The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-02-20
LEAD NINE N WALLACE
WHO WILL WORK CLAIM?
HOSE AND SLUlcE BOXES ALL
THAT Is NECESSARY TO
MAKE CLEANUP.

The tendency Of human nature /,
seek something far away or dififcui
to gain, oblivious to the golden OPP
portunities within easy reach, Is Otter
strikingly illustrated in the mining
districts. A rich discovery In a DIS.
tant state Is more enticing than the
proved deposits of the district we ar:
in, and even within the confines OF
the home district hardy prospectois
scale high mountains and explore pre-
cfpitous canyons in quest of mineral
wealth, laboriously sinking shafts and
driving tunnels to develop ore bodies
that may or may not exist, while
along the travelled road or the familiar
trail the coveted mineral lies unno-
ticed and within easy reach. No one
would expect to find lead mine
within the corporate limits of the city
OF Wallace. and that explains why 1t
has never been found. The unexpect-
ed is continually happening in mining,
and therein is found much of the
fascination of the business Ore Is
found in places and under conditions
wholly at variance with all accepted
geological laws. But the lead mine
in Wallace has nothing to do. with
geology, nor Is the marketing of its
product concerned with metallurgy,
for 1t Is pure and ready for use the
moment it is taken from the earth.
A Case Of Secondary Enrichment.
over quarter of a century ago the
Wallace Rod and Gun club now abre-
Waited to the Wallace Gun club, To-
Gated its traps on Nine Mile short
distance above the Northern Pacific
depot, and year after year the mem
bers of that organization0of sports
men have fired leaden pellets into the
opposite side Of the canyon, some hit
ting a clay pigeon in its flight and
all landing in the soil on the hillside
II Is safe to say that many tons of
lead lie in that limited space, and all
that Is needed is hose connected
with the flume on the opposite side
or the canyon, or connected to fire
plug and few lengths of sluce boxes,
10 recover this lead in placer miner
fashion. Here Is a chance for a few
miners out of job to make good pay.
The thing has been done in other
places where the conditions are, much
less favorable than here. The current
Issue of Dupont Magazine tells an in
teresting story of mining lead on gun
club grounds, and contains sugges-
tion that some practical miners can
take up here with profit Here Is the
story:
Chance for Easy Money.
Wartime demands greatly depleted
our available supply of lead During
the closing days of the war; this i'm
portant commodity was at a premium
There always Is a ready market for
lead in almost any form
Every trapshooting club is an en-
bryo lead mine needing only to be
worked to return a rich profit. Here
. an opportunity for these clubs to |
Increase the waning supply OF great
y needed product by retaining the |
cad from the grounds which have
been shot over and incidentally put
snug sum in the club treasury. /
The grounds which have been
hot over for several years are well
worth mining. For every thousand
hells, containing Y ounce shot, fired
Sl25 pounds of leaden pellets are
prinkled over the ground.
After three years of shooting over
he traps of the du Pont Club, Will
nington, Delaware, the grounds were
mined and tWsnty-three tons of lead
covered The operation was repeat ,
d a year later with the same degree {
I success. The grounds at Column G
nus, Ohio. gun club We're mined sew c
raj years ago. Twenty-six tons of t
sad were salvaged, one pound of shot O
eing extracted from sixty pounds of Z
irt. The Elliott Shooting park at a
,ansas City, Mo, owned by Robert a
Elliott, the pioneer gun club miner, e
lelded quantity of lead worth $3.50
he first year it was mined.
Two systems are used in recover h
lg shot from the ground-the blower s.
nd the placer. The blower system I
the simplest and the easiest to in IL
all. This method was used on the j.
a Pont grounds. The surface where OF
lie greatest amount Of shot fell was o,
inch of sod and soil be- b,
q removed to a shredding machine, W
here II was chopped up finely. A So
over was attached to this machine, to
hich was just strong enough to blow h;
e soil out through pipe, The shot re
ling heavier fell into trough and h;
n into sacks. The shot was reason n,
Ny clean and readily sold. The en- oN
re equipment was inexpensive, con-
sting of the shredder and the blower
Id small gasoline engine to oper-
e them. A force of four men kept C,
e machine constantly supplied with D.,
1T.
'@The placer system Is more COM or