The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-09-26

Is anything but bright. However, II
this feature is attended to by our ma
tional authorities America can doubt
less become Independent OF foreign
sources of supply OF this mineral.
yellow Pine Anthony Mines.
The Yellow Pine anthony mine Is
an old promotion that has been dick
cred with for several years, especial
| ly since the commencement of the
war and the boom in anthony values
OF two years ago. This property is
situated 20 miles northwest of the
Fern mine on the divide between
johnson creek and the east fork of
Salmon river. The trail leading to
the property from Johnson creek
starts just below the Hennessy ranch
where the Frank Nowak Co, Inc. a
Chicago concern, Is now installing a
plant for the treatment Of the ore of
this deposit that it is estimated has a
capacity of rs tons per day The plant,
understand, is being supplied by the
American Continuous Retort company
OF Denver, for which good results are
claimed in metal extraction, and | am
advised by the local manager of this
enterprise that the quality of anti
mony metal that has been made in
laboratory experiment tests, show
999 per cent pure, and this they be-
lieve can be duplicated in a practical
way This Is new line Of metallur-
gy in Idaho and the writer has no
opinion Of the probable results to be
obtained.
The ore deposits on which this en-
terprse Is based, are about 1000 feet
higher than the furnace site on
Johnson creek at point five miles
above the Yellow Pine postotfice. 1t
consists of a fissure vein in friable
granite walls that stand nearly YER
teal and has a strike northeast and
southwest. The main outcrop of the
vein Is just over the summit on the
east fork slope and is six feet wide,
OF massive antimony sulphide and
oxide ore with a fine net work Of
crystalline quartz seams. A short
tunnel opened under this deposit 20
feet long and 20 feet deep and badly
caved at the portal exhibits several
feet of high grade mineral which splits
into thick bands and is frozen to the
soft crumbly granite formation.
Continuing southwest down the
Johnson creek slope towards the new
plant this vein Is traced by shallow
grass root cuts and two other similar
short tunnels, for fully 1000 feet wide,
two or three foot holes in such close
intervals as to indicate quite defin-
itely an ore shoot that may be 300
feet in length at one point and from
a few inches to three feet thick, ex-
hibiting magnificent high grade anti
mony sulphide with gray oxdized sur
faces at the outcrop and while this
very limited and shallow develop
ment is hardly sufficient to justify the
installation Of an expensive plant in
ed the persistency Of the vein In
and quite definitely indicates con-
siderable tonnage resource Of high
grade ore that it Is to be hoped will
give the results in pure metal that its
operators anticipate.
This enterprise is situated on the
main road to Yellow Pine postoff1ce
and only involves two SUBMITS on the
road to Cascade which include the
Big creek summit and the Cabin
creek summit and the haulage cost to
this point should be much easier than
to the Quicksilver district, under
present conditions and could be made
much easier at a moderate cost. The
distance to the mine from the rail-
way at Cascade Is SO miles.
On the opposite side of Johnson
creek, from the Yellow Pine anti
mony mine, at similar elevation,
Mr.. Albert Hennessy owns a group of
claims covering zone Of white
quartzite that is scanned with pure
quartz bands and stringers of clean
anthony sulphide ore varying from
the fraction Of an inch up to six
inches thick. This zone Is 200 feet
wide and strikes north 80 degrees east
directly in line with the lead, silver,
zinc and gold ore deposits associated
with anthony prospects of the Pro-
file and Big creek countries about 20
miles north of this point.
This Hennessy showing is said to
carry good gold values but 1t pre-
sented too big a problem to sample
and no tests were made of it's values
by the writer. Its anthony values
promise possible concentration re-
suits. In connection with the quick
silver district this Yellow Pine Sec
ton emphasizes the probability of a
very important reserve resource OF
anthony mineral to the government
IL its war necessity should demand 1t,
and further emphasizes the desira-
bility of government aid in opening up
this interesting mineral region to de-
cent wagon road transportation ad-
vantages.
The above notes were gathered on
a trip of IL days Of which days were
a. nt1l fynV