The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-05-11

are showing concentrate values of 5:
TO 90 per cent lead. Development work
at the mine is going ahead steadily
A station is now being cut and tim
bered for installation of hoist and 9th
er equipment for shaft work and raises
are also being driven on the No. , and
/ 3 ore shoots.
The first load OF ore from the prop
erty reached the smelter Monda,
morning, May 1. About four tons OF
high grade concentrates and mine
| sorted product comprised the load. The
bins contained about 100 tons of ship
ping ore when hauling began, and We
hope to add each day an amount equal
to that taken away. The ore wagons
will make daily trips to the smelter. a
distance of eight miles, and will deliv-
er from six to eight tons per day at the
present schedule"
Merriam's Report.
Mr.. Merriam goes into considerable
detail in describing the available ore
which he says. without attempting to
make a definite estimate, will produce
a large tonnage. He says in part:
The lower tunnel main crosscut is
1855 feet to point No. l. and thence 1I2
feet to face. From point No. which
is 4S feet southerly from the face, tn,
tunnel is a drift following the vein
both easterly and westerly. The west
drift follows the foot wall for 70 feet,
and the east drift follows the vein TO
249 feet. From tip to tip of ore meas
ured in a straight line, is 245 feet. or
this length, only eight feet was ,abso-
lutely barren, this being in the east
drift where a small fault cut through
the vein.
THE west end of the ore body be
gins at a point 10 feet west of the CEN
ter of the main tunnel. and is continu-
GUS for SO feet varying in width from
IA inches of clean shipping ore, t.
three feet of milling ore. The next
eight feet contained ore only in
punches. The succeeding eight feet
passing through the fault, was barren
except that at about the center of this
fault small amount of drag ore was
Then is found % feet o
quite low grade ore mostly carbonate
by a rich shoot 65 feet long
in width from less than a foot
at both ends to eight feet in the center
A horizontal section of this shoot
shows 32t square feet of ore which is
equal to a length of 65 feet, 40 feet
wide This was sampled by means of
drill holes across the ore, the holes be !
ing from to 6 feet long, and the en-
tire drillings sent to the Bunker Hill |
Tor assaying. The results varied from |
p per cent to 81 per cent The ore ir |
his shoot is mostly sulphate or car !
but contains considerable clean !
yalena East of this shoot. the ore i
90 low grade to be of value, thuOgh |
f in the sulphate form as it will be a
iepth it would be valuable. Then be- /
gins the third rich shootwhich is very |
vide and rich. From a point 1856 feet |
rom the crosscut, this shoot opens NJ |
rom inches to 1871 feet in the center
md the hanging wall has not beer |
cached. The length is 40 feet. Three |
eet sampled next to the foot wall gave |
.eturns of AZ per cent lead, and the |
,verhanging three feet 20 per cent |
The remaining az feet is a high grade |
mill feed At the west end of this |
,hoot a crosscut was driven southerly |
"A feet, all in leached vein matter.
ample taken by me across this q feet |
rave returns of / X per cent and an
,ther taken by another engineer across
he north u feet gave returns of per
.ent. 1t is to be expected that at
Iepth below the teaching area, this
ntire width will produce profitable
re At the end of this shoot a post
mineral vein is encountered, east of
which there is no pay ore. There are
plendid indications of a continuation
# this shoot south of the present drift.
nd east of the third shoot both in
he tunnel and on the surface
"Of the present ore shoot, there is
ength of over 100 feet which is rich
nough to be mined and concentrated
" both hand jigs and by hand sorting
to yield a good profit
make no attempt to estimate the
valuable tonnage, as no raises have
zen run above the tunnel, but it viii
e large"