The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1912-08-08
LAWRENCE MINE HAS BRIGHT FUTURE.


for expression of opinion to the merits of the property
he wrote the following interesting review of his impression
for the Clarks Forks Times:
81 have no doubt but that your readers already well
informed about the merits of the Lawrence NINE however
good things in the mining line always worth pushing along
and interested outsider only too glad to be abe
to add my Endorsement to the merits Of the NINE which
firmly believe destined to prove winner and valuable as
set to the business resources of Clarks Fork
The Lawrence group consisting of nine connected lod
claims and mste laid the steep west slope OF An
teope mountain less than mile and hall across 'he a
lev from the main line Of the Northern Pachc ana IS dea
situated for rapid and economical development by tunnehg
great depth on dip of the vein and its subsequent econo
cal operation.
sThe formation Of that portion of the mountain examined
consists of series of argaceous quartzte slate and 1ar
MIRO limestone beds that strike little east of north and d
outeast at rather low angle These formations are relae
to the Occur Aene SERIES but to what pare
ular division of that series unable to say without NOR
extended examination Of the neighborhood but am Oh III
opinion that they belong to the Caaldo horizon Gas"
flied by Oscar Hershey. -
..fn climbing over the group up the steep slope OF the
mountain through vertical elevation of fully 1000 feet wa
shown series of distinct and separate VEINS roug
parallel and only short distance apart lhey srlke hor'
east and southwest and dip to the southeast at angles
from 90 to 30 degrees They first impress one as oeooe
veins conforming the dip and strike OF the enclosing lorna
tons which they doubtless do for short distances Oh e W
a
+;n tho heddng planes both dip and strike IN numerous III
stances and insure their assure type in very distinctive man
rhose veins vary in width from to 20 feet and presen
coma f tho most attractive surface evidences of uneryn
GRO bodies iudgng from the Occur dAene standpoint ta
have ever seen outside that famous district.
..These outcrops consist OF alternating ore sloos car liz
from recciaed gangue to nearly pure black ana Drown o
carhonate so to 200 feet in length and continuous IN a III
recon of this strike for several thousand feet as proven
shallow surface work at short intervals Inns shallow surface
81 oto|nO very
ing consisting Of well defined pay streak OF clean sa m
lead carbonate ore both walls OF the VEINS ana oe
we'll sprnEled through the body OF the vel
..The hest showing on the surface is an open cut on on
@ tho middle veins of the series where body OF iron ore tx
d foot thick which includes bed or horse OF pure he
stone two feet thick feet above the footwa M
norton Of this vein does not show any lead as al as eeoP
at this particular point but this vein carries gae III
; aono it's course The IA feet above the limestone
inclusion richly sprnked with gaena and carbonate ore AM
will probably average 40 per cent iron largely cen oA
sderte .o ;aon+;oo, IN an
with some of the best surface manifestation Oh t
Muan and Wardner districts and in such strong persistent LIZ
see no reason doubt that they Will develop o Po
ftable ore bodies at depth , rss
ont tunnel that equipped with small compressor plant ma
been started the foot OF the mountain anu Ia srS an
nearly 700 feet At 3o2 feet from the pol'; f1 o 70
weakest vein of the has been cut ana deo upon ~
ono foot at depth of 300 feet from the oucrop on te up
the vein; and if the resources it displays are any Ill.,
Of what may be expected from the larger ana rcer vel VIC
overlap it. the Lawrence is certainly destined to become
very important producer of desirable i've % a
.:Tho 3OOf foot drift referred to on the small 1oot wall WI
o ont;nuous ore throughout it's length, plnchhg 40"
to few inches in places and swelling to maximum wa nn.
six feet Of fine concentrating with fat streaks OF cTh h
,o GRAINED qaena fully six inches thick IN places Ia
,ee To- dncod dump of concentrating ore estimated
onntan thousand tons and Judging from some pan tests WI
pobaby mill from 10 per cent lead small at st1 OF "a
feet long and Is feet high has been MADE on ' sdd G TO
eu' i df rc concentrating ore produced small carload
han p picked mineral recently shipped which am nf sre
sampled lis per cent lead and III ounces the and 0n ren
smlen c 20 1000 ovor and above freight and treatne
nrs This ore was clean grained gaena quite IT
rom zinc and other Objectionable suphdes ana res a
endid evidence of what may be anticlr!eu IL .a h
and stronger veins of the series wntn W.T. t dhs rar