Show REGION SOUTH OF BATTLE MOUNTAIN ALIVE TO MINING possibilities battle mountain nevada march 12 to miss millions in gold old by a margin of four feet was the fate of prospector charles sands who quit his work in the titanic gold mine eleven miles south of here according to W C hancock the new owners had but to shoot out a single round of holes to find the za gold old bearing ledge and make a sensational strike he says that a crosscut of the vein has now gone more than seventy feet in ore of an average value of 19 per ton in gold for the entire distance hancock says that since the mad gold rush to galena about eighteen miles southwest of battle mountain a quarter of a century ago much prospecting Z has been done to find the ledge b from which the gold nuggets had been washed down at that time several millions in gold were panned from these placers sands always contended that his work was in the right direction to pick up the ledge but financial c circumstances forced him to cease work when another round of holes would have brought him a fortune his present whereabouts are unknown the titanic group is between the buckingham mina mine and the betty oneal at the latter which is a dividend payer a strike of 50 ore was recently reported the buckingham mina has also recently opened up new ore bodies on the foot level and its new ton flotation mill is just getting started according b to hancock all of these properties are along a highly mineralized system of fissures and he believes the district will eventually develop into one of the most active in the state |