The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-10-26
0 NEAL IS
READY TO MILL
An o.d-Time Mine Has Been Opened
Up Again and . First Class
Mill Erected With Large
Force of Miners

Rev. ]. II. Westervelt returned
home yesterday morning from a
trip to Battle Mountain and Carlin.
at each Of which places he held
church services.
While at Battle Mountain. Rev.
Westervelt experienced the pleas
ure of making a trip out to the
Betty O'Neil silver mine. IN miles
from Battle Mountain, and was on
the ground the day that the new
mill, just recently installed, crushed
Is first ore taken from the Betty
O Neil tunnels.
The Betty O'Neil mine il now
some busy place, according to Rev.
Westervelt, employing around thirty
miners, besides giving work to
quite number who are enonred
n the installation of machinery
and the construction of camp build
-ngs.
For power purposes the operators
have had placed in position BY the
Fa.rbanks-Morse people q 3OO-horse
power gasoline engine Of ne latest
design, and the crew Of experts
'ent out by the Fairbanks-M Morse
company, to make installation, was
Just completing the work the day
that Rev. Westervelt was there.
Under the supervision of Nobel
ietchall, one of the owners of the
nine, bunk houses for the single
men, to the number of FIVE, have
,een erected and eight good resi-
icnce houses for the employees with
.amilies have been constructed.
ZACH house equipped with all Of the
;onveniences that it is possible to
'upply from the resources avail
able.
The Betty O'Neil mine is one of
che oldest "diggins" in this section
of the country, having first been
opened in the early 70's by q COM
3any of men, among whom was the
father of Nobel Getchall, the pres
ent manager.
Only short time after the mine
vas first opened an explosion oc-
.urred and, resultant from it, the
work was abandoned by all of the
nen who were interested in it, and
hey scattered to all points of the
compass, the elder Getchall going
co Arizona, where he entered into
he mining game and continued in
business there until four years ago
| when the impulse to come back tu
she Betty 0'Neil-his old time love
seized him, and he returned and
With zest entered into the contest to
make of the Betty O'Neil profit
able venture; and then died, a year
following. his return, just as he
was getting the mine in shape to
look most highly attractive.
Since the demise of the elder
setchall his son has had charge of
he property and sometime ago he
perfected the organization of q
stock company and succeeded in
)lacing the stock in the hands of
those who are determined to make
of the property big-paying invest
ment. As matter of fact. it is
told that stock of $6 face value has
advanced to SIS; and it is reason
ible to suppose that when the mill
gets to working to full capacity the
stock will take another sharp ad-
vance If the ore does not disap-
point the operators.
A tunnel 1900 feet in length has
been run back into the mountain
and the veins in sight are said to
DE very pleasing to all who have
made an inspection of the mine.
Just what the ore will run, on an
average, is not known, or at least
not made public; and it is quite
probable that none knows as there
has not, as yet, been a sufficient
amount of ore taken out to justify
one forming positive conclusions
| it is said.