Show PALMETTO PALM ETTO MINES AND MINING SPECIAL correspondence palmetto nev may 25 north of the sylvania lime belt about five miles is burlington mountain where the recent discoveries co of gold bearing quartz in january caused a stampede and the establishment of the present town of palmetto for the past four months a number of lessees lessels have been at work here and have opened a series of veins running east and west these veins are in serpentine of narrow dimensions on the surface gradually widening as depth is attained the quartz is shot with an iron hematite hemi tite that shows free gold and while the bulk of the vein filling will not exceed probably 50 in value rich seams are encountered generally on the wall which assay into the thousands the walls are shipment direct to the sm shelters smelters elters in the mauli maul tunnel el on the east end of the vein a thousand pounds of ore was extracted tra eted seventy five feet from the surface worth a pound A raise for ventilation has been completed and sinking commenced on the vein on three other leases cross cro s cuts are being driven to cut the different fissures which should they continue to increase in width h in the same proportion as they have maintained from the surface to the fifty foot level will disclose a world of ore on the north side of the mountain a tunnel is being driven to open the mineral zone on three blocks of ground at a depth of feet if the veins hold their dip this working avenue should tap the most north hl A 4 7 LL the mauli tunnel to the left is manager stimler of the palmetto and death vail valley e Y M mining ining co near him looking at a rich specimen through a glass is president reilley ailley eil ley the man with his arms akimbo is dick nhi colburn colemn n stooping in front of colburn Js is harry holmshaw Holms hawLa a director in the company clean and well defined the fissures hav having ing a slight pitch to the north vertical shafts have been sunk to a depth of from fifty to feet at the fifty foot level in five leases the vein filling will average thirty inches in width the auriferous values approximating 50 per ton the palmetto and death V valley alley mining company is now engaged in repairing the old palmetto pa almetto mill two miles from the mines and when it is ready tor for operation the movement of ore w will 1 11 commence A large percentage of the values can be caught on the plates the residue to iron concentrates at a find a market as depth of forty and fifty feet respectively two leases are in ore carrying gross values of per ton which chichis chis is being sacked for erly one at a distance of feet the tunnel is in eighty odd feet and three shifts are engaged in its boring A new impetus was given operations recently by the acquirement of interests in the company by B J reilley R C colburn and harry holmshaw of goldfield mr reilley made a fortune in a lease on the florence F lor mine at goldfield dick colburn olburn Cl owns a big block of stock in the famous red top which he helped to develop from a mere prospect into one of the richest mines in that great camp and harry holmshaw I is recognized as a trusted lieutenant of george wingfield whose successful ful trail has lead from tonopah into every new camp in southwestern southwest ern nevada s across a wide canyon in the foot foothills hilTs of another range and distant as the crow flies about five miles northeast from the rich gold deposits of burlington mountain is the eld cid whitney mine the property of the new york and palmetto mining company the shares of which still form a part of the estate of the late wm win C whitney for a dozen years these mines have been neglected but negotiations are now pending for their transfer into more appreciative hands despite years of production the ore bodies show no sign of exhaustion five miles again in a southerly direction from this group is the old forinas mine better known locally as the buster which recently passed into the hands of a corporate body composed of mining men of california goldfield and tonopah To the company owns five claims which are crossed by a series of porphyry dykes running east and west which are intersected by north and south fissures the high percentage of values are in gold quartz similar to the ores of burlington mountain but which also carry a considerable percentage of lead for many years the product was treated in an at pigeon springs four m miles iles below the mine this old plant is now 4 being replaced with a modern concentrator with a crushing capacity of ten stamps one half of which is to be run on lessees lessels les sees ore although the old workings of this mine are but feet from the surface yet thousands of tons of mill ore stand ready for extraction this condition is due to two things the 1 immense 1 m m daise size of the ore deposits clear to the surface and the fhe inability of the com banys predecessors to handle aught but the richest of the gold laden rock on one level on the old buster claim a crosscut cross cut penetrated for thirty feet before the opposite wall was reached and the entire vein was found to run 25 to the ton in gold alone alond when one considers that this is but one of half a dozen ore laden fissures and figures the probable tonnage to be exposed at a depth of a thousand feet the future of this lida queen gold mining company seems indeed a rosy one twenty odd leases are working on this series of veins vein s west of the working shaft and nearly all are piling up dumps of yellow quartz in in readiness for the first toot of the mill whistle often the pan discloses sensational values from small seams like those which were rifled by the chlo riders of fifteen years ago but as in the mines of burlington mountain the mills the thing and from concentration will come big profits all round these mines which have been described are thousands of acres of undeveloped mineral lands many of which have i equally as good surface show showings I 1 the property of who stand ready to meet half way the right sort of mine operator everywhere is timber in profusion an inexhaustible body of water flows but a few feet underground and ninety per cent of the ores yield readily to concentration contrary to common opinion this is not a desert country there is always a good fall of snow during the winter months dud and frequent showers up until midsummer mid summer the high sierra nevadas are but a hundred miles away and the summer heat is tempered by breezes from their perennial snow banks ranches are in every valley many cattle graze in the hills and civilizations civilization as personified uy by crockery floors flior and lights in glass bottles is but forty five miles distant and headed this way C F SPILMAN |