The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-08-24
Inspector Bell Praises
Lawrence Mine

State Mine Inspector Robert ~ Bell
who visited the property of the Law
renee Mining & Milling company at
Clarksfork, late in July, has written
the following report. on the property
for the Clarksfork Times, from which
it is quoted:
Robert N. Bell, state inspector of
mines, was a visitor at Clarksfork
last week Thursday, and went over the
Lawrence mine with Jos. Reed and L.
II Whitcomb. When asked for an ex-
preston of opinion as to the merits
of the property, he wrote the following
interesting review of his impressions
for the Times:
81 have no doubt but that your read
ers are already well informed about
the merits of the Lawrence mine, how
ever, good things in mining line are al
ways worth pushing along, and as
an interested outsider l am only too
glad to be able to add my Endorsement
as to the merits of the mine, which l
firmly believe is destined to prove a
winner, and valuable added asset to
the business resources of Clarksfork
The Lawrence group, consisting of
nine connected lode claims and
mlls.te is laid out ON the steep west
s!ope of Antelope Mountain less than
one mile and q half across the valley
from the main line of the Northern Pa
cific and is ideally situated for rapid
and economical development on the dip
of the vein and it's subsequent econ
omical operation.
THE formation of that portion of
the mountain examined consists of a
series of argillaceous quartzite, slate
and fairly pure limestone beds that
strike little east of north and dip
southeast at a rather low angle. These
formations are related to the pre- Cam
brian Occur d'Alene series, but to what
particular division of that series l am
unable to say without more extended
examination of the neighborhood bnt
| am of the opinion that they belong to
the Cataldo horizon recently classified
by Oscar Hershey
In climbing over the group up the
steep slope of the mountain through
vertical elevation of fully thousand
feet was shown series of seven dis
tinct and separate veins roughly paral-
lei and only a short distance apart
They strike northeast and southwest
and dip to the southeast at angles var
ing from 20 to 80 degrees. They first
impress one as bedded veins conform
ing to the dip and strike of the en-
closing formations, which they doubt
less do for short distances on the dip,
but a closer examination of the series
how the ore bodies cutting the bedding
plans in both dip and strike in numer-
Gus instances and insure their fissure
type in very distinctive manner
These veins vary in width from two
to twenty feet and present some of
the most attractive surface evidences
of undertaking ore bodies Judging from
the Occur d'Alene standpoint that |
have ever seen outside that famous
district
These outcrops consist of alterna-
ting ore shoots varying from breccia-
ted gangue to nearly pure black and
brown iron carbonates &C TO 200 feet in
length and continuous in the direction
of this strike for several thousand feet,
as proven by shallow surface wosk at
short intervals. This shallow surface
work shows more or less commercial
ore at almost every opening, consisting
Of well defined pay streak of clean
galena and lead carbonate ore on one
or both walls of the veins and often
we'll sprinkled through the body OF the
vein.
The best showing on the surface is
an open cut on one of the middle veins