Lincoln County record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1900-1905, 1903-02-27

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the tax roll Valuations over rs per
cent, ana this iocrease was dis RI
buted generally over The Coonty,
while afier his second year com
plants to the County Board of
Equalization, which before bad been
frequeat, ceased almost entirely.
His records of the countg's re-
sources in cultivated laads, qu thy
and caarcter 0. cops, live stoc6 etc.
required ID be fled with the Sur-
veyor General every alternate year,
were always iae most complete Of
any assessor ia the s ri and
broogbt forth co nplime otary letter
Of congratulate from The State
Board Of Equsiizaiion which existed
a few years ago.
TIE was nothing wrong with
his methods o! assessing ihe Della
mae Mining Go. On bullion tax, 1t
was doae strictly according 10 law,
aad the facts se:
That tine present DeLamar mines
were the first Straight god mines
d.scovsa here-shouta, No straight
gold ore had ever beer worked in
this vicinity and when Capt. Dsla-
mar bought the mines in the Spring
Of 1884, the Nssbitt Bros were work-
ing 1000 tons of DeLamar ore on
trial in o silver mill at Condor CANYON
by the pan amalgamation process,
guaranteeing return of So per cent
of The metallic contents They claim
cd they didn't recover that much.
Delamar saw this mill iu operation,
bought the mines and opened them
UP extensively during 1884 and tho
spring Oh 95, experimenting * d
sively at the same t;me On The b.
meansof reduction finally adopt
ing chlorination process, by whica
the ora was crushed, roasted in re-
veroaratory furnaces, ebloridiz
with auIphuric aoid N steel bo,ler,
heavily lined with lead, under pres-
sure of over 100 pounds to the
square inch, and taoa leaehed
The process was an expensive one
and the extraction was unsatis-
factory.
Capt. DeLamar spent over $780,
900 90 before returns began to come
in. La opening the mines lud odsld-
ing the mill, he carried one OF two
small co-owners, and in February
1895, before the mill was finished,
aud before the cost OF extraction or
working was known, contract from
the Mining Co. to DeLamar himself |
was made for five years, guarantee
ing a return Of SO per cent, and fix
ing sliding scale of milling charges
based on the ore values.
The first bullion assessment was
made by Mr.. Prudential in the |
fall of 1895. He followed the law
and examined the Company's books |
as to tonnage extracted, values,
costs, charges, etc. and was shown
the mill contract.
he ut ouce reported to r. M.
Beatty, then Attorney General, and
to G. A. LaGrase. then State Con-
troller, asted what course he should
pursue 10 making the assessments,
and was Informed by both those Off
cegs that the mill contract was good,
that the schedule OF prices pr vided
for by it would have to be allowed,
and to make bis assessments accord
iugly, which he did.
During the session OF the legis-
lature in 1897 the Deismar Co. was
predicting oolion extensively, and,
the question OF revenue for the State
be NJ up for consio Grafton, the mill
contract mentioned, was clrefu'ly
Investigated BY the Governor ard
other State officers, together With
several Legislative committees, with
i view 10 forcing a greater 5az from
the DeLamar Company II possible
Ir. Freudeutaai appeared before
those officers aud afforded them all
the information he possessed on the
subject.
Nothing was done. Retroactive
laws could not be enforced ia he
matter and assessments continued
against the Company on tbe same
Old lines, the company in the nean-
time re-nodeling its mil entirely,
aud changing TO the cyanide ptoosaa.
With the exoiration Of the coatroct
in 1900 the mines were worked out