Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1916-04-26
DISCOVER TIN NEAR
BATTLE MOUNTAIN

Last Sunday, says the Battle Noun
tain Scout. a party from town. consist
ing Of DR.. v. E. Wells, Karl Mitchell,
Cliff Good and a 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 occurrence 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 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 dist
ant.
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 flat 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
pronounced and long continued and it
is in the washing of the detritus
which flanks its eXtremities that large
quantities OF tin ore are expected to
be recovered. Water for this purpose,
as well as for placering the higher
gravels 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 Ind has produced
five tons of ore, which was stated to
run better than % per cent tin. The
ore shows in the bottcm Of the shaft
| for a width of over three feet and from
among the lower grade ore some very
high grade speciments have been
| taken during the past week.
West of this point ore has been
found at number of places, and neal
the head of one of the gulches running
up into the ridge, very strong and
promising 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 placering 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 tine intention of the owners oi
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 b!
transferring part of their ground tC
outside interests who have made tenta
tive offers for a portion of their hold
ings.
Quite few people from Battle
Mountain have staked claims in tn,
near vicinity OF the original discover!
and only last Sunday Messrs. Wells
Karl Mitchell and Cliff Good locatet
five claims adjoining the Brooks ant
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.