The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-03-06
yer, running to several hundred
ounces per ton.


very little was done during the
year, aside from some small
leasing operations, from which
several good ore shipments were
made. This district is also hung
up in the line of development
through a pending deal that en-
braces a consolidation of all its
important mines.
1t shows some extensive re-
sources of silyer-lead and silver
copper ore, including one of the
most extensively developed
mines in the State, the Rams
horn, which has ore reserves
approximating $4,000, 900 in val
ue blocked out
PARKER MOUNTAIN DISTRICT.
Some sensational rich gold
silver silicious milling ore was
discovered in the Parker Noun
tain district during the past
year, just over the Custer coun-
/ ty line in Lemhi county, 25 miles
west of Challis, the county seat
of Custer county, that brought
a good deal of trade to Challis.
by whose citizens it was first
discovered.
This new district is porphy-
Try formation and is situated near
the head of Warm Spring creek,
a tributary of Loon creek. Its
principal discovery is known as
the Parker vein, which is 5 feet
wide, carries average values of
$50 per ton for that width in gold
and silver, and in addition a pay
streak 10 inches wide, in ore that
carries average values of $3.50
per ton, while selected samples
from the same streak have yield
ed results as high as 81, 365 pei
ton, and several sacks of this
high grade mineral were brought
to Challis last fall by the pack
ers who took in supplies.
The ratio of values in this ore
is about two thirds silver and
one-third gold, and gangue mater
! ial of the vein seems to be an al
tered rhyolite or andesite that
carries veinlets of quartz and
silicious facings on the shrink
age and cleavage planes of the
rock that are associated with
concentric and agaty lines oi
black argentite mineral spotted
with light colored native gold.
The ore is very similar to the
bonanza mineral that produced
lsuch rich results in bullion from
the Custer Mountain veins ir
early days, and the igneous for
nations IN which it is contained
are continuation to the north
of the same series in which the
Custer deposits occur.
This discovery, included will
a group of ten claims, was bond
) ed last fall by representatives o.
the United States Mining Co., O.
! Bingham, Utah, who have es
tablished camp there and arr
. working a small force of men il
! the development of the propert.
t this winter. About fifty claimi
were located in this new district
1 and rich values were found a
other points, and it is likely sool
f to be the scene of considerable
influx of prospectors and capital
! lists. The district is situated il
) very rugged surroundings and il
, purely virgin territory, as it ha
) never been prospected to any ex
tent before this discovery, anc
> it will not be surprising if SOM
bonanza mines are opened ther'
: in the future. 1t can be readily
reached by way of Mackay anC
Challis, or from Redrock, b,
: way of Salmon City and Sing
f User, as the trip involves not tx
exceed ten miles of horseback
travel, and this can be readily
/ transformed into wagon roaS
; at no great expense as there is
very low pass over the range