The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-10-26


most optimistic claims of the old-tim- |
ers who had simply gophered this
lower development for the pockets and
narrow veins of galena.
Find Gold Values, Too.
Another interesting condition of this
deeper development on the Star prop
erty, is a confirmation of the reported
gold values that the ore body was
els. These are also found to exist,
and while OF no great Importance as
an added ore resource, occurring as
they do In small bunchy segregations
of quartz and coarse iron sulphides
mixed with the zinc mineral in the
: main zinc ore shoot, these gold values
: are fully as good as they were report
: ed to be and afford at least a slight
indication of continued permanent
cy of the big zinc ore channel to very
considerable depth, as good gold ore
: values are proverbially shallow in
; base veins.
: The Star vein Is one of the most
persistent assures in the Wood river
district and is believed to have the
G same course that was formerly quite
: extensively developed on the adjoin-
N ing Triumph group of claims, which
Z has also been ecquired by the pres
T. ent operating company.
Bought BY Wallace People.
This property was taken over in
> June by the Federal Mining & Smelt-
ing company of Wallace, Idaho. This
k company has been the dominant min
If ing and milling enterprise of the
; Occur d'Alene district in northern
IL Idaho, where it has operated three of
. the big mines in that field and has
,e given steady employment for the past
J. IL years to an average crew of about
It 1000 men.
If 1 called the attention of this COM
t, pany to the Star mine and, in fact
N visited it with one of their engineers
e. over six years ago, but the extremely
* refractory character of the ore then
Or available above the drainage leve
of did not appeal to them at that time
I'd as the present processes for treating
r such mineral had not then been de-
as vsloped. | am gratified to see, how
err ever, such thorough going institu-
so ton as the Federal company enter the
nd Wood river field and tackle this de-
rn post, as their extensive experience IL
k treating similar complex ore mixtures
he in the Occur d'Alene district in theil
he great Morning mine and Frisco mines
10 especially fortifies them to solve the
in knotty metallurgical problem involved
in this deposit
n Rapid Progress Made.
n The Star mine was put in charge o
Is f. p Smith, former assistant genera
of manager of the Federal company'
ed extensive operations in the Coeul
tn d'Alene district last June. Mr. Smitf
all Is an efficiency engineer in all thu
he word implies and with several eXper
assistants has given Wood river al
nv illustration of mine development pro
tn gress and mill construction that hal
ity in comparison with any previous
effort in this line in the district in thu
last 20 years, by reason of this thor
oughness and energy. In this period
Mr.. Smith has drained the old works
I and put them in shape for eXtensiv,
stopping operations and is ready tt
~ deliver $50 tons of ore day to {
new concentrating mill now nearl!
completed at the mouth of Star gulch
- This mill is of the most substantial
construction, rather simple in it
equipment, consisting of rock crush
err three modern Marcy ball mills
"A feet, each of capacity of 80 ton
day, from which the pulp is to b.
concentrated on double deck Willie.
:" tables and the fines are to be treatet
in flotation machines. Roasters ar,
W being installed for the table concen
trates and Dingo magnetic machine
to clean out the excess iron is beinl
put in. This mill has a capacity o
so tons a day. 1t is to be supplied
with electrical power furnished by tn
~ Haley Electrical company over new
transmission line and is so construct
ed that an additional unit of the sam
capacity can be added at a mucl
lighter cost. 1t is expected by tn
lst management that the mill will com
les mence operations by october 25-rap
ed i'd progress from a bare start-les
OF than four months old.
CT Will Build Tramway.
eu The ore will be delivered under con
H. tract by teams for a time pending tn
th installation of an aerial tramway
IL Both the mill and the mine have beel
eu equipped with substantial boardin
ia houses A new compressor has re
he Gently been installed at the mine t
}" supplant the small one now in use. 4
he full fledged mining and milling enter
RAJ prise of $50 tons daily capacity tina
10 is strictly up to the minute in all tn
'iS modern appliances and through pre-
cn vious experiments of an elaborate ma
Gu ture, seems destined to make BIZ
u success in profitable zinc and lead