The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1914-01-01
THE NORTH SIDE WELCOMES 1914
WITH CHEERFUL SMILING CONFIDENCE
BRIEF REVIEW OF DIFFICULTIES CHECKED
oREss AROUND MURRAY-P EoPLE UNDsMAYED
SEE BETTER DAYS IN THE NEW
(By Adam Aulbach, Murray, Idaho)

the Occur d'Alenes up to January /,
1913, the output was $5,447,S40. Civ
ing the Beaver drainage basin credit
for half million of this yield. there
than $5,000,000. OF this at least one
half came from the placers, and not
so acres Of ground was sluiced. Hence.
when the individual owners parted
with their holdings, it swept from the
district an annual output of actual
cash from their respective efforts that
threatened ruin and destruction to the
business interests.
What $4,000 Paid For.
1t did harm, of course, but the dis
trict survived, just as it recovered
from all the previous misfortunes and
colossally bad managements, which
have not more than been touched up
on, for there is no space left to refer
to the wrecks that mismanagement
has made the camp heir to in deep or
hard rock mining. So stupendous
have been some of these failures that
the writer will refer to only two of
them. The Idaho company, a Louis
Vile, KY, corporation, through it's To-
cal manager, spent $4,000 and never
dropped stamp. Machinery for
50-stamp mill was brought in over a
wagon road and not a stamp was ever
dropped for the company The only
thing the manager could show for the
great expenditure were two parallel
tunnels, 100 feet apart and ZOO feet
long. mill building, lodging and
boarding house, an Office and flume
of "V" shape. The claims of the COM
pany were afterwards purchased by
the Golden Chest company.
But the King Was Bad Enough.
The King management was not
quite so extravagant. 1t spent $780,
600, and left the company a wreck.
The property IT, located two miles
west of Murray Some idea may be
formed of the way things were done
there by the mere mention of the fact
that the steam power was placed un-
der the roof, and huge stove in
stalled on the ground to heat the 10
stamp mill that was erected on the
property. To extract the gold from
the refractory quartz two large iron
vats, something like feet in dia-
meter and of great weight. were in
stalled in the mill for the purpose of
trying the gold out Of the rock by
|steam heat This was also a Louis
willie, KY, company
Bank Failures, Too.
The above would be incomplete
without brief reference to the bank
failures, which hit the district the
hardest blow. The first-the Murray
bank-the Hussey earthquake, shook
about 100000 out of the pockets If
the depositors. Not cent was prac-
tically recovered, except by the writ
er, who pushed his claims through all
the courts and turned the Judgment
over to his attorney.
The next was the State Bank Of
Commerce of Wallace, which, while it
gradually returned, or is returning,
every dollar to the North Side depos-
itors, gave the district a very severe
JOLT
Recover From Reverses With Renew
cd Life.
All old timers will remember the
failures and misfortunes here enum-
Grated. They have been suggested for
the 1913 review because the Murray
district, and the North Side in gen.
eral, has actually gained new life from
every reverse, and has grown stronger
from mineral standpoint year by
year. No one depends upon the busi-
ness interests for the material pros
perity of mining district. 1t is the
and exploitation of the
natural resources, the mineral wealth.
that counts and emphasizes progress.
The business interests are supplement
tary. This has been done during the
"unlucky year of 1913" and the North
Siders feel satisfied with conditions ut
the beginning of the new year. They
are not passing a graveyard and
whistling to keep up their courage
Outlook Good for 1914.
On every side there are evidences of
substantial Improvement in many
prospects, some of which have within
the past two months drawn public no.
tice, notably the Goldback, Silver
Dollar and Vendetta while none Of
the timers like the Golden Chest
Mother Lode, Yosemite, Daddy King
Crown Point Buckeye Boy, Golden
Reward and Winnie (all gold prop
erties), and the Terrible Edith, Giant (
Ledge Gold Granite and Allie), Chica-
go-London, Black Horse, Beartop- Oro- |
fino. Monarch, Cedar Creek, Jack |
Waite, as we'll as hundred others. |
have not dropped out Of sight. All |
that is necessary in the Murray dis
trict is a good market price for the |
minerals taken out and competent, |
economical management of the prop !,
critics. 1t would seem that the time |
has passed for incompetency and men