Show TUBER CANYON PANAMINT RANGE I 1 special correspondence ballarat ballaran Ball arat california aug 20 tuber canyon is about fourteen miles north of bal barat ihyo county in the panamint range this is one of the few canyons in the entire range that is without a running stream but there are many large permanent springs at the head of the canyon also a heavy growth of pine suitable for mine timbers as well as fuel at the mouth of this canyon the formation is a fine grained schist such as contains the veins of the famous randsburg brandsburg Rands burg district sixty miles to the southwest many locations have recently beeri been made in this canyon and it shows a perfect net work of strong well defined veins the nearest mines to the valley are those of the black rock roc k group which shows strong veins one of which will average six feet f beet in width and run high in values other rich chutes are known to exist but practically no work whatever has been done to determine their extent directly adjoining this group on the east is the jesse james and last chance claims the latter being the first claim located in this canyon the vein boldly outcrops through almost the entire length of the claim this claim has been owned for years by some wealthy san francisco men who have never spent 1000 upon it although rich ore is known to exist in several places on the location surface assays essays have been obtained which give values as high as thirty ounces in gold east of and adjoining the last chance properties and showing a continuation of the same series of veins vein s is the oh be joy ful property some development work has been done and the property has a record of in production the of the mine show sixteen feet of high grade milling ore and all ore extracted in the development has shown better than 20 on the plates much free gold is seen in the ore the property is in operation and is one of the most productive in the entire range south of and parallel with the oh be joyful another vein has recently been discovered the most prominent location on this vein being the new york high surface values have been obtained and one of the chutes outcrops boldly and maintains a width of more than ten feet recently some work has been started on this vein further up the canyon several more claims have been located embracing the murry group from the droppings crop pings of this vein local prospector s have considerable sid erable high grade ore other veins are known to exist further up the canyon but for lack of enterprise and capital little attention has been given them they all show their values of free gold in the horn spoon the ore being the most free f ree milling of any in m the range A large amount of ground is still open to location in this as well as many other canyons it is unknown for the prospector in the panamint range to bother with the extensions of side locations he never locates unless he has discovered discover ed a vein and one showing value |