The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-05-12
STATE MINE INSPECTOR
IS A PRODUCT OF IDAHO
FIRST OFFICIAL VlSiT-TO IN
SPECT BIG MINES AND
PROSPECTS.

Stewart Campbell. state mine in
spector. is making his headquarters
at the Samuels while making daily
, trips of inspection to the mining pro
perties tributary to this city. Befor,
reaching Wallace last Friday Mr.
Campbell stopped several days a
Kellogg and inspected the Bunker
Hill mine, mill and smelter and other
mining properties, productive and il
course of development, in the vicinity
of the smelter city. He also went
down to Pine creek and inspected the
new strike on the Sidney, with which
he was most favOrably impressed He
pronounced the surface showing the
biggest he had seen in the district
and he expects development to show
an ore body of corresponding size.
Since coming to Wallace Mr.. Camp
bell has inspected the Hecla, Gala
han. Tamarack and Hercules. Today
he viii visit the Western Union, one
of the newer properties of which he
has heard much. and in the afternoon
he will probably go down to Two
Mile and inspect the New Hope and
other properties in the prospective
stage in that vicinity. Tomorrow
Mr.. Campbell will visit the Morning
mine and his inspection of that prop
erty may require the better part Of
two days Following the Morning the
next to receive his attention will
probably he the American Command
err, upon which strike was recently
made, and from there Mr.. Campbell
Will probably visit the Midnight on
the opposite side of the canyon.
Highly Pleased With Inspection.
From every point of view Mr.
Campbell expressed much satisfac-
ton with his visit to the Occur
d'Alene district, the first since 1907
when he came here as a student in
the Idaho school of mines, from
which he graduated in the spring of
that year He said he had received
every courtesy at the hands of man
ayers of the mines and every facility
had been placed at his disposal in
making his Inspections He is here
70 help the mining industry of Idaho,
and that means the producing mines.
both big and little, development op-
eratons and the prospector. All of
these combine to make up the min
ing industry of Idaho and service to
all of them come within the province
of the state mine inspector Com
menting upon his observations in the
course Of his inspections of the pro-
ducing mines, Mr. Campbell stated
~
splendid condition of the mines from /
the standpoint of safety and general /
working conditions, and this condi-
ton was evidently duly appreciated [
by the employees. Taking the Hecla .
os an example, Mr. Campbell said
that it seemed that everything posi-
bic had been done to promote the
safety of the men and to care for
them promptly and effectively in case
IF injury AS a result of this con-
slant concern for the welfare of the
Mr. Campbell said that
rom the moment he reached the
rTecla mine there was evident a spir-
t of loyalty to the management that
extended from the superintendent
light down the line.
Almost a Native dahoan.
Mr. Campbell was born in Nevada.
When he was hardly a year old his
parents moved to HALEY, where he
crew to manhood and which is still
lis home. He worked his way
through the university at Moscow,
aking mining engineering and met
liturgy, graduating from the school
If mines in the class of 1907. After
eaving school he was employed for
wo years by Irwin E. Rockwell, of
Bellevue. who was engaged in min
ng and in the development of wafer
,ower. At the end of that period
Ir. Campbell opened an onice as a
mining engineer in HALEY, where he q
Don built up a profitable business, ?
rom which he was called to the Of ,
ice of state inspector of mines.