Palmetto, NV (0056)

Per the historic plaque (nearby picture) Palmetto had been a not very successful mining camp, but there had been a stamping mill there in the early 1900's. I assume the foundations here were for that.

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slgwv ^club

They'd also often build stamp mills just on hope (and hype). Modern-day promotional scams are pretty tame compared with those of the 19th century! Also, drilling technology didn't yet exist, so there was no way to delineate an orebody beforehand, as is done now, except by actually dropping a shaft. They also didn't understand supergene enrichment, so it was commonly assumed that the bonanza-grade near-surface values would continue at depth. They usually went into borrasca instead!

Btw, a couple of miles back toward Lida Pass, on the south side of the highway, there's a turnoff to Pigeon Spring, site of another stamp mill. It's on a dirt road but not far off the pavement. The land is privately owned, but at least when I was there the landowner had the site open for tourism:
www.ipernity.com/doc/289859/22527787/in/album/431575

9 years ago. Edited 9 years ago.

Don Barrett (aka DBs… ^club has replied to slgwv ^club

Thanks for the detail on how they perceived the potential load. That, along with the cycles of economic depression in the east that drove people west with high hopes, helps explain all of the development one sees that went bust.

9 years ago.

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