The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-11-13

As the ore shoot Is bigger. strong,
and far richer in the tunnel than o
} the surface 1t Is safe to assume
will continue for at least so feet be
|, low the present workings, In this
event-and any engineer familia
with this ore body would concede tina
much-a further $40, 900, 900 can b
added to the above total. Work wa
resumed in No. 2 tunnel this summer
a crosscut being driven to the righ'
to cut the ore shoot about $50 fee
east of the portal where original,
cut by Plate. In about SO feet the or
was broken into. 1t has a width o
10 feet. The average across Is a lit
tie less than $40 per ton. This cross
cut was continued and has since tap
ped the ore shoot to the south. TIL,
face is at present in good ore.
Each Of these veins, and also an,
other to the north Of them, has thu
appearance of a potential mine. Dur,
ing the whole summer of 1918 tn,
mine was shut down, work being con,
centrated on the construction of q
sleigh road from the beach to the
mine a distance of IS miles, and a
short dock at Hyder for the purpose
Of shipping ore the next winter. Ow-
ing to unforeseen delays in the deliv-
cry of equipment and an exceptional
ly early break up of the snow road in
the spring, only 512 tons were shipped
which gave smelter returns of $685.
900.
Two Slopes have been opened up,
putting the mine in good shape for
shipping as oon as the snow flies.
Since the snow went operations have
been almost entirely confined to out
side work. A portable saw mill is
cutting lumber and q number of new
buildings are being erected at the old
camp for he accommodation of a
greatly increased force of miners. The
road is being widened and improved,
and new barns and other buildings
will be put up at the beach and Nine
Mile. The saw mill has been moved
to No. 4 tunnel-H. R. Plates last
work-and a new camp is being built
there. A compressor is to be in
stalled and the present s by I tunnel
enlarged to Z by z.
A crosscut will be started a short
distance from the face which will
reach the high grade ore shoot in a
few hundred feet, at an additional
depth of 700 feet below the present
Workings. Providing the ore shoot
holds it's size and values at that depth
and the chances are decidedly in it's
favor-the figures relating to the ton
and values will be almost start
ling. In that event, this property,
which already ranks as one of the
worlds great mines, would then take
rank as the one of the greatest. 1t
viii still be possible to obtain a fur
Their depth of fully 500 feet on the
vein by driving another tunnel heal
the foot of the mountain, making a
total of not less than 1900 feet below
the highest outcrop. With the down.
ward extension of the ore body to this
point it would be conceded the unique
Of being the worlds pre-
mier mine.
1t remained for r.. K. Neill to real
lie the possibilities dimly disclosed
by w. j.. Rolfe after others had fail
ed, and his great success is in a large
measure due to his good mining judg-
ment, and his policy of staying with
the ore whenever possible. Such phe-
nomenal results after little more than
two years operations have been rare
ly, If ever, achieved before, even in
crtainly in no other business.
The vein in which this ore body oc-
ours is a true fissure. It's strike Is
N. 80 degrees E., its dip steep and
s%outherly. The vein filling is largely
luartz -porphyry, often changed COM
to quartz. The metallic min
rails which "a be seer are %argentite,
native and ruby silver, and
VII pyiitC yuHS hiSH Sclu NdlueS
nd there is reason to believe some of
he tellurides are present in places.
Some wonderful specimens of ma
i've and brittle silver and some silver
lance and ruby are obtained from a
mall persistent stringer in the big
shoot, which varies from 1 to 10
in width. The values of the
ore body are fairly we'll divided
gold and silver, although the
predominates. The dump at
10. 1 has a value we'll over $780,
20, practically every ton having been
aken out in straight development. The
line Is situated on a rather steep
Inside %ensuring the most economical
dining. There Is an abundance Of
mber for all purposes: also ample
alter for power, milling, ETC., Is right '
hand. Associated with r. X. Neil
Spokane in this unusually success
Il venture were r. w. Wood and A =
Trites Of Fernie, B. c., and they
e now, with w. r. Wilson, of Fernie.
fortunate owners of this ideal
inc.
The successful development of the
naturally caused renewed ac-
witty and interest, which resulted in
e discovery of several new ore bod