Show J j W pleasant canyon panamint range 1 J I 1 A W SPECIAL correspondence 5 ballarat ballaran Ball arat cala oct 18 pleasant canyon begins at the town of ballarat ballaran Ball arat in inyo coun ty in the panamint range and runs east about ten miles this canyon has been the storm center of mining in recent years and is today the most active of any section of the range the radcliffe is the only extensively developed property and has produced several hundred thousand dollars of gold the vein shows a strong fissure in places forty feet wide which is developed tor for 1100 feet in depth on an incline by tunnels the vein shows fifteen feet of 28 on the surface tons of which has been milled the surface ores are oxidized but at depth are base and require a different plant from that now in place it has been reported several times that de lamar has considered purchasing the property and erecting such a mill as that placed on the golden gate at mercur utah above this famous property is located the world beater mine now operated by monte montgomery and associates mr montgomery has worked this property for several years with a five foot bryan mill it is said that the yield of this small mill running one shift during the last ten months has been about the shaft feet deep is now in five feet of free milling ore running about 75 on the plates the shoot is several hundred feet long and the ore is being hoisted by windlass in tour four lifts within the last few weeks the tyler bros and others have disposed of their interests for in the mountain boy and other claims at the head of the canyon at stone corral during last winter the locators mortared out from a few hundred pounds of rock from the mountain boy claim there is a series of small rich veins ot of the same character all the way from flom pleasant canyon south to redlands ca a distance of nine miles they have been productive with the pestle and mortar and ulso tilso some small two and three stamp mills these chese veins are in contact with hard slate and quartzite the belt being about thred miles wide while this canyon has never had any extensive prospecting or developing still there are several other properties which have produced large sums of money charlie anthony with a small mill on the mineral ranch property has taken out over from a high grade vein A freshet demolished his hia two years ago practically mill but he has continued development on oil the mine which at present shows three feet of 35 ore in the with property and ana new equipment he will again be producing bullion the formations of this canyon are like those of the adjoining canyons and run parallel with the strike of the range ane canyon therefore cutting them and plainly exposing the different dykes and stratas at the mouth of the canyon is the schist belt next comes some intrusive granite then slate greenstone limestone the latter capping the very summit of the range some of the ledges are in contact with the different formations and show clean cut fissures like most of the canyons of the range this one has a running stream of about thirty inches of water which is sufficient for all milling purposes and water power can be generated for a small mill at the head of the canyon there is a large amount of pinion pine costing about 5 per cord and which can be used for fuel or mine timber this canyon still offers an exceptional opportunity to the prospector and capitalist the ten miles of canyon affords lots of territory that has never been visited |