The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-02-01
JACK WAITE COMPANY TO BUILD MILL IN
SPRING IS ANNOUNCED By MANAGEMENT
ORE SHIPMENTS PAYING EXPENSES AND PROVIDING A
SURPLUS FOR MILL CONSTR UcTIoN-soo TONS SHIPPED
IN A MONTH AND A HALF

The Jack Waite Mining company is
now shipping ore at the rate of 200
tons a month. To be more exact, in
the month and half since shipments
started under the management of
Rush j. White, the company has de-
liyered 800 tons of ore to the railroad
station at Waite. Two carloads of ore
are now on the loading platform and
will probably be started to the smelter
this week. Returns have been receiv-
ed on II carloads and two have been
shipped from which returns have not
been received. The condition of the
road could hardly be more favorable
for handling the heavy loads of ore
Run High in Lead.
The ore being shipped by the Jack
Waite company averages so per cent
lead net to the company. The ship
ments upon which returns have al
ready been received have netted SILL
600 and the ore in transit and soon to
be shipped will bring this figure to
over $4,000. This means that the
Jack Waite company is now paying
all expenses through ore shipments
and is putting a handsome surplus in
the treasury. This may be somewhat
startling information to those who re-
call the ups and downs of the Jack
Waite covering a long period of years,
but it is true, nevertheless, and illus
trates the value of capable and exper-
fenced management in the operation of
a mine. Mr.. White has worked no
miracle at the Jack Waite, but he has
brought to it practical and efficient
management in which economy is
practiced consistent with the results
to be obtained. Twenty men are en-
ployed and the foreman in charge at
the mine is Chris Grimsmoe, one of
the best known and most capable min
ers in the district.
Mill in the Spring.
Mr. White is now planning upon
building a mill for the Jack Waite in
the spring, provided the high price of
lead continues, which now seems to be
more than probable. It's capacity
would of course not be large, and all
the expense of construction and equip
ment would be paid from the profits
of ore shipments. The surplus on
hand by the time weather conditions
are favorable for construction will be
sufficient for the purpose, and Mr..
Whites method of doing things in
sures it would be completed in record
time. There is a large amount of ore
that would be of excellent milling
haul 10 miles to the railroad. The |
high price of lead is of special import
ance at this time to enable the COM
pany to build a mill from the earnings
of the mine. With the mill once in
running order the price of lead will
not be of such vital Importance, as 1t
will be possible to earn good pront |
with lead as low as 4 " cents and |
possibly lower
Much Ore in Sight.
At this time mining is confined to
the upper tunnel, where extensive ore
shoots have been opened, averaging
from 5 to 6 feet in width, much of 1t
of shipping grade, and in places Mr.
White says he has seen as high as
feet of first class ore. There is also a
good showing of ore in the interme-
diate level run from the raise con-
Meeting the two tunnels. Nothing Is
being done in the lower tunnel at the
present owing to the difficulty of pro-
viding quarters for addition men,
Twenty men are employed by the
company.
The compressor is being run by
steam which also provides heat for
the bunk house. Shortage of water
due to excessive cold weather render
ed it necessary to resort to steam for
power, but water will be substituted
os aoon as available in the spring.