The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-02-24
Attention Conferred
on Several Impor-
tant Enterprises
NEW MINES IN MAKING
When Mining Comes Back
District Will Have Long
Period of Prosperity

Period OF Prosperity
"HERE Is not much doing now
in the way of new development
work throughout the Occur
d'Alene district, that is, COM
pared with what there was before the
war pushed prices up so high that
the small development companies
were to a great extent forced out of
business. 1t is true that there has
been decline in mining costs to
some extent but unfortunately along
with the slight decline in costs came
"A large decline in the prices of the
metals which tends to discourage a
general resumption of development
operations But in spite of high costs
and low metal prices, there are a
number of companies in all sections
Of the district which have persisted in
the face of unfavorable conditions,
and some of these are being watched
with eager interest with the expecta-
ton that a strike will be made that
viii be the forerunner of another
great mine. And this is just what the
district needs at this time, new pro-
ducing mines. All the old ones of
course will be active for many years,
but there is nothing that gives an
impetus to new development equal to
an occasional strike that transforms
a property in the prospective stage
into an ore producer. There are sew
cral properties now under develop
ment in which such a strike may oc-
cur any day, and it is that which
helps to give buoyancy and confidence
to the mining situation in the pres
encc of an unfavorable metal mar
ket.
Occur d'Alene Syndicate.
The biggest development enterprise
now under way, measured by the
amount of ground being developed,
the mineral possibilities and the fin
anciaI resources of the company, is
the Occur dAlene Syndicate, which
holds under option the two Flynn
groups of claims lying between the
Frisco and Black Bear on the west
and the Star and Morning on the
east, often classed as the most valu-
able undeveloped ground in the dis
trict. This ground is being explored T
by extension of the Black Bear tun-
mel which will give a depth of prob
ably $500 feet. This important enter
prise is under the direction of Rush .
]. White, who represents a syndicate .
organized for the purpose of making
a great mine of the Flynn and it is
understood that the gentlemen COM
posing it are prepared to spend half
a million dollars if necessary in the
attempt. 1t is known that some very
encouraging results have recently
been developed and news of strike
OF Importance may be expected any
day.
Chicago Boston.
Another property upon which the
eyes of the district are riveted is
the Chicago Boston, which is being
developed by the Callahan Zinc-Lead
company Fine bodies of ore have
been found in the tunnel and on the
100 and 200 levels of the shaft. The
ore has not been found on the 400
level. but there seems to be no basis
for doubt that it will be, for the con-
ditions are right. The vein is II or Is
feet wide. and in the east drift where
the work is now being done. there is
a stringer of quartz and galena half
an inch wide about two feet from the
footwall, along which there is two or
three inches of tale and between that f.,
and the ore stringer the rock is liber-
ally impregnated with galena. The
entire face in fact looks like any
round might change it into solid ore. ,
Western Union.
A few months ago a stope was
opened above the main tunnel at the {
Western Union and within a short t
distance the few inches of ore in evil i
dence increased to as much as four {
feet The ore is high grade lead with !
a correspondingly high value in sill {
YER About a dozen carloads of ore
have been shipped, the average net {
shelter return being better than s
$1,000 per car. While the Western J.
Union can not at this time be classed 7
as a big mine, there is every reason r
to believe that it will be such when 7
tie development plans are carried t
out c
Brady Development L
When the crosscut run by the Bra /
DIV Development company had reach 7