The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-10-19
COEUR D 'ALEVES
READY FOR WINTER
Orders Being Rushed for All
Supplies and Shortage
of Cars Feared.
WILL BE BUSY SEASON
National Copper Company Is
Rushing New Mill to
Early Completion.
Special to The Tribune.

Special to The Tribune
WALLACE, Ida, Oct: 1s.-Indicatons
neunced IN the Occur d'A1enes. with tho
result that mining companies are rushing
their @ si orders for gn general A supplies: timber %
panies are experiencing no difficulty In
handling the unusually heavy tonnage,
which speaks well for the prosperity Of
tho district, IL is said that the incoming
freight. combined with the immense ore
tonnage going out, will probably bring
about a shortage OF cars and more OF less
congestion OF traffic at the junction
points The railroads, however, antici-
pate this condition and prepare for II In
so far as ii is possible to do So Many
mining properties moro or less remotely
situated. wioh have heretofore been
closed down during the winter months,
are preparing to continue operations oil
winter,
The Belmont mine, situated on the east
fork OF Two Mile creek, about two and a
half miles from Osburn, has started work
on crossout tunnel which Is expected to
cut the vein at depth of eighty feet
The Belmont property Is one Of the old
locations of the district having been
worked by its owners and lessees for the
last sixteen years, and many feet Of
tunnel have been run, but through alleged
mismanagement most of the work done
is an absolute loss 80 far as its develop
feet OF tunnel have been driven, but when
ieasers were working the property and
contractors doing work as we'll. they kept
a fault In the formation. and 1t was not
until recently that they discovered
through the first survey ever made on
tho ground that the tunnel had been
driven between and parallel to the two
leads of the surface showing, and had no
it's length is being utilized by running the
orosscut from 1t. The showing OF the
property is unusually good. pieces taken
from the fault running to 10 per cent
n0 NJ t1rra.. M 10
amount Of antimony. The outcrop indi-
Gates a vein of 60 to 100 feet in width.
The formation OF the ground Is Burke
quartzite. which is we'll mineralized.
National Lead.
The National Lead company is making
preparations for extensive development
work this winter on the property adJoin
Ing the Star and Morning mine, near
Mullan. The company plans running
1600-foot tunnel which. according to esu-
mates. Will cut the vein at a depth OF
about 700 feet. Eight men will be put
10 work during the coming months. Work
Will be started this week. Supplies are
being laid in at the present time. The
Indications at the mine are decidedly en-
oouraging as the open cuts show vein
nearly twelve feet wide and running high
In lead and silver values. Little de-
velopment has been done on the property
as yet, but the stockholders are confident
that with the completion OF the long tun-
N6l tHey VIII De nHVlng ore III SnlpplHB
grnde and quantity, The property is
owned entirely by Wallace men, and
among the stockholders are some Of the
best known mining men In the district.
The new 5o0-ton capa city mill being
erected nehr Mullan, by the National Cop
per company, Will be under cover within
thirty days. according to the ma nagement.
The concrete foundation for the struc-
ture has been completed and work was
begun on the frame Thursday. The track
for the electric haulage system between
the mine and mill is being laid and the
transportation equipment will be Installed
by the time the concentration Is ready to
operate. which will be about January l.
provided there are no unforeseen delays.
A contract for about sixty feet OF
assessment work on the Comstock Copper
Mining company's property, which lies
about four miles northeast OF Burke. will
be let during this week. The company
will continue to drift on the ledge in
which It is expected within about 200
feet to encounter an ore shoot, the con-
tinuation OF which is believed to have
resulted in the excellent surface showings
on the property. a vertical depth under
these showings OF between 500 and 700
feet will be gained by the present tunnel.
While the surface showings showed
strong Indications OF copper. the work In
the drift has been largely in gengue.