Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1922-05-18
RAY HORSE NINE COMES
BACK AFTER 30 YEARS
Shipping Silver Ore to smei,ers-
Rich Ore Recently Opened

| Baker, OTGSOu, At"S
~ deve,onments made in the West
For number of years has taken
Zoo in the old Bay Horse Mine on
The Snake River, Baker County ore,
gon. nine miles from Huntington. ~
| is perhaps the greatest since the uays
of DeLamar, the ore Deing similar III
character. The mine is pelng opeI.
ated by the U. S. Metals Company OIL
Spokane, Washington, who TOOK over
the property some months ago ana Is
continuing the work in tunnel
which is being driven ahead IN the
dyke. There is an immense pouy Oh
what might be termed as average
grade ore, which can be mined on
large scale by the adoption of some
well known quarrying method. Al
| noints where interesting veins come
( into the ore body some exceptional
high grade ore has been encounter
ed A number of mining operators
and engineers have visited the pro-
perty during the past few months ana
| all have expressed their opinion that
this is one of the greatest finds that
has been made for years.
The company maintains an assay
office at the Camp, and number OF
visitors have taken their own samples
ASSAYS running from the average grade
nm to two and three thousand ounces
silver per ton, when sorted from the
rich shoete. Some of the assays
taken by the Company and others
who have visited the property shows
returns of 5000; $50; 203; 1857;
15S 90; 194.4O; 440.20; $1,000;
| 295.75; 252; 1850 and 202 ounces.
The highest one was taken by man
from northern Idaho, mad went
13334O ounces. Others of like
amount and higher have been OBJ
tanned. as a result of the Company's
assays.
Developments.
| Having confidence in the prema-
nency of the immense ore body,
which is in quartz-porphyry dyke
| on contact between greensboro and
schist of one hundred feet and over
in width, the Company has continued
| the tunnel which was opened in the
early SOS and from which consider
able ore was shipped under great
difficulties in those early days. The
projection of numerous intersecting
Yeins is {. very important feature.
and has a great bearing upon the
richness Of the ore which is found
as the tunnel is extended into the
mountain The fact is that the tun-
rel extends into one continuous ore
body of great length and width.
Where the intersecting veins are ti:n~
gent to che main fissuc3 The )re is
of it's highest grade. These veins are
numerous and not far apart and
can be traced partly on the surface
and in the tunnel for 1T least twelve
hundred feet. At each Of these points
high grade crude shipping ore can be
stopped
TIE heavy shipping ore that was
encountered recently is at a point of
one of ttese interesting veins, an
while it contains exceedingly rich
ore. the massiveness of the ore so
n, e<t,fcted proves tie existence of
q ysrr large body If average ore.
Dri, ing the present tuunnl ahead !
en- the ere continues 20 demonstrate
the character of the ore-body under
ground, and this will be compared
with the ore which is extracted and
proven by the stripping at the SUR |
face.
The present outlook indicates that !
the Company will be one of the heavi-
est shippers of the Snake River
region, and there seems every reason
to believe that a production record
will be established.
In the opinion expressed by mir
ing men and engineers who have Wis
tied the property, there is great
body of ore, and it is reported that
the Company plans to thoroughly
develop the zone for the purpose of
definitely determining the character
of the ore throughout, with a view
Of installing such equipment as will
be practical for extracting the ore on
4 large scale.
1t is stated that the ore now being
aiken out is sorted into three grades.
rhe first grade is shipped to the
Bunker Hill Smelter at Bradley,
IDAHO; the second for the purpose of
shipping to nearby smelter when it ..
S put into operations; and the third,
'eing the lower grade, can be milled !;
when there is Sufficient quantity !
itored to justify the construction ;;
If mill.
Quarrying Methods.
The mineralized groupings are
at the surface over a con- |
iderable length, height and breadth.
n places this zone is exposed to al!
height of twenty to fifty feet for !
quite distance. The width is one
hundred feet and over and assays sill
Ter at any point.
Because of the size of the miner {
llized zone and it's unusual accessa-
'ility, with the Homestead branch of
he o. s. L. which passes at the foot l
II the mountain, several prominent l
mining operators and mining engi-
Ieers who have recently visited the l
strongly recommend min
ng the ore by one or the other of
he well known methods of the quar- !
wing type thus placing the mine on y
great production basis. This has
cen strongly urged by one of the c
riginal operators of the Utah Copper 9
line who recently visited the Bay, \
Iorse Mine. r