The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1915-10-14
PEARL AND ITS
Comprehensive Review of Operations in the West View
Mining District by c. c. Stinson.

West View Mining District is, in
area about six by ten miles, nearly
two-thirds of which, including the vii
la1e of Pearl, Is in the new County
of Gem. The most extensively deyei-
oped properties are at Pearl, or with
in a radius of two miles.
In the early days of the Pearl Camp
the miners prospected for free gold
lodges and rich bodies Of ore Of that
character were uncovered and profit
ably worked to the water line, there
becoming base TO the extent that
amalgamation and concentration with
its high costs of haulage, freight and
smelter charges, amounting to some
S2l per ton, reduced profits to the
point where mining ceased to be at
tractive in this camp, and the interest
and necessary capital began looking
elsewhere for investment.
The cyanide process was then in its
early stages Of development and the
best methods Of it's application to
base ores TO secure satisfactory re-
suits were uncertain. Under those
conditions cyaniding was attempted
by two of the larger companies with
unsatisfactory results. Today the
modern cyanide practice, brought
nearly to perfection in the last three
years, with it's fine grinding, mechan-
ical stirrers, de-waterers, deration and
continuous filter presses, is treating
ores more base in many instances,
than any ore this camp has yet pro-
duced and making a successful saving
of the contained gold and silver val
ues Of from So per cent to SO per cent.
The flotation process also recently
developed has simplified and reduced
the cost Of concentration to mini
mum.
These conditions, together with the |
large and continuous ore bodies of |
good milling grade-and every prop
erty opened up to any extent has also
proved to carry ore Of shipping grade
should make this camp attractive to
mining men and capital looking for
investments along mining lines. What |
this camp is most in need OF at the |
present time is live energetic mining
men, with money and sand sufficient
to spend it in intelligent development
work, carried to far greater depths
than this camp has yet seen, opening
up the great bodies Of ore it is firm
ly believed exist on lower levels.
At the present time some of the
properties are being worked, some are
closed down for want of funds, others !
are waiting temporarily for financial /
decisions.
The Lincoln, owned by Mr.. Gill, of
Ohio, and under the management of
Mr.. w. II. Hutchings, is developing
ore, employing six men in the mine,
and preparing to start the mill for
winters run.
The West Coast Mining Co., head
quarters at Spokane, managed by Mr..
Geo. II. Wyman, recently took over
six of the Dewey and Dunbar claims,
sinking two shafts on the property
and opening up two veins carrying
high grade gold-silver ore, one being
over five feet in width, carrying ii
inches of shipping grade showing both
ruby and native silver. A mill will be
installed in the spring. This is the
on which Mr.. J. ID. George
formerly held lease and from which
he shipped seven ears of ore to the
smelter, yielding him handsome re-
turns.
The Occur d'Alene Checkmate Min
ing Co. took bond on the Checkmate
group and Margarine last spring and
began watering, but being unable
TO secure an extension Of the bond
ceased operations for the present
The Pearl property of the late l.. I
R. Walter, carries vein showing free
gold with high values. The King !
group lying west of the Pearl has two {
veins, said to assay in the hundreds Of
dollars.