The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-04-06
EARLY GOLD MINING
ON THE NORTH SIDE
CONTINUED from Page H.

HAhSaAAOA property .Oh 0idhAtS SiSSh
Here water power was available and
utilized, but no concentration was at
tempted until long afterward. when
cyaniding was experimental with in
two large concrete watts. now used by
the Giant Ledge people, the successors
of the Granite and Allie, for boarding
house and living quarters, being splen-
didly adapted for those purposes, warm
in winter and cool in summer. The
free milling quartz on the surface.
originally ground in an arrastre by
John Kincannon, the discoverer and
locator had given way to extremely
solid and base sulphide ore. Although
high values were obtained by assay,
neither milling nor cyaniding proved
successful. Experimentation with a
stamp mill would have been much
cheaper for the company. and there
would have been ample power for the
closest concentration. AS it was, the
power weakened for the ten stamps
during the months that were open.
when operations could be carried on TO
anu IL was uiAlANuAl " OD-
tain the best quartz or ore to keep the
batteries at work The ten stamps
were finally hung up for good. Shortly
afterward the property passed under
the hammer of the sheriff, and is now
in the hands of the Giant Ledge COM
pany of Spokane. 1t is not likely that
they will ever resort to stamp milling
again, although much of the dump that
has been made by the new company at
considerable lower depths than were
formerly obtained show characteristic
gold values. If five stamps were in
order to be employed, only a day or
two would be necessary for a demon
stration. 1t were much better to do
this than to go to some more expen-
sive method for a determination of
what to do with the big dump. If there
are any values in the rock pulping
and concentration will be necessary
anyhow to determine the process best
adapted TO recover them. Why down
in Chill. South America, they have ex-
perimented for several years to ascer-
tain the best method to save copper
and other values in ore, and have dis
carded more machinery than a rail-
road train of so cars can haul. Make |
haste slowly is a mighty good maxim |
to tie to in fixing on a method of ore |
reduction to make it pay. There are
now hundreds of ball mills in opera
ton. when 10 years ago anyone sug /
costing such an ore grinder would have
been considered absolutely bughouse.
Great Goldbaek Ledge.
1t was not the intention of the writer
in this series of letters on the gold
quartz interests of the North Side to
allude to prospects, but to cover only
those properties that have had reduc-
ton works installed. There are two
however, so prominent To-
cally at least. that they deserve brief
notice. One of these is the Goldback
Lode, with a capital L." which has a
course northwest and southeast for a
traceable distance of at least ten miles,
the southeastern end losing itself in
Sunset Peak mountain and the north
western end in the Union district on
ne ANOilI IOlh Vi llc OOtuI u Aitnt
liver. 1t crosses Prichard creek at
he eastern end of Murray and cuts all
he flat ribbon veins on Ophir Hill,
the Mother Lode and Oc-
,ident, where it is very clearly defined
md filled with values of gold, silver
md lead in an appreciable degree, and
copper as a dominant mineral element.
I
tut of the Occident tunnel and exhib-
ted locally for severa years, when
hey disappeared, like a number of
'ther large specimens in home collec-
ion on view. At the base of the
Mother Lode Slab" away back in
SS4 the writer personally extracted
rom the ledge, or a spur from it, some
# the prettiest copper specimens. He
,ept them in his printing office. where
hey attracted every visitor and re
eived favorable comment. One day {
hey were missing and they are miss
ng to this day. The ledge was found 4
o be 30 feet wide on the Last Chance
,lacer claim by Pat Flynn, Thomas
Argyle and associates, who put a SHAFT
own about 20 feet through oxidized
easily picked but were re-
yarded only with copper sand in the
no free gold or other visible {
mineral. They therefore, paid no fur
her attention to it, as it had been pre-
fously located, on account of the ex-
ensive groupings on the adjacent
lope. Later John Docktor. John F.
Iurphy, John p. Sheehy and A. L.
;cofield became the owners of the To-
alton. They started a tunnel from
he creek level and pushed it into the
ill for distance of 1000 feet. when a
cry promising body of lead-zinc ore d
vas struck. A surface exploration in f
COUGAR gulch, directly above the strike, {
ound a body of the same kind of ore e
even feet wide only 300 feet from the +
ounty wagon road and 600 feet from t
he railroad track. Owing to suspen a
ion of assessment work for a number
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