The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-10-10
Early Day Failure
Will Soon Prove
Success
IS A STRONG COMPANY
Raising on Ore From No. S
Extend Lower Tunnel
to Vein

vt WILL NOT be many months be.
and possibly zinc, too, will be
= added to the mines Of the Coeul
d'Alene district. This announcement
is based upon recent reports from the
Sherman, which until some two OF
three years ago was known as the
Union. Under that~name it had been
locally famous for several reasons
: first because under the able man
agement of those successful early
day operators, A. B. Campbell and
John A. Finch, it failed to develop
into productive mine and was fin
ally abandoned by them, after a grav-
ity tramway had been built to deliver
the ore to the railroad and mill had
been built at Wallace to treat it, and
extensive buildings had been erected
at the mine to accommodate large
number of employees. It's second
claim to fame was in the fact that it
was the rendezvous of the first strike
district, who came from Michigan on
a special train under a guard in COM
mand of Joe Warren, now chief of
police Of Seattle. This was in 1892,
following the strike Of that year. and
as there was no ore for the strike
breakers to mine in the Union, they
were soon transferred to other mines
OF the district or hit the long trail
back to Michigan. Years later the
buildings were burned and the Union
would have been forgotten had it not
been for the periodical snowslides
that swept down the draw. Thus in
one way or another the old Union has
been kept in the public eye for the
past quarter of a century, and now
all things point to it's coming back in
the form of a real big productive
mine.
Find the Ore Shoot.
The change that is in prospect
for the Union, now the Sherman,
came about in this way. Some two
years ago Axel Swan, who was then
living in Burke and in sight of the
Union, Harry Allen and Charles Nc
Kinnis, Of Wallace, and perhaps 9TH
ers, concluded after thorough in
spection of the surface showings,
that there was a good chance to make
a mine of the Union. They thereup-
on secured bond and lease on the
property, organized the Sherman De-
veopment company and started to
work. Instead of reopening the old
tunnels, they secured the consent of
the Oreana Mining company. which
joins the Sherman on the south, to
drive crosscut from the Oreano tun-
mel to the Sherman vein, this being
about 500 feet above the No. 5 tunnel
of the Union and at about the same
depth from the surface. This cross
cut realized the highest expectations,
for a fine shoot of lead and zinc ore
was encountered, which was after
ward proved for several hundred feet.
Work was then started in No. s. and
what is presumed to be the same
shoot but showing very little zinc,
was encountered there, larger than
above and ore of better grade. Con-
siderable other exploratory work was
done on this level
Raising on Ore.
About this time the company, al
ready strong financially, was further
strengthened by the addition of
James f. Callahan, L. w. Hutton
and e. r. Day to the list of heavy
stockholders, and the company was
reorganized by the election of Mr..
Callahan as president and general
manager of the company. Plans for
the extensive and speedy development
Oh the property were adopted ano
these are now being carried out with
most satisfactory results. A raise Is
being made on ore from No. to the
Oreano level. The first Of the week
this raise had been advanced 80 feet
and showed in the top two feet OF
clean shipping galena and fully two
feet Of milling ore, although the aver
age width of the ore up to this point
has been upwards of six feet with the
same proportion Of shipping. At the
same time work has been going on In
tunnel 800 feet below No. 5. which
was run many years ago to .explore
the Hidden Treasure ground and ex-
tended by Finch & Campbell, who
stopped before reaching the Union
vein. This tunnel has a length OF
over 1000 feet. This tunnel has now
peen cleaned up and placed in work
ing condition. or will be by the first
OF the month. 1t will then be contin
ued to the Union or Sherman vein