The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-01-05
N o r TIL SIDE IN 1921
ORD OF MINING
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surface quartz heavily charged witt
sulphides not unlike the ore taken on
of the old shaft when the former com
pany operated the property Thi.
quartz carries very fair values in gold
Two assays the writer (holding stool
in the company made two years age
from similar rock returned 81 and s2C
respectively. There are, however nc
reduction facilities at the mine fol
gold rock, the mill now being put VI
being for concentration of lead silver
and zinc ores. There is an enormous
dump at the shaft, something like 60
feet high and 100 feet long. The prop
erty is well equipped with power hav
ing both electric and water energy.
and a steam power saw mill. Work
was continuous on this property during
1921, and good progress toward ton
mage has been made. This company
has now levied rs assessments and is
free of debt. The Paragon Con has
butted against power weakness, and
was proceeding to install electric en-
ergy when the late blizzard stopped
work for the winter.
Beaver District
Very little work was done in the
upper part of this district, around the
vast eIopa Of C,,reat IDool- l,,,;-~- 81, -
past year. and the writer gives little
attention to that section, as it is prac-
tically connected with Placer Center
district of the South Side. and reports
to the geological survey are supposed
to go from that district
In Pony Gulch, which is now prac-
tically covered with mineral locations
by the KEENAN, Mining company, de-
velopment work was carried on in
moderate way ali year. The main at
tention here for some time has been
given to the tungsten discovery in
ledge formation, the only one of that
nature on the North Side. Some mas
sive sulphide ores have also been
found, and reduction facilities have
been under consideration, which may
materialize early this spring Gold
mining, both placer and quartz, was
the principal industry in this gulch.
small basin, in the early days. but the
operations were desultory, and when
the gold yield broke down the camp
was practically abandoned, until a few
years ago, when Col c. T. KEENAN,
the territory. He did con-
siderable prospecting and was much
by his labOrs Much ton
mage will be made there, but it will
require special saving machinery.
Occur d'Alene District.
In this district the Yukon Gold COM
pany has had its dredge digging the
entire year on Prichard creek with
force of from IA to 16 men, piling up
winrows of muck, chiefly wash gravel /
and boulders. that have changed the |
appearance of the valley from living I
evergreen to a monotonous reach of /
barren rocks. This will be compen
stated for later by affording a dump
room for a North Side asset larger
than the placers in the creek bottom,
the old channel wash which will be
made the subject of a later letter to
The Miner. The dredge is now opera
ing at the western boundary of Muir
ray. with its groans and grind day
md night. II will pass through the
town early in the spring and make its
way up the creek to a point opposite
he Mother Lode, about a mile from
he town to the east. Where, whittier
)r whence then is a mere matter of
now Two years of work
s still laid out for the boat, and that
S a long period in the future.
Some quartz developments have
,een made in this district that promise
veil for tonnage and material better
nent but it is not the desire of the
writer to credit all the good things to
s21. Some can be kept over for 1922,
when the situation will become far
more assuring The district lies be-
ween Murray on the east and the
Jorth Fork of the Occur d'Alene river
N the west, and from the range sepa-
ating .Prichard and Beaver creeks on
he south to the mouth of Fancy
1IIch on the north.
Eagle District.
This district has the distinction of {
mbracing the discovery Of lead-silver
re in the Occur d'Alenes (the Jack
Waite group. It has a large water !