The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-01-16
WESTERN UNION CO,
IMPORTANT STRIKE
Property Near WAL
lace Looks Like
Mine
CLEAN LEAD-SILVER ORE
Believed to be Beginning of
Great Ore Shoot--High
in Silver
CLEAN LEAD-SILVER ORE.
CHUNK of almost clean ga

Tuesday evening by Ben E
Collins, manager of tn
Western Union Mining company, is
sample Of ore taken from the face o
the drift and represents width O
IS inches. The drift has now been ex.
tended about 1900 feet in an easterly
direction from the main crosscut. More
or less ore was encountered all the
way, and the last 100 feet has been in
ere continuously. The average width
Of the ore, Mr.. Collins said, is about
10 inches At one point it widened to
fully two feet of clean ore, then mar
rowed down to probably 10 inches
When he visited the property Tues
day the shoot had again increased in
width and the face showed fully Is
inches of ore such as the sample men,
up which was on exhibition in the
lobby Of the Samuels hotel and which
attracted much attention. This ore
= weighed fully so pounds, practically
clean galena, and was taken to Spo-
kane by Mr.. Collins yesterday morn :
ing. On his visit to the mine Mr.. Col
lins was accompanied by J. E. Bur-
bank, of Cheney, Washington, one of
the directors and a large stockholder
in the Western Union. incidentally it
may be stated that Mr.. Burbank Is
tCt, nf hn 70 rNla wi rf1
of California.
Runs High in Silver.
Silver has always been an important
factor in Coeur d'Alene lead ores, and
it is particularly so now that the price
of the white metal has advanced to a
point approaching its real value, and
with future that promises to main
tain and possibly increase the price.
This situation adds immensely to the
Importance of the strike on the West
ern Union, for Mr.. Collins says the
silver content of the ore Is from 30
to so ounces. Another gratifying fea-
ture of the ore showing disclosed is
that it appears to be the beginning
OF long ore shoot, encountered at
a depth that will give tremendous
amount of stoping ground above the
tunnel level. The depth from the sur
face is about 14OO feet and from the
upper tunnel 100 feet. The ledge on
the surface is great iron outcrop
which has been traced for several
thousand feet For years past the
original owners of this ground, which
was then known as the Aurora -Samp-
SON. drove a crosscut that encountered
the ledge at depth of about 800 feet
and proving it to be about 90 feet WIDE
and containing much low grade lead
ore. The showing was a good one,
but not good enough to reward the
tireless prospectors for their work
Upon taking over the property the
management of the Western Union
company proceeded to get under this
big showing by extending the present
drift, confident that it would result
in the discovery of a great body OF
ore. The ore showing just described
convinces the management that the
highest expectations will be realized.
Fully 500 feet remains to be run to get
under the objective point. and 1t IS
confidently expected that the ore body
will be developed before it is reached.
This confidence is based not alone upon
the ore itself, but also on the quartzite
formation in which the lead deposits
of this district are usually found.
Company Has Large Holdings.
The Western Union Mining company
is the outgrowth of the consolidation
of the Aurora Sampson Mining COM
pany and the III. T.. & M. Mining COM
pany. The H. E. & M. was extensively
developed by upper tunnels and I'm
ally by a long crosscut from Revenue
gulch. Considerable ore was develop
ed and shipments were made from the
upper workings, but the deeper work.
ings did not prove satisfactory. The
deep crosscut provided ideal conditions
for the development of the Aurora
Sampson, the very thing that the own
ers desired, but which was too big an
undertaking for them acting IN
dependently. The situation presented
favorable opportunity for the two
companies to get together for mutual
advantage as the prospect for a per-
manent ore body was more favorable
: in the Aurora ground. An agreement
was therefore reached for the consol-
idation Of the holdings of the two
properties. The company owns 80