The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-06-16
A Host of Friends
Honor Memory
of Pioneer
MANY YEARS OF LABOR
Won Final Reward in Great
Mine That Bears His
Name--His Career
"HE PAssING Of pioneer is an

TIME PASSING of a pioneer is an
event of far more significance
than is found in the manifesto
tions of grief by those of his
immediate family and expressions of
sorrow from hosts of personal friends.
IL is an occasion that brings forcibly
to public attention the debt we Of
the western mining fields owe to
those sturdy, fearless, adventurous
men who penetrated the mountain
wilderness, endured hardships, lived
in solitude grew old while still young
through excessive labor. and who fin
ally unlocked the hidden treasures of
the mountains from which has flown
steady stream of mineral wealth TO
enrich the world This was the
thought that was doubtless in the
minds of many of the large number
of friends who followed the body of
James f. Callahan to its final resting
place last Tuesday morning. AL
though he has passed on the great
mine that bears his name will con-
tinue to pour out its riches and add
I
the people. and through it perhaps
other mines will swell the output;
perchance other mining property
which this pioneer prospector located
and owned may in other hands real
ize his expectations, and for years to
come the world will continue to be
enriched through the unyieding de-
termination and industry of this pio-
neer as he labored for years in the
solitude of the mountains We need
not attempt to assign higher motives
to the pioneers than to other men;
they were human, working for per-
sonal gain just as those did and are
doing who followed the trails they
had blazed But it is a fact that
whatever their motives selfish or UNI
selfish, they laid the foundation for
the privileges and prosperity we en-
joy today and they are therefore en-
titled to the respect and honor that
has just been paid to one of their
number
Came TO Eagle IN 1888
/ James f. Callahan was in the
woods near Bozeman, Mont, engaged
in getting out ties under contract for
the Northern Pacific railroad, when
the news reached him of the discOv-
cry of gold on Prichard creek. AS
the contract had not proved very pro-
htable, he was ready for any change
that promised quicker and larger pro-
fits He therefore joined the Occur
d'Alene stampede and arrived at
Eagle. by way of the famous Trout
creek trail, in September, 1888 He
was joined by his brother John Cal
Iahan. who had been with him in
Montana. in 1884. After engaging
more or less in placer mining in the
vicinity of Murray Mr.. Callahan
turned his attention to prospecting
along the South Fork and in the vi
cinity of Sunset. It was here that
he and his brother John made the To-
cations of what has since been known
as the Callahan mine and which
brought fortune to both. After a few
years following the location John
Callahan gave most of his attention
to mining in other parts of the dis
trict while Jim stuck to the Callahan
and other properties at the head of
the east fork of Nine Mile. But the
Callahan was the one to which he
gave most of his attention, extending
the tunnel which he and his brother
had started until he struck what is
said to have been the richest shoot
of galena ever found in the district
Make Shipments.
Having struck the ore, the next
question was to get it to the railroad,
for the original Callahan mine is
thigh up on the mountain. on the
north or Beaver slope eight miles
from the railroad at Wallace, and
without a wagon road. The first thing
was to get a wagon road. The sun
set road had been constructed and
the only feasible plan was to connect
the Callahan with that road This
was accomplished by starting at a
point on the Sunset road above the
present Callahan camp and swinging
back and over the summit and thence
down to the Callahan tunnel Indi-
eating the difficulty he had in build
ing this road, a few years ago while
walking over the road with Mr.. Cal
lahan he told the writer that he sur
veyed it himself and did most of the