The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1915-12-09
der to secure the water in the gulcf
for power purposes.
The Long Tunnel.

The Long Tunnel.
Just before the final shut down s
years ago the Golden Chest company
drove what is known as the lower
tunnel a distance of $500 feet. It's
portal is just above the county road,
facing Prichard creek, and the course
is almost due north, following the
| Paymaster ledge its entire length. A
/ hundred feet or so from the face Q
raise was made to the Klondike chin
ney of ore, which yielded splendid re-
turns to the Golden Chest company
when it was in operation. No other
| work was done in this tunnel that the
writer Is aware of, and there now re-
mains stopping ground for practically
the entire $500 feet, running to q
height of from 700 to 900 feet, a block
of virgin ground that yielded sufti-
cient returns on the surface by open
cuts drifts and tunnels to pay for all
mining expenses, machinery and 8
fair award of dividends to the respect
i've owners.
The Surface Work.
1t is estimated that this will aggre-
gate three miles of linear measure
ment. On the original Chest ground
there IS a network of tunnels, drifts
WINES, raises and cuts, all of which
contributed mill feed for years of
yfD m min In,
was free milling until the Klondike
shoot was struck. This changed con-
ditions entirely, for the white quartz
gave way to heavy sulphides, embrac-
ing practically all the precious min
erals Nearly all the ore from this
chamber or shoot, so far as it could
be taken out from above, realized $3.50
a ton, so the writer was informed at
the time, At no time, however, so far
as the writer knows, was the ore ever
analysed. Therefore its
real value was not known then and is
not at this day. There are reasons
for this statement, which may appear |
at later day.
The Tungsten Flare.
Although scheelite (tungsten) ore
was found in the Golden Chest prior
20 1899 its character had not been de-
ermined, and 1t was looked upon as
Nuisance and detriment to amalgama-
ion. 1t was therefore wasted Its
'alue was perhaps not more than $500
ton at that time, and there was nc
ocally known method of saving 1t
even after it was found almost in
old mass around the Klondike ore
nd with punches through the ore here
nd there, adhering to and surrounded
y suiphfdes, II was caucked aside. It {
as lain in the slopes ami been left in
mite quartz in the walls form that
eriod until the present time. OF o
purse 1t has grown In value consld- v
Tably since 1t was thrown away The K
Electrical World of New York of Mo- h
ember ~ has this to say of the mar h
1t quotation: G.
tungsten In the War Market 9
U" that the manufacturers of war Il
aterials are beginning to understand cl
e virtues of tungsten, its value has, T
le zinc gone soarngi from 5000 a ton W
normal times to $4,000 ton" v,
But tungsten has never been found II
sufficient quantity at any place ex- as
pit Boulder county, Colorado, to pr
Ike 1t basic mineral for exclusive ye
GRAFTON. 1t is by-product of gold ar
ming here, and the yellow metal is &c
Incentive to install machinery and Sc
for, In part at least, the labor to ne
'rch for this new king Of minerals. go
nee the sudden rise Of tungsten TO
almost unthought Of price will no
lbt renew interest in bearing
irtz properties. Di
What Is the Drawing Card?
While the fact that a commercial ,
nifty Of tungsten ore had been CHI.
nd In the Golden Chest mine was las