The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-01-12
NORTH SIDE RESOURCES
VARIED AND EXTENSIVE
UNION DISTRICT. RICH IN TIM
Der. MINERAL AND OTHER
NATURAL WEALTH.
CBy Adam Aulbach.)


rs to show what vast commercial
belt lies north Of what is, or must be,
termed the Dobson range for want OF
some other title. after the divide that
is made familiar by the county road
that connects the South and North
Sides, and Wallace and Murray, for
business and pleasure. -Four OF these
mining districts have already been
partially described, but will receive
more attention later on for their po-
tential value as a permanent asset to
provide a home for a large popula-
ton and diversified industries
While mining will for long period
Of time dominate all other vocations,
evidence is already apparent that the
homestead is penetrating every point
of vantage and offering social life and
good cheer. Naturally this is a slow
movement where surface conditions
are so forbidding and difficult to re-
move by individual toll; yet progress
is being made especially in Union
mining district, spread out from the
mouth of Prichard creek to the Bitter
Root range of mountains and from
the West Eagle creek divide to the
Kootenai county line The North Fork |
of the Occur d'Alene river courses
through this stretch ef territory for |
distance of fully so miles from it's |
northern tributaries to where its we
ters meet those of Prichard creek, the
southern boundary. No more attract
i've stream is found on the continent !
The valley narrOws and expands. and !
large patches here and there have
been cleared and fortified with fine
and substantial buildings to house and
grow families. The laughter of frolic-
some children is now heard where only
a few years ago solitude was profound
As vet only a trail affords a means
of land travel for about II miles This
has been constructed by the forest
service and it is to be extended grad
ually until it reaches the mouth of In
dependence creek, a large tributary to ,
the river. where a sO-called wagon ,
road crosses the mountain to Lake
view which overlOOks Lake Pom
ne Ilclln transportation on I
the river has been. and is now. by wa 7
ter in pole boats, which carry as much
as two tons of freight to the load from
Goddard landing, summer resort
by W. r. Goddard Just
above the mouth of Prichard creek
where a broad eXpanse of the stream
forms an ideal spot for pleasure boat
ng and bathing the only place of the
Sind in the Occur d'Alenes, easily
cached from Murray and Wallace by
luto. The present terminus of the
abroad is only half a mile distant. by
rood road.
Miner to Follow Lumberjack n
Logging has been the main industry I
f the district since the occupation of r
he Occur d'Alenes. The entire water A
he'd is one vast timber belt and the
iver has afforded means of transpor- n
alton. Annually enormous floats have q
cen run down the stream and the end
not yet in sight for exhaustion 7.
here are seven or eight large tribu- q,
lries, from 10 to Is miles in length. A,
'vered with dense forests. that seem
most impossible 10 decimate, and the
lain lines run high into the heavens ~,
ON which millions of feet are availa-
e. Until these forests are removed
Id land transportation provided by ~
od trails or wagon roads, it is too
UGH to expect large influx of pros Do
ctors to explore the higher eleva-
ms for precious minerals Enough
known, however, that the district
ounds with hugh ledge formations
frying almost all the metals in other 10
'tricts and some that are strictly c.,
al. One feature of the district too ~
that it has an abundance of lime =
ne. Along the river above Big o.
eek there is a ledge of the purest -
omite, assaying so per cent lime. a.,
dolomite is employed in the smell
S Of Colorado, why should it not be
to that use here? Lack of trans %.
'tation may alone prevent it. On -
headwaters of the river trere is q
at limestone belt that runs over the
lntain range into the lake region
ere Spokane's large cement indus
is established. Not very distant
n that limestone formation on a
&c tributary are large outcrops of
res that cross the hills something
winrows. These lodges carry in
r outcrop almost every iron known.
whether they form the crust of
liable mineral beneath has not been
rmined. Too remote for the pros
or at present to determine per- 4 ii'''
5, or it may be that mining and
ing do not form a friendly pact in
Iuit of fortune They have never -.
eled together elsewhere. and if o'"e
Id be expecting too much to see os''
! in accord here Let the logger
: off the space where the timber
IS above the valley and the pros
DR. will soon come along with pick
shovel 20 spell the ak and saw. STATE
Natures Storehouse. ~. .,
ought to be matter of great pride
with the people of the
tN hauc c,tol,