The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1909-02-11
GREAT WESTERN PROSPECTS
Work inProgressNow Expected to Show
Rich Ore Within Few Months

Rich Ore Within Few Months !,
Friday last representative Of The Miner paid visit to the
properties Of the Great Western and Excelsior companies in the
Burke section The report the Excelsior property will be
found in another column.
The property Western consists of patented
claims located two and half miles from the Tiger mill on good
wagon road with down grade from the NINE The claims
covered with enough timber for all mining for years
to come
The property equipped with IngarsoRand compressor
of 3dr capacity driven by 6Oose motor This motor
large enough furnish power for 0dr compressor should
the installation of this be deemed advisable necessary IN the
future The hoist is driven by air from the and has
capacity Of lifting 5000 pounds Three Wood drills are operated
by compressor together with the blacksmith shop and the
minor equipment for welding and making drills With the excep
the and the hoist all the machinery of the mine
duplicated that in the event of accident development can
be rushed with the loss of than few minutes All
pairs machinery can be made in the blacksmith shop In ad
don all this the mine is equipped with rails powder ma
gan boarding and bunk houses and everything necessary for
mining economical scale The general arrangement and
completeness OF the development plant easily among the best
Iof the Occur d'Alenes
The mine has been under continuous development since Au
gust 1904 and during that time has been developed by approx
mately 2l5O feet Of tunneng and by 207 feet Of shaft
The surface showing extending the claims is raceabe
for 1900 ranges width from II o5O feet This ledge
values copper and silver typical Of such mines as the
Sierra Nevada and the Gold Hunter The ledge has been traced
by the usual surface work of cuts and shafts.
The No tunnel driven 1910 feet to cut what is Of
the biggest and remarkable surface showngs the district
was expected that this would have total length Of 1900
feet While engaged in driving this and at point about 500 feet
from the portal blind encountered carrying values in
"copper" lead and silver This vein about 80 feet in width
At this point in the development the crosscu tunnel having
driven 1910 and with only comparatively short distance
Co. work the discontinued and drift was
on the vein encountered about 500 feet from the portal
While this showing certainly worth the work expended on It,
great pity that the O feet Of work required get un
der the surface showing not first completed The indications
are that completion Of this tunnel would have added materially
the immediate value Of the property while return to the blind
vein could have been made time In the mean time the
75O feet beyond the blind vein lies dead work until the
tunnel finally completed In visiting the mine forced to
agree with the that the completion OF this unne was
the logical first step in the development.
After drifting about feet the blind crossclt
driven exposing body o25 feet Of milling ORE This ore was
opened for upwards 0 feet when work that point stopped
temporarily 1t is impossible to estimate the extent OF this ore
body in the present stage Of development At the time work
indications splendid the being nterspersed
hs sa ore bd Great Western valuable
and it evident that onye surface the PRE- ere was % fn
higher probable that not trace Of this body would have
encountered This being the and ths pe
It was decided to sink 2oot shaft drift from the bot
M this This shaft has been completed the station c and
Completed at the time Of the visit The
Level ought Be @ % s no 10 fsa w 0f poye
Great Western Of the big propositions Of the district
@ Det eand 4 fs ss
carrying shipping well as concentrating It will only be be-
the Great western mine IS eak y hlS uiot:e wice
rich ore has always found with depth the body existed
The whole face Of the drift IS Revete quartzite heavily in
se 5 is san
Empire State mines located their great ore bodies !.
There heavy flow owaer in the under workings and 1T
is the belief Of the writer that the course Of the next few
premier mines Of the Coeur dAelnes is to be remembered
that the known Of the mine have not been explored
guessed at until the main tunnel driven about 200 feet more
When this and the present drift completed the value Will
be increased immeasurably.
feature Of property is the fact that the present equip
men is sufficient handle large scale enough to meet al
of mill which the main necessity for the treatment Of the ore