The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1910-02-18
GOOD ENOUGH FOR HIM
A Mining Man of Means Not
Frighted By Failures on
Palmer Mountain.
STARTS IN EXTENSIVE WORK
On the Strength of Careful and
Exhaustive Expert Examination
OF Existing Mineral Conditions.


of Existing Mineral Conditions.
Notices are posted at Loomis askir g
for bids for driving tunnel, 5X7 feet
in the clear, on the claims on Palmer
mountain, short distance north of
Loomis, acquired some time ago by G..
II. Brooks of New York. This prob
ably means the Inauguration of a cam
paign for the opening up of large
group of claims only second in magni-
tude, even if it does not eventually
Surpass it, to that of the Palmer noun
tain tunnel, now under cloud. Should
the plans be carried out upon the plans
and scale contemplated, and success
reward the effort, interest will be re-
awakened in mining in Northern
Okanogan county and producing mines
will be made.
1t may seem strange that such contri
dictory conditions should exist at the
same time in the same immediate To-
cality. On the southern face of Palmer
mountain is group of claims that
have been worked dozen years. Dur
ing that time Il vast amount of money
has been spent in exploitation. An
immense mill has been built. A COM
plete electric power plant has been in
stalled. Now the company has given
up, claiming there is no mineral in
sight. The improvements are to be
dismantled and the material sold. The
property is to be abandoned. Not
mile away, on the same mountain,
with the same character of surface
showings, "a new company starts in,
tensive as tiiat Jusrshsnaonad usr:shicn :. ~ Z
Il bold operator who'~~-,., .-..,.
in that locality under The 5s.os..' : oonu
stances. But the new operator is
practical mining man, who has sue
ceeded in other mining ventures. He
is not going at it blindly. He is a man
of means as well as experience. lie
has on his pay roll, at heavy annual
salary, an expert who is always sent
into a new district to pass judgment
upon the country before his employer
makes an investment, or proceeds TO
| inaugurate work. The moving spirit
in this enterprise visited the county a
year ago last December. 1t looked
good to him, but he does not act on his
own impressions. He sent in this ex
pert, and that expert made an ex
haustive inspection of the claims un-
der consideration, and the surrounding
country. He did not come in one day
and 90 out the next and, upon super
fetal examination, damn the country.
He is employed to make unbiased re-
ports. Every and any country is the
same to him. He is not expected to
turn down q district, and it is not to
his own interest to report faVorably
when the conditions are unfavorable.
He is wholly dsinterested, and, indeed,
as he is working for the direct benefit
of single employer, there must be
indications of more than ordinary
! merit and promise, or he would natu
rally report adversely. After weeks
on the ground, this expert reported tt
the man for whom he exercises hi:
knowledge, and on the strength of thai
report much money has alread.
been expended in surface prospecting
with very encouraging results, ant
this advertising for bids to start ;
main working tunnel looks as though
the investor intended carrying on the
work on large scale. The public
| will watch the progress of develop
ment with much interest. If mine
is made where work is to start, ther
/ mistakes must have been made in the
development of prope- ties in thai
, vicinity, for the surface and the forma
, ton is very much similar all over tha
part of Palmer mountain. If it proves
t failure after thorough investigation
r then mining men will lose confidence
: in surface showings, and little work il
= mining way will be done on tha
, eminence for years to come. In thi:
: case, however, if failure follows there
/ will not be a long line of stockholders
2 left to suffer, as the means to carry or
: development is not being raised b.
A stock sales, a process of mining il
: which only a modicum of the receipt
, are expended in the actual work o
mine making, One thing certain i