The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-01-09

''au construction at a distance O
about so miles by way of Salmon rive
canyon and Big Creek. If stellit
proves 10 have as broad an applica
ton as its present merits promise. i
Is likely that a big industry will b,
puilt up on this new alloy metal an,
incidentally new resource of copper
ore with probable important by-pro
ouet OF nickel in the Blackbird dis.
ttict, as practically all the ores of thi.
extensive Blackbird district are asso
ciated with cobalt nickel sulphide.
few miles south of this district
at Prairie Basin interest was stimu
ia!ed during the year in the further
development of gold tin placer de
posit' which has shown a result of 1876
pounds of tin bearing concentrates as
saying n per cent tin and $4,000 in
g'ld from pit representing 40 square
yards of bed rock under bank of
line gravel six feet deep with an
abundance of water for hydraulicing.
pS which method it is proposed to op.
crate the property next season.
Mining in Latah County.
IN Latah county activity was re-
VlNea' during the year in the Well
Known mica prospects of Mica noun
lalh' 81 miles east OF our university
town OF Moscow. This district carries
d quite extensive series of lenZes ana
zines of pegmatite in places up to 20
leel thlck, containing segregauons OF
nigh grade mica books up to 10 bv Is
inches in size of excellent quality, One
OF these properties has been developed
zoo feet deep and 500 feet long with
production Of 80 cars of mica which
turned out five per cent clear, first
Grass sheets, 10 per cent second class
and the balance washers and scrap
Ihese coarse pegmatite deposits are
numerous in this district and an i'm
portant source of good mica is prom
lsed with systematic development. The
formation is schisty gneiss
Idaho Quicksilver Deposits.
The high price of quicksilver prevail
ing since the commencement Of the
european war resulted in stimulating
interest in the further development
OF the quicksilver deposits that were
known to exist in the Yellow Pine
district in central Idaho, 70
miles east of Cascade on the Long Val
ley branch of the Oregon Short Line
railway These discoveries were orig
lnally made at the time of the Thun-
der Mountain boom and lie only ten
miles east of Roosevelt, at the head
Of two tributaries of the South Fork
OF the Salmon river, known as East |
Fork and Cinnibar Creek
The original discoveries were made
by Mr. Pringle Smith, who faithfully |
complied with the federal annual as
sessment law ever since and accom- |
pllshed quite lot of preliminary de-
Velopment on a big zone of shearing |
)f fault fissuring that shows exposures
at two points more than so feet wide |
Of well fssured ground at contact |
between quartzite and limestone, and
a disseminctionsof cinnibar
mineral throughout it's width with lines
Of enrichment in places several inches
thick of ore running up to five per
cent quicksilver and several exposures
from four to ten feet thick running
twenty pounds of quicksilver per ton
Of ore. Later the Fern mine was To-
Gated and developed by Theodore Van |
Meter, and associates, supported by |
coal Boise capital.
tunnel was run on this property
100 feet long exhibiting q steep fissure
yein from a foot to three feet wide
II high grade cinnibar ore contain
r S average values of one per cent to
i've per cent quicksilver. A small
Johnson Mckay furnace was built on
his property and operated for short
While during the past summer and
made production of 20 TASKS of
quicksilver which were shipped to CAL
fCrnia and sold on the open market
The enterprise was poorly handled
rom a development standpoint and
he deposit yet remains to be proven /
IS to its lineal extent and productive
apacity
AS result of these opera tions, quite
n incipient boom was started and s
.1eat many claims located adjoining
hese properties to the north and south
nd a number of other handsome
Quicksilver prospects were discovered, !
ut very little development was ac
0mplished before the close of the sea .
on. Two or three small crews are
perating in the district this winter.
to geology is decidedly favorable for {
he occurrence of quicksilver ore and
/ is more than likely that produc-
i've district will ultimately develop at
his point.
Coal Mining in Idaho.
AS a result of the severe coal fam
ne that afflicted Idaho during the 9
asst several winters, Idaho's lone coal /
nine, situated in Teton county, near r
he Wyoming line, became the subject
f serious consideration, and in De- r
ember, 1917. was purchased by r. S. :
abbot and associates of Spokane, who