The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-09-14
MINE INSPECTOR BELL
PRAISES LAWRENCE MINE

State Mine Inspector Robert N. Bell
who visited the property of the Law
renee Mining G 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 visitor at Clarksfork
last week Thursday, and went over the
Lawrence mine with Jos. Reed and l..
H Whitcomb. When asked for an ex-
preston of opinion as to the merits
of the property, he wrote the following
for the Times:
81 have no doubt but that your read
ers are already we'll 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
winner, and a valuable added asset to
the business resources of Clarksfork.
The Lawrence group, consisting of
nine connected lode claims and a
millsite is laid out on the steep west
slope of Antelope Mountain less than
one mile and half across the valley
h 1a Mo, Do
cific and is ideally situated for rapid
and economical development on the dip
of the vein and its 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 a little east of north and dip i,
southeast at rather low angle. These !
formations are related to the pre- Cam
brian Occur dAlene series, but to what
particular division of that series l am
unable to say without more extended |
examination of the neighborhood, but |
| 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 i
a 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
out closer examination of the series
how the ore bodies cutting the bedding
plans in both dip and strike in numer-
JUS instances and insure their assure
ype in a very distinctive manner.
These veins vary in width from two
o twenty feet and present some of !
he most attractive surface evidences (
# undertaking ore bodies judging from {
he Occur d'Alene standpoint, that /
AVE ever seen outside that famous
istrict. +
These outcrops consist of alrerna- |
ing ore shoots varying from a breccia- ,
ed gangue to nearly pure black and
rown iron carbonates sc to 200 feet in /
ength and continuous in the direction |
f this strike for several thousand feet. c
5 proven by shallow surface wock at c
hort intervals. This shallow surface a
ork shows more or less commercial
Re at almost every opening, consisting r
a well defined pay streak of clean 6
alena and lead carbonate ore on one s
: both walls of the veins and often t.
ell sprinkled through the body OF the Il
lin. v
1.-The best showing on the surface is
/ open cut on one of the middle veins