The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-11-22

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has since been shipping steadily from
a broken ore reserve of thousand
tons The average shipments from
this property run to per cent cop
per and $50 to 200 ounces silver. 1t
carries steep spathic iron vein well
sprinkled with gray copper, and has
made occasional hand picked carload
shipments eraging 1000 ounces sill
yer and up to 80 per cent copper. 1t
is extensively developed by a success
sion of adit tunnels driven on the vein
to maximum face depth of 1900 feet.
1t has 10000 tons of better than 100
ounce ore blocked out and is believed
to be the most persistent gray copper
ore deposit known
Mining Near Clayton.
Near Clayton, II miles further up
Salmon river the Red Bird mine,
which was offered to a Occur d'Alene
company last spring at $125,000, has
men divided into several leasing units
who pay SO Ia per cent royalty on
net smelter returns. They have been
shipping steadily for six months by
team and auto truck hand picked ore
that has given carload shipping re-
turns of 80 to 60 per cent lead with
an ounce of silver to each unit of lead
The several new levels in the mine are
disclosing as good a proportion of
shipping ore as the mine was noted
for in the old upper works above the
400 level, and promises at this time tC
pay the original owners as much In
property for.
WIbert.
"At the Wilbert mine, on Little Los
river, new incline shaft to connec
the eighth level with the surface is be
ing driven by raising and sinking. This
property has been a steady shipper @
clean, high grade crude lead ore ant
concentrates and has paid several div
idends. Its silver values have shown 6
marked increase between the 600 anG
500 foot levels. 1t has recently beer
equipped with a new compressor
plant and surface hoist. Another new
compressor plant has also recently
been installed at the adjoining Wilbert
Extension mine for a long tunnel de-
p11n
Gilmore.
AT Gilmore the principal producers
are showing the richest and bigges
ore bodies of their history in theil
bottom levels, 900 and 700 feet, re-
spectively. These are the Latest Ou
and Pittsburg mines. At the latter
property a new 50-degree three com
partment incline shaft has just beer
completed from the surface to the 100
foot level that has been equipped witt
a $50 horsepower DIESEL engine,
double drum electrically driven hois
and compressor plant and station
pump. This plant is now nearing com
pletion and is designed for quite al
extensive plan Of deeper development
Fully a dozen other mines and pros
poets have entered the shipping lis
in this district during the year ant
its prospects for expanding import
ance as a shipper of desirable lead-sil
yer ore never were brighter.
Gold Mining.
among the gold camps Marshal
Lake district in Idaho county, thu
Holt mine has developed a high grad
gold ore deposit that Is credited will
an output of 100000 with 25toI
mill since November a year ago.
1.-THE success of this enterprise ha
induced a lot of prospecting in thu
district and has resulted in the dis
closure of several other very promis
ing gold ore deposits.
I'm the same county a cyanide mil
of 900 tons daily capacity has recent
ly been completed by Spokane com
pany for the treatment Of a big steam
shovel deposit Of low grade gold ore
This installation is in the nature OF
pilot mill and it's successful handir
of the deposit at any decent margil
of profit will probably result in tn
property being equipped with a mil
of 5000 tons daily capacity.
Dewey.
: AT the Dewey mine, on the Clear
, water, near Grangeville, 25-ton ties
mill was completed to treat the ex
tensive deposit of copper-gold ore al
| ready disclosed and I am advised tina
much larger plant is in contempla
. ton in the near fture.
Mines Of Owyhee.
| an Owyhee county the Demmin
Mines company installed new 5-dri
compressor and are now building tn