The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-03-30

ing, as per agreement between Lewis
Prayer and the company, due to the
fact that Mr.. Prayer had loaned the
company $4,000 to tide over some fl
nancial difficulty. Had this arrange
ment been carried out all would have
perhaps gone along smoothly, but julie
Hayman, being told by the amalgama-
tor that the prospect was favorable for
an extraordinary cleanup, retOrted the
amalgam at the mill and converted it
into a huge bar of solid gold. This bar
of gold was taken by Hayman to the
office within so feet of the mill and
laid upon the table. He then stepped
out of the office for less than five min
utes, according to his statement and
when he returned the bar was gone.
There was no person anywhere in the
neighborhood, except the amalgamator
and engineer in the mill. who had not
left their stations. Then suspicion
was placed on young man hauling
wood for the mill, who was five miles
from the scene at the time the bar was
alleged to have disappeared. The
sheriff was wired for and he came but
ten sheriffs could not have recovered
the bar. or apprehended the thief. The
bar was claimed TO be worth about
$4,000 Mr. Hayman was promptly dis
placed as manager and an expert mill
man and cyanider" given the job. He
was from Salt Lake City, Forester by
name He made a few experiments
under crude conditions, demonstrated
nothing and returned to the Mormon
capital after a vacation of about eight
months.
Auerbaeh on the Job.
The property was then closed down
for several years, not, however, until
member of the company had made a
stab at management personally for
several months. He was a big, jolly
Jew; made many friends, and on retir-
ing said he could mine more success
fully on Wall street than he could in
the suffocating. pOwder-ladeTf atmos- |
phere of a tunnel. Mining, he admit
ted, belonged to men who were trained |
in the profession. This he would en- !
phasze TO his associates. lie was fol- /
lOWCu ny IINA -. n hNA beAAAAf a 9CNAAAt7 I
man, siX-foot- -four in his stockings, on
" a short time out of school at Held
elberg, Germany, at one time consid
cred the best meteorological university
in Europe. He came here with a letter
of introduction to the writer, given by
his father, whom we knew we'll in Salt
Lake in the latter sixties. He said he
. sfnr
and decide in a day or two
whether he would assume charge of it.
The writer on being asked about the
water power belonging to the company,
which he endeavOred to press upon the
from the very beginning
urged the young man not to walk over
the flume line from there. but he fol-
lowed his own inclinations. Later in
the day he was brought to the Louis
Vile hotel in a wagon with five ribs
shattered An entire section of the
flume had gone down the hill with him
and he was picked up more dead thar
alive by a companion who accompanied
him. He was laced up by a Wallace
doctor and managed to recover sufft-
GENTLY in a month to take charge of
The mammoth aggregation. He had a
credit from the company for an eX-
Denditure of $4,000 he informed the
writer, and he concluded to make
Irive for the "Klondike Chamber" The
tunnel in that direction had already
oeen driven about 1900 feet through
IDAHO ground. and the survey indicated
1000 feet more before a raise could be
made to connect the chamber with the
unnel After a month of work the
zig chamber was reached the only
stretch of permanent development ever
lone on the entire consolidated group. /
While no immediate benefit was de- q
lived by the outlay, the tunnel was !
here to admit of deep prospecting and
toping along the entire adit. Nothing .
If the kind has so far been done, eX
.ept a limited raise about 1000 feet :
rom the portal. The complete outlay 5
vas returned with big interest during q
he world war 1t would have been !
impossible to take out the scheelite h
tungsten) ore from the Klondike 5
hamber and express it to the market
n New York without this complete +
unnel, and every pound of the mineral t
expressed realized the very best prices. d
there are no doubt many tons of the
mineral remaining in the chamber and =
n the neighborhood, besides other rich h
re. And the tunnel has not yet reach j
d its full limit of exploration. There >
re thousands of feet of virgin terri $
DRY beyond. 1t will be remembered by \
he readers of the Miner that the only
urvivor of the syndicate of seven. 7
Which originally purchased the three
roups and consolidated them, came
rom New York to Murray during the n
winter of 1917-191S and was in the act
f taking out the tungsten ore when .
e died. and his son came out and COM =
leted the job Over 100000 worth of
re was expressed. This comprised all I