Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-01-01

for jewels in watch nakingi for the
manufacture Of reconstructed rub
les and for cutting and grinding
hard substances (for they are very
hard and will readily cut glass;
and have a commercial value OF
81. so per ounce. If there were an
unlimited market for them at 10
cents per ounce they would be an
an extremely valuable by-product
and would pay the entire operating
expenses of the mine and a divi-
dend.
The company is rapidly complet-
ing with day and night forces, even
through the winter, a hydraulic
plant that will run an average of
$4,000 cubic yards of this gravel
through the sluices every "a hours
for nine months of the year.
In addition to the placer ground
the company owns Al quartz claims.
The principal group of these
claims cover four massive quartz
lodges of from 10 to 40 feet each in
width. They are regularly in place
clearly defined by outcroppings for
a long distance and are heavily
mineralized. Little more than as
sessment work has; been done on
these claims but what has been
done has exposed wide veins of
high-grade ore of more than 500
per ton in value. And this state
ment may safely be made. The
body of these lodges is so uniform
ly mineralized that, at the point
where they cross the creek, one
could quarry, not tunnel, into a
strip of rock 200 feet wide that
contains values more than twice as
great as the ore that is worked by
the Great Alaska Treadwell mine
or the Homestake mine of Lead
South Dakota.
However, the company is saying
very little about its quartz hold
ings at the present. All its ener'
gies and resources are being con
centrated on the placer develop
ment, but competent judges have
pronounced the quartz holdings IL
be of equal value to the placer
holdings.
There is a remarkable feature
about the development of thi'
mine that is worthy of mention
This feature is that this property
has been brought to its presen
stage of development entirely by
its own stockholders on the coop
orative plan. For years develop
ment has been going forward. A
first by only a few stockholders
A few more were added each yea
until today as stockholders, o
which the writer is one, are work
ing industriously to put the min,
in operation. But the most re
markable fact of all, and one tina
attests to the value that Is placed
on the mine by those actually OIL
the ground, is that every employee
from superintendent to bull cool
voluntarily applies every cent o
his wages above his commissar,
bill to the requirement of add
tional stock. These men were no
down and-outers; they were mel
who had accumulated mean
enough to make substantial invest
ments when they went to work Of
the property. They are men O
varied experience, many of then
practical miners from the fields o
Alaska, California, Nevada an,
Colorado. One or two men nigh
deceive themselves for a time, bu
it is utterly inconceivable that 4
men of more than average intelli
gence could be in daily touch wit
proposition year after year ant
fail to make correct estimate o
its value. Every man is deter
mined to stay with it until tn
water is turned on when he feel
confident he will be richly reward
ed for his labor and foresight.
About 5000, 100000 worth of dc
velopment has been done on til
property in the last four years
Over seven miles of road at a uni
form grade of four per cent ha
, been constructed through rock an
gravel leading from the station I
camp and from camp to differer
parts of the works. This solve
the transportation problem for a
= time. Automobiles now run wher
, a mountain goat could hardly hav
found footing. The developmer
and equipment, all paid for, il
cludes 90 buildings, many miles {
roads and trails, about 1900 line
feet of assessment shafts and tut
: nels, bridges, dams, telephone sy
. TEN, waterpower saw and planin