The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-04-06
WESTERN UNION CO.
PLAN DEVELOPMENT
COMPRESSOR BY.MAY /
Remarkable Production I'm
der Leasing System---Seek
New Ore Bodies

Asst WEEK Ben l.. Collins, sec
rotary treasurer, and ID. H. An
derson president. of the Western
Union Mining company placed
al , Ter with the Occur a'Aiene Hard
ware 4 Foundry company for a five
drill lngersou Rand compressor; 23OO
feet of four-inch pipe; 100 feet of
three-inch pipe; 70 horse power Cen
eral Electric motor, and all necessary
equipment and fixtures to place the
plant in operation. The plant will be
installed under the personal supervis-
ion of Il. L. Hale, manager of the hard
ware and foundry company, a man of
wide experience in the installation and
operation of mining machinery. The
entire order will be filled from stock of
the hardware company, with the eX-
ception of the electric motor which
will be here by the time it is required.
A representative of the Miner visited
the Western Union last Monday after
noon and found preparations being
made for new equipment. The location
of the new compressor building had
been staked out at point so feet east
of the portal of the tunnel and eXcava-
ton for the foundation is now in prog
ress. This will include a solid concrete
foundation resting on bed rock for the
compressor and motor. While this is
being prepared the four-inch pipe will
be placed in the main crosscut and the
three Inch pipe extending in the drift,
so that when the compressor is ready
ii will be only necessary to connect up
with the air pipe. Mr. Collins will re-
main here until the plant is installed
and expects it to be ready to run by
May l. The one-drin Gardner COM
pressor and 35-horse power electric
motor now in use, which have rendered
good service and are still in good con-
dition, will be sold.
important Development.
1t was in October, 1920, that the
strike was made in the Western Union
and the first shipment was made on
the 18th of November following. That
has been just a year and four months
and during that period the value OF
shipments as shown by smelter re-
turns aggregate in round figures $780,
GOO These shipments were all made
by leasers, the company receiving a
royalty of rs per cent on net smelter
returns Thus the company, with nom
inal expense. has accumulated sub
MI, 70
extensive development oper-
atoms with the view to larger produc-
ton through direct operation by the
company. The condition of the mine
has now reached a stage that justifies
this more pretentious program. and the
fact that it can be carried out without
imposing a burden on the stockholders
is the best evidence of the property's
merits and of capable and constructive
The particular develop
ment work and its purpose that will be
aiken up as soon as the new plant is
installed with machine drills available
At all headings. include the extension
Of No. tunnel to a point over the
<ron johnson lease, with which it will
De connected by raise. This lease
las now proved the ore shoot for
ength of 500 feet on No 4 tunnel level
'arying in width from a few inches to
10 feet having an average shipping
ralue Of ~ per cent lead and 80 ounces
If silver. The extension Of No. tun-
lel. 256 feet above into this ore shoot
s expected to make large addition TO
he tonnage in sight.
Seek Vein Farther East.
About 900 feet east of where the last
important strike was made in the
IRON johnson lease a drift will be run
N a vein recently discovered by Erik
1agman. for the purpose of finding
mother ore shoot farther east This
'ein is well defined and drifting should
Ievelop important additions to the
,nown ore body Five hundred feet
arther east than where this last work
s to be done, crosscuts will be run
10Th north and south to get the vein
nder the main Aurora Sampson out
rop a remarkable surface showing
hat engineers and practical mining
ltAA say NbiAAlcti % Win TIC DtnA III NliE
district The reason for prosecuting
10Th ways from this point is that the
asst portion of the main tunnel is not
N the vein. and from the location of
he tunnel at this point with reference
o the location of the vein, as figured
rom the out-crop and upper tunnels,
makes prosecuting both WAYS to locate
he vein necessary, as a little throw of
he vein or its dip changing with depth
would make considerable difference in
depth of 400 feet; but inasmuch as
he vein hes been located for thousands
f feet on the surface, and located with
re in II in the Aurora Sampson upper
unnels. it should be easily located by
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