The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1920-07-01

- EN- developments Dy lue
Columbus Mining company
~ operating on Eagle creek,
are most encoura n g
and indicate an early confirmation of
the predictions regarding the great
value of the cOmpany's property. The
company owns thirteen claims at the
junction of East Eagle and Tributary
creeks, upon which development work
has been going on continuously for
the past year or more. Victor Carl
son, a miner of wide experience, is
superintendent of operations while
the general direction of the develop
ment work is in the hands of Sidney
l.. ShOnts, a mining engineer of this
city who has been actively identified
with mining operations of this district
for many years and who is now chief
engineer for the Federal Mining &
Smelling company in connection with
the apex litigation with the Hecla
Mining company. Mr.. ShOnts made
one of his periodical visits to the
Columbus a few days ago and has
embodied his observations in a special
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for further development work. 1t is
evident from this report that the best
showing that has ever been made in
the property is now exposed and that
Il fine body of commercial ore may
be expected with the extension of the |
east drift
Vein Looks Good.
Describing the showing at the Co |
lumbus. Mr.. Shonts says in his re- /
port: in the tunnel on the Murray |
and Good Hope claims, a drift has
been made southerly about 100 feet |
from the point where the vein was in
tersected by the main crosscut. 1t I
has followed a bedded vein of quartz
and galena from one to six feet wide.
At point IS feet south from the main
crosscut in the south drift a vein
running east and west was encounter
ed
"A drift called the east drift is
now being run upon this vein easterly
1t is composed of fractured quartzite
and quartz. carrying lead. zinc and
silver from to IS inches in thickness.
1t is apparently a true fissure vein
crossing the bedding nearly at right
angles and dipping about 80 degrees
towards the north. 1t is a very good
looking vein and bears ore it's entire
length so far as developed. 1 would
recommend that the east drift on this
vein be continued as rapidly as pos
sible."
A sample of this ore at the office of
the company in the Gyde-Taylor build
ing taken from the face by Therrett
Towles local representative is bright
clean galena in quartzite and without
zinc Although this is a fine sample
of milling ore, Mr.. Towles says it is
not the best and is below the average
sample of the vein.
Uncover Another Vein.
Soon after work started on the Co
lumbus old time placer miners in that
recalled that in carrying on
placer operations at the west end of
the group a lead vein was uncovered
crossing the creek and extending into
the Columbus ground in an easterly
and westerly direction. Early this
spring work was started to uncover
this vein, it being under a mass of
gravel as the result of placer mining.
It was quite a task to uncover it, but
il has finally been accomplished and
found to be just as described by the
early placer miners. Speaking of this
vein, Mr. Shonts says: Its dip is
vertical. Because of the teaching of {
the original vein filing by the water
of the creek, il is impossible to de-
termine the exact composition Of the {
vein. Practically all of the lead would s
have been dissolved by this
process. The vein has a very good
appearance. It contains quartz and
iron and other vein material and is
by about four inches Of
gouge which indicates considerable
movement on the fault plane along
the vein" Mr.. Shonts recommends
that a crosscut be started about 200
feet southeast from the creek to de-
termine the position of the vein and
it's value. Mr. Towles, who accom-
panied Mr.. Shonts to the property,
states the vein can be plainly seen
through the clear water of the creek.
Promising Mineral Section.
The Columbus is one of several s
properties in the Eagle creek section