The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-01-04

good, was yielding 100 tons of ore a
day from an ore shoot 500 feet long
that gave resulting concentrates in
zinc-lead and. some iron amounting to
nearly one third of the mill feed.
The Constitution mine, the Douglas
and the Denver mines in the same vi
entity ON Pine creek were all under ac-
i've development, and during my visit
IN December were disclosing ore
shoots varying from $50 to 500 feet
IN length that occurred in the same
formation as the famous Interstate
vein, and the ore bodies of a replace
ment nature are practically as clean
as that famous ore channel in the pro-
portion of sulphide mineral contents.
However, these properties have the
of a higher proportion
Oh iron which is difficult to separate
by present water concentrating meth
DDS and reduce the shipping value of
the zinc and lead available, which has
to depend for a market on the new
electrolytic zinc process treatment,
at Great Falls, Montana,
which does not give very satisfactory
market so far for the values contain
ed in the ore.
These Pine creek showings | have
give very definite evidence
at this time of deep seated permanency.
They are all lean at the surface and
indicate virgin ore crests that, accord
ing to past experience, are likely to
expand as depth is obtained in both
length and width. Taken with the
numerous other handsome prospects
Of Pine creek, that section will very
shortly afford mineral tonnage re-
source that will we'll warrant the pro-
posed railway construction that is so
badly needed at this time to reduce
The high wagon haul cost involved in
their mineral.
Bunker Hill G. Sullivan Smeiter.
During the greater part of the year
he Hercules mine treated it's entire
product of rich silver-lead mineral at
he Northport smelter, controlled by
The same interests.
The big 1000-ton daily smelling and
refining plant of the Bunker Hill &
sullivan company at Kellogg is rapid
y nearing completion and will prove
Of immense benefit to the district as
4 local market for ore when put in OPP
grafton. Its completion is slated for
he early spring. An available market
should greatly stimulate activity in
he smaller properties that have lit
lie ore to ship and will doubtless re-
suit in the disclosure of new bodies of
Importance that would probably lie
dormant for years lacking this local
advantage.
Advance in Wage Scale.
The big profits of the year that have
oeen made by the principal mining
of the Occur d'Alenes were
shared under a bonus sys-
EN- by their employees who enjoyed a
.aise of wages amounting to 81 day
over the scale previously paid, a rec
ignition of voluntary profit sharing
hat was highly appreciated by the
arge army of men employed.
The general property of the produc-
ng mines of the state stimulated a
marked activity in new prospecting
and development work that was re-
Elected throughout almost every min
ing district in Idaho and resulted in
new ore development and discoveries
that give eminent promise of expand
ing results in future metal production
Pend d'oreiIe Mines.
North of the Occur d'Alenes the
interesting ore prospects
around the shores of Lake PEND
1'Oreille were quite actively developed
and made an interesting production OF
lead and silver values, while the Idaho
mine in Bonner county, In
spite of serious set backs owing to
power and transportation troubles
made a production of 70 cars of high
grade lead-silver mineral and i'm
improved it's available ore
resources which insured a greatly in
creased yield of very desirable smelt-
ing ore during the coming year.
Lemh County.
Important advancements were made
in lead-silver ore developed in the
district in Lemhi county
where the principal producer, the
Pittsburg- Idaho mine, made the best
production of it's history and pait
100000 In dividends.
The Latest Out mine, adjoining, die
fully so per cent of the business of it,
neighbor and the Gilmore Mining com.
pany adjoining the Latest Out, 6
brand new producer of lead silver ore
entered the list of shippers in very
manner with an output IL
November from leasing operations a
its $50 level that totaled about 20 car
loads. This property now discloses al
ore shoot over 200 feet long varyint
from a foot to 20 feet in thickness O
shipping ore carrying about the nor
NAL average values of the district. 1
has a deep development tunnel nov
closely approaching the vein at rh'
10OO-foot level and gives eminen