The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1907-06-27
STRIKE N ORC f|NO.
crosscut Tunnel Opens Five Feet
OfMiling Ore
SANE lEDeE Is B1R1oP
Vein Appears to Be About Nine Fest
Wide and Travsrsss Many Claims--.
Bonded BY Missoula People
Murray SUM

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No. tunnel on the Orc Elmo
group on Beartop struck the ledge
last Saturday morning. 1t made
Foreman Spaulding and the miners
in that lonely altitude feel happy
as they picked up the glistening ore
which was blown out by the shots
M. r. Rutherford, who has an Op.
ton on the property promptly climb.
ed the trail to examine his good for
tune and that Of the camps. He
found the entire face of the tunnel
in first class concentrating galena,
and brought large chunk of almost
pure ore to the Orc Elmo Office.
On Tuesday the writer. with Mr..
M. r. Rutherford, Oscar A. Sedman,
and Manager Auerbach of the Golden
Chest, visited the scene OF the strike,
and found it just as represented.
Foreman Spaulding took the party
into the tunnel. where they saw the
real stuff in the ledge. This ledge
appears to be from 8h to 3 feet
wide, but the ore is confined to a
width OF about Ave feet, something
like the Tiger and Poorman, Of
Burke we're In the upper levels. As
the tunnel is a crossdrift, 1t was pre-
sumed that the ledge was crossed,
but the hanging wall appears to be
heavily mineralized and there may
be more ore or twin vein beyond.
The tunnel is $40 feet long and
through fine flint like rock. 1t
struck the ledge within three feet of
the perpendicular from the shaft In
the upper, or Tunnel No. l, but in
Tunnel No. 2 the ledge has pitch
to the south Of about forty degrees.
1t is therefore subject of specula-
ton whether the upper ledge has been
encountered or whether blind vein
was crossed. AS the ledge In the
bottom of the shaft in the upper tun-
mel was inclined to pitch slightly to
the south the perpendicular could
scarcely be maintained without some
kind OF fault in the formation.
However this may be, 1t Is almost
certain, according to the opinion of
Foreman spaulding and the miners
at the Orc Elmo that the ledge is the
western extension of the Beartop
vein, but about 400 feet lower down.
The groupings can be traced most Of
the distance between the Beartop
and Orc Fine discoveries, which i'm
parts as much interest to the Bear
top Company as to the Orc Elmo peo-
pie, as the Beartop Company can
now safely rely not only on striking
1t in their lower tunnel, but their
ore shoot extends something like
5000 feet westward from the discov-
cry. This will make 1t one of the
longest, ii not the longest, ore bodies
ever opened in the Occur d'Alenes.
But this Is not all. The Orc Elmo
ledge is now known to run through
the Great Western, Grand Central,
Parody and Paradox claims to the
westward, with galena groupings all
the way, giving the ledge an appar-
ent length of something like 5000
feet.
The owners of the Orc Elmo lode
are Samuel Stockham, Chas. W. Til
den, Lewis Prayer and w. H. Ber-
trand, the latter's interest being rep
resented by Adam Aulbach. These
parties also own the Parody and Par
odox lodes. The three claims are
under option to M. r. Rutherford, OF
Missoula. Mr.. Rutherford likewise
has an option on the Banner and
Keystone lodes owned by Charles
Manley and Ben F. Morgan; and the
Great Western and Grand Central
lodes, owned by G. G. Landes, Ar
chic Smith, r. e. Dunlap, Mrs. John
Coumerilh and others. Payments
have been made to all OF these
owners, and the next one falls due
on Oct. /, 1907. The Orc Fine
group was put in at $4,000, the Ban
ner and Keystone at $4,000 and the
Great Western and Grand Central al
$50, 900, making total of $105,OOO'
With M. R. Rutherford, who Is al
all-round financier and business man.
are associated Oscar A. Sedman, 4
general mining man and modest ex'
merit: Ed. .Donlan,t the well-knowr
sawmill man Of Montana, capitalist
and chief promoter Of the Thompson
Falls water power; J. L. Humble
president Of the State Bank OF Ham
ilton, Montana; J. F. Peterson, thu
leading druggist Of Missoula; and o
e. Peppard, the bridge contractor o
Missdula, Messrs. Rutherford ant
sedman,, however, each represen
two-eight6s, which gives them one
half. while the Others represent one
eighth each.
Il is the intentioQ Of Foreman
spaulding to drift both ways on tn
ledge and explore It a. far as tn
air will permit. and also continue tn
tunnel ahead nifty feet or so. to max
sure no parallel lead traverses tn
neighborhood.
30 much ore is coming out OF tn
tuunsl that some difficulty Is expert
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