The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1913-01-09
MINES AN1 MINING
|DAH0S MINES SET NEW RECORD IN 1872
Gross value Of Metal Extracted During Year
Reports Of All Minerals Show Healthy Increase

An important revival of silver lea,
mining and smelling in Custer count.
was made during the past year by TN
acquisition of the old Clayton Mininl
4 Smelling company's property II
/ Clayton, which Is now being operated
I under the management of II. r. Tus
| tin. This company is running 100
ton smelter at Clayton. and is max
L ing an output of 50 to 100 tons Of bull
lion per day principally from ore de
rived from the Red Bird mine OF
Squaw creek which has been exten
sively developed and Is showing a large
reserve. of desirable smelling ore. Thi!
company has several other interesting
ore deposits that are now being fur
Their developed and have very fav.
orable prospect Of establishing a steady
output of rich silver bearing lead
silver bullion.
The increased zinc yield of the state
has come principally from two mines
in the Occur d'Alenes. The Success
mine, which is owned by Fl. r. Sam.
uels, and Is treated principally for Its
zinc contents. This property laid idle
for a number of years and was consid-
cred worthless as source of mining
profit, but under the venturous ham
ding of Mr.. Samuels, process has
been worked out for the successful OPP
GRAFTON of the rather complicated ore
the mine contains, and the enterprise
has proven under the favorable market
conditions quite profitable during the
past year
Tire Occur d'AIenes.
The Morning mine Is the SECOND
largest producer of zinc in the Occur
d'Alenes. At this point the zine min
eral is derived by very complicated
metallurgical process az a by product
tory lead-silver ores which this prop
erty carries. The extremely refractory
nature Of the ore of this great mine
still involves a very serious loss in
treatment. but the company is SPAR
ing no expense to increase the SAVING
and is continually experimenting witt
new processes to this end.
There are number of other zinc
bearing lead silver deposits in the
north and south ends of the Occur
d'Alene district that are profiting by
the example of these two pioneers in
zinc mineral separation, and an in
creased yield of this useful metal may
be expected from Shoshone county, un
less the market for the ore is destroyed
by adverse tariff legislation.
The copper output of Idaho during
1912 showed an increased yield Of 100
per cent over 1911 and will aggregate
over 100000 pounds and
was largely derived from two mines
The Snowstorm mine in the Occur
1'Alenes, which has been equipped
With concentrating plant making
available its finely disseminated sui
ohide ores, and the White Knob mine
owned by the Empire Copper company
1t Mackay. Custer county.
The White Knob mine employed
luite number Of men throughout the
fear in small leasing units, and made
splendid aggregate output of min.
raj, of total of something like 10000
ons, containing about per cent cop
,"r and SO or 81 in gold and silver per
on. BY reason of It's fluXing values
his lowgrade ore was afforded very
easonable freight and treatment
barge to the Salt Lake Valley Smelt-
RS and returned fair margin of prof |
over operating costs to both leasers |
nd owners.
While the results of its extraction |
as materially strengthened, the pro-
able merits of the property as a fur
her source of ore is so much so that I
ne company has undertaken the fur
Ter extensive development of the de-
osit at much greater depth. and are
tanning the expenditure of a larger
of money to determine the ex-
mt and continuity of the different ore
odies at a much lower level with emf
ent prospect of success and the es-
lbishment of steady copper pro-
lcer of considerable capacity
Healthy Increase in Gold.
The gold production of Idaho during
IL will show healthy increase over
e previous year which will be ac-
united for by the steady operation OF
lr new dredging enterprise in Boise
lsin and Lemhi county, where the !,
rye dredging plants of the Boston,
aho company and the Kirtley Creek
I'D Dredging company have been
lendidly handled and have turned
er a vast amount of low-grade gold
airing gravel that could not be OPP
ated at a profit by any other method.
he success of these dredging enter |
Uses has stimulated interest in our )
IVA iNS'"'Ne9 VI titSduit PiiVtt I
lvels, and uegot tions are in prog I
S. for the establishment of addi-
nal plants of this kind In the state.
Itch VIII doubtless result In the con-
ued increase of gold production =
rhe silver production in Idaho dur !.
, 1912 will show healthy in =
.aSe over the o1tp,Jt of tho pro viotic \
,r, which is accounted for by the in