The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-02-12
GILMORE
PROPERTIES
Gilmore, Idaho, Jan. S0tn, 1914.
Special Correspondence.

1
The Allie Is certainly mine.
Yesterday, by the kindness of Mr..
Roberti. foreman In charge of the
Gilmore and Allie properties, your
correspondent was given an oppor
tunity to inspect the workings and
ore deposits in this property. The
following Is in part the result gained
from such personal visit TO the mine
and in part general observations on
the camp and industry generally.
In Gilmore district the formation
Is all blue limestone. There are said
to be some intrusive dykes OF pur-
pnyry, but this formation seems 10
have little or no relationship to the
occurrence of mineral deposits. They
say gold is where you find 1t, that
may with equal appropriateness be
said OF ore generally. 1t is not SO
many years ago that prospectors were
skeptical about hnding any valuable
deposit in lime, even tho n contact
in which this formation figured YVES
considered quite desirable. In the
late SOS Tony Michaels had to ship
high grade silver IRE from hts prop
erty at the head of Iowa gulch. near
Leadville, Colo, for year or more
before we fully credited that he had
a mine in limestone. Nowadays such
deposits are accepted as a matter 0.
! course; at Mackay the White Knob
Copper deposits so occur and alsosl
believe some of the similar deposits
J in the Seven Devils district on the
: wesie ern side OF the slate.
In the veins in limestone In Gill
more they certainly have good ore
and plenty of 1t, and best OF all, tie
deeper development work is carried
the bigger and better the ore be
} comes. This is true OF all the prin-
} cipa mines. The Latest Out, in
3 sinking It's new shaft, has sunk
through another deposit OF its high
grade silver lead ore. and Is now pre-
3 pairing to drift from the 4S0 foot lev
/ ell, while the shaft is being driven in
. accordance with the announced plans
: of the company. The same promis-
: ing conditions also exist at the Lem
hi Union and the Sims properties,
. over the hill and at tue p. l. In
: Gilmore; the deeper the workings the
better the ore deposit,
1t was, however, of the Allie and
Gilmore properties ] intended tC
write, and particularly with refer
ence to the higb-grade gold ore re
Gently reported. BY about the tini'
n this appears in print we should b'
e getting news of tie returns received
I from the car load containing muef
= OF this class of ore, recently shipped
S to Salt Lake. Some may be disap
= pointed when these returns arrive
e ana it is found that the shipment ha
II not gone several Thousand dollars IL
y gold per ton. The facts are, how
a ever, that only a portion of this ca
load was OF the high grade ore, tn
L greater quantity being ordinary rul
;, of mine; this for the reason that tia
rules governing shipments by friegh
Of high grade ores give 10 protection
y to tue shipper beyond a valuation o
le 500 ger ton, and to ship by expires
" makes The rate prohibitive. From
Is what can learn the shipment shoul
a. return $500 to $500 per ton. Toe vel
st from which this gold ore Is taken,
Id distinct and different fIom any otne
~ deposit in the district. 1t Is a trn
s. hssure, with well defined walls an
IA apparently very constant in size {
ore contents, dip aud strike Of veit
N There Is practically no waste, Il
ID entire vein contents consisting of a
st iron. and sumo manR anese, oxia'
90 carrying gold values and a trace ,
er silver exclusively. The first ore
he this vein was discovered fully "a
ly hundred feet underground, and pre-
he ent development has proved the d
Of posit for a further distance OF ful
ly 600 feet, and by raises and Slopes 4
ar vertical distance OF Approximate
d. 200 feet on the rise Of the vein L
X. wards the surface. The width of, Il
re assure Is fairly consADt, seldUm 0
ing less than four feet, while
Im places, because OF divergence Of OF
1r- or other Aail chambers are forme
he and being st0ped out, i've TO six sc
'ss vide aud as many high,
TIE gold values Likewise are fair
his uniform, varying, with toe excepti'
m Of tie .'high-grade' hereafter mr.
sd tuned, from Is to $50 per ton, &
ler general average Of run ol mine bell
ng sI5 70 s25. i roughly estimate oy
up 100, 600 tons OF this grade OF ore
on now blocked o1t IN tbs mine, and {
ih indication OF further and greater 70
mage better than ever ia tue Bisto
,s' Of toe property
for The "Hish-Grsds'
iiii Naturally interest eenters Ia {
al wonderfully rich ch8te Of q, 600 {
recently discovered This couts
er. found 70 be from six inches 10 eig
ses teen or tsSnty ineies sids, abo
IL. twenty Ises long, and ~ nov sfoU