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THE WALLACE MINER
Vol. 2, No. 3
WALLACE, IDAHO, THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1908
Five Cents a Copy
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Another Murray Property Strikes it
Rich at Depth of 600 Feet
Jp 0 L L O W IN G closely on the heels of the big strike in the
™ Chicago-London the well known Beartop mine has encountered a
I magnificent body of ore in its lower tunnel which proves the property
to be the bonanza its friends have heretofore claimed it would bo, says
the Murray Sun. The ore lxxly was first encountered on the 000-foot
level by drifting westward on the lead which was cut a little over 1 ,500!
feet from the portal of the crosscut tunnel. At the point where it cut
the lead on the east side of the tunnel it was about 20 inches widej'
while on the west side it widened out to between five and six feet of
c , . .. . .
nnely mineralized quartz. The ore commenced coming strong after
drifting about eight feet. At 16 feet the whole face of the tunnel
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in excellent ore and now with the drift in the neighborhood of 20 feet
was
the full face and the sides of the tunnel are said to be in ore and Mana
ger Keibler telephones from the mine it is growing better with every
snot. J he lead was evidently cut at the eastern end of the ore shoot of
the center ore lxxly and by drifting westward this ore shoot which in
the upper level was 100 feet long and from three to 30 feet wide is being
encountered and although its extent at this time is unknown there j s
every indication and reason for believing that it will meet the fondest
Viope of the most enthusiastic of its owners.
The Bfartopis a mine, a Ixmanza mine, and the discovery of this!cut
body of ore at a depth of 600 feet again explodes the theory of some that
the ore bodies on the north side do not go down and by settling that 1
question beyond dispute by actual demonstration of the fact that withj
depth the ore bodies gain in magnitude without losing in quality
mining future of this camp is settled and with the completion of the
railroad which is essential for its development this side will become a !
center of great interest and wonderful activity.
. lhe Beartop is oneof the best known of the north side properties
owing to its having been a shipper, and it only needed this proof that
the ore body has depth for it to take rank as one of the great mines of
the greatCocur d'Alene district, and one that will be prepared to pay
dividends as soon as the transportation facilities become available so;^f,
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that t can lie worked on a large enough scale.
With the encouragement furnished by the recent strikes on the
Beartop and the Chieago-London and the certainty of early transpor-!
tation facilities, the coming summer should witness great strides in the
t
evelopment of numerous other properties of great promise in the dis
ict and it is believed will do so.
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The strike recently made in the Chieago-London is holding out j
The ore is improving and there is more of it. Assay returns are
well.
reported to have given high values in zinc.
ERST SNOWSTORM PROMISING
One of the most likely looking
prospects at the present time is the
East Snowstorm, one of the C. E.
Mitchell company's properties.
A crosscut was run south from the
4500-foot station In the tunnel, but
did not encounter ore of Importance
the b '£ vein -
It was decided then to run a cross
Croucut Runs Nearly All the Way in
Mineralized Rock
cut from the 600-foot station north
through the country rock to en
counter a parallel vein which is
wmT* n °t eXlSt IJroperty and
which outcrops in the creek about
160 feet north of where the main
tunnel starts into the mountain.
This was in mineralized rock almost
the entire distance, but not in vein
matter.
At the point where the crosscut
started north, cubical crystals of iron
sulphides were found which averaged
3 oz. in gold. These crystals were
found in bunches and stringers
throughout the crosscut. Frequently
. assays were made, some of which
gave unimportant values. The later
CHARLES DICKENS A BIG MINE
New Ore Shoot Gives Three Feet of Clean
Shipping Ore
' The ore shoot in the Charles Dickens is 125 feet long. The
ledge is 35 feet wide, and the pay streak is now about three feet.
This is clean shipping ore, though it is run through the mill to
free it from zinc. The operation is said to be completely successful.
The ore is in a slaty quartzite, of very high grade with a high silver
content.
Saturday another ore shoot
was encountered and it has been
opened up two feet and the face is still in good ore, and seems to wid
en out. The miners had been driving the tunuel and
pecting when the mill burned down recently,
kept at work, and coining back several hundred feet nearer the por
tal of the tunnel, indications of ore were found,
been continued hut a short distance when the ore was broken into'.
This will make at least two good paying bodies of ore on the
property. In the new strike, by sorting, 80 per cent lead can be se
cured. The crosscut is in about 500 feet and this gives an approx
imate depth of 2.50 feet.
A crew is busy rebuilding the new mill and getting out timber.
The work is being rushed and the mine is 1 icing put in good shape.
Only one crew is working in the mine, as the mill can not handle the
rock. The company has a good eight-drill air compressor, hut is
only using six of the drills.
The Charles Dickens is alxiut two miles from the mouth of
Moon creek and is six miles from Osburn.
were pros
Six or seven were
A crosscut had
assays showed steadily increasing cop
per values, the iron sulphides chang
ing their appearance and carrying
considerable chalcopyrite. A stringer
four inches wide was found which
contained cubical crystals of enorm
. 0lls size embedded in lime matrix.
This vein material was assayed and
showed $13 gold.
Finding these minerals in the
country rock indicates the presence
of a good ore body somewher^ad
jacent. The company has great ex-'
pectations for this crosscut.
COEUR D'ALENE CARBONATE
Manager Frank A. Heller of the
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?* Carbonate has come
? L 0 ™ 6 P .^° Per y ' as been n
*1 <?a 'hi 01 ?™,, 011 a " d the ^ W0l ' k
done disclosed some very good look-'
ing pieces of rock. Mr. Heller ex
pects to remain in Wallace for a short
time.
There are about 60 men employed
at the Snowstorm property, near Mnl
lan, and this number of men is being
added to right along. The shipments
continue about the same, less than i
Galena Found Along Footwall
After Following Lead 50 Feet
it
CROSSCUT IS IN 410 FEET
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The Ledge Was so Narrow at the Place
Where Crossed That it Was Con
sidered Only a Stringer
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1 The drift being run on the Iron
King property has followed the lead
easterly for 50 feet and has opened
11 p some pure galena ore. The ga
ena ore was encoun tered along the
of l^he'nahnrn '""I Klllg - i ?' located
jon the Osburn road, near the samp
jii D g wor ks.
The property has been developed
110 a great extent by tunnel and shaft
The crosscut was in 410 feet
when the lead was struck. The
W0l k '
j ledge wag so narrow at the place
where it
was crossed that it was sup
! posed to be a stringer nnd the
cut tunnel was driven in for a total of
s i ■' 18 feel
to the place where the stringer was
this!cut followed it in an easterly direc
tion. It widened out soon and
eross
1 pr " ved to be the ledge sougbt for -
com "™y ^oaeot Te mate stock
the'holders.
He also has the contract
°n the Iron King for 50 feet, which
! ls about com P Ieted - When this con
tract is com i ,Iete(1 *t is probable that,
the dIrec tors will let another con
tract for 100 feet. Mr. Gann is tak
lag pay entirely In stock, being satis
f,ed w,th the showing on the prop
so;^f, ty ' 1 u ? 1)0 s* tivo ,bnt ihore is a
mine there,' said he.
It , s estimated that it will take
200 feet of work on the lead to get
under the surface croppings where
^ be raa * n showing Is.
the survey this will give a depth of
457 feet.
According to
The crosscut tunnel at places ent
through country rock carrying a lit
t!e g alena - There is-40 feet of iron
capping on the surface, The portal
of the tunnel is within 100 feet of the j
railroad. J. H. Nordquist Is manager '
the
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Fine Ore Discovered Saturday in J.
Peeper's Property
j That the Moon Creek property, on
the gulch of the same name, is about
to become a mine, was settled con-*
clusively Saturday afternoon, when
a rich strike of ore was made. The
extent of this ore body has not yet
been determined, but its. richness
I undoubted A sample of the ore was
brought to Wallace by Manager J.
Peeper and this has been placed on
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exhibition in the office of H. M. Lan
cas ter.
This sample carries values of from
70 to jjq ounces of sliver and aver
ages from 35 td 40 per cent lead and
i ca i- r ies good values in copper at the
same time.
■I The drift has been run for about
175 feet on the south lead and for
some time prior to the strike on Sat
urday a streak of about 15 inches,
carrying fair vulues, had been show
ing in the face of the tunnel.
For almost 180 feet the men have
been working in a continuous ore
shoot and for almost the whole of
this distance good milling ore has
been encountered. The latest strike
of high grade ore removes all doubt
as to the future of the property, and
there is every indication that the
mine will join the ranks of the big
shippers within a very short time.
The formation in which the pres
ent ore has been encountered is prac
tically Identical with that of the
famous Hecla mine at Burke, and it
is doubtful if there is another mine
in the whole Coeur d'Alene district
which can show results equal to that
of the Moon Creek company, in com
parison with th^, amount of work
done.
The work at the mine has been
carried on by Manager Peeper in a
more economical manner than in any
other mine or prospect in the district.
Last May the company secured from
the state engineer a right to use the
water of Moon creek In a two-unit
Reindeer Make* Contract With
J. H. Nordquist for 2,700 Feet
WILL COST COMPANY $27,000
Effort Being Made to Have the Copper
Queen Join in Bearing the Ex
pense of Undertaking
holders of the Reindeer Mining coni
l>any, held Tuesday evening, John H.
Nordquist announced that he would
take the 2 700-foot tunnel contract
At a meeting of the main stoek
for the company. The directors ex
pressed themselves as much pleased
with the result as the success follow
Ing Mr. Nordquist's other operations
I in the district were a guarantee that
the work would be satisfactory to
the stockholders. '
The contract Is at the rate of $10
a foot or n total of $27,000, consid
ered a reasonable price for the
amount of work involved.
An Informal meeting of the dlroct
was held Monday evening at
which Mr. Nordquist was present and
the matter was thoroughly discussed.
Tuesday Manager W. H. Herrick and
Mr. Nordquist visited the property,
near Mullan, to Inspect the condition
of the property and equipment.
The meeting Tuesday evening was
attended by F. C. Norbeck, Norman
Ebbley, W. H. Herrick, J. A. Wayne,
J. H. Nordquist and Dr. J. A. Grant.
The Reindeer company will prob
ably have to expend a sum of about
$500 in order to get things at the
property In shape for work. Repairs
will have to be made to the compres
sor and other equipment.
Manager Herrick has been negotiat
ing with the Copper Queen company,
represented by E. 11. Crawford and
Dr. D. E. Keys of Mullan, in regard
to the Copper Queen sharing with the
Reindeer in driving the long tunnel
and bearing half the expense,
tunnel will tap the same ledge which
runs through the Copper Queen.
ors
The ;
A, L. Honeker and others have
transferred to the Comet Gold and
Copper Mining company all interest
in the Badger claim, situated in an
unorganized district, the considera
tion not being named.
permit, one unit from the West Fork
and one unit from the East Fork, and
each for two cubic feet per second.
This water is conducted to the stor
age tank, 8 x 8 x 8 feet, in a box flume
14 inches wide by 12 inches
and 6800 feet long.
The Pelton wheel with which the
plant is equipped is working under
a gross head of 185 feet and is driv
ing an Ingersoll straight line belt,
driven by class "B-I" compressor,
having a 10'4xl2-inch air cylinder
with a capacity of 177 cubic feet of
free air per minute.
This compressor is rated to operate
three 2 >4-inch or one 3 1-8-inch In
gersoll-Rand drill. A 12-inch pump
and wheel is also installed and is
driving a dynamo capable of generat
ing power for 50 16-candle power
lights.
The total cost of this plant com-1
plete was approximately'$4000. The
result of this combination of plant
has been that in a district where an
average contract calls for about $12
a foot work, at the Moon Creek prop
erty it has been continued at a rate
of as low as $4 per foot, even under
the most adverse conditions with re
gard to the water supply, and in
normal times at an even greater sav
ing than that.
In less than six months of actual
operation the installation of the plant
has more than paid for itself, de
velopment work has been carried
at a saving of not less than 50 per
cent and at a speed of fully twice as
much as could be obtained without
the equipment.
It is in matters of this sort that
the investor really gets a good run
for his money, and it is a matter foi
argument whether there is another
property in this section of the country
where as big a showing has been made
in the time and at the cost of that
the Moon Creek property, under the
management of Mr. Peeper.
on
on
Finds Pure Galena in Quantity at
Depth of 800 Feet
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A splendid strike of ore hits Ihvii made in the Paragon
** depth of 800 feet, and the Murray district is jubilant. One lump
of pure galena weighing 2.50 pounds was taken out Friday night and the
next shift opened up 18 inches of the same class of ore with a large body
concent rating ore in sight,
The Paragon has been drifting from the foot of a 300-foot shaft
This drift is now in 1,100 feet and has gained a depth of 800 feet on the*
V( *{ n
mine at
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or tlK 'few days prior to the strike there were indications of ore.
diidaj a stringer was cut into and Saturday the ore body widened and
the miners are now in from 16 to 18 inches of pure shipping galena
with plenty of good concentrating ore all through the drift
i w e* i * i - ,
L * "' 8t< dman 18 man *«er and one of the chief
owners of the
The other principal stockholders are F. O. Hammer, George S.
Munson, Dr. Sandberg, Allen Black, Dr. N. Nelson and A. T. Rosen
of St. Paul.
Paragon.
Murray has been the center of many strikes in the past few months.
The Chicago-Bond on struck it rich a few
weeks ago, then the Beartop
opened up shipping ore at a depth of 600 feet but the Paragon strike is
800 feet in depth on the vein and this simply increased the jubilant
feelings of the lixial people almost beyond bounds.
With pure shipping ore, and lots of it at depths of 600 to 800 feet
the north aiders are laughing at those who tried to tell them that the
north side ore bodies did not go dew
They have proved that the
does go down and like tire south side it gets better with depth.
Already there has been a movement of prospectors into the Murryy
district this spring and with the building of the Idaho Northern'it
ises to be the center of activity the coming season.
u.
ore
prom
GREAT WESTERN INCREASES
Force of 12 Men Now at Work
Burke Property
The Great Western Increased Its
working force the first of the month
Miners are working two
shifts and muckers three shifts.
on
; to 12 men.
The Great Western is located two
and a half miles from Burke and is
considered one of the best equipped
properties In the district. It lias a
good compressor and 60 horse-power
motor, two bunk houses, dining room,
blacksmith shop, machine shop and
other buildings.
I he company has
never missed a shift since August
12, 1904, A tunnel 1500 feet long
ias been out. This crosses the ore
ledge 400 feet from the portal and
the balance of the distance is par
allel to It. A depth of 900 feet will!
be reached at the point where it is
expected to cut into the ore body.
PANHANDLE REORGANIZATION
Montana Mina Owners Interested i
in
Idaho Smelter Project.
,las been''cut through in the crosscut
tunnel driven on the Panhandle to
under the shaft, which was sunk
on the ledge, according to the state
ment made by Patrick Brady Satur
day.
Three feet of solid carbonate
ore
The ledge has just been encount
ered * n crosscut tunnel and will
bave t0 * ,e driven a number of feet
yet to get under the shaft, and It is
Ini possible to tell just how rich the
strike will prove to be.
Tbe abaft sunk on the ledge is
down 85 feet and there is
ani °unt of galena and carbonate
in s, 8 bt In the shaft. The tunnel is
being run to join the shaft at a depth
feet, or 15 feet deeper than
the shaft has been sunk.
a good
ore
STRIKE ON WEST NINE MILE
Three-Foot Vein of Lead-Silver Concentrating
Ore Discovered
The crosscut of the big lead in the West Nine Mile property
located on Nine Mile creek north of Wallace has cut a 3-foot vein of
silver-lead ore of a concentrating quality lying along what is
believed to in* the hangingwall side. The men are not through the
ledge yet and it has proven to be over 100 feet wide already.
The strike was made in a diagonal crosscut of the lead, the
breast of which is in 241 feet and at a depth of 150 feet. At num
erous tunes the tunnel has cut through stringers of concentrating
ore the stringers being anywhere from eight inches to two feet wide
and the contents In-ingof the same character as the large vein.
We will continue crosscutting until we are satisfied that
are through the ledge," said Manager George 11. Heller.
There are good iron croppings on the surface of the property
ami it is estimated that a drift run 100 feet will get under the
croppings. The ledge runs northwest by southeast.
The Log Cahin group of claims is located on the western exten*
sion, it is believed, of the same ledge*. The Log Cahin owners have
driven a crosscut tunnel 800 feet in but have not tapped the main
lead yet.
we
Mr. Brady stated that the tunnel
was far enough In the steep hill now
so that a foot of depth was gained
for each foot of progress made.
The Panhandle is situated on Nine
Mile creek, near Monarch, and is one
of tlie group of claims comprised in
the holdings of the Pittsburg Min
ing company.
NIPSIC GO. IS INCORPORATED
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Spokane Men Take Over the Father
The organization of the Nipsio
Mining
Lode Mining Property.
company was perfected in
Spokane Saturday. The company was
formed to take over the property of
the Father Lode Mining company.
which was capitalized for $2,000,000.
The Nlpsic will be capitalized for
$ 1 ,500,000, $500,000 of which will be
j)laced in the treasury,
The trustees are Charles Slawson,
W. A. Nicholls, F. E. Goodall,
Emery 1 H Averlll and Fred W. Bur
bldge of Spokane.
A small crew is now working on
the upraise from No. 3 tunnel to No.
2 tunnel. Mofe men will probably
be put to work in a few days.
More than 3200 feet of tunneling
on the property has been done and an
80-horse power, 5-drill compressor
and other machinery is installed.
The Nipslc property joins the Her
cules ground.
THE IRON MOUNTAIN TUNNEL
The big tunnel of the Iron Moun
tain Mining company is now only 90
feet away from the old shaft, which
will be its terminus. To avoid the
flow of water an upraise is being
made and the connection with the old
workings will be made on a down
ward slope from this upraise to break
the force of the water flow when it
encountered.