The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1913-02-20
sHOSHONE CONTINUES
BANNER COUNTY FOR
MINERAL PRODUCTION
Ev nv DIVISION OF DISTRICT
r CORDS NEW DEVELOP.
MENT IN YEAR 1912.
New and Interesting Facts Contained
in Annual Report of State Mine In
spector BeIl-Not All Important Ore
Channels Have Been Found.

The annual report Of Nobert N.
Bell, state mine inspector, has just
been issued, the distribution being
now under way. 1t is in many ways
the most complete and interesting re-
port yet issued by this department OF
the state government and is illus
trated by a greater number of half
tone engravings than any previous re-
port has carried.
In the division of the report devot-
+, ed to Shoshone the following matter
descriptive of the industry in Sho-
shone county and Of many Of the
mines more particularly set forth will
be found interesting both at home and
abroad
Shoshone county still continues to
be the banner county of the state In
the matter of mineral production and
enjoyed a very prosperous year dur
ing 1912, employing large force OF
men in its producing mines and max
ing a larger yield of mineral and
bigger metal output than ever before
in its remarkable history of n years
continuous production. In spite OF the
pessimistic views of exhaustion, based
on theory of it's ore genesis, and ex-
with which this famous district in
common with other great mining dis
tricts has been haunted for several
years, ii continues to expand in gen.
eral ore reserves and from new bodies
Of ore found during the past two years
ana developed into large producing
properties. it is not an exaggeration to
saw that the future of the district was
never so bright as a further probable
source of ore at any period of its his
tory as it is today. The new discover
les recently made discredits the often
expressed opinion that all its import
ant ore channels have already been
discovered.
Every division Of the district, in
GLIDING Wardner- Kellogg. Mullan and
Burke, has recorded new ore develop
/,
ments during the year Of commercial
importance and in places of consider
able magnitude, while the Nine Mile
district, In the edge Of the discredited
Pritchard slate formation. has two
new properties with ore resources and
milling equipment that, when tombin-
ed. will rank with some of the rroduc-
ers Of the first magnitude and prom
Uses to last indefinitely as source Of
mining profit.
Federal Mines.
Two of the most famous producers
Of this district during the past ten
years, WHICH, ny IiS way 'i"'N "N~'
worked to the limit all the time, are
nearly exhausted. These are both
Federal Mining company's properties
and include the Last Chance mine
near Wardner and the STANDARD Nam
moth mines at Mace.
The former mine exhaustion is due
TO litigation cutting off its Ntra-lat-
erai rights in depth and the latter Is
due to the pitch or rake of the ore
body in the plane of the vein entirely
through this company's territory into
adjacent ground to the west. The lat"
ter. however, has been purchased By
The Federal company and the opera
ton from now on will be continued
through the splendid equipment OF
FL the Mace mines, while the famous
Last Chance mine has been traded of
through litigation settlement for
GOOD slice Of the stock of the Bunker
Hill & Sullivan bonanza.
The Last Chance mine has beer
worked down to the Kellogg level
" about 1000 feet below Its apex and has
proved one Of the most productive
pieces Of lead-silver bearing tcrritor!
ever developed in mining history fol
it's length. 1t is now being worked
from the Kellogg level back to thu
surface and the bulk. Of its present or
tonnage amounts 10 1000 tons day
i,pw CONES from It's upper horizons
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