The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1908-02-20
TRAPPER'S ANNUAL REPORT
Manager Hunter Tells of Work in Past
Year and Future Plans.

THE annual meeting stockholders the Trapper Mining
company was held last week Manager E. j. Hunter reported
as to the condition Of the companys affairs follows
Il found that the claims had located without any exactness
and my first to have the whole group Of eleven claims sur
d 1t was found amend the locations Of eight claims
which done and the found adys
able to locate an additional claim
The claims extend easery and westerly distinct lodges
about five hundred feet apart The ground steep and two deep
ravine traverse it. On of the lodges found three small tunnels
had been driven towards the ledge the creek the ledge shaft
sunk what appears strnger ledge The shaft
was only twelve feet Deep but showed good values in lead
tunnel started catch this snger but certain that
driven on both sides of 1.-THE forkng the mouth
This tunnel is about two hundred feet in length
On the ledge short rum the creek
and the other far the mountains Both # these showed fine
donates and demonstrate that the ledge gigantic mineral bearing
fsure The tunnel the hill thirtyfy feet long and did not
encounter the footwa Another tunnel driven catch this ledge
but evidently far the north As is about three hundred
and fifty feet of work has been done this tunnel showing up
good quartz strnges carrying fine values evident the
stringer ofshoots Of the main ledge.
Upon taking the management Of the company had Merriam
Merriam engineers the ground and locate tunnel site Work
started this tunnel in May and that time have four
hundred and fifty feet on the drift and hundred feet in side
drifts all very short For the past hundred feet have had
all the tme At places it is only inch wide, while at
other places is high five feet in width. The general
rule high values ad silver and zinc The cryazation Of
is such that it can be very easily separated.
In 1907 hundred and seventy tunnels
It had been plan shortly to the footwal
practically under the immense surface showing Of carbon
oxdd and altered which shows the shoot akng the
aud that beginning feel it's influence the ledge
would advise drifting for another fifty feet the hangngwal and i'll
the shoot not enentered then the owa
think would be dangerous the appearance the
ledge shows be possible that the shoot dipping the foowa
the hangngwa and might it, After this is done
would like the tunnel driven several hundred feet further
cut under the strong surface Indications that frequently out in
the thousand feet the property would like also
work done the fine cronac showing the No ledge.
When considers hq splendid body exposed in the
negEong Surprise which had such showing the apper
the immense shoot in the douglas mine, which ados property
the fine showing the Sydney mne help but be
enthusiastic belief that going have big property We
have already encountered enough prove that the property
gamble but contains mmense fortune 1t will take work aud
support by the stockholders make the mine
drive the aIdad patent the ground which
cred with many thousands of collars worth of fine timber During the
financial strngency the management has been able push the
work fast wished but ha kept shift work all the time
and expects ina short time toIput two shifts on'
The directors chosen for the ensuing Herman j. Ross
E. Howe Thomas McGoyan c. H. Jackson and E. j. Hunter of
Wallace A. G. Roberts of Barkfoot and Burr of Genesee