Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-09-12

Special to The Tribune.
Butte, Sept. 11.-All kinds of miners
and muckers are needed in the mines
of the Occur d'Alene region, according
to George T. Edmiston, manager of
the employment office of the mines at
Wallace. They are needed in all the
mines. and the number will be in
creased by the addition Of shifts on the
Tamarack & Custer and Hercules
mines. Operations have been proceed
ing on these properties with a shift
each and the second shift is being re-
cruited. The shortage of men in some
mining districts is due to the change
from mines to steel, to railroads and
other industries. according to some ex-
plantations, remarked Mr.. Edmiston a
few DAYS age. He also added that a
well known employer of labor attrib-
uted it to the automobile. He says
2,OOO, 900 Fords are conveying labor
about the country.
The sale of the Ajax gold mine at
Victor. in the Cripple Greek district,
to the Tonopah Gold Mine company
of Nevada is announced. The consid-
| Grafton was placed at approximately
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by Denver people. has been a big pro-
Queer for many years.
There was a large gathering OF min
ing men at the interstate fair grounds
in Spokane last week to witness the
drilling contest. A Spokane paper, IN
| giving details of the event, says that
a gasoline engine furnished motive
| power for the machine drills and the
| men worked on a block of granite
| about two feet square. The report of
the contests follows in part:
Using the Ingersoll water Leyner
drill, Alfred Hanson and Hans Peter
son. representing British Columbia,
| drilled through four feet of granite in
Z minutes and 10 seconds, beating the
Lookout mountain boys, Don Morton
and Jack Taylor of Kellogg, Idaho.
who took s minutes and 20 seconds.
Time for setting their machines is in
cluded in the figures.
&c. W. Dickson of Butte won from
r. N. Godfrey of Spokane, using a
| Cochise dry jack hammer. The men
worked for Is minutes, less one minute
allowed each for setting the machine.
! Dickson made 25A inches in IA min
utes, while Godfrey broke his drill at
1875 inches.
1.-The spectacular event was the
hand drilling, in which Mike Myrtle of
| Nespelem. reputed northwest cham
pion. went after the world champion
ship honors held by Joe Payne, past
60, of the Montana Gold Mining com
pany. Myrtle worked first. but the
hole was not finished until Payne had
| finished. Each worked 10. minutes
! with a hand drill. Myrtle made 81
! inches and it was believed he had won
until the measuring stick showed the
veteran had gone him a Il inch better
with 81 inches"
THE Galena Mining company has
followed ore on the tunnel level for
more than 300 feet and at no place is
its width less than that of the drift"
a V Stewart Campbell. state mine in
spector of Idaho. The ore is composed
of a good grade of mill feed and
streaks of high grade.
"Ore has been followed for $50 feet
on the No. 4 level. where the grade is
about the same as on the tunnel level.
Enough ore has been exposed to war
rant milling operations, but no build
ing will be erected until the tunnel is
extended. After the tunnel is extend
ed on ore. the No. . level will be ex-
tended until it is as far east on ore rs
the tunnel level. When this work is
completed, the levels will be connected
by raise. and after the connection is
made the mill will be talked. The Ga
lena has a development campaign out
lined that will occupy three or four
months"
Mr.. Campbell, after spending 10
days in the Occur d'Alene district,
then went TO HALEY and Boise. A par
tial report of his trip is contained in
the following:
when / was at the success last