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Show FREE GOLD ORES OF NEVADA MP Free gold from the bills in ine neighborhood of Battle Mountain, Gol-conda Gol-conda and Winnemucca, is attracting more attention this spring and summer sum-mer than at any other period in the history of the northern part of Nevada. Ne-vada. Relative to one of the new camps, H. C. Cutler writes- The new Nevada camp of Tellurlde Is situated In the Battle Mountain range. Lander county, near the head of Willow creek, and some twentv-flve twentv-flve miles from the town of Battle Mountain on the Southern Pacific railroad. There is a good wagon road to within a mile and a half of the camp and nn excellent trail for the rest of the distance. It is only sixteen six-teen miles from a railroad by the way of Valmy, and a movement Is on foot to construct a wagon road to this point. The main property and the only ono on which any development work has been done, has recently been Incorporated Incorpo-rated into the Dollar Mining companv by Thomas Koarns and associates. Some stock has been sold, and prospecting pros-pecting work started on n largor scale. The vein was found in the latter part of 1910 by J. Hutchins hut owing to the heavy snows In that section little lit-tle woikwas done on it, and tho discovery dis-covery was not made public until this spring. The camp is situated at an altitude of about 7,500 feet, water is plentiful and wood is senrce The neighborhood has boen thoroughly thor-oughly staked, and several promising veins, showing talr ore, have boen uncovered un-covered With the exception of the main find, little work is being dono In the district, the present owners preferring to wait for capital to come in and take the chances This area was mapped, bv the fortieth parallel survey as Webbor quartzlte, and the vein on the Dollar property is apparently appar-ently a quortzltc; in some places altered al-tered to a glassy quartz, in others, soft, decomposed nnd stained by iron oxides It shows a width of from ftight to twenty-five feet and lies between two belts of slate a hard, black slato on the foot wall and a soft, light-colored light-colored slate on tho hanging wall. The formations dip about forty-five degrees to the northwest A number of cuts have .been made on the surface, sur-face, exposing the vein for 100 feet. In one of these cuts a rock, piobably eruptive, was exposed, but Its extent and whether .it ocours as a floor as an intrusion, is not now knownjSlt is likely that the ore was due to itsmres-ence. itsmres-ence. ?J The ore Isjan altered quartzita carrying car-rying free gold, villi but little,', silver nnd occasional crystals of tetradymlte or tellurlde of bismuth Frequently free gold Is found, imbedded in the crystals, showing that tho deposition of the two minerals was simultaneous. Near the surface the tetradymlte Is more or less oxidized, and the-rock shows a greenish stain, which might indicate a ttace of copper. I The discovery shnft waB only down |