The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1914-10-29
MINERAL DEVELOPMENTS ABOUT MURRAY
FOLLOW EACH OTHER RAPID SUCCESSION
THE SILVER DOLLAR GROUP vs TED
AND DESCRIBED in oE1AlL-REruRN GOOD TIMES
MEANS PROSPERITY FOR NORTH SIDE.

MURRAY, Oct, 26.---The Silver Dol
lar group on the west fork of Idaho
gulch was frequently mentioned last
spring as one Of the most promising
galena prospects developing on the
North Side. The writer visited the
property yesterday In company with
Edward Dubia, one of the owners, the
other owner being John Fournier,
local family man, both of whom are
wage earners during the open season,
and when the heavy weather closes IN
they have been in the habit of hiking
to their prospect and developing 1t. IN
this manner the two men have done an
enormous amount of work, demonstra-
ting that In their mountain seculsion
they have not hugged the comfortable
stove and called 1t annual labor.
An Isolated Spot.
Idaho gulch has an extensive drain
age basin, and its waters flow INTO
Prichard creek from the south two
miles east of Murray. Up the gulch
for mile there is a pretty valley,
from which the big timber has been
removed, and a good wagon road'
which terminates just below where the
west fork forms connection with the
main gulch. Formerly the wagon
road ran further up the canyon, bu'
the freshet two years ago not only Gu
deep gashes In the stream bed, put
mixed the dead timber up IN great
confusion This was particularly the
case on the west fork, narrow can
Won. with rather a heavy grade, down
which the waters must have rusneo
with considerable fury, obliterating all
signs of the trail where 1t had peen
cut through the gulch bottom. For
little gain, and even this we DOUBT 10
have been sufficient to justify the Ia
bor the heavy timber had been cut
down in the gulch for transportation
but little of 1t was removed, ana wha'
was not snaked out is now permitted
TO rot This was one Of the worst vio'
lations of the forest service ana nat
ural laws the writer has observed or
the North Side and such depreda'
| tions should be prevented or controil'
ed in the future, at least In ldaht
| gu]ch and its tributaries, where still
most beautiful virgin forest remain'
| TO gladden the eye and serve the MN
ing interests. However, the sllVe
| Dollar owners have kind Of trai
up the gulch for mile to their prop
| erty. over piles Of gravel, boulders
| logs and fallen timber, which durln'
| last winter was covered with an aver
| age depth of about six feet OF snow
over which the men claim to nave na'
a good pack trail" for themselves
The Silver Dollar Property.
This is located midway between tn
mouth and source of the gulcl, ant
consists of four claims. There ar
three tunnels, all from the gulch Level
as low as they could have been starteo
and the only real sensible work tn
writer has seen on the North Side 10
some time. The first tunnel encoun
tered is 30 feet in length. Unfortun
ately for the owners this was stoppe
and another started with about 30 zee
J more elevation in the gulch above
The latter has become the scene OF Tn
main work for some years, and IS nov
in 200 feet, with a number OF shol
|. crosscuts ranging from 10 to ~ feet
length. In the first tunnel evidence
of a ledge were not plain, while de
composed mass Of iron, slate an
m,artz was visible in the rim or IN
pulch where the second was starte
and now followed for 900 feet into IN
mountain, which slopes at about ma
pitch at this point and is densely COY
cred with a virgin forest, entirely shu'
ting out the sun for the greater part
the year.
A Clean Slate Formation.
The tunnel followed the ledge"
what is termed ledge, In Its sinuo'
- course in a southwest direction, nn'
- ing galena from the start in the tn
II veinlets of quartz and masses OF Ire
which composed the formation.
l. narrow gouge on the right or suppo
ed hanging wall side made the form'
Id tion very brittle and considerable TIN
,e bering was necessary to hold up u
ground in the first 200 feet, and mu'
q, drjpping was encountered, making u
st tunnel a wet one. Moisture, hoWevf
!, was left behind as the work prosre
n sed. After the first so feet the hume
a Gus small strata began to form thef
selves into larger ones, and the gale
III and iron in them grew from spec
i, into blotches Of considerable sl'
hit They also began to spread apart, un
We the ledge became Of unknown, or u
x determined width, which induced I
ne owners to make occasional cross dri
ur to see which one of the strata to II
low in the main work. This consum
do much time and labor, vet 1t has Dor
d. good fruit, for they fortunately =
lowed the right one, and this mas ~
growing from six inches to about
or. inches in the breast of the tunnel