Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1905-10-21
THE OLD PANAMINT.
IacL Curran Secures Possession
BY Relocation.

It's slumbers to IND itselt IN the hands
of other masters.
Jack C%urran, the liking of the
paoamint," has secured possession
of the famous mine by relocation,
saws the Rhyolite Herald:
This property has the distinction Of
having been bonded for SD, 900, 600 to
an English syndicate. Six English
ex perts we're sent out to pass judg-
m emit upon its value, tive reporting
favorable aud one unfavorable. On
ne count Of the one dissenting voice
the project was turned down. Five
thousand dollars was expended in en-
te rtaiuing the experts.
Taken all together, counting i'm
proyemeuts, wages and other ex-
penses, over 500, 600 has been spent
on the old Panamint, The twenty
stamp mill still may be seen aud also
the timber worn and weather beaten
buildings with massive bars and mir
rors with which the palatial saloons
we're furnished. Where at one time
was activity and life, gayety and
fri yolity, the bat and the mole now
hold sway and a treacherous pack
trail is all that leads to the once
prosperous silver camp,
Way back in the early seventies,
when silver was at its height at
81 20, the Panamint was one Of the
l%ivelies spots in the west, but when
silver was ~demonetized, lack Of
transportation facilities, made silver
mining in that camp Improbable,
and its reign was at an end.
The canyon nce had a population
Of seven thousand, bnt when the end
Of prosperity came they went out in
droves, and the grim and silent ruins,
stone warehouses and other struc-
lures, remain as sentinels to guard
the memories Of the past. In order
to again be worked at a profit
modern facilities must be provided
for more economical handling and
treatment OF the ores.
With the slump in silver and the
consequent disaster among silver
camps came dissension among the
owners Of the Panamint and it was
allowed to lapse. At the last the re-
naming workmen we're not paid their
wages and took possession long
enough to get. their pay from the
product, then set fire to some Of the
buildings and departed.
oae Of the many legends in icon.
uection with this historical spot
tells Of a Chinese cook W no was taker
out OF Austin, Nevada, for service a
the Panamiut. His conductor
brought him as far as ASA Meadow,
and then, pointing to Telescope Peal
which looked to be only q few hours
walk distant, babe him go the balanc,
OF the way on foot and alone. Tn,
poor celestial started out on th,
trail to the peak, which was in %realit,
about sixty miles away, Some In
dia rs found him almost dead from
thirst and took him into Panamint
where he was revived. Tight,
clinched in his hand was a nugget o
almost pure gold. Speaking bu
little English, he could not tell wher
he found it and no amount Of plead
ing or threats could induce him to 2
back over the trail.
Another mystery having its ofigi
IN that section, has to do with a Ger
tain map now in the possession {
Duke OF Wild Rose The map wa
made by a German, and judging b
the excellence OF the work on tn
map, he must have been a civil eng
neer. 1t was found in a valise, tn
property OF a LOGGER who died in
San Francisco hotel.
The tracings of the map begin a
Daggett, and as it proceeds, variou
notations along the route denote tn
location OF springs, lack OF water
presence of feed, etc.
Some Of the notations read abou
as follows. From first great brea
In Panamint range (this is taken (
mean Emigrant Pass thirty igt
miles north in canyon probably Tu.
Canyon Then follows u descriptic
OF certain canyons marked by boulc
ers which have evidently been move
since by cloud bursts, then to a ce