The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-06-29
TWO DAY MINES WILL
RESUME OPERATION
TO EMPLOY MANY MEN
Tamarack to Have Outlet on
Canyon Creek---Business
Responds to Good News

of production by the Tamarack
* Custer and Hercules mines is
now reality; that is. the pre-
luminaV steps are being taken, men
are being employed and according to
announcement in the Day organ yes
terday morning. both mines "will re-
sumo operations early in July" I'm
der normal conditions the Tamarack
is understood to have employed about
/ $50 men and the Hercules about 500.
and il is believed that the Tamarack
will have employment for the same
number and possibly more just as
rapidly as they can be assembled. for
il is comparatively new mine and its
operations will doubtless include much
development work The Hercules is
hardly expected to employ as many
men as usual as quite a large num-
Der were kept on development work
after production was suspended. leav-
ing little to be done in that respect
now. 1t is probable that the two
mines will have approximately 500
men on the payroll when they are run
ming at fun swing substantial ad-
dition to the productive forces of the
district and a most welcome one.
A More Cheering Outlook.
1t is almost year and three months
since the Tamarack and Hercules
closed down Various reasons We're
assigned for the shutdown, some of
which were the low price of lead the
high mining cost. high freight rates.
the excess profits tax and inability to
market the lead product No official
reason was given beyond the broad
statement credited to the manage
ment that they did not propose to de
plete their resources under such I'M
favorable conditions. It is worthy of
mention in passing that three other
large producers. the Hecla. Morning
and Bunker Hill continued i'm profit
able operation in spite of the unfav-
orable conditions being actuated to
some extent at least by a desire to
save the district from the disastrous
consequences that would have follow
ed a suspension of all the mines But
that is ancient history and the people
of the district are not disposed to al
low considerations of what might
have been Interfere with their exuber-
ant satisfaction over the prospect of
600 men being added to the payroll
within the next few weeks Already
all lines Of business have responded
to the quickening influence both in
Wallace and in the canyon. and I'M
certainty regarding the future has
given place to cheerful optimism.
Use No. tunnel.
Another interesting feature of the
resumption of the Day mines. both to
the business men of Wallace and the
canyon is that a new outlet will be
provided for the Tamarack by way of
the old No. tunnel of the Standard
Mammoth mine. The Miner has often
referred to the probability that this
plan would eventually be adopted by
the Tamarack, and it is now in posi-
ton to state that an agreement has
been reached with the Federal Min
ing & Smelling company by which
the Tamarack secures the right to use
this tunnel 1t was recently inspected
by Tamarack engineers and it is I'M
that work will begin at once
to extend it to point beneath the
Tamarack shaft. with which it will be
connected and form a permanent out
let for the mine The distance to be
run is understood to be not more than
1900 feet possibly not more than 1900
and it will enter the Tamarack
ground on a level about 700 or 500
feet below the Puritan tunnel, which
is now connected by shaft with the
upper Tamarack workings. The por-
tai of No. is about a mile above the
Tamarack mill at Frisco and is equip
ped with large bins and all terminal
facilities for delivery of ore to the
railroad cars in which it will be con-
veyed to the mill.