feet and from
among the lower grade ore some very
| high grade specimens have been taken
during the past week.
West of this point ore has been found
at a number of places, and near the
head of one of the gulches running up
into the ridge, very strong and prom
ising occurrence of tin is exposed in
the soft and disintegrated country
rock, but no work of consequence has
yet been done on it. Below this de-
posit some plaeering was attempted
with snow water which ran off down
the gulch, and as long as the water
lasted, quite a considerable quantity
of tin was recovered, demonstrating
that with a steady supply Of water,
much of the metal could be won by
even the crude sluice box used in the
operation.
| 1t is the intention of the owners of
the main claims to open up the differ
ent exposures of tin all over their es-
tate before determining at what point
to concentrate their development work,
but this plan may be altered by trans
ferring part of their ground to outside
interests who have made tentative Of
fers for a portion of their holdings.
Quite a few people from Battle
Mountain have staked claims in the
near vicinity of the original discovery
and only last Sunday Messrs. Wells,
Karl Mitchell and Cliff Good located
five claims adjoining the Brooks and
Iemaire holdings on the east, while w.
c. Hancock and Miles Lyon inspected
the district the same day for the pur-
pose of selecting some promising
ground.