The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-08-26

State Mine Inspector Robert N. 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..
H. 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:
II 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, | am only too
glad to be able to add my Endorsement
as to the merits of the mine, which /
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
millsite is laid out on the steep west
slope of Antelope Mountain less than
one mile and half across the valley
from the main line of the Northern Pa
citc 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 a little east of north and dip
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 | 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
a vertical elevation of fully a thousand
feet / was shown a 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 assure
type in very distinctive manner.
These veins vary in width from two
o twenty feet and present some of
he most attractive surface evidences
If undertaking ore bodies judging from
he Occur d'Alene standpoint, that l
lave ever seen outside that famous
district.
These outcrops consist of alterna-
ing ore shoots varying from a breccia-
ed gangue to nearly pure black and
rown iron carbonates sc 70 200 feet in
ength and continuous in the direction
L Ills St1 ifNC LII SCfSldi icCt,
8 proven by shallow surface wock at
hort intervals. This shallow surface
York shows more or less commercial
re at almost every opening, consisting
f well defined pay streak of clean
alena and lead carbonate ore on one
T both walls of the veins and often
yell sprinkled through the body OF the
elm.
The best showing on the surface is