The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-03-16
RICH TUNGSTEN SHIPMENTS BEING MADE
FROM MINES IN VICINITY Of MURRAY
OUTLOOK LEAD MINERS ON NORTH SIDE NEVER
WAS BETTER-eANT LEDGE CEDAR CREEK MAY
SOON HAVE SHIPPING ORE.
(By Adam Aulbaeh, Murray. Idaho)


MURRAY, March BE. M. Smith,
lessee of the Friday group two miles
west of Murray expressed half a ton
of scheelite ore (concentrates) to
Colorado during the past week. This
shipment included the 500 pounds
said to have been forwarded a week
prior. Just about the time that ship
ment was to have been made another
bunch or deposit of ore was found,
and it was considered best to with
hold the lot until all in sight could be
gathered up and sent on. The entire
shipment is said to have been accum-
ulated from an old dump, which was
raked over and sluiced out, some OF
it during much of the cold weather in
January and February. The lot is
pretty clean sand and sacked, and is
rated above 60 per cent AS the
market price is now at it's highest it
is supposed that Smith will get at
least $50 unit of 20 pounds, the
highest value perhaps so far paid for
the mineral from the Murray dis
trict. Chester r. Kennan purchased
the shipment for the Wolf Tongue
| Reduction company at Boulder, Colo.
A Spokane broker came to Murray to
! buy this lot, but his price was limit
ed to $3.50 a unit. AS the weather
has turned warmer a renewed effort is
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dump and afterward to search for
the ore in the mine.
The Golden Chest.
Work has been uninterrupted in the
extraction of tungsten (scheelite) in
the Golden Chest, three S-hour shifts
remaining at labor As bunch after
bunch is taken out new discoveries
are being made. 1t may look little
gloomy here and there as the last
pound is gadded out by one shift, but
the next shift comes to the rescue
with new development. This was
the case last week, when one of the
best, if not the best strike was made
in a stope somewhat removed from
the Slopes heretofore worked. In one
day 1900 pounds of the rich mineral
was taken out, according to report,
and there was considerable ore in sight
but not 50 clean. There appear to be
two long streaks of the ore, divided
by quartz, and as the writer gets the
account it is expected that several
tons may be taken out Of this discoV-
cry. The strike quite naturally created
a good deal Of enthusiasm among the
miners at work, and it was not lost
upon the community and upon those
who are anxious to fly to their pros
poets that are still buried in from to
10 feet of snow Never have locators
been so anxious to get out and dig for
the rich ore, and practically oil feel
that they have got it somewhere in
their ground. If water will be any aid
to them they will have enough this
season, for the side gulches are al
ready making merry music. A flood
is quite probable on the entire North
Side for very little of the snow has
melted up to the present time and
the season is almost here for 70 de-
grees temperature on the higher
ground. This warmth will bring down
more water than the streams can
carry. The North Fork of the Coeur
d'Alene river is already a raging tor
rent.
The Minnq OUTLOOK.
What there is of the general min
ing outlook is very good. 1t was never
better for the basic amount of work
that has been done for several sea-
sons Aside from the new element of
yield and its ready and anxious mar
ket for the steel products to accommo-
date the death dealing nature of the
present destructive war in Europe the
leadsilver and zinc output on the
North Side ought to be considerably
water for power in any direction, and
as all of our producing mines, except
one, are equipped with power, IL not
with mills or concentrators, there will
~ OH DPp'i btiiitJ tbI LiIS pLSoGill pre-
vailing prices to ship the crude ore
The Giant Ledge company and the
Cedar Creek company, it's neighhor
are expected to put themselves in the
latter class They will have compleJ-
ed their shaft and tunnel work, re-
spectiVely, somewhere about the first
of June, when they will be enabled TO
explore their lodges FOR ore in tn. deep
ground, where the values are expected
to be found Unfortunately there is
nothing in sight for cur vast placer
field. Not since 1881 has there been
such a prospect for n splendid water
season and perhaps not a shovelfu
Of gravel will be turned on Prichard
creek. over on Trail creek an1 it's
tributaries there will be some placer
mining, nut not IN an extensive scale.
Some work is also contemplated at
the head of Pony guch, but It viii be
primarily for tungsten sand, a lot Of 1t
being found there in the sos. The
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