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'VOL. XVII. NO. 17.
WALLACE. IDAHO, THURSDAY. MAY 24, 1923.
FIVE CENTS THE COPY.
CEDAR GREEK SHAFT
Extension of Shaft 200 Feet
601 DOWN IN ORE
HAS LARGE TONNAGE
to be Followed by Construc
tion of Mill
HE CEDAR Creek Mining & De
velopment company is now car
rying out the final development
plans prepaartory to placing
the mine on a permanent productive
basis. In fact the mine can be said
to be in that position now, but the
management, with commendable cau
tion, decided to test the ore at further
depth before proceeding with the con
struction of a mill. It Is for this pur
pose that a shaft is now being sunk
from No. 3 tunnel level on the vein
and which will be extended 200 feet.
If the showing of ore holds good at
this depth, and from present indica
tions it will be even better, the con
struction of a mill will be taken up at
once and before snow flies the district
will have another producing mine.
The shaft Is now down 90 feet. It is a
two-compartment shaft and follows
the foot wall. It started on ore and
has been in ore continuously, at times
showing 15 inches of almost clean
T
feet of good mill feed. At a depth of
100 feet a crosscut will be run to the
hanging wall where, if the same con
ditions are found that prevail on the
tunnel level, an even better showing
of ore will be found.
Ore Shoot 400 Feet Long.
No. 3 tunnel is a crosscut 2450 feet
in length, straight and of large dimen
sions adapted to providing a perman
ent working outlet,
tended a short distance beyond
vein to prospect the ground, a drift
has been run easterly some 800 feet
to get under the ore shoot as exposed
in the upper tunnels. The vein show
ed ore continuously throughout the
drift, which followed the foot wall,
and for the last 100 feet the shoot av
erages better than two feet wide,
much of it high grade along with good
milling ore. But the best showing of
proved to be on the hanging wall
Having been ex
the
ore
side, as disclosed by a series of cross
cuts and further proved by drifting
some 40 or 50 feet from the last
crosscut about 150 feet west of the
This work has practically
shaft.
proved the hanging wall shoot to be
400 feet long and having an average
width of three feet. The distance be
tween walls is about 35 feet, and the
the two shoots is
ground between
heavily' mineralized and carries more
or less milling .ore.
Ore Proved 500 Feet Above.
A raise from No. 3 has been extend
ed to No. 2 tunnel level, 190 feet, also
following the foot wall in ore.
this level the ore has been proved by
drifting over 200 feet being about the
amount and character as that
below.
On
same
on the level
Although no
the
run from
crosscuts have been
drift on No. 2, it may reasonably be
assumed that the shoot found along
the hanging wall on No. 3 will also be
found on No. 2. Practically the same
developed on
ore showing has been
No. 1 tunnel level, 300 feet above No.
2. Summed up, Cedar Creek has two
shoots 400 feet In length on No. 3
level, each averaging about three feet
One of these has been
. T.'
in thickness,
proved by a raise and drifts on two
levels to an elevation of 500 feet above
No. 3. also by the shaft to a depth of
below No. 3.
practically 100 feet
Crosscuts will doubtless expose
other shoot on both the upper and the
This represents a large
actually in sight and certain
management in Its
The Cedar Creek
the
shaft levels,
tonnage
ly justifies the
plans for a mill.
31 claims, eight of
The portal of
company owns
which are patented.
No. 3 tunnel Is about 1% miles from
the North Side branch of the O.-W. R.
& N., and while this line is out of
commission now. the
Cedar Creek
that it
management has assurance
will be restored as soon as ore shlp
ments are ready to move.
Sawmill and Timber.
company has a
sawmill which is capable of turning
out 10.000 feet of lumber a day.
Is driven by water power and is sit
uated adjacent to a fine stand of tim
ber on the company's ground,
representing 200,000 feet of lumber are
Thus the
The Cedar Creek
This
Loffs
the skids at the mill.
is in position to turn out
other
on
company
the lumber for the mill and
buildings and also to provide sawed
timber for all underground workings.
While Cedar Creek has everything in
the way of buildings and equipment
necessary for development and to pre
fer em
vide comfortable quarters
no needless
ployes, there has been
In these respects, the policy
expense
of the management evidently being to
count in nnder
make every dollar
ground development.
Last Sunday J. W. Weyer, president
of the Cedar Creek company: William
INDEPENDENCE.
New Work Started on Promising
Stringer Carrying Ore.
Under the direction of Stanley
I Moore, managing engineer, the Inde
i pendence Lead Mines company is
I drifting east on a very promising
stringer, starting at a point In No. 4
I tunnel about 50 feet back from the
raise. The stringer is mainly quart/,
and carries a little galena, and looks
like it might prove to be another of
those 01X303 not uncommon m this dis
trict in which following a small
I stringer leads to an important ore
shoot. Better progress is now being
made in the raise from No. 4 tunnel,
the company having taken over the
work direct and offering a bonus for
speeding up the work. Since becom
ing connected with the Independence
company Mr. Moore has given much
attention to its examination on all lev
els and expresses himself in very op
timistic terms regarding results of
present development and other plans
for exploring the property which he
has in viewy
H. B. Kingsbury, manager of the
Independence, who is also manager of
the American-Commander. states that
development will resume on the last
named property about June 1. also
under the direction of Mr. Moore.
u.
IKE MOUS WKEEB01
ADDS MANY YEARS TO LIFE OF
MINE—ENCOURAGES
DEVELOPMENT.
The strike by the Sunshine Mining
company cfn Big creek, to which brief
reference was made in the Miner last
w r eek, is evidently of the greatest im
portance not only to the company it
self, but also In its bearing on future
operations in the Big creek district.
For more than thirty y r eais the Sun
shine, more familiarly' known as the
Yankee Boy, has been a producer of
high grade silver ore and it is credit
ed with making a fortune for its or
iginal owners and numerous comfort
able stakes for leasers who for years
have worked in a series of tunnels
and who are still making good pay.
For several years efforts have been
made to find the Yankee Boy vein in
a short distance
a crosscut driven
above the creek, but the faulted and
condition of the ground
disturbed
presented a difficult problem which
was not solved until last week. The
finding of the vein and ore shoot on
the new and deep level means that the
Yankee Boy is about to enter upon a
new lease of life which will probably'
be as long as its past record and far
more productive, for the ore shoot is
much larger than in the levels above
and will doubtless be found continu
ât great depth below the discov
It presents substantial encour
ous
ery.
agement for the deep development of
all other properties on Big creek, for
the strike must be accepted as noth
ing less than proof that the ore bodies
of that section are deep seated, which
is characteristic of the ore bodies in
the Coeur d'Alene district generally.
Vein 13 Feet Wide.
According to the Wardner-Kellogg
News, the new discovery was made in
the lower crosscut tunnel where the
ledge was located after a search
many months,
vein shows 13 feet in width, with the
entire face of good milling ore, while
a streak of first class galena 12 inches
foot wall. Assays
of
As now exposed the
wide lies on the
from this gave returns of 46 per cent
lead and 158 ounces of silver. Several
are In the
stringers of gray copper
vein, picked samples from which gave
returns of 760 ounces of silver.
assay
The ledge was located about 13 feet
from the face of the north crosscut
run by D. W. Price some years ago.
further work on which was resumed
by the Sunshine company recently. A
fault had cut off the vein below the
No. 4 level and Its downward exten
sion has been a subject of close study'
by engineers. The fault displaced the
vein for a considerable distance, ma
king uncertain
lower level, some 800 feet beneath the
outcrop. A drift is now under way on
the vein and the ore disclosures are
reported to be more extensive as the
work progresses.
Yankee Boy vein was cut it is only a
short distance to a big copper lead
and in close proximity to the Polaris
vein, the three veins evidently con
verging near the present discovery.
The mine is well equipped with elec
trically driven compressor and com
plete mining equipment including a
50-ton concentrator which has been
operating successfully
the upper levels of the property. John
Sawbridge of Yakima, Wash., is pres
ident of the corporation, and J. B. Cox
of Kellogg, secretary.
its location on this
the
From where
on ore from
Becker, secretary and manager; Chas.
Bollinger, Henry Lieb and a represen
tative of the Miner visited the prop
erty. which is situated on Granite
creek some five miles above Murray.
The trip was made in Mr. Lleb's new
Hudson sedan.
Board of Trade Committee and Better
Train Service—Position of
Railroad Company
|
HE BOARD of trade at the meeting last week having been ad
vised that the Northern Pacific contemplated discontinuing
trains between Wallace und
T
of local passenger
operation
Burke and Wallace and Mullan. authorized the president
appoint a special committee to take up the matter with the rail
road company witli the view to not only continuing the present ser
vice. but also to modify the service to accommodate employes of the
mines at Burke who live or may desire to live in Wallace.
to
It was
now reside in Wal
pointed out that no less than 60 such employes
lace and go back and forth to their work in jitneys
that with permanent train service established it
or their own
vas
private cars;
believed that this number would be greatly increased and that the
number would eventually be sufficient to more than pay the cost of
out that such a train
It was further pointed
the train service,
schedule would permit married employes to secure
inviting surroundings and relieve the congestion
there is now a
boarding accommodations, a congestion that
more acute.
homes in more
where
at Burke,
shortage of suitable homes for residence as well as
dll probably become
littee Appointed.
Representative Com
vas one to which
As this question of improved train service
the board of trade had heretofore given much consideration us be
ing of vital interest to the city, and one which also directly concern
ed the mining companies, the president took time l
miltoe in order to make it tlioroughly representative of all interests
To do this it was necessary to make it a large committee
the following business and mining men were an
select tile com
affected.
and on Saturday
non need as the committee:
Thos. H. Owen. James F. McCarthy.
M. J. Flohr, Herman J. Rossi,
White, E. R. Denny, L. C.
R. T. Struchen, chairman:
Axel I'. Ramstedt, Platt P. Morrow.
J. J. Murphy, E. F. Mackey. John C.
Wilson.
This committee met in the Klks club at 3:00 o'clock Tuesday
afternoon and discussed the train service problem in its various an
gles, and there were many, and adjourned to meet at a later date
without having reached a conclusion
should be made to the railroad company.
us to what recommendation
J. CJ. Sanders. Northern
who confirmed the in
Pacific agent, was called into the conference,
formation that his company desired to discontinue the local service
during the summer, but that it would be restored with the coming
He told of the insignificant receipts us
of bail weather in the fall,
compared with the cost of operating the trains, and said that it was
evident that the people preferred to ride in jitneys even though tiie
fare Is double that required to ride on Ibe trains,
said, desired to adapt its service to the requirements of the district,
and would consult the wishes of its patrons before acting upon the
The company, he
proposal to withdraw the trains.
Patronize Trains Is Solution.
The attitude of the committee apparently was that the mere
fact that the railroad company' suffered a steady loss in the opera
tion of the trains was not sufficient ground to justify discontinuing
in view of the large earnings of the company through
At the same time there is little
the service,
' the freight traffic of the district.
to be gained by insisting upon the company running trains if the
111 not ride on them; and if they will not ride on them
people
now', would they.be more disposed to do so if additional trains were
put on to accommodate them in going to and from their
The first step, therefore, toward getting improved
vice is for the public to show its interest in the matter by patroniz
ing the train service now maintained: that is, if you can't ride in
instead of a jitney.
vork.
train ser
your own automobile, patronize the railroad
With the railroad given this tangible evidence of public support,
big advance will have been made toward obtaining a service that will
accommodate employes living in Wallace going to and coming from
a
their work.
Get Sentiment of the People.
Before reaching a conclusion on the representations to be made
to the railroad companies regarding the proposed schedule, the com
mittee evidently feels that an effort should be made to get a more
definite expression of the sentiment of Wallace business men and
also the attitude of those who would be benefltted
This means that the committee wants to find out
by the service
outside of Wallace,
whether this long continued agitation for improved train service is
merely talk, or whether it means actual support and patronage for
It is evident that
the railroad companies if the service is put on.
one railroad'company can not maintain the
• and it is also evident that If the people expect
desired service alone,
to get the service
they must show their good faith by patronizing the trains in pref
erence to the jitneys.
Must Authorize Higher O'ty Levy
HERE APPEARS to be some misunderstanding regarding the
to be made to provide funds for the run
T
tax levy necessary
of the city during the coming year, but there
ning expenses
should be none in the mind of anyone who takes the trouble
The mayor and council have published the
to look into the matter.
estimated expense of the various departments of the city
ment, the total amounting to $42,000.
levy of a little less than 15 mills, being practically the same that
Under the old law the council was auth
govern
To raise this will require a
was levied for last year.
•ized to make a levy up to that amount. The last legislature, how
in its zeal to reduce taxes, fixed the maximum levy at 10 mills,
amount must be authorized
oi
ever
and provided that any levy above this
by the taxpayers of the city in mass convention,
law that Mayor Toole has called a meeting of the taxpayers in the
council chamber at 8:00 o'clock Friday evening, June 1.
osition will then be submitted to authorize
the tax levy from 10 to 15 mills. This does
It merely means to authorize the council to make the
Failure to au
It is under this
The prop
the council
not mean
to increase
to increase
etty taxes.
same levy that was made last year, nothing more,
thorize the council to make the additional levy of 5 mills would ne
curtailment of expenditures by the city during the com
cessitate a
ing year and result in a serious shortage of funds to meet the fixed
expenses of the several departments of the city. It Is therefore the
duty of taxpayers to attend the meeting and vote the required levy.
CALLAHAN MEETING.
Local Directors Will Attend Meeting
in New York.
The annual meeting of the direct
or the Callahan Zinc-Lead com
pany will be held in New York on
June 18. The meeting will be attend
ed by Donald A. Callahan, C. W. New
ton and Dr. L. E Hanson, the three
local directors of the company
Callahan states that he expects to
leave on June 12, accompanied by
Mrs. Callahan and daughter, making
the trip one of pleasure as well as
business. Following the meeting they
will visit Boston and other eastern
cities, as well as some of the famous
summer resorts.
ors
Mr.
POHLMAN INVESTMENT CO.
Spokane Company Opens a Branch
Office in Burke.
Alex Penaluna, well known in Wal
lace. where he was for several years
engaged in the brokerage and insur
ance business, is manager of a
branch office of the Pohlman Invest
ment company of Spokane which was
ppened for business in Burke this
week. In anticipation of much activ
ity tn mining stocks, Mr. Penaluna
will give his chief attention to mining
brokerage and will be in position to
give hs patrons prompt servee in all
lines of securities, including indus
trial and bonds as well as all local is
sues. He will also give attention to
insurance and real estate.
LOOKOUT PASS ROAD.
Contract to Complete Road in Mineral
County in July,
Mineral County Independent
has this to say regarding the con
struction of the road in Mineral coun
ty to connect with the Shoshone coun
ty road at Lookout pass: "As a result
of the count) commissioners meeting
with the state highway commission
Monday, at which time the contract
was to be awarded for the construc
tion of two and a half miles of tin
Taft-Sildix road. Mineral county has
the contract for the road construction.
The work is to begin June 1 and it is
expected that the Lookout pass
will be completed some time in July.
"Mineral county was the only bid
der for the contract and by the con
tract being let this county receives
from the state highway $11, liai to ap
ply on the road. If no contract hud
been let by June 1 this money would
not have been available for the road.
"The contract was
amount of $21,466, of which the state
pays 63 per cent and the county 17
per cent. It is the intention of the
county commissioners to sublet con
tracts for the bridge and for the re
moval of a rock point, the balance of
the contract will be completed by (he
county commissioners who will em
ploy a large crew and rush the work
to completion."
The
roud
taken for
the
siunGE-m
AND ALLEGED MERGER
STATEMENT BY H. J. ROSSI SAYS
THERE AIN'T NO SUCH
THING.
Much has been said through the
Spokane press in recent weeks re
garding the merging of the St. Law
rence Copper Mining company and
the Richmond Mining, Milling & Re
duction company, and it lias been an
nounced that the merger has actually
been accomplished. In reprinting one
of these announcements coining from
the St. Lawrence side a few weeks
ago. the Miner called attention to the
fact that over half of the essential
St. Lawrence claims were held under
option by H. J. Rossi and that '.hat
gentleman had not been consulted ie
garding the much talked of consoli
dation. But that seems to be a mat
ter of no consequence to the promot
ers of I tie merger. The other day the
Miner received from a brokerage com
pany in New York a letter enclosing a
report to Richmond stockholders out
lining plans for crosscutting the
Rlchmond-St. Lawrence vein from
the Montana-ldaho tunnel, followed
by a report on the Richmond by B, N.
Sharp, managing director. The letter
from the New York brokers refers to
this report, which he urges prospect
ive investors in Richmond stock to
read carefully, and says;
Control of St. Lawrence.
"Since this report was issued nego
tiations have been completed for con
trol of the adjoining property, the St.
Lawrence Copper Mining company,
which will give these two companies
a total length on the vein of approxi
mately from 4000 to 5000 'feet."
It is quite impossible to reconcile
this statement with the statement
made by Mr. Rossi, who still holds his
option and who has never been ap
proached on the proposition to con
solidate with the Richmond, In fact
the publication of these reports tends
to interfere with his plans for hand
ling the property under his option and
is also misleading to the public re
garding the ownership of the St. Law
rence. In order to clear up the situa
tion, Mr. Rossi has sent the following
notice for publication in a Spokane
newspaper:
To the Public.
"Frequently published statements
given out by officers of ,the Richmond
Mining, Milling & Reduction company
would convey the false impression
that the absorption of the St. Law
rence Copper Mining company would
transfer to the Richmond company
from 3000 to 4000 feet of the Rlch
mond-St. Lawrence,, vein.
"The facts are: I own or control a
one-half interest in the St. Lawrence
lode claim and a two-thirds interest
in the Silver Lake lode claim and any
merger as published will control but a
small portion of the real ore bearing
ground since I will not consider trans
ferring my rights for shares of either
company' or any merger of either com
pany.
"HERMAN J. ROSSI."
"Wallace, Idaho, May 23, 1923.
Tarbox.
Acting upon recommendations of
Stanley R. Moore, engineer for the
company, the directors of the Tarbox
Mining company will at once resume
development of the property,
will start on the Tarbox vein west of
the shaft where the indications are
very favorable for finding ore. and
pome work will also be undertaken on
the big south vein.
Work
SHE ON OREANO
j
(
j
FOUR FEET OF ORE
EXTENSION OF SHERMAN
In the Center of Rich Mineral
Section--Soon Start Drifting
West on the Ore
F UR THE past week or two much
interest luis been centered in
the crosscut being driven by ibe
Orenno Mining company, for Its
objective was the western extension
of the Sherman vein in which a good
leveloped.
f the vein west indicated
ould enter the Oreano ground
f the Sinker claim
showing
of ore had been
The course
that it w
near the' corner
and about 150 feet from tlie fare of
tlie west drift in the Sherman. The
ore was struck in
eral years ago by crosscutting from
tunnel, following which
drifts were run east and west alto
gether about 150 feet. The east drift
followed two strong stringers of ore.
one on each wall, and when work was
discontinued these streaks seem to
have come together and making a
showing of ore now in the face about
15 inches thick. In the west drift to
ward the Oreano. there was not so
much ore. but of decidedly
grade and ttie conditions surrounding
it appeared more favorable for "mak
ing" ore than In the east drift. It was
therefore with much confidence that
the Oreano management lust fall de
cided to crosscut from the main cross
be Slienn
II Sev
ille Oreano
better
the expectation of striking the vein a
short distance within the Oreano side
lino.
Find Four Feet of Ore.
After driving about 280 feet tlie
drills entered ore last Sunday and
when the round was broken it was
found that I lie vein had been pene
trated about two feet, all in ore and
with ore in the face. That was the
news which reached Wallace Monday.
Since then the crosscut has been ex
te nded a pj>a ren 1 1 y
showing an ore shoot four feet thick,
all of good milling grade, w itli streaks
and bunches of clean galena. Cross
cutting is being continued to prospect
the ground a short distance, follow
ing which drifting will start west witli
every indication that the ore shoot will
prove continuous and of equally good
or better grade. From the point of
intersection to the west end of Ore
ano ground is about 1500 feet, and the
strike was made at a vertical depth
from the surface of about 600 feet.
The company owns five patented
claims situated high on the slope of
the divide between Burke and the
w r est fork of Nine Mile, making it
possible to develop the property at
great depth by tunnel. The Oreano
lias for neighbors the Sherman and
Tamarack on the north and east, the
famous old Standard-Mammoth on
the west and the West Hecla on the
southeast.
through tiie vein,
rl
In Rich Mineral Section.
It will thus be seen that Oreano is
situated in the midst of a rich min
eral section, and all conditions are
favorable to the persistence of the ore
to great depth. The ore exhibited is
a clean galena, free from zinc and
probably carries an amount of silver
unusual in that section. The presi
dent of the comoany and largest
stockholder Is H. M. Peterson. of this
city, and John Dolan is secretary. The
work which has resulted in striking
this splendid ore shoot was done un
der the direction of Chas. H. Fore
man. of Burke, chief engineer for the
Hecla Mining company, who is also a
large stockholder.
VOLUNTEERS WANTED TO
SHOVEL SNOW NEXT SUNDAY
An effort will be made to open
the Yellowstone trail on the Ida
ho-Montana summit next Sunday,
and for that purpose volunteer
snow shovelcrs are in demand. F.
E. Stone, secretary of the Good
Roads association, requests all
who desire to assist in the work to
register with S. G. Garrett, at
the Auto Supply company'. It is
proposed to leave Wallace about 8
o'clock Sunday morning. Lunch
will be prepared by William Fahle
and served by the Business Wo
men's association, Mineral coun
ty people will be on the job on
the Montana side. Unless the
snow Is shoveled out it will be a
month before the road is open for
travel.
Lancaster Returns.
Henry M. Lancaster and Mrs. Lan
caster have been at the Samuels the
past few days. Mr. Lancaster Is a
widely known mining engineer and
for many years made this city his
home. He Is now located in Grants
Pass. Ore., where he is giving his at
tention to a copper-gold property
from which he has made shipments
of high grade ore.