The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1911-01-12
REVIVAL OF MINING DISTRICTS

Faith in the Occur dAenes amply evidenced In In
with Manager Stany of the BunkeIf Hill
and Sullivan Nine reproduced in Mining Science which says:
THE only dscouraen9 feature Of the mining situation
in the Occur dAene district present the depression In
the lead market due solely the uncertainty about the tariff
said Sany Easton, MANAGER of the Bunker Hill Sullivan
mine Wardner dah0 while in Spokane much of the lead
being produced in the United States is mined
small profit and this especially true at the mines in Missouri
II is of the question for American lead mines compete
with those of Span country which produces tonnage equal
that of the United States and hardly lead
because of the poverty of the people, We not afraid OF
competition with Canadian mines The conditions under
which they operated similar to and person
ally would have objection to reciprocity with Canada
in lad and lead products
"But for the uncertainty of the tariff the lead market
would be in much stronger position than that which obtains
for chiefly because great lead producers have been
developed in the United States in years. while de-
pots of copper the product of which be probably
marketed in New York low cents pound have been
opened recently *N
Mr. Eaton said that If he were to 20 prospecting he would
devote his attention the older adding that the
who rshes district has take double chances
while approved districts he has chances only the
property Continuing, he said:
What has made this idea is the way the
old districts of the United States coming the front with
discoveries of the first magnitude Recall what has been
done of late years in Nevada the Oldest mining in the
Union, which almost abandoned for generation. During
the year Leadve has surprised the world with
discoveries of almost equal importance anything in
wonderful history This time bodies of
Lave been found and are being worked.
Coming home find that the old camp of Butte
is opening and rich bodies in unexpected
quarters while such districts the Republic camp in Wash
neton and Sheep Greek and Slogan in British Columbia
proving that the neglect they experienced the hands Of
mining the last decade due lack of knowledge and
al probation of their mineral resources.
1.-THE Wardner district in which mines located,
though the Oldest of the Occur dAlenes be hold
ing better than any other part Of that field The Ward
Hill has produced date than $50 900 that
account for and probably good deal more than that
because of the records of the early days. which
poorly kept best have been lost Such Tyler
Semwinder and Sierra Nevada big producers in their
day, but that is aboue all know about them The
Bunker Hill Sullivan mine alone has produced 500 OO0 900
knowledge and in Of the fact that the older records
missing it may have produced considerably
1.-The early ideas regarding occurrences in the Ward
have had be revised the result Of the last
Developments. The made ago by
Robert A. Bell former state mining inspector Of daho
eardng Frances property about right In that
deep development proved great shoot where
ing to the old ideas, it could not possibly
"A similar condition has been found in the Calendona
and Stewart mines, both of which adding materially
output of the Wardner district and proving themselves
be mines Of the first importance The Federal Co. is also
reducing largely from its Wardner property"