The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-03-16
LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN
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HAS THREE ORE SHOOTS
Sinking on Ore to Prove Ex-
tent--Tram and Bins Com
Pleted This Week
THE TRAMwAY at the Lookout


Mountain, on Pine creek. should
be in operation by the last of this
week, according to W. L. Penny
of Kellogg, manager of the Lookout
Mountain Mining company. who was in
the city the first of the week Snow
and bad weather generally have in
terfered with the work, which other
wise would have been completed sew
eral weeks ago The tram which is of
the two-bucket gravity type, is 2200
feet long, connecting the ore bin near
the portal of the tunnel with the load
ing bins on the wagon road. The buck
cts hold 1000 pounds and will make
the round trip in about eight minutes.
The buckets dump into double COM
partment bin, erected at an elevation
over the loading bins proper. One of
the compartments in the elevated bin
receives first class ore which passes
through chute to the loading bin be-
low. The other compartment receives
the second class ore. which passes
from there to the crusher and thence
to the jigs, three of which are in posi-
ton and a fourth may be added. The
crusher for the present will be driven
by a gasoline engine and the jigs by
hand. Two carloads of ore are now
ready for the tramway. one of which
is first class and the other high grade
milling ore. The ore will be shipped
to the Bunker Hill smelter, a distance
of about eight miles.
Much Valuable Ore.
Mr.. Penny stated that since cutting
the vein the drift has ben extended
easterly about 300 feet and in that
distance three shoots of ore have been
passed through. The first was 80 feet
in length, varying in width from 3 to
IA inches of high grade galena. About
30 feet beyond the first shoot the big
body of cerussite came in and con-
tinued for IS feet having an average
width of feet. Cerrusite is a car
Donate of lead, and as found in the
Lookout Mountain is as white as lime
and evarages about 80 per cent lead
and from to II ounces of silver.
Pinching down to a few inches, the
drift followed the streak for about 60
feet when another ore shoot came in,
this one mostly galena with more or
less cerussite. This shoot will average
about s feet wide. Just before this
shoot was reached crosscuts were run
on opposite sides of the drift to pros
pect the vein. One was run 10 feet and
the other "a without finding a wall, all
in ledge matter that carried mineral
values up to per cent lead. Prepa-
tions are now being made to sink on
the ore in the last shooot as a prelim-
mary to driving a deeper tunnel. In
the meantime the drift will be contin-
ued to get under a point on the sur
face which Oscar Hershey, the geolo-
gst, regards the most favorable for an |
ore body. At that point the tunnel |
will have a depth of about 600 feet
Great Mineral Possibilities.
In excavating near the foot of the
hill in connection with the construction |
of the tramway and bins, a strong vein /
was exposed feet wide which it is
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being developed above. A similar ex-
posure was made near the portal when |
grading for the upper bin, the two !
openings defining a course that cor
responds to that of the vein as devel-
oped under ground. This will be fur
Their investigated and if the vein proves
to be the same as that above, it will
be explored by a deep tunnel with
strong probability of important ore
discovery before it is advanced very
far. Besides this vein, the large group
OF claims owned by the Lookout Noun
tain company contains another known
parallel vein which shows good values
in lead and silver, a third carrying
copper values to the extent of $50 per
ton. and with strong probability of
finding a fourth lead silver vein. AL
together the outlook for the Lookout
Mountain to become an important min
eral producer is decidedly good.
For a time While the tramway and
bins were under construction the COM
pany employed Is men. At this time
IL men are on the payroll, two shifts
being at work in tine mine.