The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-06-01

- the directors of the Amy
Matchless Mining & Milling
company contemplate an ag-
Plans now being worked out by the
directors of the Amy Matchless Mining
& Milling company contemplate an ag-
is expected to place the property on a
productive basis this year. In fact, a
large amount of development work has
been accomplished which has disclosed
much lead-silver and zinc ore and the
work in view will be for the purpose
of exploring known ore shoots and in
crease the available tonnage. COnsid-
cradle ore was shipped from the Amy
Matchless a good many years ago, one
carload of 80 tons shipped in 1912 re-
turning rs per cent lead and 20 ounces
in silver said to have been the highest
grade shipment ever sent out of Pine
creek Low metal prices following that
year then the war followed by unset
tied conditions and high costs of oper-
atoms, absence of transportation as
we'll as other adverse conditions, had
the effect of holding back operations at
the Amy Matchless, as they did
throughout the Pine creek section gen.
orally. But these conditions have
changed and Pine creek has now taken
on an air of mining activity that indi
Gates the beginning of a period of per-
manent mineral production and profits.
Two mines are now making regular
shipments, the Lookout Mountain and
Sidney, and others will soon follow.
transportation.
Although there is no immediate pros
pect of the completion of the Pine
creek railroad, good roads and motor
trucks, coupled with the building of the
Bunker Hill smelter near by, have to
great extent overcome this handicap.
1t is now possible for motor trucks to
make three or more trips a day from
Pine creek mines to the smelter, carry
ing a load of four tons of ore, and this
service could be continued at night as
well as day if the tonnage justifies it.
The Bunker Hill smelter is in the mar
ket for all the lead-silver ore it can
get and in addition will provide a
market for the zinc product of Pine
creek as we'll Thus while that rich
mineral section is still looking forward
to a completion of the railroad, this
drawback has now been minimized and
the development of that section is pro-
crossing under conditions which give
assurance of permanent mineral pro-
duction.
Amy Ore Shoots.
Although in the same group of
claims. the Amy and Matchless prop
critics have been developed independ-
entity and on both substantial ore bod
les have been exposed. On the Amy
situated on the east side of the can
yon. development in the form of cross
cuts and drifts aggregate 1000 feet to
which must be added a shaft from the
main tunnel 200 feet deep, 1000 feet
from the portal On the level at the
bottom of the shaft there is an ore
shoot 1875 feet in length and averaging
20 inches in width that assays 20 per
cent lead This ore shoot is cut by a
diabase dixie, a Characteristic feature
of mineral bearing veins in the district
Reformation is quartzite. On the main
tunnel level there is about 3 feet of
ore near the collar of the shaft that
averages Is per cent lead, which is a
good grade of milling ore. A crosscut
has been run 60 feet northeast from
the main tunnel in which is exposed a
shoot of copper ore 8 feet wide and of
grade. The first ore shoot
near the shaft is at a depth of 400 feet
from the surface. At a distance of
400 feet from the portal another ore
shoot has been proved for a distance
of 80 feet, when it was cut out by a
diabase dixie. This is at a depth of $50
feet from the surface. This shoot is
in places s feet wide and averages A
feet throughout it's length. Average
assays return IL per cent zinc, % per
cent lead and Is ounces in silver.
crosscut the Dixie.
The drift follows the diabase foot
wall aboue 200 feet, where the dixie
was crosscut rs feet to the south, and
where a third ore shoot was picked up
and followed for As feet, averaging
feet in width and carrying practically
the same values as above. The main
drift was continued east from this
crosscut 500 feet, having the dixie for
footwalI. From that point drift was
run north $40 feet, where a fourth ore
shoot was struck in a raise So feet,
showing 4 feet of good mill feed. This
is at a depth of $50 feet under fine
surface showing.
Ore Shoot on Matchless.
Development of the Matchless. on
the opposite side of the canyon, has