The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-10-19
BIG OPERATIONS AT LOOMS
Extensive Enterprises of the Palmer
Mountain Tunnel and other
yroponittOWs.

speoial Correspondence Post-intell'geneer.
ToOMIS Oct B--It Is now ten years
or more since the discovery OF soih-
bearing lodges upon Palmer mountain
The first and II caused great excite
meut, was the Black Bear, a property
which has gone through many vicissl-
tuaes but which has at last been placed
mon n having basis. The last mill runs
for thirty days. from a stamp mill. showed
a cleanup OF about 5000
The great tunnel which is 10 be driven
into Palmer mountain 500 feet, through
100 acres Of minerai-oeAring ground now
owned BY the Palmer Mountain Gold
Mining and Tunnel Company. is now
reaching the 4ooo-,oot mark This work
has been going on for nearly Eve years
John Boyd. OF Laomia. originated the
scheme. secured the property. organized
the company. prosecuted the work and
brought the proposition to IT'S present
stage cf development During the first
year the tunnel was driven by hand drill
ing. and slow progress was made. In
the second year machinery was Installed
ard the tunnel has been run since that
time with air drills It should be I'M
derstood that the tunnel Is hoinE run 20
crasscut tnlrtv parallel veins, which show
upan the surface az the south slope ~
the mountain hooking toward Loomis But
little attention was paid 90 the veins
counterad. This was a. a little over
so feet from the portal * the tun-
mel and proved 60 ke a ledge foTtY-tWo
and nne-saW feet In Width between walls.
carrying thirty feet OK nsineTaliat forma-
ii0n Ga witch iron saiphi9es predominant
81 A streak - three feet ~ this lsdke
assaycd. more than fao average value,
while some assays ran % si2 and the
Whole thirty tect assAyed m average %
more than 81 ~ gold. The above as
saws were taken hg an expert mining
engineer ard chemist IN The emaioy q
the Canadian Coa7er Nomnany. Win
headquarters at Cleveland. o. lie also AZ
the Same tinae. made thorough sNaniiHs-
don 81 ihe eleven other vcirs previously
crossed and found fhem 90 b IN width
fran one 20 twelve ieet. and thht he
when assaved. 80 ~ 81 A. the sane time
hss made a thorough examination ~ thc
cropping veins upon IRE surface, and
faanA their average to b. 3 q
Croswins the Twelfth yeIa.
where ,hc tunnel crossed ihe twelfth
ever Sa feet thas showing taaf the
tssls,,s. as wen a. quantity, had Increased
~ aenth. the veins eslnR uniformly WISER
vsasre crossed ~ the tunnel th4n upon
me surface The company AZ tnis time
had offers from Eve different parties %
s~ect a plant for ireating the ores and
Ar irsgraviuE the water power one N.le
ststant wAich viii provide ies miners
$50 ~ water with a vertical fan ~
40 feet and az the sane tine 20 build
"A electric railroad from the mine,
distance 81 thirty nAiics 10 TIE Okaa-
oean river. thus furnishing iranspnrtA-
ian with the Great Northern railroad
through the Okanogsn and Columbia riy-
ars fakfae stock therefor, The company
was advised BY prominent mining en-
rsueers that the next TWO or three thou
sand feet through which the tunnel would
"a Was likely 10 prove much more In
tsraslinx Sreuna than that thai had bean