The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-03-22
DOINGS AT PALMETTO.
Strikes Are Constantly Being Made
and New Camp Is Forging Ahead.
lSpecial CorresDondenceN

Palmetto, New. March 1.-THE past
two weeks in Palmetto have been char
acterized by steady work on a score
of leases on the Stimler-Jag giles lead.
and every day has witnessed the de-
parture of wagons and pack trains for
the hills, loaded with mine timbers
and supplies. While most of the work
has been confined to sinking or cross
cutting in the country rock, yet the re-
suits have been entirely satisfactory
and on one lease drifting from the fifty
foot level has disclosed a face of ore
that fairly glitters with the yellow met
al, paintings indicating that the ore will
run better than $500 per ton, This find
was made in the Gillen-HarwoOd-Co Cor
nell and Manli block, and is the upper
vein. Yesterday they commenced sack
ing.
What Lessees Are DOING.
In the Franks and Sweeney lease. ad-
Joining, Cross-cut from the shaft at
a depth of fifty feet has pushed through
eight feet of good ore and is going
ahead TO cut the Gillian vein. Franks
DevIin and Nesbit have three feet of
SIS ore at a depth Of twenty feet. with
a fat streak on one wall showing free
gold in abundance, a fire test giving the
values at $500 per ton. Several other
blocks have a good showing, but in
nearly every case the lessees are sink
inc vertical shafts with the intention
of prosecuting at a depth Of fifty feet
The country rock is serpentine, and the
walls are clean and almost perpendicu-
lar, with a slight dip to the north The
surface groupings are narrOw-the
veins widening gradually with depth
and carrying every indication Of per
manency.
viii Start Palmetto Mill.
Harry stimler and Henry Jagles, the
owners of the ground wherein the
original strikes were made, are ar
ranging TO operate the old Palmetto
mill, which is about three miles from
the mines, for the treatment of ores
that run under the shipping grade. The
plant has good battery of FIVE stamps,
engine and boiler. and with the addition
of a concentrating table and copper
plates 1t can quickly be put in commits
sion.
The success Of the lessees on the
Stimler-Jagles ground has attracted to
the camp q host of experienced mining
men, and has stimulated every one to
renewed efforts The Palmetto COM
pany, which owns a big group in the
immediate vicinity, has surveyors and
prospeCtors at work and the manage
ment has decided upon the leasing sys-
tenn. At the Buster, three miles east
OF this camp, nineteen leases have been
let, and on several Of them the IesSees
were able 10 commence Sacklng- ore
with the top rock North of the Buster
at the Golden Chariot mine, lessees are
hosting rich silver ore which also car
ries good values in the yellow metal
From every hill comes daily the
sound of blasting. and scarcely a day
passes without a fresh discovery. Prob
ably in no place in the state of Nevada
is there a wider scope of mineralized
country, nor better advantages in the
way of wood and water, generally so
scarce in the desert ranges, for the
building of a permanent camp.
Good Mail and Stage Service,
A post0f1ce has been established. and
mail is received on every week day
from Ida. fifteen miles distant on the
Goldfield road. There is daily stage
TO and from Goldheld. and automobiles
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