The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-01-06
RAE WALLACE COMPANY
MACHINERY ON GROUND
sEGlN PRODUCTION NEXT SEA-
SON-MUCH ORE is NOW
BLOCKED OUT.

Allen q. Kennedy. secretary of tn,
} Rae Wallace Mining company. ha.
received copy of the Daily Times
published at Anchorage, Alaska. which
contains an interesting article re-
gardng the property of the Rae-Wal-
lace company situated in the Willow
creek district Don s. Rae. president
and manager of the company was en-
gagged i'm mining in this district many
years ago and it was through him that
this company was organized for the
purpose of developing group OF
claims located by him in Alaska. Most
of tine stock of this company is held
. by Wallace and Kellogg people and
an of the officers and directors ex-
lcepting Mr. Rae reside i'm this dis
trict In addition to Mr. Rae and Mr..
/ Kennedy president and secretary
/ treasurer, respectively the directors
are Fred Porter and II. NJ. Childs, of
Kellogg. and John Wood, of Gem. The
story i'm the Anchorage paper gives
much interesting information regard
ing the Rae Wallace property and is
here reproduced:
Encounter Many Difficulties.
despite the backward season. the
Rae Wallace Mining company made
substantial strides i'm the way of ma
temal development on the quartz prop
erty during the summer of 1920 The
company controls II claims, which are
considered the equal in value of any
quartz claims i'm the proven Willow
creek quartz district.
During the past summer Don s.
Rae manager for. the company sue
ceeded in completing preliminary work
which insures early operation in the
spring of 1921. Work for the 1920
season has ceased ON the Rae Wallace
property, as has the majority of work
i'm the district other than tunnel work
and blocking ont ore for next season.
Work Accomplished.
During the past season efforts at
the Rae Wallace mines were confined
TO evcavating for anchor bolts for in
stallaton of the tramway; freighting
all the heavy mining machinery from
.WahsHla to mines and erecting sub
stantial buildings in the way of a 16x
- two-story bunk house, horse barns,
cook house and blacksmith shop The
machinery placed on the ground at
great expense and labor includes one
2-dril air compressor. one Economy
20-horsepower coal oil engine; one
stopping machine drill; one Waugh
sinking and drifting machine with bar
and column: one 5000 foot 2-bucket
Rceblng tramway: one St Clair steel
sharpener. one Sen Pan amalgamator
two 1O-horsepower Z-type Fairbanks
Morse coal oil engines, one 50-ton
Blake rock breaker complete assaying
equipment and minor mining access /
cries and parts In addition to the
complete list of machinery the com
pany has placed a large footage of /
mill timber and other lumber on the /
Ground for use next season.
Six Veins Exposed.
"The difficulty in freighting machin-
cry is peculiar to Willow creek, and
wagon roads were built from the main
government road to the mill site A
'O-horsepower hoist was used TO
transport the machinery and other
leight to the proper location. 1900
Get from the tramway terminal The
niU site has been cleared and stills
1id for the large ore bins
"The Rae Wallace Mining company
laims are located on the left limit of
rishhook creek and i'm a line between
ne Martin and Marble mines, both
. Grating Other work done On the
roperty during the last few years
onsists of 300 feet of drifting on the
ems. Six veins have been exposed
p the property which are all opened
%. The ore is free milling and aver
ges in the neghborhood of $35 per
on. On what is commonly known as
he Essential property which was !
urchased recently by the Rae-Wal-
zee company considerable develop
,ent work in the way of tunneling and
pen cuts has been done insuring suf- :
cient ore of marketable value to
uarantee material expenditure.
Engineers Report.
TN 1917 Theodore Pilger, the we'll d
nown mining engineer, associated
ith the Butte & Superior Mining
1mpany of Butte Mont, thoroughly
ivestigated the property and passed
,vorably on the quantity and quality :
f ore. 1t was largely due to Mr. Pill
sr's favorable report that caused the Il
)mpany to expend in the neighbor-
BOD of $4,000 for machinery and
ibstantial development work for fu-
re continued operations. %
Starting in next season with the y,
stallation of the modern machinery "a
e Rae Wallace Mining company will II
ave one of the best equipped proper II