The Alaska daily empire., 1921-10-27
SALMON RIVER DISTRICT MOST
 PROMISING FROM BIG MINING STANDPOINT; MINES OPERATING

2 E i't - F +f''i ception of the potentialities of the camp was direct outcome of his ac- tivity.
 Bonded to New York
 The property was then immediate 1 ly bonded for New York interests by H. R. Plate, and work commenced the ensuing winter A tunnel, No. 1, was started at an elevation of 2,100 feet on the high-grade vein in good ore, and another tunnel, Mo- 2, at an elevation of 1850 feet on the mi,i- Idle low grade vein, also in good ore No. ? cut the ore shoot diagonally for over 30 feet. the values being good. The tunnel was extended ''about 200 feet beyond the ore shoot |into the country rock. Work was then stopped in this tunnel. No. 1 Etunnel was also driven diagonaily across the ore shoot, which grad ually left the rinnel on the right hand side at a point about 80 feet in. The tunnel was continued almost straight following a slip fer Ia considerable distance-for a fur ther TO feet, a total of 250 feat, without picking up the ore again. A cross cut was also driven to the right for about 12 feet. about half of it being, in vein filling, but lean. This tunnel was then abandoned. 4 Iru har r.x, from gulch some 200 feet south of tunnel After being driven abodt co feet without getting ore, this, too, was abandoned
 Poorly Mineralized
 A crosscut tunnel, No. 4, was now started farther down the hill about 450 feet below No. 2 and driven about 500 feet before the vein was encOun- tered. This proved to have width of well over 100 feet, but was poorly mineralized A drift of 40 feet along side small diorite dyke was run il where some ore was just showing np when the New York syndicate threw up their bond and quit the camp. after operations extending over near ly IS months at cost exceeding $6O, 900.
 In the summer, of 1916, few months after H. R. Plate had left, R. K. Neill of Spokane was induced by Pat Daily, who had been foreman for both Bush and Plate and still be- lieved it would make a mine to look over the property. The examination and sampling proving satisfactory, Mr. Neill bonded it the following winter for $1O0.O0O. beginning work in the spring. His first work was done in No 1 tunnel at the point where the high grade left it to find out what happened to the ore. with continued. A few shifts sufficed to show the vein was really parallelins the tunnel, and at no point in the 250 feet of Plates work was 1t mo:e | than six feet away, while the face of the tunnel where work was stopped was actually in the vein. As the svein here is almost barren values $1.50-and closely resembles the wall rock in which he had dritted for the last 160 feet, no doubt MT. Plate failed to realize that he was in the vein. Had he, before daserting this tunnel, driven two feet to the right, he would have been in g ore, while five feet ahead would have reached high-grade ore
 Mine Nearly Missed
 This is an outstanding example of a great mine being missed b. a small margin When the first work showed beyond doubt the real di rection of the ore body. nothing more was done there. A crosscut was started about 60 feet farther in, and reached the ore in six feet. Plates i 12-foot crosscut was extended about 30 feet. After driving each of these crosscuts into good ore for nearly 4Q feet, without reaching the other wal Neill decided to start a crosscui from the face where Plate had quit and also to drive ahead . further 600 feet to get under the last of ths series of open cuts which exposes the ore shoot on the surface and