The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-02-17
REPORT GIANT LEDGE COMPANY
PROPERTY IN EXCELLENT CONDITION
GOLDEN CHEST CONTINUES TURN TUNesTEN-PREsENr
AND PAST WINTERS coMPARED-MURRAY HAS PROFIT.
PRoHITioN LAW
adam Aulbach, Murray, Idaho)

! quarter ending January 81, 1916, shows
that the financial condition of the cor
. poraton is very satisfactory, all the
bills for labor and machinery being
paid, as we'll as much of the mine sup
plies for the present year. The report
says:
"The depth Of our new shaft, from
the top of the station set to the land
ing below, is 1876 feet. We paid the
contractors for 1S9 feet, the other Z
feet being part of the drift we ran
earlier in the season. The 1S9 feet at
$14 per foot amounted to $2646, con-
tract price. The contractors finished
December 1, 1915. They expected to
finish the contract in 25 days, but
owing to the hard rock encountered
it took them Sc days. December %
we closed down for the holidays. We
resumed work January 6 with only
men, ali that could work to advln-
tage el lecting our station set and Tres
tie. With the snow over feet deep
and the temperature lowering around
zero the work was difficult, but steady
progress was made In conclusion will
say there are few mines in the Occur
dAlene district that have brighter
prospects or are in better financial
circumstances than the Giant Ledge
Mining company With the sinking of
200 feet of shaft and drifting on the
ledge l believe the Giant Ledge will
have a showing that will amply re-
ward the stockholders
The Giant Ledge is the successor to
the Granite & Allie on Granite creek,
4 miles east of Murray. 1t is practic-
ally the only exclusive shaft property
in the Murray district and is now one
of the best equipped mines in the dis
trict, having a splendid water power,
7-drill compressor, shaft house, saw
mill and a small village of buildings
to board and house the company's
help. The site is a broad flat near the
mouth of Granite creek, half a mile
from the railroad, with a fine autOmo-
bile road from Murray.
New Owner of Golden Chest.
Vivian Green and wife, accompan-
led by Frank b. Colon, an attorney, of
New York city, were local visitors a
week ago, arriving on Monday and
departing on Wednesday. They were
accompanied from Wallace by Rush ].
White, present manager of the Golden
Chest property, who took the party
to the mine on Tuesday, where the day
was spent in an examination of the
underground works. Vivian Green Is
the heir to the estate of the late Sam
uel Green, who died here recently, and
lit was his first visit to the property,
which he win now in all probability
have to administer, depending, of
course on the outcome of the sher-
iffs sale which takes place on Friday,
the 18th day of February, in front of
the court house at Wallace So far
there has been no interruption in the
operation of the mine in the extrac-
ton of the tungsten ore. No effort
has been made to start up any part
of the mill, and it is quite likely none
will be made until the legal troubles
are adjusted, and even then weather
conditions will have to be consulted.
These are, so far as surface condi-
tions go, practically beyond human
control
A Record Snowfall.
There is no question now but that
the present winter has already secur-
ed the record for the greatest snow
fall since the settlement of the Occur
dAlenes, except that of the winter of
1SS3-1S84, when the rush to Prichard
creek began in full force, but the lat
ter winter was very mild, while the
present winter has been just the op-
posite-very cold. For continued zero
temperatures and below zero it has
made a new record, this being II
nights so far when zero and as far
as 20 below was recorded by the writ
er's sef-registering thermometer.
Strong east winds have also been fire.
quent during the present winter. While
these have had little influence on the
temperature as recorded, they have
been very disagreeable and uncom-
Portable, and have drifted and driven
the snow in the open places to great
depths, where it lies now in solid
masses for the sun later on to attack.
The Coolest Wave in Our History.
The cold wave experienced, how
ever, during the present winter Is like
California sunshine compared with
January, 1888, which is no doubt well
remembered by all d-timers. The
writer at that time was cooperative
observer for the Idaho section of the
weather bureau and had government
instruments. These instruments were
put out of commission for three sue
cessive nights, the mercury freezing.
The following table will show the ma
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