The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-07-06

bill of fare that is inevitably des
tined to cut very conspicuous figur
In the future feasts of the industrial
development of the American nation a
large and OF this state in particula
and embraces a vast and varied lis
of natural assets upon which indust
rial progress can and Will be built.
A general outline of the basis of bill
business which the gem of the noun
tain state possesses, is as follows:
Five million acres of fertile irrlgabl,
land and the same amount of dry farm
land.
Thirty million acres of grazing land
One hundred and thirty billion board
measure feet of standing pine timber
Including the largest area of white
pine now left in the nation and ten bill
lion feet of soft straight grain pulp
wood black pine that shall some day
form the basis of big paper making
industry.
In addition to these basic resources
we have estimated assets of one hum
dred million tons Of well developed
lead. silver and zine ores, five hundred
million tons of gold and silver bearing
silicious milling ores, and five hum
dred million tons of gold and silver
bearing copper ores.
Much Idle Water Power.
Portland cement rock aggregating
thousands of billions of tons; high
grade phosphate rock 20 per cent and
better ten billion tons; second grade
phosphate rock 40 per cent and better,
one hundred billion tons.
Sulphur In the form of combined
pyrte one hundred million TONS high
grade coal, our weakest resource, ten
billion tons
Idle water power, five million horse
power, and In addition to these basic
assets, largely virgin and undeyeloped
our extensive mountain and valley
area contains variety of other useful
mineral substances including potas-
SUM and sodium bearing formation,
considerable iron ore and variety of
the now highly valuable rarer miner
ais, including tungsten, molybdenum,
antimony, cobalt nickel, tin and other
rarer elements with, of course, ex-
haustless resources of the most desir-
able variety of building material in
Guiding sand, gravel, fine clays, amphi-
bole asbestos, also medicated earth and |
mineral waters In great variety
Our present agricultural industry Is
at serious geographical disadvantage
from a marketing standpoint involving |
high freight charges due to the enor- |
nous distance the product of the farm
has to be transported to find u market
for their surplus yield, but 1t will be |
readily appreciated from the above list,
especially of our mineral resources,
that our great state Is susceptible, on
full development, of affording home
and cash market for all the present
products of our agricultural area
Due to the exceptionally high mar
ket value of our principal metal pro-
iuction, the mines of Idaho, during
1915, made total mineral yield with a
gross shipping value of practically
$40, 100000 and paid net profit over
md above the cost of their operation,
If $1O,OOO,O0O
Occur d'Alene Expands.
The banner district of the state con-
inues to be the great lead. silver, zinc II
Producing district of the Occur /
FAlenes in Shoshone county, which 4
vas credited during the last year with G
production of 80 per cent of the lead, G
'uster county yielded nearly 80 per [
ent of the copper production of the Y
tate and Boise county about 60 per t
ent of the total gold production. n
The mineral resources of the state $
re very widely distributed. The s
'oeur d'Alene district, after 80 years v
{ active production and gross out e
ut of $S00,000,000 In precious and use C.
al metals continues to expand and Il
ew producers are added at a faster II
ate than the old mines are exhausted. a
his remarkable mineral yield con- II
nues to expand in productive area s,
nd there Is definite evidence that it's
rogress will continue for years to
lme. ri
Further north in the Panhandle of m
Ia exten Hug clear to the British in
ne are numerous districts rich with ci
i.face evidences of lead, silve. and in
nc mineral and great deposits If gold al
caring Veins and big gravel beds now pi
lder extensive development that are
kelly to add materially to the present pI
I'D yield Of the state. The ore bear ca
g formations north of the Occur do
Alenes are very largely of the same m
re and character as those in which DC
e great mines of Shoshone county ii,
cur and that portion of the state pre- m
nts splendid field for mining devel- sill
'ment and number of attractive in
stment opportunities. lin
Extending south from the Occur
Alene district through Kootenai, Lat LIZ
!, Clearwater and Nez Perez coun- w;
IS. the heavily timbered mountain III
ID plateau region is extensively co
neralized with low grade copper ore ra,
d iron ore deposits, also gold ore ba
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