The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-05-17
Summary of the Great Work Done
on Palmer Mountain.
TUNNEL is NOW IN 3,n7 FEET.
Twenty-Five Collaborating Veins
and Numerous stripgers Disclosed
Company Has Acquired Fifty
Contiguous Locations Extend
ing From Base to summit
Plans for Treatment OF Ores.
Special CORRESPONDENCE.


LOOMS, Wash. May l4.-In June, 1896.
the Palmer Mountain Gold Mining &
Tunnel Company began the work of run
ming a tunnel into Palmer mountain, to
be, when completed $500 feet in length,
and to attain depth of $500 feet verti-
cal Up TO this time the company has
expended about $500 coo in the purchase of
ground, having at present fifty contgu-
Gus locations. extending from base TO
summit of the mountain: the improving
of a water right which furnishes 5000
horse power. and the prosecution of the
tunnel which is now in 3.1l7 feet and in
the running of same. They have cross
cut twenty-five gold bearing veins of
from one to forty feet in width besides
numerous stringers of quartz carrying
values. These veins have oeea gone over
or some eighteen of them, by two of
thorough mining experts as have ever
visited the district, and they have sam
pied and assayed the ores from the veins
and both agree that the average of the
ore is more than $50 in gold. A great
part of the formation between veins has
been found TO carry gold values from
so CENTS to near S. These twenty-five
veins are cut at from 100 feet vertical
depth, where the first one was encoun-
tered. to l.225 feet vertical depth. where
the twenty-second was crossed. and by
a singular coincidence both the first and
twenty-second contained a FOOT of quartz
next to the foot wall which showed free
gold. the first vein giving an assay of
$40 and the twenty-serond $l6e.4s gold,
while the whole vein matter in them
averaged more than $50.
The veins so far crossed have an al
most vertical pitch. and of the twenty
two crossed but nine crop on the sur
face. showing that as the tunnel pro-
crosses more blind than cropping veins
are crossed.
The company has arrived at point
where It expects TO begin active mining
operations, but. like the work already ac-
complished. II cannot be begun of hand.
There Is much to be done to mine the
ores economically, and 10 adopt such
method for reducing the ores and extract
ing the gold as the most skilled experts
In modern ways of gold mining and treat
ing can suggest. However the first move
will be to harness the immense water
power electrically. so that all drifting.
raising and stopping can be done with
power drills, as we'll NJ 20 equip the tun-
mel with an electric railway for bringing
out the ores. The company is also now
I'm consultation with specialists In man.
ner of treatment. and will soon decide
upon a plant. which will probably consist
OF 200 stamps for crushing, sending the
product first over amaigamated plates,
and from there over concentrating tables.
and from there to cyanide watts; In fact.
a combination of stamps. amalgamation,
concentrating and cyaniding This plant
alone is expected to cost at least $4,000
and consume a years time In being man
ufactured and installed. 1t Is calculated
that by the time the company begins
milling the ores 1t will have expended
about 81. ooo,Ooo upon the property, every
dollar of which will have been furnished
l.
the stock OF the company among them
selves.