The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1914-01-15

Producing Mines.
Federal Mining & Smelling com
pany.
Hercules Mining company
Bunker Hill & Sullivan Mining &
Concentrating company.
''Hecla Mining company.
Green Cleveland Mining com
pany.
Stewart Mining company.
"Snowstorm Mining company.
Interstate Callahan Consolidated
Mining company.
Success Mining company.
"Tamarack & Custer Consolidated
Mining company.
Caledonia Mining company.
Gold Hunter Mining company.
~Ontario Mining company.
Sierra Nevada Consolidated Mining
company.
Marsh Mining company.
"ldora Hill Mining company
"Hypotheek Mining company.
Other Periodic Producers.
THE Yankee Boy. Alice and mines
OF the Occur d'Alene Development
company are operated under lease. and
there are mills on the Black Horse.
Monarch, Bear Top and Surprise mines
which have made periodic production
The National Mining company is maxi
ing good progress in the erection of n
most modern concentration for the
treatment of its well developed large
body of silver bearing disseminated
copper ore and the Federal Mining g.
Smelling company is preparing ma
chlnery to treat the zinc lead silver
ore from the old Frisco mine. so the
year closes with the greatest well d.
rected activity all over the district
Improved Methods.
"Better organized and more diligen,
metallurgical work is being done bv
the larger mining companies than
heretofore. The special problems in
addition to the general all around bet
ter extraction always sought. are: Re-
covery of zinc and it's separat ton from
lead and iron minerals, recovery of
slimed gaIena from vanner and other
fine tailings. raising average grade of
shipping product with lowered tailings
and at the copper mines the making Of
low failing and clean concentrate from
the fine mineral scattered thoroughly
the hard quartzite vein rock.
The unequaled advantages of abund-
ant water accessibility, climate ana
cheap power, are now supplemented
by metalurgists from the foremost
colleges and best known plants who
are applying to these local conditions
the various devices and processes
proven elsewhere and modifying them
and developing them and developing
others to meet the problems here.
Little Litigation.
Mining litigation because of apex
rights was confined to the Wardner or
Yreka district, the pending case. Bun
Ser Hill & Sullivan VS.. Caledonia Min
ing company having, just been dis
the former company granting
concessions to the latter and receiving
1 portion of its stock, on basis adj
to both. Stewart Mining
VS.. Ontario Mining company
was tried before District Judge Woods
Turing January. Many of the best
Known biologists and engineers APP
,eared for either side. The. plaintiff
claimed apex rights based upon an
Edge of the vein against a fault of
Unknown but admitted great throw
Defendant asserted the edge was not
IN upper terminal edge constituting
egal apex to the vein, but was a side.
II even undercut. edge, and thus no
lpex. Judge Woods held for the de-
endant and was sustained by the SUI
rene court, an appeal has been taken
0 the supreme court Of the United
'tates.
The particularly satisfactory fea-
ure Of the present state of the in
ustry is the good low level Develop
lent in the old mines. notably in the
'reen ll-Cleveland on the famous
tandard- Mammoth ore shoot; the
[ercules has a fine ore body on it's
west level, as have also the Hecla
nd Bunker Hill & Sullivan.
mo new promotion of magnitude
as made during the year. nor was
inside capital in any large amount
rought to the district, the mining
have done their own fnanc- !.
g from their outset and the new en-
'rprises have had their principal and
most entire support from local mine
ade money. So then, the opening OF
new year finds this sound industry
oking to another period of legitim-
e activity and, with fair metal
arket, confidently expecting and
aiming a betterment Of the wei
rned and substantial results Of 1913.
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