The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1914-07-23
NORTH SIDE CORRESPONDENT TELLS
MINING OPERATIONS AROUND MURRAY
The CEDAR CREEK COMPANY EQUIPPED FOR
PERMANENT LoPMENT-oooD RESULTS ARE
ON PILOT GROUP

at this point is a gentle slope,
free of timber, and not high.
vet an avalanche of snow swept down
| it and destroyed the compressor build
| ing aud doing other damage, Just be-
! bow where the slide came down the
! Ihll is covered with timber The open
space had been selected as perfectly
safe The new works are free from
amy menace of the usual winter ter
rors. All the pipe and track have
been taken out of No ? and will be
transferred to No. g.
A Prospective Producer.
! There has been sufficient explora-
tion work done on the group of claims
to justify the prediction that the Ce-
dar Creek company has a most valu-
able asset, anl that in the near future
1T will be rewarded for its faith and
Expenditure, The stock is almost en-
tirey held in Wallace. The location Is
in a mineral bearing zone that reveals
groupings and ledge indicaticAs that
can be followed for miles, all the way
from Cedar to Granite creeks across
Nandetta gulch to Idaho gulch, and
along the entire zone promising de-
Nelopments have been made in the last
few years. These will be detailed
later The late Senator Hepburn
never visited Murray without inquir-
ing into the prospects of the region
here alluded to- saying that he eX-
pected to see the time when It would
show up some of the best mines in the
Occur dAlenes. In the SOS he had
prospected the north slope of Sunset
and had very good chart Of it, Near
y every acre Of the territory Is now
located, All Of it is heavily timbered
and splendidly Watered. Fires have
burned all around it, but left it un-
touched. Hence. conditions are ideal
for mining but difficult for prospect
ing The wagon road up Granite
creek, built several years ago by the
county was being greatly improved
hy Overseer Keister of this district at
the time of the writer's visit and Is
now in condition for the heaviest kind
Of traffic at all seasons of the year.
and this admits Of work all the year
round by those having properties trib-
utary to 1t. At no place, from the rail-
road to the Cedar Creek company's
new plant, is the grade over per cent.
and the distance is only one mile and
; Il half. This gives a good outlet for
whatever ores may be produced, and
the Granite creek watershed may be
) looked forward to for considerable
tonnage in the near future.
The Pilot Group.
Work was resumed in the Pilot at
Murray last week. The tunnel Is now
in about 600 feet the last rs feet fol-
lowing the ledge, which has become
interesting although still nearly 200
: feet from the point where the rich
chimney of gold ore was found sew
cral years ago in the tunnel above. At
the time of the writer's visit the face
of the drift revealed glittering mass
of iron sulphides and an inch seam of
quartz filed with pyrites. A single air
drill is operated by John Docktor,
who. during a shift Of hours, drills
as high as II 3-foot holes, although
the rock is very hard, the ledge being
very compact Jacob Klemm does the
mucking. Both are owners in the
property They expect to get to tNeir
destination in about four months un-
less they strike paying quartz sooner,
which now seems probable, in view Of
the heavy naturalization encountered
in the daily drillings. The compressor
plant Is the smallest on the North
Side, but it Is one Of the most SER
viceable. The one drill, under 50
pounds pressure, does the work of
three if not four, hand drillers in
oNerN shift.