The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1913-04-17
IOAH0'S OLDEST S|[vER-LEAD MINING
Campfire WOOD RIVER COUNTRY
MINES ABOUT HALEY KETcHUM BLAINE COUNTY,
TAILED IN NINE INSPECTOR BELLS
ANNUAL REPORT.

} Elephant mine, which has been oper
} ated for number Of years by TIN
. Quincy Jr. company.
new company called the Red Ele
plant Consolidated company. Is nov
driving long tunnel from the south
J west side of the Bullion mountain II
the direction Of the Bullion ore bodies
which il likely to result when com.
pleted. in the solution Of this interest
ing problem, and II may utimatel,
lead to the rehabilitation of the Bul-
lion deposits in their former glory OF
high grade ore production.
Tho Minnie Moore.
Another important example of the
temporary loss of the most valuable
ore deposits In this district by fault
ing and folding is that of the Minnie
Moore mine at Bellevue, which was
formerly owned by an English com
pany and made rich output of lead
silver mineral aggrcgating seven mil
lion dollars In gross value, when the
ore body was lost at the 900-foot level
and some extensive development at
the 10O0-foot level failed to recover It,.
at which point the operation was
abandoned and remained full of wa
ter for several years. 1t was subse-
quently purchased and reopened
through the advice of r. c. Tustin
and under the management of Irwin
e. Rockwell and associates, with the
aid of some old time, practical min
ers, who had been employed In the for
mer operations Of this mine, and with
the advice Of expert geological talent
1t was discovered that the Minnie
Moore vein had made a horizontal
fold at the 900-foot level and that the
1000-foot level was entirely under II
and in the foot wall formation.
little prosecuting and raising
from the 1OOO-foot level disclosed
these conditions and opened up the
downward continuation of the ore
body on its normal dip beyond the
fold From this new work ore to the
value of s1,500.O0o has since been ex-
tracted of the same high grade char
acter for which the mine was formerly
noted when the famous ore channel
was again cut off by north-soutf
vertical fault below the 1000-foot leve'
and since that time il has not beer
recovered in spite of the expenditure
of considerable development capital in
an effort to find it.
The extensive work which has beer
performed in the pursuit of this fam
Gus ore channel has discovered other
ore resources in the property incud
ing a large vein in the foot wall rich
in zinc which, while of a complicated
nature, it is believed contains large
tonnage of mineral that can be pro
ftably separated for the zinc contents
by modern flotation methods.
Queen Produces $1,0C0,OO0.
The Queen Extension mine, situated
across the gulch from the Mimi,
Moore mine, has been undergoing de.
velopment during the year with
small force of men through the ole
Queen tunnel that penetrates the weir
just above the main valley slope at
Bradford.
This vein was one of the noted pro-
ducers In early days on the Queen
property and is credited with an out
put of million dollars worth Of high |
grade lead-silver ore from single |
shoot which had buried apex.
This handsome ore showing became |
quite zincy in the bottom level about !
200 feet below the valley and while
still showing an important reserve of
hat class of ore, it has remained idle
md unattractive for years, owing to
he limited market for zinc mineral
NTH recently.
The present demand for this class Of
IRE, however. makes this old ore shoot
| commercial possibility for additional
'esources of profitable ore with fur
her extensive development at depth. |,
The galena found in work here Il
nigh grade in silver. running up t,
'ver 100 ounces, with 60 to 20 per cen
ead which is decidedly characteristic
# the old Queen ore body.
Other Well Known Mines.
The other development enterprises
n progress on Wood River this year
we're at the Golden Glow group. ant
he Starlight group. both of which
Employed small crews of men through.
ut the year.
The latter property Is situated . :
ew miles east of Ketchum and has :
een undergoing development for the
purpose of trying to discover the |
eeper continuation of the rich lead
liver ore bodies of the Elkhorn mine
which produced some of the richest
melting ores in the Wood River dis. '
riot in the early days and made
,rge output, exceeding million dol '
IRIS in value
Al Boulder creek. above Ketch,m =
ne Golden Glow Mining company has !,
cen pushing development on an in
eresting group of claims carrying 4
ONE shoots Of rich smelling mineral g
me of these shoots Is $40 feet long n
nd one to feet wide, containing val n
es from 80 to 10 per cent lead in the
,rm of galena. with occasional =
lot, l,..., e 49,