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

l eStlng condition OF assuring and Tor
nation that compares very elosel.
with two OF the famous lead-silve
producing districts of Utah. viz: Parl
City and Tintic. II its numerous flat
| tering prospects are given the SAM
vigorous development that has beer
accorded these great producing dis
tricts of our neighboring state, 1t II
more than likely that similar perman,
ent and profitable results will be OBJ
tanned
Lasting Ore Deposits.
The general geological conditions
Of the great mountain area of Idaho
are essentially favorable at many
points to the existence of deep seated
and lasting ore deposits. The central
features of the states rugged topo-
graphy embraces an enormous area
Iof granite and intrusive dixie rock
The marginal features of this great
granite area are largely Occupied by
the most ancient type OF precambrian
sediments that have been noted the
world over as containing a most per-
manent and deep seated ore body.
This condition is exempllfed by the
results obtained In our Occur d'Alene
district where great bodies of CONNER
cial smelling ore have been success
fully mined to a depth In the veins
closely approaching a mile, and the
occurrence of ores In similar environ
ments throughout the central and
eastern counties of the state are
worthy of serious consideration in this
connection from investors while our
great area is of the same age as the
wall rocks of the bonanza copper
mines at Butte Montana.
Compared to the mineral values of
a non metallic nature existing in five
or six of the southeastern counties of
Idaho extending from Bear Lake to
Fremon, all the other metallic min
eral resources OF Idaho are transitory
value In my opinion. Two Of the
southeastern states of the United
States, viz: Tennessee and Florida
are estimated by government geolo-
gists to contain 200,000,000 tons of
high grade rock phosphate. AS
have previously stated these south
eastern Idaho counties are demon
strated to contain a resource of ten
billion tons of rock phosphate of equal
quality and one hundred billion tons
of second grade mineral and from the
central features of the most extern
siye and most valuable mineral asset
owned by any government in the
world According to the best of au-
thority there is, at this time, over
three hundred billion dollars of |
lotual cash capital invested In the fer
-ilizer industry of the southeastern
states and based almost entirely on |
he ownership of the Florida and Ten
1essee phosphate deposits, and 1t is
not improbable that as great or even
greater industry will ultimately be
Quilt up based on these vast phos- |
ohate resources of our southeastern !
Idaho counties.
Numerous Remote Districts.
Phosphates are demonstrated to be |
he most crucial and vital element in
Ill living organisms and the most es-
iential element In successful agrieul-
ure. These great Idaho deposits are
capable, as demonstrated by several
If the older state agricultural expert
nent stations, under proper applica-
ion, of doubling or even trebling the
present great agricultural yield of this
lation from its present cultivated
lrea and the importance of mineral
deposits of such wide spread appli-
alton and adaptibility to the basic in
ustry of the nation can hardly be ov-
r estimated.
The present development and use of
hese phosphate resources of south
astern Idaho seem slow to the cas- 4
al observer but l am reliably advised
hat practical chemical research in
he laboratories of Montanas great |
ldustry creating corporation, the !
naconda Copper company has de- :
nitely indicated that an economic I
method is likely to be I
lortly evolved that will concentrate /
lie valuable element of rock phosphate :
4 the ground and produce a product I
lat will stand transportation costs to I
ny part of the world and it will not :
; surprising to see an industrial de- z
,lopment based on these rich phos- C
late mineral resources developed in c
utheastern Idaho within the next :
w years that will overshadow any n
her business asset in the state. d
Idaho mining statutes are decidedly 7
vorable and equitable to the progress =
the Industry in all its phases. This d
particularly true Of our mine taxa F
IN methods which are accorded by ..
Jorge Otis Smith, director of the
lited States geological survey at
d. c., with being the !
)st rational and equitable mine tax =
lon methods enjoyed by any state in
e union.
Many of our very promising mining q
'tricts are remote from railway +
but with the rapid ad-
nee in metallurgical science of re-
ut years that has made available