Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-01-13
LITTLE LOST RIVER.
THE TYNDALL LODE, ON THAT
TRIBUTARY.
A Magnificent Showing with Very Lit.
tie Work-Mere Prospects for Which
Hundreds Of Thousands Of Dollars
Have Been Refused-Mines that Will
Cause Profound Sensation.

Cause Profound Sensation.
A practical miner, who visited the
mines on Little Lost River about six
weeks ago, has given a TINES re-
porter very Ineligible account of
what he saw there, and from that ac-
count the following article is COM
piled:
The mines are located on Little
Lost River, in this county, and about
40 miles notheast of Arco, a stage
station on the Blackfoct and Wood
River road. They are on "A succession
of low hills, to the top of which a
wagon can be driven. The hills are
sandwiched between two high vol
canic ridges. The surrounding coun-
try is covered with lava.
There is but one lode, called the
Tyndall. On this lode there are nine
claims, to wit: The Ingersoll, South
lngcrsoll Combination, Tyndall,
Daisy Black, Great Northern, Alice,
and Silver Belt. The Ingersoll, Tyn-
dial , and Daisy Black show continu-
Gus ore-bodies. The other claims
only show punches of low grade ore.
The lode runs north and south, and
dips to the west. The formation is
rotten or decomposed quartzite: with
trachytic dykes or crosscourses rum
ming through on the east wall. A pc
culiarity of the lode is that 25-foot
reef of pure white sandstone runs
along the whole course of it in the
vein, but swings from wall to wall, it
being on the hanging wall at the
north end, and on the foot wall at the
other end. The locations cover about
two miles, or all of the vein that crops
out. Wood and water are abundant.
In the Daisy Black and Tyndall the
ore is all pure steel galena. The Tyn-
dali shows width of three feet of
pure steel galena ore, which averages
200 ounces silver and 81 per cent.
lead. Overl yiny this galena are about
20 inches of black copper ore which
goes about % per cent. copper. With
very little asserting this ore could be
made to average 1000 ounces. This
peculiar formation, Of black copper
everything galcna, makes of these
mines curiosity as puzzling to geol-
ogists as it is to practical men.
The Daisy Black has a 40-foot
shaft, which shows width of five
feet of galcna.
The Daisy Black and Tyndall are
owned by a Coloradan named Black,
who intends to have smelter there by
the first Of May of the present year.
For the Daisy Black alone Mr.. Black
has refused 100000. These claims
were discovered by prospectors whom
Mr.. Black employed by days wages.
A drift so feet long run on the
vein in the Tyndall claim shows two
feet of solid ore all the way.
On the Ingersoll there is an open cut
10 feet deep, eight wide, and run
clear across the 1O-foot width of vein,
which shows FIVE feet of solid ore. A
drift run in from the gulch, about 100
feet below this, shows up an immense
width of ore. This mine is owned by
Messrs. Johnson and Blackburn, the
discoveries. Mr.. johnson is a practi-
cal miner, and the real discovercr, but
his partner owns an equal interest.
Mr.. Blackburn Is a graduate of some
Eastern college. He uses printed
letter-heads, bearing the legend:
'Chas. +. Blackburn, economic and
archaeological geoIogist, mineralogl-
Cal Investigator, metalliferous ex-
plorer, and mining engineer" He is
a scholar, and thoroughly absorbed in
geology. The ore carries an average
of $40 ounces silver and 81 per cent.
lead. The owners of the lngerscll
asked $25O,OOO for the mine six weeks
ago, and refused to give working
bond for six months, no ore to be re-
moved from the dump, and $4,000
cash down, as they wished to sell for
cash only. But they would probably
not sell at any price now.
The TyndaIl lode is evidently a
true vein carrying enormous quanti-
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