The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1920-01-01
COPPER DEPOSITS
TO Be DEVELOPED
Red Metal Owners
Prepare for Ac-
tive Season
ON LITTLE NORTH FORK
New Mines Will Enter Ship
ping List During the
Coming Year
ON LITTLE NORTH FORK

" NCOuRAGED BY the rising
from government geologists
that the product Of the copper
mines of the northwest will be In keen
demand within few months, owners
of promising copper deposits in the
Occur d'Alenes are beginning to lay
plans for extensive development dur
ing the next spring and summer.
In the Mullan- Larson district are
number of partially developed prop
critics that give promise Of yielding
substantial tonnage of the red metal
when the veins are uncovered at suf-
ticient depth to permit of mining op-
erations. A number of properties in
that district are along the old Snow
storm vein and the owners are opti-
mistic over the outlook to find anoth-
er big body of similar character and
value.
Copper did not play a very import
ant part in the production figures of
the state during the past year. State
Mine Inspector Bell reports that the
Richmond, over on the Idaho Mon
tana divide, was the second largest
producer of copper in the state, from
where a number of cars of crude ore
ranging from 4 to 10 per cent in the
red metal, were shipped.
Look Toward Little North Fork.
Aside from the Mulan section, the
future source of copper from the Occur
d'Alenes apparently will be found in
the Little North Fork district where
a number of likely deposits have been
uncovered and where a considerable
tonnage is now available for market.
Plans for an extensive exploration of
that district are now being made and
spring will find at least four of the
larger properties under development.
At the Horst-Powell mine, now
owned and operated by the Linfor
Copper company, a recent report by
William A. Beaudry, former manager
of the Stewart and one of the well
known mining men of the district,
SuoWS a. ldl sc dlIphhL VI toiiihSiSi''
ore to be exposed in the old workings,
with a favorable chance Of developing
extensive reserves as the workings
are continued to deeper levels. This
mine is splendidly equipped with con-
centrator, including modern flotation
plant and capable of treating $50
tons daily Machinery for mine oper-
alton Is available and electric power
Is obtained from the Washington Wa
ter Power lines at Cataldo. 1t Is un-
derstood that active operations will
be resumed at this property in the
early spring, should favorable mar
kets be found.
Handspike Has Ore.
| Farther up the river the Little
North Fork Copper Mining company,
owning the Handspike group, plans to
continue development work next
summer and Is expected to make
favorable showing on the copper vein
now opened in the lower tunnel for
more than 1000 feet.
! AT the Riverside group President 7.
r. Mason has installed an SO-horse-
power boiler, compressor hoist and
other equipment for sinking purposes
and is reported to be making plans
for development work In the spring.
A 7-foot vein has been exposed in the
lower tunnel, with Is inches of cop
per and galena showing in it.
The Hamburg American and the
Rainbow properties are also among
the Little North Fork list to hold at
be under development early in the
spring,