The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-03-28

200 feet northerly from the Iron
Crown raise and cut, and there are no
works to disclose the intervening geo.
logical conditions, or to show connec-
ton Of the admitted apex in the Iron
Crown with the naturalization in this
tunnel The course OF the Star drift
running easterly' from the northerly
portion of No. Star crosscut. Is ir-
regular, but, generally speaking, II
lies northerly from the Morning
works, a distance Of between 100 feet
and 200 feet, approaching them lit-
tie more closely as II proceeds in an
stated, II Is between 400 and 500 feet
higher than defendants No. tunnel
level. and between SO and 100 feet be-
low its No 4 tunnel level In its
Isoutheasterly course 1t passes under
meath crosscut No. west from the
No. tunnel level. which will be re-
ferred to later. From No. Star
crosscut easterly to point a little
beyond Star crosscut No. 6, a distance
OF about IFS feet. the drift shows no
naturalization at all, except small
sample taken about 40 feet from the
starting point; then for a distance of
little over 100 feet there Is an av-
erage Of 2 Of an ounce silver, approx
imately 3 per cent lead, and little
over per cent zinc. and then nothing
for about 125 feet; then about per
cent lead for 80 feet and / per cent
zinc; and practically nothing for the
next $50 feet. So also with two cross
cuts running In southerly direction,
one so feet in length and the other 100
feet, and one in a northerly direction
about rs feet they are pretty nearly
barren. The longer of the two south
erly ones shows no silver and only a
trace Of zinc. and less than a Of per
cent lead, with nothing at all in the
last rs feet This drift, as l under
stand, was being extended at the time
OF the trial, and reaches pretty nearly
the eastern end Of the Evening Star
For the extreme easterly 800 feet,
passing underneath crOsscut No. l..
west, the defendant has supplied no
assays. For about $50 feet west of
the point where 1t passes beneath the
No. l west crOsscut, 1t shows consid-
cradle naturalization, If rightly in
terpret the plaintiffs assays the av-
erage of eight samples taken at COM
paratively regular intervals being
about 1.3 ounces silver, 8.3 per cent
lead, and 4.6 per cent zinc. The lead
average Is increased very much by
one sample showing 2S.6 per cent, a
percentage so high, as compared with
the general run. as to suggest the
probability of error - especially in
the light of assays upon crosscut No
west above and crosscuts l and 8
beneath the drift. Or 1t Is possible
that the sample was taken upon a
seam cutting across rather than run
ming In the direction of the drift.
In No. crosscut, extending north
erly from No. S tunnel level to a
length of approximately 100 feet, a
short distance westerly from the oc-
currence referred to as the Mule Sta
BILE Horse, and between 200 and $50
feet westerly from the easterly end
line of the Evening Star, there is. an
average of little more than Il of an
ounce silver, 1.3 per cent lead, and LIS
per cent zinc.
In No. l crosscut, extending about
so feet northerly from the branch of
the No. tunnel running north of the
mule stable horse, about $50 feet
easterly from No. 3 crosscut there is
no silver, no lead, and but little more
than a trace of zinc.
| In drift from No. tunnel inter-
mediate between these two crosscuts
extending for about so feet in a
northwesterly direction, the metal
content for the whole distance Is
small and for the last 40 feet negli-
gible.
OF crosscut No l west, extending
northerly about 210 feet from No.
tunnel level, at a point about SO feet
west of the most northerly stope up
on that level beneath the surface Of
the Grouse and Evening Star claims,
about $50 feet westerly from the east
end line of the Evening STAR the de-
PENDANT produces not only table of
assays, but plat upon a large scale,
exhibiting the mineral occurrences. A
cross section of the tunnel level
(about 10 feet in width, at the mouth
of the crosscut, shows substantial
naturalization for the greater part of
the width, in parallel bands or streaks
running with the tunnel, the bands
being differentiated by the kind or
quality of mineral content. The assay
for the entire cross section shows 1.S
ounces silver SO per cent lead, and %
per cent zinc. The first 10 feet of the
crosscut shows no silver, and but a
trace of lead and zinc. In the next 10
feet there is zone about feet in
width very substantially mineralized,
the average for the entire 10 feet be-
ing l ounce silver, 81 per cent lead,
feet there are several narrow seams,
and one about foot, in width, the
average assay being IL ounces sill
yer. 2.9 per cent lead, and 33 per cent
zinc. Then for little over SO feet
there are widely separated small
seams--and one about five inches in
width carrying a high percentage of
zinc-the average for the entire dis
lance being about Il of an ounce sill
Yer, 4 per cent lead, and "a per cent
zinc. Then follows space of over
100 feet, where a few small seams
yield a negligible average-silver be-
ing found in only one of the 10-foot
sections, lead in for or five of them,
but nowhere as high as per cent, and
nothing more than a trace of zinc in
any of them. In the next to the last
10-foot section there are two small
seams, giving an average of IL per
cent lead, and 2 Of l per cent Of zinc
The last section Is entirely barren 1t
will thus be seen that with the excep-
ton of the first part of the crosscut--
say 40 feet at the most-the mineral
iZation is so light as to be of no sub
stantial value. 1t should be added |
that all Of the mineralized seams re-
ferred to run in the general direction |
of the tunnel or drift, but not always |
parallel Herewith. |
A comparison Of the plaintiffs as
says of this cross section Is not with
out interest In the first 40 feet four