The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-01-13


p az Anaconda Mont which provides a
e market for the surplus bv-produot
suiphuric acid to be made from fine
= smelter fumes waste and produces a
q triple phosphate containing q
- concentrated value Of As per cent SOL
e uble phosphoric acid as COMPARED N
. the 10 or is per cent produced bv the
ordinary acid phosphate methods of
/ the south
This is one Of the most desirable
? forms of this essential fertilizer min
efal that viii find ready and rapid
~ expanding market in the great ag-
r'cultWal region on this side of the
Mississippi and north of Missouri.
When the enterprise is completed TO
its designed capacity it is likely to
prove the largest unit of mining and
manufacturing activity in Idaho and
think / voice the sentiment of Idaho
people i'm general in Welcoming tbis
big progressive mineral coronation
which has done so much for Montana.
to participation i'm Idaho mining pro-
gress.
1t is a rather far cry from copper
mining and smelling to a primary at
tack on the high cost of living but
that is just what this enterprise
means, as its product is used to don
bic the quantity Of food and clothing
products that the agricultural indus I
try provides from the same area of
land. and at a price that will paw
more profit to the farmer who uses it /
i'm the replenishing of worn out soil
fertility than any other method that
could be devised
Western Phosphate Company.
In addition to the Anaconda com
panys progress in this field the West
ern Phosphate company at Paris.
about 30 miles further east on the
south side Of the Bear river valley
completed a three-mi railway spur
to its mine in Paris canyon and
5OO-ton daily capacity mill during the
year, in addition to extending its
main adit tunnel on its rich phosphate
vein to a total length of 1000 feet with
a face depth of 600 feet. and the es-
adjustment of a daily production of
rude rock and pulverized floats that
average $50 tons a day during the
losing months of the year and prom
ses to be rapidly expanded to the full =
Milling capacity.
In an adjoining canyon just east of
Paris, the same vein was opened on
he property of the Bear Lake Phos- D
d n 4
el 1000 feet long that has been equip
ed with a Sullivan angle compound j.
ir compressor of 500 cubic feet ca
acity, 1OOO-ton storage bin and plans T.
ave been made fes the installation !,
f a 500 ton milling plant
Other Operations.
on the opposite side of Bear river
alley in Montpelier canyon the San -
Chemical company install y,
/ a compressor plant to facilitate its u
evelopment which has progressed to
depth of 500 feet on the dip of the
Elm. This company has been ship y
ng an average of 100 tons of high 81
-ade phosphate rock a day since May "a
the companys acid works on San ~
bay
Adjoining this property to the north u
iother phosphate enterprise has been ~
ider rapid development since early ~
ring under the direction of Neibey-
ewhouse interests of Salt Lake by an It'd
lit tunnel driven on the vein which 81
tcrops up the steep canyon side W
r more than a mile in length This
terprise has also been equipped
tn a 5OO-ton milling plant now
arly completed and has made daily
ipments of so tons of high grade
ok during its development progress. ion
le mineral from these two proper be
IS has been hauled over the canyon av
ad to the Montpelier station four wi
les, by motor trucks at a cost of ISL
25 per ton, but plans are being for WI
llated to cover this route by a rail- es
~ spur which will probably be con- tn
'ucted next year. tn
About 10 miles further northwest of ba
Dntpelier at Georgetown canyon, one ten
the richest and most extensive eX- te;
sitions of phosphate mineral cover tw
by a large group of patented claims in
med by the Utah Fertilizer and n
iemical company, and under the arr
of Robert J. Shields of tei
1t Lake. is subject of present ne in,
tiations for transfer that will in
I've an additional railway spur of Wi
7 miles and another big unit Of *
osphate production. These are the mo-
lin points of development and pro- nc,
ction in this new Idaho mineral ter ar,
DRY with several others of lesser no
portance. mo-
Predictions Come True. ma
have persistently called attention wa
these deposits in my annual re- pr,
rts for the past 10 years and have an
en- convicted of extreme optimism in gel
e matter and so years ahead of my coi
ne. Naturally I am much gratified "
this early realization and keen in
est now evidenced regarding this
biect. which means so much to
,ho mineral development and to the