Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1908-08-28
RICH STRIKE IN THE
VICTOR-EMPIRE MINE
Libby, Montana, News. }

Shaughnnessy Hill the past week or so
representing the Bradley Engineering
people in the removal of some machin-
cry from the Buzz Saw mine, brought
information to Libby that the Victor
Empire people have made a strike of
fine ore in the face of the tunnel which
they are running on their property on
Granite creek. He says the ore is
steel galena and the streak is about 10
inches wide.
This report is also confirmed in part
by w. b. Dilley, who is one of the
shift at work on the property. Mr.
Dilley brought some of the ore down
and shipped it to the head office of the
company in Spokane. He made the
statement that the Victor Empire
would be sacking ore inside of 60 days
and shipping inside of 80 days. Mr.
Dilley is very much impressed with the
showing in the face of the tunnel and
says there is no question that they now
have come to the ore they have been
looking for.
In relating the strike Mr.. Dilley
said the face Of the tunnel. outside of
the ore mentioned, was getting harder
than it has been for the past hundred
feet or so. The gouge is containing
more quartz and the general appear
ance of the whole thing is that there
is mighty good chance to get full
face of ore within the next fifty feet.
The vein is now becoming two we'll de-
fined walls and measured when he left
to bring the ore to Libby, three feet
and ten inches across. AS the tunnel
progresses more water is constantly
appearing, until now it is so wet as to
seriously interfere with the work.
The Victor Empire is considered one
of the most promising prospects in the
entire camp. 1t has always been CON
sidered by those who have seen it. and
especially by those who have seen the
big iron Gaping on top of the hill, to
get under which this tunnel is being
run, that this property gave excep-
tional promise of becoming a mine
and big one, too. The iron Gaping
is of an exceptional size, being "a feet
wide and extending down the mountain
something like thousand feet. 1t is
classified by prominent mining men as
typical iron Gaping, such as is found
everything the ore bodies in the Occur
d Alenes and those who are familiar
with the big lead,silver camp to the
south of Libby have no hesitancy in
saving that all it takes is the work
necessary to get under this Gaping to
make the Victor Empire one of the big
mines in the northwest.
The tunnel is now in about 500 feet.
1t will have to he driven about 600 or
700 feet further before it gets to the
nearest end of the iron Gaping.
However about rs feet from the pres
ent face of the tunnel. as nearly as
can be determined, a spur puts off the
vein and is found further up the guIch
from InlS tunnel.
In this spur tunnel has been run
in about 60 feet and some good ore
found in it. When the point on the
vein where this separation took place
is reached in the present tunnel those
who are in control of the property are
confident that big body of ore will
be found. They base this prediction
upon a showing on the outcrop just
above this point of separation, from
which place some exceptionally fine ore
has been taken.
Some of the ore from this property
runs between 600 and 700 ounces in
silver. This character of ore has been
found in both of the TUNES, the one
now being run and the 60-foot tunnel
on the spur of the vein, and also has
been found in small pieces on top of
the hill in the iron capring. The find
ing of this high grade ore thruout the
property has been one of the most en-
couraging indications to the owners,
ShSJ argue liidI WIFI lnlS ore
found all along the vein there is reason
to believe that somewhere within these
limits there is body of it.
The Victor Empire is located at
Granite creek, about 10 miles from
Libby and is connected with the Great
Northern at this place by one of the
finest wagon roads in the country.
With the discovery of this ore in the
face of the tunnel and with the we'll
known high values which the ore has
carried all along the vein, it will not
take much of it to make a mighty
good showing. Everyone connected
with the property is in high spirits
and the feeling is general that they
have struck the tail end of the shoot
of ore and that from now on the streak
will widen and that the prospects of
the property becoming a shipper are
extremely bright. ADV.