The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-12-13
Bunker Hill Contract - Contention of
Defendant Company as Outlined in the
Affidavit of President F. w. Bradley

president Of the American Smelling
Refining company, in which was givei
the contention OF his company in thu
suit brought against the Bunker Hi
& Sullivan company to enforce the orr
contract as construed by plaintiff
This week We present the answering
affidavit filed by +. W. Bradley. presi
dent of the Bunker Hill & Sullivan
company. The two affidavits are mos
interesting. giving as they do a clear
insight to the issues involved in the
litigation which have now been SUBJ
mitted to Judge Wolverton, of the
federal court at Portland. after a pre-.
liminary hearing on an application tC
its own ore and to compel the company
10 continue shipments to the A. s. &
r. company.
President Bradley's Affidavit.
was educated as a mining engineer
and. have been continuously engaged
in the business of mining for the last
"a years. Ny first connection with
defendant was in 1890 as assistant
manager, when construction was be-
ginning on the first OF its present con-
centrating plants. | served in that
capacity at Wardner Idaho, until 1892,
when | was made manager. | then
logg, Idaho, until 1897 when | was
made president, and l have served
ever since in that capacity from Of
fees at San Francisco.
In 1898 became director in the
Tacoma Smelling company; and in
1900 was made president of that COM
pany, in which capacity | served until
June. 1905, when l resigned on learn
ing that the Federal Mining & Smelt.
ing company (under the same control
as the Tacoma Smelling company had
begun an extralateral-right suit
against the defendant. In 1900 l was
appointed consulting engineer for the
Alaska Treadwell, Alaska Mexican. and
Alaska United gold mining companies.
] served these companies until 1911,
when l was made their president, in
which capacity ] am still serving
these Alaska companies. Before the
year 1890 was and ever since have
been actively engaged in mining at
many other places and with many
other companies.
The building up of defendants prop
erty has been a long slow process. Be
cause of disappointments in ore values
at the beginning the work could only
be carried along as the mine earned
sufficient profit to pay for 1t; besides
the policy of keeping the development
work well In advance OF ore shipments
finally exposed sufficient ore to excite
the cupidity of neighbors, which re-
suited in vast amount of extralateral
right litigation. Ore had to be found
and put in sight from time to time,
so that proper and necessary equip
ment of the property could be planned
and provided for
The ore in defendants mine has
been made payable under past condi-
tons by the mineral galena CARRYING
from one-third to one-half of an
ounce silver to each per cent of lead
When pure. galena consists OF S6.6 per
cent lead and 1874 per cent silver. In
addition to gold and silver, some ga
lena in the Bunker Hill & Sullivan
mine carries such other impurities as
salts of zinc, copper, anthony. bis
muth, etc. The country rock of tie
Wardner district is composed of lay
ers OF quartzite. shale. etc. The ga
lena occurs irregularly scattered In
the shape Of stringers and lunches
in veins that traverse the country roc':
These veins in turn have been broken
up, dislocated, thrown, and twisted by
many faults, the Wardner district be-
ing one of the most excessively fault
ed areas Of similar extent In the
world The galena is often dissemin-
ated throughout the vein matter, which
in many cases consists of masses of
iron carbonate, and it is also at times
found disseminated In the country rock
itself. In either of these cases Of dis
seminaton, 1t is both wasteful and un-
profitable to concentrate such ores un-
der methods of concentra ton hereto
fore in use because Of the severe tail
ing losses.
The disappointment at the begin
ming, referred to above, was that IL |
required greater number of tons Of |
ore from the mine to produce one ton |
Of product rich enough to ship at
profit than originally figured on. That
., as ore was found. 1t = did not av-
srage as much per ton in lead and
silver as originally respected. There
never has been from the beginning
my concern as to the sale and market
ng Of ore. In my time with the Ia
'oma smelter, it was always possible
% make contracts for the sale of lead
md salver; and we have found it pos
'ible to make sales OF lead and silver
PRODUCTS of our new Smelter at KEEL |,
ogg. The primary and great con-
ern was to find ore In payable guam 1
tiles and then to protect the ore so
ound from predatory litigation At |,
er finding and securing payable ore {
odies. the next problem has always {
cen the concentration of the ore into /
efficiently clean shape from the bar ID