Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-03-24
The Pannamint Mining District.

The Pannamint Mining District.
Many of our citizens will remember
the visit of Messrs. Vanderlip, Kenne-
DIV and Rains last Fall, and the rich
specimens of ore they brought from the
recently discovered Pannamint mines.
From time to time we have heard flat
tering accounts of the progress made
in developing these rich discoveries;
till now it is satisfactorily established
that one of the richest and most ex-
tensive deposits of silver in the world
lies within easy reach of our city. Its
influence on the future greatness of our
city can scarcely be estimated. The
steady stream of trade that must flow
here when these mines are fully devel-
oped, if adequate means of commune
cation are provided, will give an inn
petus to business that even the most
sanguine does not dream of. San
Francisco owes much of her wonderful
growth to the Comstock lode, but in
Pannamint we have a district that
promises to throw even its marvellous
richness in the shade. We have just
had an interview with Mr.. Jacobs, a
miner of over twenty years experience,
who spent nine years in the mining
regions of Mexico and is familiar with
all the mines of this coast, and he is
firmly of the opinion that, with the
exception of the Comstock lode and
one in Sonora, the richest veins yet
discovered are in the Pannamint re-
gion, and that the district as whole
is richer by far than any in existence.
Over one hundred and fifty claims
have been located, and the assays from
the groupings show an average of 500
to the ton, while many run vastly
higher. The extremely broken char
acter of the country where these lodes
have been discovered has contributed
greatly to the ease and certainty of
testing their richness, the deep cafions
cutting them at right angles serving
as so many shafts for their examina-
ton. A number of the best lodes have
also been prospected by shafts sunk
from twenty to sixty feet with unvary-
ing results of the most splendid char
acter. Over seventy men are now in
the camp. A town has been laid off,
stores and shops are going up, and a
movement is on foot for establishing q
Postoffice. In few weeks not less
than five hundred hardy miners will
be drilling and blasting in these
mountains, and at no distant day we
shall see there one of the busiest and
most populous mining camps in the
State. The Pannamint Mining COM
pany is making arrangements to begin
business on large scale, and their
machinery is now on the way from
San Francisco for the erection of a
stamping mill. The mill starts out
with ten stamps, but the machinery
will be of sufficient power to run ten
more, and these will be put in as soon
as the facilities for handling the ore
can be improved so as to get it readily
to the mill. 1t is the intention of the
company to crush the ore and
concentrate it, reducing ten tons
into one. This concentrated ore will
then be hauled to this city to be re-
duced here if works are erected, or
shipped to San Francisco. The pro-
duct of the one mill of the Panamint
Company will be two tons day of the
concentrated ore, and when the mill is
fairly in operation, four tons. Our
readers can form some idea of the
magnitude the operations in these
mines is likely to assume when they
reflect that this is but one of the nu-
merous mines that will soon be in full
blast. It is safe to say that it will
soon require from five to six hundred
heavy teams such as run between this
city and Cerro Gordo to transport the
product of the mines, and that very
soon railroad will have to be built to
accommodate the vast bulk of trade
that must soon flow from that district.
An effort is now being made to secure
a road to these mines from this city.
The miners now interested offer to do
the work, but they ask our citizens to
help them. Only few miles of road
will have to be made. and if our citi-
zens will contribute a small amount
this can be done at once. The matter
has been fully placed before our peo-
pie, and they are manifesting a'degree
of interest that promises well for the
success of the undertaking. No one
who is acquainted with the past his
tory of Los Angeles needs to be told
that it is of the utmost Importance
that the road shall be speedily built.
The trade of this district alone will in
a few years equal the whole present
business of this city, and while rail
road will soon have to be built to ac-
commodate it, we must pioneer the
way with wagon road. Several OF
our leading business men have already
signified their intention of contribut-
ing literally, and an effort will be
made to have special meeting Of the
Chamber of Commerce this evening
to take general and public action.
We hope to see it generally attended,
and feel certain that tho suhiect OnIv