The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-03-20


to fill this position. AS previousl,
stated, have never actively partici
pated In my own success at election
times and as the recent election i.
passed. / can not be convicted of nov
playing for votes as my present in
tention is that / am serving my lasI
term in this office. which is likely te
be abolished in its present form. l,
might be timely to say to the mer
whose interests are involved in this
connection that their confidence hasn't
been entirely abused in this respect
|during the long years of my service
and In answer to the arguments put
lup against my reelection in the inter-
est Of my opponent last fall, which, to
express 1t mildly, were that / was a
good deal like the nigger's definition
of near beer, "all froth and no author
| ity" I feel like inflicting on them a
swan song in little story Of foreign
born miner.
"This miner, when a boy 16 years of
the more democratic nations of north
ern Europe in the steerage of a Cunard
liner, looking for job, in 1880. He
landed in Milwaukee, Wis, with a
capital Of 10 cents, quickly secured a
job on a southern Wisconsin farm
which he successfully filled for year
and half and was fortunate in fall
ing into the hands of an old fortyniner
whose stories of gold mining expert
ence imbued this young emigrant with
desire to become metal miner.
Following out this desire in the
summer Of 1882 by the free fare labor
employment route, he landed in Mon
tana and engaged in railroad grade
work, few months of which work
satisfied him on the surface digging
feature and his book study of precious
and base. metal occurrences emphas1z-
ed the fact in his mind that such SUBJ
stances had to be sought for at depth
under the surface and involved prac-
tical experience along those lines so
he took the first underground oppor-
tunity that presented itself, which
was at the west end of the Bozeman
tunnel on the northern Pacific rail-
way then under construction, where he
served a severe apprenticeship for
nearly two years. graduating from the
chief engineer of Missouri mule pull
ing dump cars, to mucker, then chuck
tender and timberman's helper.
Bozsman Tunnel Job.
"This was a mans sized tunnel tim
bered with choice red fir posts 16x2i
inches and Is feet long on parallel mud
stills. The caps were of the same di-
mansions forming a hip roof in five
volving special care in their blocking,
bracing and construction. The ground
varied from hard to rotten. The roof
looked like sieve and the face was
mon and the dangerous placing of
hundreds Of cords Of red fir wood to
crib the back was one of the retard-
ing and hazardous features of the
work. One section of the tunnel was
so rotten the whole face had to be
breast boarded and driven up in seq
ments. The ground was drilled with
ld-fashioned Ingersoll Sullivan slug
gers that weighed about quarter of
a ton each and were operated from
tripods and staging except where the
ground was hard enough to run
heading, where bars were used.
Accidents were of common occur
renee both serious and fatal, as the
work was being rushed and the crew
crowded all the time William De-
laney was the efficient chief foreman
Of the job at the west end and the
Muir brothers the contractors. De-
laney afterwards lived in the Occur
d'Alenes for while. Al that time
Jim Honorable James II. Callahan
and Andrew Devlin, two well known
Occur d'Aleners, were ordinary rail-
road rock men and Mr.. AL Dunn of
the Wallace Miner was a surface rus
tier and can confirm these statements
Of this piece Of difficult underground
practical mining and engineering
work, compared to the hazards of
which there is nothing to exceed in
any Of the big mines of Idaho.
Experience in Mining.
"This young emigrant subsequently
worked for Is years as practical mi
ner, covering experience at Marysville,
Wicks and Comet, Mont, and Ana
conda hill at Butte and afterwards for
a number Of years in the gold and
district of central Idaho,
where, as miner and prospector ne
mines, developed them,
built small mills, took out bullion and
filled every capacity in smaller opera
tons from miner to general manager
and incidentally worked on the win
ming side of hammersman contest to
settle dispute as to the advantages
Of single and double jack work in a
hard gold quartz vein against couple
of selected Butte huskies, and was
subsequently elected state mine in
spector for Idaho from Custer coun-
ty. He embraced full citizenship at
the earliest chance to do so and has