Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-02-24
PALMETTO
Is LIVELY
Stampede to the New Camp is
On and a Great Future is
Predicted for It.

The rush to Palmetto continues.
Already considerably more than 200
tents have been pitched amidst the
sage brush of the narrow valley
through which runs the old stage
road to the Owens valley towns at
the foot of the White Sierra range in
California. 1t is Main street OF the
new town of Palmetto and extends
from east to west for a solid mile. A
towusite has been staked out and
lots are selling up to $500 for a 'front.'
age Of forty feet on main street,
Automobiles, stages and wagons
keep up a constant procession
through Ida, followed by heavily
laden freight outfits pulled slowly
along by teams Of from six to ten
span of horses or mules, with now
and then a pack train Of long cared,
patient burros plodding through the
dust, their backs piled high with
bedding, tents and the inevitable
''tinned goods" that accompany
every desert traveller, be be humble
prospector or buckle-booted expert.
With visions OF quickly acquired for
tunes that are inspired by the history
Of Tonopah, Goldfeld, Bullfrog and
Manhattan, people of all classes are
rushing onward across mountain and
desert, sparing not their horses, and
begrudging themselves the brief
hours required for sleep and food.
Palmetto is not a new and unex-
plortd district, says the Salt Lake
Telegram. While the great war of
the rebellion was being fought, the
late William C. Whitney was digging
a fortune in precious metals from the
hills a short distance from the new
and bustling camp, and within two
miles Of the rich discovery that
caused this stampede stands the tall
brick stack of his long dead furnaces.
Five miles away, and in the same
range, is the old silver.lead camp OF
Sylvauia, and in the hills on both
sides of the valley, everywhere are
lodges containing gold and silver and
copper and lead. But gold, the
magnet that draws men from all the
corners Of the earth, the precious
yellow metal that fires the blood and
makes demons of the sanest OF men,
gold, the sire and the dam of cupidity
the world over, has been found in its
native state, specks OF it and flakes
OF it, hid in a white quartz scanned
with iron and buried in ragged hills
which have been the feeding place OF
wild horses and half wild cattle, and
the hunting grounds of coyotes for a
quarter of a century.
The ledge from which the rich vel
ues have been taken extends for five
miles from southeast to southwest tc
where the range is broken by the
south end of Fish Lake valley, anG
the pay streak yields values from
800 to $40, 600 to the ton. About
twenty leases have been let, and the
deepest workings are but twenty
five feet. In this lease assays have
been had up to 81. 500, and consider
able ore has been sacked.
The Palmetto district is ffteer
miles from Ida, west by a littl'
north, and from two to five mile
from the California line. The near
est railroad point is Goldtield, forty
seven miles northeast over excellen
wagon roads. Water is found in tn,
valley at a depth OF forty feet, an,
there is plenty of pinion pine within
five miles of the new camp. 1t is tn
center Of a heavily mineralized sec
ton twenty-four miles square. whic'
has been mined, in a crude way, 70
forty years, the home of the old be
nanzas from which rich ores wer
''treked" across mountains and de:
erts before the Comstock was know
to man. Oa the south are the in
mense high grade silver-lead deposit
of the old camp of Sylvania, on tn
north and east Silver Peak, with il
famous Dainkwater mine, and til
rich deposits of Gold Mountain, TuI
canyon and Ida.
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