The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1920-06-03
BUNKER HILL g. SULLIVAN
INNER HISTORY OF COMPANY.



vision that after the ore contained in
these boundaries should have been
exhausted. all the property of the
Empire state company or its sue
cessor. the Federal company, should
pass to and become the property of
the Bunker Hill company II was a
long time before the ore bodies were
exhausted. but ultimately they were,
and the Bunker Hill succeeded to all
the rights of its adjoining neighbor in
the Wardner district.
All the novel principles adjudged in
the foregoing cases have remainded
as precedents to this date, with the
exception of the decision in the first
Stemwinder case, which held that a
failure to adverse established prior
ity concusively in favor Of a patent
applicant both as to surface and I'M
derground rights
In the United States Mining Co. V.
Lawson case. 1874 Fed 1863 decided in
the eighth circuit it was held that a
failure to adverse was accompanied
with no more serious consequence
than the loss of surface conflict area,
and that the party failing to adverse
was not concluded in a subsequent
suit involving underground rights
from showing priority This decision
was affirmed by the supreme court of
the United States in Lawson v. Unit
ed states Mining Co. 207 II. S. page
l.
rho ,to.,y of tho movement of the
different parties locating the Last
Chance and the Stemwinder is Of
special interest These two parties
the one known as the Flaherty gang
which located the Last Chance and
the other party headed by S. r. De-
vine who located the Stemwinder
approached the ridge on which the
mines were situated from different
gulches and the locations of these
claims by the two parties were in
point Of time very close together, the
actual priority being found by Judge
Beatty to be with the Stemwinder by
about an hour and a half after an
intensive investigation OF the history
of the claims, which is referred to i'm
the opinion. los Fed. page 1S9 ct seq
In the earlier days Of the mine. par
ticularly during the critical period of
1898. the management viewed the
prospects in depth with considerable
timidity It was suggested that
wines be sunk from the Bunker Hill
No. 3 level to determine whether the
ore continued downward. before in
curing the expense Of driving the
Reed tunnel westward along the lode
so as to connect with the Sweeney
tunnel of the Last Chance, which was
then in good ore This lack of CON
fidence i'm the future of the Bunker
Hill caused timidity in the financing
of improvements and led to the resig-
nation. as we have seen, OF the presi-
dent and manager Of the company.
The map of the mine workings
shows that the ore is distributed in
fairly defined bodies. the principal
ore shoot being the original or Bun
ker Hill shoot which has it's apex at
the spot where the lode was discov-
Ell ed in 1885. This ore body has been
followed for 1850 feet, on its pitch,
which averages 81 degrees. 1t has
maximum length of 1850 feet, on the
18th level. Eastward the Sullivan
ore shoot has been stopped downward
to within 100 feet from the Kellogg
adit: it is irregular in shape. and has
maximum length of 1900 feet on the
9Th level. Some excellent ore has
been struck in this part of the mine
quite recently
On the other side, westward. of the
Bunker Hill ore shoot comes that of
the Stemwinder claim, the interval
between them being $50 feet. They
have the same pitch. The Stemwind-
err ore did not extend below the GOO
foot level, which is 500 feet above the
adit Then come the Last Chance ore
bodies. which are regarded by some as
a continuation from the Stemwinder
but this is open to doubt. The Stem
winder ore shoot probably recurs in
depth as an enlargement of the Bun
ker Hill ore shoot; but it can hardly
be considered as a portion of the Last
Chance ore shoot. which in depth is
cut by the Cate fault, so that its low
err portion should be thrown into the
Sullivan ground. The Last Chance
ore bearing ground is 600 feet long
on the strike and reaches as far as
the adit which at that point is 1880
feet below the surface.
Next is the Tyler ore shoot. This
may be regarded as a continuation of
the Last Chance ore westward 1t is
$50 feet long on the strike of the lode
and was worked down to the Sweeney
level. which is 500 feet below the
outcrop Thus it may be said that
there is an almost continuous run of
ore from the Sullivan claim to the
Tyler claim. making 500 feet or say.
one mile long. Then comes a barren
gap of about 1000 feet before the old
Sierra Nevada workings are reached.
Here the lode dips south as compared
with the Bunker Hills dip southwest;
the ore is 1000 feet long and extends |
for 26O feet vertically-which is not /
much. Then 500 feet farther north