The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1907-09-19
CEDAR GREEK MINES
Harry Moore's Opinion Of Old
i &C Montana Camp
IT'S PROSPECTS ARE BRIGHT
Placer Mining Has Been Highly Pro.
ductive But 10 Giving Way to
Quarts Development

my trip up Cedar creek and inspec-
ton of the mining properties along
that water course and its tributaries
was one Of interest and pleasure. fur
nlshing some surprises at the nature
and extent OF quartz development op.
erations,' said Harry A. Moore on
his return to Wallace few days ago.
Cedar creek has its source on
the east slope OF the Bitter Root
range Of mountains in Mlssoula coun-
8sty. Mont. flowing northeasterly for
Iabout 20 miles and emptying into the
S9Missoula river half mile below the
Itown Of Iron Mountain, station on
Nthe Northern Pacific company's Wal
lace Missoula branch line. The his
tory OF Cedar creek for the past quar-
\ ter OF century is simply the record of
4 continuous placer mining operations
Ito the practical exclusion OF quartz
mining. It has been estimated that
during this period $2,500.0O0 Of
placer gold was extracted from Cedar
creek and Its tributaries. This esti.
D mated production is scarcely an ex-
aggeration, for the LaCasse brothers
during late years washed from their
placer areas nearly 100000, while
4 numerous smaller operators Jointly
extracted like amount of the yellow
metal.
Placers OF Local Origin.
N my examination OF the LaCasse
mine and other nearby properties
furnished convincing proof that all
1 the yield of placer gold came from
the constantly decomposing quartz
lodges crossing Cedar creek and its
tributary gulch streams near the
crest OF the Bitter Root mountains
Cedar creek, where it runs through
the LaCasse placers, has exposed
number OF white crystalline lodes
containing very high values in gold
and silver and commercial values in
copper and lead, the lead content be-
Ing in cube form and frequently in
close association with chalcopyrite,
The gold content, according to assay
tests. not infrequently shows values
Of $4,000 per ton.
Two Big Mining syndicates.
THE recent exposure Of these rich
gold bearing lodges is, no doubt, re-
sponsible for Chicago-Kansas City
syndicate Of capitalists purchasing
the LaCasse holdings and another
syndicate from the same cities ac-
curing, by outright purchase, forty
quartz claims in the immediate vi.
entity and adjoining the Thompson.
Ward property, which latter mine
has exposed to view ore that runs
several hundred dollars per ton In
the two money metals. The two syn
dicates referred to are now develop
ing quartz lodges, and next season
will erect stamp mills in the belief
that such operations will overshad
ow in Importance the placer mining
and it's productive results for the past
IS years. Their expectations seem to
be we'll justified.
The Gold Crag Property.
"The Occur d'Alene Gold Crag
company, recently organized by Colo
mel Stewart Fuller and other Wal
lace business men, also has an ex-
-eptionally promising group OF seven
claims undergoing systematic devel-
opment An in nse ledge, ITO feet
wide, traverses this property for a
distance Of $500 feet, lying between
a footwall OF sandy-lime porphyry
and hanging wall Of diabase. The
quartz outcrop of this mammoth
ledge Is more extensive than any
similar outcrop have inspected in
the Occur d'Alenes. Near the face
OF the tunnel now being driven the
Quartz contains beautiful specimens
OF auriferous cube galena, frequently
In close association with copper py-
rites. It seems reasonable that fur
ther exploring Of this mammoth
ledge will open up vast bodies of
payable ore.
Amador viii Soon BE Producer.
Much has been written about the
probable future success Of the ANA
dor copper mine, located seven miles
below the gold properties mentioned.
Promoter Mackinnon has certainly
accomplished much in the way Of
development and equipment, having
expended perhaps $25O.O00. He has
constructed ten-mile railroad that
connects the mine with the Northern
Pacific road at Iron Mountain; erect
ed a 60-ton test smelter. and run
several thousand feet OF tunnels,
crosscuts. drifts and raises.
THE ore reserves of the Amador
mine are unknown to the general
nuhlic. and those within the official