The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-04
COEUR D 'ALEVE MINE
OWNERS SEEK RULING
Mining Men Want Courts to
Give Opinion on
Titles.
EIGHT SUITS ARE FILED
Want the Homesteaders Re-
moved From the Ground
Owned by Miners.
EIGHT SUITS ARE FILED

OWkLC0 ny AVAAiACAo os
WALLACE, Ida, July An an eff
fort TO secure ruling that will settle
for all time the difficulties arising be-
tween mine locators and homesteaders
in this district, a concerted movement
is being made by the mining fraternity
TO carry the matter through the courts,
thereby securing decision that will
define and establish the right of both
factions. Eight mining companies filed
suits on June is against homesteaders
on Pine creek. These suits have grown
out of the action Of homesteaders who
are alleged to have absolutely disre-
garded the rights of mining men, and
to have filed their homesteads over
the mining locations Unfortunately.
The mining men have pooled their in
terests and placed the entire matter
in the hands of Pattison & Culver, at
torneys, TO carry the fight before the
land office at Occur d 'Alene and have
a ruling secured if possible. declaring
the greater part of the Pine Creek dis
trlct as open for mineral entry only.
The mining men are much wrought up,
and durinr the past winter they have
found homesteaders busy cutting tim
Der from mining claims which were
staked out prior 10 the homestead I'll
ing. The contention Of the mining men
is that there is little land OF agricul-
turaI value along the creek, and that
the greater part of the agricultural land
is covered with water rights. The
homesteaders are also lining up, and
bitter fight in the land office and the
courts is anticipated as thousands OF
dollars worth of mineral land is In
voIved in the litigation.
Heinze to Start Work.
People conversant with mining mat
ters in the Mullan section, claim that
F.. Aug. HeinZe will shortly begin de-
velopment work OF his Gettysburg In
dependence property near Mullan. Com.
petent mining men who have visited
the property and are familiar with the
geology of the district, say that the
property has developed good vein OF
milling ore which should be productive
of better values with further develop
ment This ore has been opened up IN
three tunnels, but it has not yet been
opened IN the lower. or Gettysburg tun-
nell In fact, this tunnel is several
hundred feet from this vein at its
nearest point, and the prospecting done
by Heinze in the Federal company's
No. 6 tunnel did not reach this vein.
The property is one of the first loca-
tions on Chloride hill, and adjoins the
Morning mine. IT was located in the
early days OF the district. Heinze
secured control of the property through
loan secured by mortgage on the
mine
With a new conccntrator. having a
capacity of 300 tons of ore daily, com
pleted and il operation since the first
of June, with an estimated ore body
blocked out Of approximately 100000
tons, with It's extensive underground
workings, and with the survey for the
extension of the Northern Pacific rails
to its concentration. the Interstate
Callahan mine is rapidly coming to the
position where it viii be on a perma
nent producing basis With the con
solidated Interstate and Callahan mines
is the Amazon Manhattan, which is un.
der option to the Interstate Callahan
for $4,000, a first payment on which
has already been made The Interstate
and Callahan mines are now connected
with a 5400-foot tunnel, and this is be-
ing extended another 1000 feet to con-
meet with the Amazon Manhattan. The
Callahan property lies on the Nine
Mile or Wallace side of the divide, and
the Interstate and Amazon Manhattan
properties lie on the north or Beaver
creek side of the divide. The purpose
Of the long tunnel connecting tha three
properties is that the ores from the
three properties may be brought out
on the Nine Mile side, where transpor
tation is available. The properties
combined comprise fifty-eight claims,
approximately 1850 acres. The ores
from the mine are conveyed to the mill
by means of an aerial tramway capable
Of handling 1000 tons per day, and the
mill, as now constructed, is capable Of
being increased TO that capacity. The
three properties have been developed
by a series Of tunnels and q vertical
depth Of 1900 feet is shown between
the lower tunnel, on the ANA zzon- Man
haitian and the highest tunnel on the
Callahan property The ore bodies in
the various properties carry exception
ally rich values in lead, silver and
zine. The silver values run as high as
30 ounces, lead 76 per cent and 59,7
per cent in zinc. and the new mill is
making an extraction of from 90 to %
per cent of the mineral contents.
Bunker Hill Mine Report.
According TO a report issued recently
by the Bunker Hill & Sullivan Mining
company, during the period of June |
1911, to December 81, 1912, it stopped
sos, ,l60 tons OF concentrating ore at
Il cost of $l.541 per ton. The mine also
produced $3.50 tons OF crude shipping
ore at cost Of 1924 for extraction
The electric railroad was in operation
for the full period of nineteen months
during which time it delivered to the
concentrators 70I,620 tons Of ore at q
cost OF S5l.995. or an average cost OF
"A cents per ton. The concentrating
plant treated 697 $50 tons Of ore at the
rate of 1856 tons per twenty four-houl
shift at cost of $50 cents per ton
A total of 99,96S tons Of concentrate: