The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-03-27

legal nature in apex litigation. and
have also tried to respect operators
interests and to discuss these mat
ters with them before using such in
formation. The big operators have
been very generous in this respect in
permitting me to outline their devel-
opment progress for the community
interest and the benefit of other local
development enterprises, and, as pre-
viously stated, have endeavored not
to abuse this privilege and IL errors
have been made in this connection 1t
was due more to natural personal OPP
timism than any Interior motive.
Geological Contentious Verified.
My forecasts made early in my eX-
perience of the Occur d'Alene ore re-
sources in particular and the state in
general, have been very substantially
borne out and especially is this true
OF the Prichard formations in the
Occur d'Alenes, which, during the ear
ly years Of my experience, were look
ed upon, both by local and imported
technical talent as unlikely to produce
important commercial ore bodies. My
enthusiastic support of the numerous
promising prospects in this particular
formation, am gratif1ed to state,
has been demonstrated in several
cases to be sound. and l have lived to
see this technically discredited hori-
zon of ore bearing rocks develop big
dividend paying mines and offer en-
ployment and payrolls for as many as
1000 men at a time. My early con-
tention of the probable ore carrying
values and geologic importance of
the Hecla dixie, made more than 10
Geology is a guessing science to a
large extent and experience has shown
that my early guesses of results have
been as favorable to the progress of
the district as those of some of the
more capable, technical men who have
participated in its progress during the
past Is years. The positions affords
a rare privilege and one that has
proven an attractive feature Of the
work; to see the top and in two cases
the bottom of famous ore deposits
that rank among the richest of their
class in the mining world at large,
and this has proven an instructive,
practical lesson in such matters.
1t has shown, in the Occur d'Alenes,
how Insignificant and thin crest an
ultimately famous ore body may have
and aptly illustrates the speculative
phase of the business and the neces-
sity, in many instances, of encourag-
ing, development on rather indefinite
ore showings. 1t also embraces the
reverse of this condition and affords
many interesting illustrations of ore
deposits in different districts of the
is at the surface outcrop.
This opportunity of underground
study Of these natural conditions, pur-
sued without any previous technical
training but quite a broad experience
in both Idaho and adjacent metal mi
ming states, emphasizes the prospects
in the opinion of the writer, for the
continued permanency of Idaho as a
whole and the Occur d'Alene in par
ticular, as a large industrial factor in
the production of desirable metallic
minerals, and the south end of the
state as the future principal factor of
| the worlds most important resources
of the universally necessary agricul-
tural minerals in the form of soil fer
tilizer material, the most vital and
primary factor in human existence.