The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1914-02-26
Why Mining Does Not Languish in
Joplin District

on the surface gouges and shaloWer
workings and have been profitable
producers Of zinc silcate and lead dry
bone ores. These have had to confne
their operations entirely TO the hill
areas.
The new lessee is now installing two
large pumping stations to attack thu
water problem. That 1t is a serious
water problem is admitted, but the
goal is just as desirable in contrast. 1t
means that practically the whole #
, the old early day Joplin camp with its
multiplicity Of mine workings and
drifts which have been long filed vita
water will have to be pumped dry for
the whole underground drainage is
known to go out through Lone Elm
Hollow and through Joplin creek,
(which converge north Of Joplin at
Turkey creek. Practically the whole
of north and east Joplin has been the
scene of heavy mining operations AMI
previous attempts. made many yea -
lago, developed the fact that pumpin.,
|would have to be heavy and continu-
Gus over long period to accomplish
results. This experience is being pro
lftably made use of by the present les
sees through the introduction Of larger
Pumps and the best machinery obtain
liable for that purpose, together with
the fact that they are prepared to keep
lup operations over at least two yeas
Ito accomplish their ends. Even though
lit takes a long period to drain the
Ito nbecomes possible as soon as the
water level goes below 80 feet and pro-
duction will, therefore, begin almost
Immediately in the vicinity Of the
long for that level to be reached with
1.-THE proposed equipment
Stimulus to Leasing Felt by Old. Time
Miners.
| Quick to realize from this ne"
proposition, the older miners and
lprospectors who have been in the tiei
long enough to remember the halcyul
days when lead and zinc was taken
out of these tracts in large quantities
at shallow depths and at small cost
are seeking leases and preparing
begin operations the moment tn
Pumps make any impression on tho
water. AS a preliminary to this thG
Lone Elm Mining and Development
company has let a contract for sub
dividing the tract into 2O0-foot minini
|lots, which will be leased to all wht
Icare to undertake to work them. TIL,
moment that surveyors started
work the ground was daily visited b,
scores Of the old miners who were
lagain looking up their old shafts an,
Idiggings and seeing If they coul'
lagain secure a lease upon them Pres
lent Indications point to one Of TIL
lgreatest revivals Of shallow mining op
Ierations that have ever been develope;
in the district and Immediately upoI
every site of the earliest worke
ground.
SiIicate Camps Open Southeast Of Jop
lin
, Southeast Of Joplin lies an are
known for years as a zinc silicat
camp. There, too, operations hav
, been of a desultory character durin
the long period of good wages paid i
, the large sheet ground mines whio
, attracted the miners away from tn
, prospecting work that is always ne
cessary to the development of sue
mines. Lately there has been re
| turning to the old fields and a cam
+ of no mean proportions now exist
: About Is shafts are again being opef
, ated, some of them old ones Will
. others are new, but all are more
I less productive of high grade Sill
: cate ore. Found at depths Of 20 to
4 feet the cost Of mining is low, espe;
k tally when the operators themselv