The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-11-18
Review Of Tests in the Palmer
Mountain District.
WHAT THE ORES AVERAGE.
Twenty Dollars . Ton ConsiAsreA .
r.ar yalae for All the Ores 81 the
Canp-Estimate Based On Carefal
samplfng and the Results OBJ
saaneA by Miliing-Ffgures OF In
tsrest to Practical Investors.

Special Dispatch TO the Post-IntsiIigencer
LOOMS Nov. l7s~-UHtii a mining dis
trfct has had sufficient development TO ae-
termiue the quality and character oil ats
ores. there II always an uncertainty re-
garding average values. for In Amos,
every instance among claim owners they
select the bcss~iooking samples for as
say. What the experienced mining man
desires most TO know Is what the average
Of the vein will go and how wide the pay
streak IT, II ss conceded that thirty
inch pay streak OF gold quartz averaging
SO per ton that can be miiied and 30 to 10
per cent. OF assay values saved on plates
and 20 to 60 per cent. saved In the concen-
trates Is worthy the attention OF capital.
During almost years residence In the
Palmer Mountain district I have made
every effort TO arrive at fair conclusion
as to tho mill values OF the camp and par
ticusary the most notable mines
The Bull Frog Company some time since
cyanfded eleven tons OF average ore
from sixteen surface cropping veins which
gave q return Of $50 In gold and the So
luton contained sl.z. The assay value
Of this ore Was $3.50.
The Golden Zone Company claims its
Gre IL Of $40 average assay value. The
Okanogan Free Gold Mines ulmited) paid
NC dividend in October on 1000 600 shares
OF stock. or 1900: besides the expense Of
mining and milling, estimated Mt 81 per
ton, Q.2o0: making $500. This cleanup.
II In understood, was from q shirty-dayS
run through ten stamps. or say GOO tons
Of ore. A. II is said they have not shipped
or discounted the concentrates, 1t II fair
TO infer that the dividend and expenses
were paid from the gold saved on the
plates. Taking 10 per cent as that amount
they claim they save 90 per cent. In the
concentrates-the ore must have al aver
age OF s22 per ton at least.
The report Of David II. Browne. mining
engineer and analytical chemist OF the
Canadian Copper Company. on fifty-one
surface samples from the forty-four ioca-
tions belonging to the Palmer Mountain
Tunnel Ccmpany's group, gives an aver
age Of tl6.02 gold. while from fifteen veins
crossed In the tunnel. ranging in depth
from loo to loo feet, he gets an average
Of Is gold.
Added 10 these later tests IL the fact
that during nearly a years run OF ore at
the Black Bear mill I'm the early working
Of that property. the average was I'm ex-
cess OF 81. and no concentrates We're
saved. Therefore. one would not be far
out of the way In placing $50 as the aver
age value OF gold ores In tho Palmer
Mountain district.
Regarding the size Of the lodges or ore
veins. believe II safe to say they will
average six feet. OF course every pay
streak may not hc thirty inches wide,
but those less than that width would be
the exception and not the rude. As rule.
tho veins are over SIX, and range to fifty
feet in width. especially when some depth
has been attained. II II no trouble to get
mitch ore that VIII go over 500 In gold 20
the ton, but what IL meant by an average
II the result an expert would obtain by
sampiing mine which In fairly well de-
velopcd
The figures may not perhaps appeal 10
those who expect TO make large amount
OF money In n short time on a very small
Investment. but will. I believe. be OF In
teresf 10 those persons having experience
IN mining who prefer 20 back up strictly
legitimate mining ventures
JOHN l. BOOZE