The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1920-09-09
AMERICAN COMMANDER DISCOVERY OF TIN ORE
SURFACE WORK ON VEIN IN TWIN FALLS COUNTY
ASSAYS SHOW GOOD VALUES IN
LEAD AND SILVER-WiLL
EXTEND SHAFT.

Since the reorganization of the Am
erican- Commander Mining & Milling
lcessary preliminary work has been in
progress with the view TO determin-
ing the nature of permanent develop
ment operations which the company
expects to undertake this fall Fol
lowing the change in management
the property was inspected by f..
Gushing Moore, a mining engineer for
many years a resident of this city
but now of Spokane, and the work
now being done is understood to be
following his recommendations. II.
b Kingsbury. of Spokane, is secre-
tary and manager of the company. At
a meeting of the directors at the Of
flee of the company in this city last
night an assessment of one cent per
share was levied and the president,
Herman MarQuardt, was authorized
to issue a letter to the stockholders
advising them of conditions at the
property and plans of the company
for development The letter follows:
@Your company resumed operations
six weeks ago after shut down for
nearly FIVE years on account of the
high operating costs and labor short
age caused by the war. Nearly all
the machinery and tools pertaining
to operating the mine were either
lost or stolen during it's inactivity. as
no Waterman was employed during
that time Since operations were
started much of this equipment has
been replaced.
"All of the work that has been done
on your property since resumption to
date has been done on the surface,
consisting of cleaning out and retim-
bering the shaft which is approxim-
ately 900 feet above the No l tunnel
level, and digging three 150-foot
trenches or open cuts to bedrock ON
the vein at intervals of 100 feet, start
ing from the shaft which is also sunk
on the vein. These trenches have
been run to near our north sideline,
which is also the south sideline of the
Gold Hunter Mining & Smelling COM
pany.
1.-THE shaft is located on the Com
mander claim, several hundred feet
from the apex of Commander noun
tain. and is 40 feet deep from bed
rock. Owing to the shallow depth of
the shaft, all of the ore there is in
form, recent sampling of
which gave returns of .02 ounces gold, .
$50 ounces silver, 24.4 per cent lead
and per cent iron As the vein COW
ers the entire width of the shaft, its
width can not be determined until
have been run to the walls.
The ledge showing the same forma-
ton as in the shaft has been exposed {
at bed rock in each of the open cuts.
Surface work will be continued
Turing the balance of this month ]
Work will then be commenced sinking
he shaft and crosscuts run to walls .
If the vein. This work is being done ]
o enable our engineer to determine
he length and dip or course of the {
-ein. so that we may be better able I
o judge as to where TO extend our l
over tunnel without doing any I'M /
necessary work.
with the permission of your di- t
ectors, the West Hunter Mining COM /
any has been using our lower tun- I
ell to develop their property by driv S
lg d crosscut into their ground A q
lumber of stringers of high grade ore
yere encountered 300 feet inside of
ur lines 1t is probable that these q
tringers will lead into an ore body ?
nd connect with our vein now under o
xploratiOn on the surface. It is prob O
BILE that no work will be done in this =
mel until work in the shaft has <
cen completed. Your property has q
1000 feet of under L
round workings. Il
Summing up-the outlook of your c.
ompany never looked brighter and Il
our directors hope to have better c
ews for you within the near future" W