The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1915-02-25
INTERSTATE CALLAHAN THIRD AMONG
WORLDS GREAT ZINC MINES SAYS RN.BELL
WILL BUILD TRAMWAY FROM MINE TO RAILROAD
COMPANY TAKES MORRISON FREIGHT ouTFT-MA.
cHlNERY ARRIVES FOR

/ ADDITION TO MILL
= II present plans Of the Interstate
Callahan company are carried out, an
aerial tramway will be delivering the
ore and concentrates to the railroad
Just as soon as the work of construc-
tion can be completed. The company
has had two uamway routes in view,
both OF which are perfectly feasible,
about the same in length, and neither
has any particular advantage over the
other, The matter of which would be
adopted has long been considered by
the company, along with other plans
with the view to eliminating the wagon
haul from the mine to the railroad.
The decision to enlarge the capacity
of the mill to the extent of about 80
per cent necessarily increased the diff
ficulties of handling the output with
teams, and 1t is assumed that this sit
uatloh is what brought about the de-
cision to construct the tramWay, These
preparations by the company are In
line with reports from Duluth that the
company proposes to begin paying div
idends and its policy will now be to
crowd the output to the limit rather
than continue to hold 1t down to little
more than the ore taken out In course
of development
The New Tramway
The two tramWays which have been
under consideration are each little
less than two miles in length One
of them would terminate at the rail-
road on the west fork Of Nine Mile,
not far from the Treasure Vault mine,
and 1t has quite generally been the
impression that this line would be
adopted. The other line terminates at
the railroad just below the TamaraeS-
Custer mill, and announcement was
made this week that this Is the one
that will be built. Like all human
agencies, however, the 1nterstate-Cal-
Ilahan company reserves the right to
Ichange its mind, so This decision can
hardly be regarded as final until the
actlal work of construction is under
way It is understood that every de-
tall of the tramway has long since
been worked out and that the work VIII
Ibegin lust as soon as material can be
delivered,
Company Will Haul Ore
tp fha
tramway in operation can hardly be
estimated, but that it will require con-
siderable time is indicated by the fact
that the Interstate Callahan company
has bought the entire freighting outfit
from John Morrison, who has had the
contract for hauling ore to the railroad
since the Interstate Callahan COM
menced shipping The entire outfit
has been taken over by the company
and the hauling of ore will now be done
by the company under the direction
of a brother of General Manager Rob-
bars.
Machinery for Mill.
Two carloads of machinery for the
addition to the Interstate -Calahah
mill arrived last week The unprece-
dented price of spelter is big incen-
tive for the company to rush these
improvements to completion at the
earliest possible moment, and 1t Is eX-
pected that the machinery will be In
stalled and the enlarged mill IN ope'-
alton in record time.
One of the Worlds Greatest Mines
Whatever may be the ultimate plan
for permanent outlet to the nine
there is a vast body of ore above the
nresent working level that will keep
the present capacity of the company
busy for several years. In the mean
time while this is being worked OUT
# IS believed that the great ore bodies
= will be opened at depth from the north
side and that by the time the ore IN
the upper levels is exhausted the COM
nanv will be prepared and transporta-
t,on will be at hand to handle the prod
!, uct by way of Beaver creek,
paragraph from the report Of ROD
ert N. Bell, state HlHe hiop0S'N''
1914. gives very vivid idea OF IN
vestness of the Interstate Callahan ore
bodies and is here reproduced;
"'rhe Interstate Callahan ore oodY
has been so completely blocked OUT
with intermediate levels and raises az
IN demonstrate 1t to be one of the moft
important zinc ore bodies in the Worio
If is now proven to be continuous Y
Z q vertical depth of 1000 feet ana us
great ore chute to have length al 'He
. 1900 foot level of nearly LOO feet' a.
right angles to it's pitch, with Wiuth
d. or thickness varying from to 40 tee'
Z. ..au grade concentrating and ship-
ming ore and demonstrated, by inter-
: mediate levels Connecting raises
i through to the surface, to be persistenf
in it's high grade ore phases from top
to bottom. It's yield of clean oo
c cent zinc sulphide mineral during l9l4
mostly from development operations
,r gave it a rank of third place In the isl
tc Of individual zinc producing mlnes O.
Ia the world, and its great resources ane