The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-02-08
BIG SHELTER RETURNS RECEIVED ON CAR
LOAD ORE SHIPPED BY POLAR|S COMPANY
SMALL CAR MELTED TRANSIT EXPECTED
TO YIELD $sooo-coMPANY PLANS LOWER TUNNEL
ACTIVITY

The Polars Development & Minngs
company is shipping wonderfully rich
ore and development indicates that
the present work is merely the top of
what will prove a big bonanza ore
shoot. Returns We're received from
the smelter this week from the last
shipment, and although the car was a
small one only 81 tons the value es-
tablished high record for carload
shipment. The shipment was made of
hand sorted ore and jigged ore. The
hand sorted ore averaged 222 ounces
In silver and So per cent copper and
the jigged ore carried 125 ounces OF
silver and 80 per cent copper. the
net return received by the company
on the car was in round figures $4400.
Another carload was shipped Tuesday.
It contained 40 tons of the same char
acter of ore and it is estimated by the
management that it will net the COM
pany $4,000. This ore is being taken
from the extension of the old Polaris
tunnel.
Ore in the Shaft.
At point in the tunnel about 500
feet from the old shaft the present
company has sunk a winze 100 feet on
the vein which shows ore the entire
distance without a break, varying in
width from inches to 2k feet and
there is now 2h feet of ore in the
bottom. station has been cut and
drifting will proceed east and west
All the same time preparation is be-
ing made to sink the Winze another
100 feet. Very little water is being
encountered, not enough to require a
pump. practically all the water being
hoisted with the muck. When 200 feet
has been sunk and the showing of ore
remains as good as it is at 100 feet,
the management will drive tunnel
from Polaris gulch, which will cut the
lead at an additional depth of APP
proximately 500 feet, requiring a
crosscut probably 2500 feet in length.
Southern Cross Lead.
The crosscut from the Polaris to
the Southern Cross vein has been
abandoned for the present, owing to
the lack of capacity of the compress
or to furnish power for the drills in
10th places and also the shaft. A
very promising vein was cut, but
there is some doubt as to its being the
Southern Cross, as it is much nearer
than was anticipated. Shortage OF
mower will prevent extending the
crosscut or exploring the vein for the
present.
The Polaris is about two and a hall
miles from the railroad, a short dis
tance below Osburn. The road con.
Meeting the mine is in excellent con-
dition. The company is shipping a
the rate of better than two carloads
per month.
An important Ore Belt.
The high price of silver and the ex
cpptionallv fine outlook for that met
al has induced great activity in VIVA
is commonly referred to as the Or!
ore belt, which extends in genera
terms from Lake guch, just west o
Wallace, to Big creek Beginning wit
the early days of the district Big cree
has been a producer of high grade sill
YER and in recent years the produc
tion has been greatly increased. IN
Polaris adions the Yankee Boy, tn
pioneer silver producer on Big creei
and it is probably the same rich ven
West of the Yankee Boy, on the oppo
site side of the canyon the lease o
the upper workings of the Big Cree
Mining company is making regula
SHIPMENTS which are yielding big pre-
fits. The Big Creek Mining compan
is driving a crosscut that will ope
the ground 500 feet below the lease
Ground and it is reasonably certai
that this work will result in openin
IN an ore body even larger than thf
under lease.
Silverado and Nellie.
East of the Polaris is the Silverae
and again east of that is the Neili
hoth of which have extensive ore boo
les opened up of which the high 81
ver value is the chief feature. TT
silverado has recently completed
flOta tiOn mlIl WHICH 10 uoo" JoN
by the Silverado and the Nellie. II
Mineral Point is another old proper
near osburn which it is believed W
soon be producing high grade shV'
ON Lake gulch, about a mile ana
half west of Wallace, the Chicag
Boston company has rich vein
gray copper in addition to the
lead vein which has recently attrac
cd so much attention, and which n
the same high silver value characte
istic of the dry ore belt There
much activity all along the belt, a
the great success that has follow
operations at the Polaris will dout
less induce further activity which
result in new and important discovt
les of rich silver bearing ore.
Pevolution indicators for aeropla