The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1908-01-23

West OF Murray on Prichard creek
there are two mills and one on Dream
gulch. The King mill. practically
wrecked now. was one Of the pion-
GERS. It had a checkered career.
The management installed the first
belt concentrator in the camp, after
experimenting with Duncans. The
latter proved to be complete fall
ure on the material handled and It
seems that the belted machine was
no more successful for the mine and
mill were closed down In the eight
les. Leasers subsequently made
some successful runs. The ore was
quite rich In places but had to be
hauled to the mill by wagon and was
extremely base. In shaft on the
main ledge, 80 feet deep. shipping
ore has been encountered. It
Ia practically half galena, carrying
good galena values.
The Mountain Lion mill Is small
3-stamper--no concentration. 1t was
not In operation during 1907.
The Buckeye Boy mill on Dream
gulch is 2-stamp. triple discharge,
equivalent to stamps. It was not
operated last year. there being no
concentrating machinery. This will
be ordered as soon 40 the railroad
strikes the town. Development work
was carried on. The property has
some 1000 feet Of tunnels and shafts.
1t consists Of five patented claims
covering the watershed Of Dream
gulch, the richest placer gulch 80
far worked In the Occur d'Alenes.
Much Of the gold In the gulch came
from the lodges in the Buckeye Boy
group and one pocket" on the Buck
eye Boy claim In 1885, yielded
$25, 900 to the original locator Frank
Reed, now dead.
There are q number Of other prop
critics. among them the Pilot that
will probably secure mills when the
railroad reaches the district. The
Pilot scarcely needs further reference
than mere mention for 1t is the
latest local gold bonanza. A lower
tunnel, gulch level, was commenced
last summer and this Is now in 80
feet, having cut small stringer OF
quartz carrying large per cent OF
gold galena. The tunnel will have
to run about 600 feet to get under
the rich shoot OF ore found In the up
per tunnel which created such SEN
sation two years ago. Work is to be
resumed on the lower tunnel about
March.
The Golden Winnie.
This group was originally q gold
property but in the development
work Of the past two years scheelite,
(tungsten) ore has intruded and the
ore now carries more values In tung-
stem than gold. The property is
under bond to Wallace parties, and
II the value of the ore does not de-
cline the Golden Winnie group will
become a famous producer Of wealth.
As the ore contains one of the metals
or rather, acids, that Is growing in
demand for electrical purposes. II not
also for the hardening Of steel, the
price may go upward instead Of down
ward. Strange as 1t may appear.
this country, SO far. has had no par
ticular use for this rare mineral but
almost every pound has been shipped
to Germany. Now, however, works !.
for the manufacture OF tungsten cleo
trio lamps are to be erected In the |
east and there may be much home
Of scheelite. 1t Is pre-
dicted that the tungsten lamp will
kill off all other varieties.
The Golden Chest has also large
deposit Of scheelite and the company i
has signified its intention of re-
ducing it separately from the gold
quartz.
These two mines, the Winnie and
the Chest, are the only ones that
have so far developed scheelite in
paying quantity, although the ore
has been found at the head of Trail
gulch and Pony gulches, as we'll as
in the placers OF those creeks. The
writer who had the first tests made
secured the specimens from A.
B. Ward Of Trail creek. For years
no one knew what the heavy spar
Hike mineral was. 1t was generally
thrown over the dump as it interior
I'd with amalgamation. When the
value of the mineral was known the
writer placed the first ore on view
1T the Spokane fair and received a
diploma and medal for the rare ex-
libit Since then scheelite has be-
,ome well known and now bids fair