The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1915-01-07

years ago. They all contain relatively
high grade lead values. practically
yer ratio than the old Wardner lode
4 that has been for years such a pro-
dueer under the Bunker Hill and Sulli-
van and Federal Mining CO Cmpany,
while the years devopm mt progress
in the old lode ore bodies has been Of
most gratifying nature at the deeper
levels and has further established a
prospect of permanence and future ore
resources that discounts in promise the
former great yield of the famous old
orc shoots.
RecIa and Hercules Increase With
! Depth.
/ One Of the most gratifying results of
the years development progress has
been recorded in the principal mines
that center around Burke whore the
newly installed and scientifically ar
ranged sorting plants and ore handling
.
property out of the narrow canyon The
old Tiger mine at this point whose
abandonment and exhaustion several
years ago at the 2200-foot level was
attributed by the experts to the pcne
traton of the vcin into q bed { what
was considered unfayorable ore bear
ing formations Of Prichard slate, has
since remained a pessimistic basis
threat Of the limiting horizons Of pro-
duction at the ada cont mines. These
views, however re likely to have to
be reviewed, for the great ore chan
nels of the Immediately adjoining pro-
pcrties, Hercules and Hecla, at under
apex depths fully equal to the Tiger
are showing such an expansion in
length, value and volume of ore re-
sources as to make the Tiger opera
ton rcsmble g cash vein by compar-
ison. while the Marsh mine, almost in
the direct strike Of the Tiger to the
east, shipped nearly as much mineral
from five months milling operations
in 1914 on ore derived from its two
bottom levels Ps it did from a full
years milling operation from the shall
j lower levels in 1913. and in connection
with its several new and very promis-
ing development enterprises, the old
Burke section is at this late n more
flatterlng prospect for permancncy and
future ore resources than at any per-
iod of its history.
Nine Mile Makes Good showna
AT Nine Mile creek on the strike OF
fhe Burke veins to the west, in addi-
ton to the Interstate Callahan oper-
ation the Success, the Tamarack &
Custer Consolidated mines in the Pri-
chard formations are responding IN q
magnificent manner to advance devel-
opment the latter property making
particularly handsome showing in this
respcct with definite evidence Of short
w disclosing one Of the ranking ore
channels in width and length of tho
whole district in lead and silver.
In the Copper Section.
Near Mullan the Snowstorm mine
exhausted its available ore resources
down to the fault at No level, Whici
cut off its famous ore body and pro
duction ceased during the middle o
the summer, resulting in & 80 per cen
cut in this districts copper production
over 1913. This company is systemat
ically developing the ground at
donth of 1900 feet below this fault
They have recovered the vein and hav
some encouraging evidence at thl
time of recovering the ore channel
with its splendid copper ore develop
ment and elegant new milling pan
the National Copper Mining company
near the Snowstorm, would easily nav
taken the largest place in copper pro
duction but for the generalization {
the copper market in August ana lhl
- enterprise has been shut down ana
a standstill since that time.
= improvements at the Morning
o The great Morning mine at Mullal
: one Of the largest producers ana SEP
9 arate sources Of lead ore in the dis
. trict suspended production during N
p summer by reason of the low mark'
J, for lead. together with the refracto'
character of ore and its relatively 10
silver value. The Federal Mining
smelling management, however,
q this property have taken adVanta'
of the shutdown to retimber their fo'
!, lbig compartment shaft from top
. bottom and put the mine and mill
"a shane for full and economical oper'
!, tion when metal demands warrant