Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1922-02-09
TO THE EDITOR:

BAY HORSE MINE locdJsu hlIe
below Huntington Oregon, on the o
S. L. Ry. (Homestead Branch), ano
last Tuesday l joined delegation
of IL citizens from Weiser on al
! inspection trip. Having been tolc
about the enormous bodies uncover
ed and the high values thereof
naturally had serious doubts about
the truth, because if true, this Bay
Horse Mine would prove to be the
largest deposit of silver known to
me; feel qualified to judge as / am
an old silver minor; have worked in
the largest silver mines of Colorado
and New Mexico; have prospected
these entire states and have been In
charge of mining properties, having
| leased and contracted as well.
| Before 1 entered the tunnel of the
| Bay Horse workings l realized that
there was body of mineral there
and can say from the way l have
seen it and after entering the tun-
mel, had not gone half the distance
Of the tunnel which is 375 feet, when
| | was convinced that the reports of
this property had not been exag-
gerated.
The formation is an enormous
body of periphery and this body
seemed to be thoroughly mineral
lied and what l saw and can safely
say is that there is exposed, opened
up and blocked out 100 feet wide
with no visible walls with the pres
ent development.
The ore is a bromide, chloride and
sulphide showing high values every
where in the tunnel, slopes, cross
cuts and winze and this formation is
large body of porhery all miner
lied. A rough estimate basing the
average at SIS per ton would show
upwards of $1,500,000 of ore
blocked out,
AS far as development has gone it
while the Bay Horse is ready to ship
ore, the spur track was not COM
pleted until a week ago; they have
now to build their bunkers and tram
way before ore can go forward to the
shelters and this should be accom-
plished within sixty days or less.
Thereaftey they will be a shipping
mine and can then begin to develop
their ore bodies on the proper basis;
they have been waiting for mine
timbers, which however had just ar
rived at the mine when we were
there, and which could not be gotten
in until the spur was finished; with
the completion of the bunkers and
the tram the mine should very rapid
ly become a large one and minerlike
development can progress, ore can
be mined and stored in bunkers and
shipped to smelter as rapidly as raj
way can furnish cars. To do this
takes additional machinery ant
and as the Idaho Power
Co. line passes over the property this
will be electrical and will
consist of compressors and drills,
etc. Were this equipment now in
stalled the company could make us
Of it as it has nowhere to store til
ore and they cannot mine extensive
ly until they can get the ore out t.
the bunkers and smelters; the least
average output of the mine, after |
It is under Roadway, should be 100
IONS per day.
The property is now equipped |
with bunk houses, boarding houses,
blacksmith shop, assay office, etc.,
everything clean and the personal OF
he mine is clean; the superintend-
mt is p H. Miller, we'll known in
Weiser, and rated as a competent
minor by those who personally know
lin.
Never in my life's experience as a
L
ell of such enormous bodies of sill
er of such high values and 1 have
worked in the old Aspen mine three
ears and in the Veteran and the ].
!. Johnson mine of Aspen, Colorado,
ave visited the great Smuggler
line and the Molly Gibson in Aspen
nd have leased in the Park Regent;
have also worked in Black Hawk
CENTRAL City, Boulder and other
irge camps and have handled ma.
hine drills IA years. Have worked
I Cripple Creek mines Ia years; in
ne Portland, Last Dollar, Gold Dol.
lr and Legal Tender where the ore
as sacked and put under lock and
ey in the vaults.
&C. w. WATSON.