The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1912-02-22

is now largely derived from the driven an incline
shaft sunk below the Kellogg tunnel The Kellogg tunnel
strikes the bodies at depth of 2OO feet and below this
there three extensive levels at intervals of 800 feet the
lowest of which producing lead and slvr per
foot of ground stopped than other level in the history of
the mine This is known as No. T. The shaft has also
been sunk to No. 10 and crOSscut being extended to
the bodies These levels 800 feet apart the dip
and make total depth of 1900 feet below the groupings Of
the VEIN In the No. II level of this mine the famous Ward
ner lode or Bunker Hill foot WALL which has formerly been
the fighting line of many expensive apex suits and extra
lateral right litigation, has evaporatcd barrier to pro
ductve bodies north of this point and the results Of the
actual mining development has put at naugt the opinions
of good many famous experts who have been retained in
the years of litigation this remarkable earth fracture has
volved This famous foot wall fracture forms the hang
wall of the largest and richest slopes in the Bunker
Hill mine, which entirely under it. Recent development
also demonstrates that this wonderful fault ssure
ndary channel and further development will very likely
demonstrate that in spite of its yield may prove
be secondary in Importance as source OF ore compared to
older system of assures that being developed and
nave an entirely different and dip
In the old history of the Wardner district the Jersey s
and the Sierra Nevada vein with quite sharply contrast
I'd values and structural characteristics proved puzzle
10 the early operators but invariably considered by the
best authorities be spur branches from the main Wardne
ode into the hanging wall country The recent development
If this district however, has demonstrated the alacy OF TIN
opinion which adhered to by very capable men un
il very times These have north
with dip the southeast while the Wardner lode has
northwest with dip to the southwest The deve
pnent of the Senator tSewart and Caledonia mines and the
7rancis ssure in the Bunker Hill mine, each of which have
already produced considerably millions dollars wor
If ore strikes northeast and ds southeast like the erse
assure and the Sierra Nevada vein and entirely in the
DOT wall formation north of the Bunker Hill litigation foo
VAIL The remarkably high silver values of the Caledonia
res together with it's relatively high copper association den
fes it as continuance of the Sierra Nevada similar
en yet be discovered the hanging wall side Of the Bun
er Hill fault ssure The Francis assure whose apex neve
anne nearer than 2300 feet of the surface and which dis
covered at the No. 10 level of the Bunker Hill the arg
s and most productive Of these three foot wall assures men
toned so far and in addition to it's magnificent shoot
nearly 1000 feet long there has been recently discovered two
more parallel assures containing the high grade lead
yer ore with white quartz association within few hundre
eet of this remarkable channel and exactly parallel to
This gives five that have been proved to pene
rate thee foot wall side Of the Bunker Hill lode or fault ifs
sure for hundreds of feet and should ndvae the existence
hree other veins Of probably equal commercial importance
With the Jersey assure and the Sierra Nevada ven that re
main to be discovered in the hanging wall country south
Bunker Hill foot wall which proves to be recent breaI
and line of naturalization than this great parallel series
rich ore courses being disclosed and which the future
|prospertv of Kellogg mining center largely based
The Bunker Hill Sullivan company result of hes
extensive new. disclosures is keeping pace with new
equipment looking campaign of very deep work as the orr
bodies in the bottom of this mine justify the anticipation
Indefinite depth The formation at the bottom level which
has lust been entered by the main channels is the upper