The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-03-02

vigor for several months. Much very
rich quartz was taken out and sorted,
the richest being sacked. Seventeen
sacks were thus collected, when Harry
L. Day came over ilUm Wallace, look
ed at the strike and took an option on
the property for $4,000. pas4Ag 30, -
900 cash to the three owners-John
Docktor Frank FrOhling and Louis
Frager Mr. Day held the option foi
several months, did considerable ex-
plOratory work with a large crew or
men and then gave up the option.
While the option was running the
sacks of rich ore all eddy taken out by
the owners were stored in the black
smith shop at the portal OF the tunnel.
One morning, in broad daylight, some
person or persons extracted two of the
sacks containing the very choicest OF
the quartz and made away with them
No trace OF the missing sacks has ever
contain about $1,000 Is it any Won
der that miners do not desire any pub
licity of any further strikes where
much free gold is in evidence? The
closest secrecy is necessary for their
protection The policy is unfortunate
for the district, but it must be main
tanned. The remaining sacks We're
expressed to Denver by Mr.. Doc1tor
and netted a very handsome sum to
the owners.
When the property reverted to the
owners they concluded to run a lower
tunnel. and the year following they
commenced work This adit was run
a distance of 500 feet. partly on the |
ledge and partly on one side. through /
very hard quartzite and iron slate. the |
quartz extracted in the course of prog
1 ess being almost entirely fools [
gold" a brassy iron giving small as
says. The dump is a glistening mass
of this iron. Near the end of the tun-
mel a raise of something like $50 feet
was made and the upper tunnel con
nected. This was completed last year
and it was a fortunate piece of work.
well planned and very substantially
constructed. After some exploratory
work a drift was started to get under
the rich groupings found in the bed
rock of the placer in 1892, of which
has already been made. This
work is now being prosecuted
When tunnel No. was started the
property had been equipped with
)ne-drill compressor and an S-horse
power gasoline engine. one of the fin
Il, D
Kind in the district. This power plant
las made it possible for John Docktor
and Joseph Weltman to do all the
work that has been performed at the
Pilot since the lower tunnel was be-
gun. Mr. Weltman, who has become
IN owner in the property. is an expert
machine man and all-arOund hard :
'ock miner, and is perpetual motion I
He and Mr. Docktor make i
team that is seldom found in mining r
history. Mr. Docktor attends to the air =
liant and power hews the timbers and I
,eeps busy on the ground floor as ,
listing his associate wherever neces-
AIRY. No friction has ever occurred (
,etween them and both look forward
O the time when they can reveal to
he community something of their
God fortune. which of course they
Xpect in the near future" and which n
viii be shared by their partners, Mar :,
in Breidenbach of Murray and Lewis $
'rager of Santa Ana California. fl
There are six claims that make the Y
'ilot group. and three of these claims
ave surface indications of potential <
alue All are sufficiently forested for
Il the mining timber that will ever be ."
sed, and the working facilities are
a splendid wagon road "
ms to No. tunnel and further UP
lie canyon. The working conditions
roughOut are ideal. and the space
ound the works is an example Of If
hat can be done under intelligent co
and little extra labor i'm 10
narrow canyon. The Pilot is now sa
nsidered the banner gold property oil
the North Side. and will no doubt of
Id that title for many years TO come Id
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