The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1913-05-01

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2 and Iowa mine at Quartzburg.
This has been the most productiv
ore deposit In Boise county and
, credited with total output of pre-
cious bullion aggregating three mil
, lion dollars, while its development onl
reaches 500 feet below the creek leve
1t Is operated through yertica
shaft of that depth with several shor
levels. The property remained idle fo
several years until taken over by ii
present owners, who extended devct
opment 100 feet below the bottom o
the old works, but by reason of lacl
of capital they have played a gougint
game and have only developed one OF
the former known ore shoots on tht
property.
Recently however, 1t is reported
that the property has passed into
stronger financial hands, who are now
carrying out a systematic plan of lin
cal development at the new bottom
| level of the property and its merits
arc very likely to be pretty thoroughly
investigated within another year.
The deposit consists Of small Iis-
sure vein in granite, known as the
Gold Hill VEIN which was from few
inches 10 several feet In thickness and
carried continuous ore said to have
yielded an average value of $40 per
ta, Ia r,Id Jurinp fbn for,ner ,,pora
ton Of the company for several hum
dred feet in length.
This smaller vein intersecs a much
larger vein or zone Of mineralized
porphyry Just below the 50o-foot level
This latter ore course carries clean
quartz stringers in silicified quartz
porphyry gangue that are rich in free
gold and alriferous iron pyrites for
ming a mass of milling ore from IN
to SO feet thick with an extreme length
of 100 feet.
Several other shoots of similar
shape and not quite so large We're
worked in the upper levels of the
property, and their downward extent
may be reasonably anticipated, and
when further developed are likely t.
afford an important tonnage resource
Of desirable milling ores that may re-
habilitate the property to its forme'
Importance as a large producer of gol.s
bullion.
Mountain Chief Mine.
About three miles west of Quartz
burg, the Mountain Chief mine was
1nder active development during thu
year by the National Mining and De
company,
This property has been opened on
we'll defined and richly mineralize6
assure vein. 1t is joined on the east
~ the Belshazzar mine and on the
vest by the Ebenezer mine.
These three properties would work |
we'll in combination through deer
unnel from either side of the high |
mountain divide they traverse, as they |
ire on the same vein and present |
continuous assure in gran |
number of shoots of profitable ore If
'pened by a deep tunnel through the |
length of the three proper.
les.
The Mountain Chief claim has sew
raj adit tunnels driven on the vein
which disclosed an ore shoot at the
inc of my visit $50 feet in length
nd carrying in thickness from I to 2
eet of pay ore and carrying high val
es in gold,
This is a quartz filled hssure, con-
lining in the ore shoot quite massive 5
on sulphide ore associated with
tile zinc and lead mineral and some
sulphide.
A cotton lot of the base sulphidc q
re taken from this operation durine {
10 summer was tested in the Mineral s
III mill and gave result of 500 per Z
N in free gold to simple plate ANAL t
r
This property was being equipped
it'll five stamp mill last fall anf
lditional work on the mine to put r
e ore body in shape for economical I
,traction, should afford profitable @
e deposit is substantially indicated 81
Z the present development which in n
mbination with the adjoining Bel n
AGAR and Ebenezer claims and their /,
ha /
ment openings are reputed to have n
ready produced a total output of.
lily sSo000o in gold bullion since ST
cir discovery. OF
Golden Ace Mine. Id
At Grimes Pass. 10 miles east of Il
the Golden Age Mining N
mpany has done large amount of ld
allow development work on an in Isl
'esting quartz filed assure in gran m
This property is equipped with a Isl
stamp mill and has produced APP ra
Ultimately 100000 from one ore lie
DOT that has been worked from u te
ximum depth from the highest out p'
piping point of PCS feet by adit tun- 1t
Is. tn
This ore shoot Is contained In tho l.,
ne porphyry zone as the Gold Hill as
i Iowa mine on its strike to the er
It. ca
I Is GO feet long at the surface dis. 70
cry and Is extended at the 265-foo' M
Fl TO 500 feet in lcngth Of ore car