The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-01-05
NORTH SIDE IN 1921
RECORD OF MINING
Review Shows Re-
suits That Insure
Better Days
VAST MINERAL SECTION
Every District Shows Notable
Accomplishments That Give
Future Bright Outlook
(By Adam Aulbach.)

I'm the twelve months just passed
the North Side OF the Occur d'Alene
mining region deserves a page of
honorable mention in the Book Of
Time some local historian may be
compiling. Temporarily the Miner
will serve the purpose, as its columns
have always proved weekly record
OF interesting events in the chief in
dustly Of the district.
AS a preliminary it may be well to
state that the Occur d'Alene mining
ield covers practically the entire area
OF ShOshOne county. This area is di-
Vded into two watersheds one termed
the South Side and one the North Side
The South Fork of the Occur d'Alene
river provides a drainage system for
the South Side and the North Fork
OF the Occur d'Alene river drains the
territory embraced in the North Side
The two streams unite at Enaville and
form the main Occur d'Alene river
local mountain range with a maxi
mum elevation of about 5000 feet run
ming almost due east and west, fixes
a line of division between the north
and south as if nature had intended to
separate the two sections permanently
In the early days, during the gold
fever period no sectional division was
alluded to either in personal inter-
course or by writer's in the press. II
was the Occur d'Alenes as whole
Las
pressed from the gold belt to the newly
discovered lead silver belt the drain
age systems were seized upon to make
a more definite geographic designa-
ton. This was not in any manner due
to a sectional feeling between the new
and old districts, but simply to convey
in short form in talk and writing the
location Of the mines, particularly as
the South Side lead-silver belt forged
ahead of the North Side gold belt, both
in mining and population. In fact as
gold mining began to appear as an ex-
tinct factor in the mineral output Of
the county, not On account of tine dis
appearance of the mines themselves
but due to the lack of machinery and
intelligent management, the lead-silv
belt monopolized the name of the
Occur d'Alenes. This virtually made
it necessary to adopt the present geo
segregation in name or the
North Side would have been smoth-
cred entirely by the prosperity on the
South Side.
However, since 1892 the year of the
great labor trouble on the South Side.
the North Side also gave spasmodic
evidence of lead-silver development
the explorations spread over
he entire North Side, and hundreds
Of locations were made A territory
twice, if not three times, as large as
he South Side was covered with pros
ectors, until not a single one of the
i've large mining districts was without
/ prominent group of claims showing
he baser metals. Yet it was not until
he past year that developments really
to reward the faith of the
lain owners or companies that had
invested large sums to prosecute the
work of exploration at depth. In fact,
1921 may be awarded the credit for
he advance. By districts it will be
een by those familiar with their loca-
ion and boundaries that the strikes
we're far apart and that one had no
with the other
Summit District
This district embraces the water
he'd of Prichard creek east of Murray
o the Bitter Root range. 1t contains
UGH old shipping lead silver-zinc
properties as the Beartop, the Paragon
ON, the Monarch and Edith. A re-
ent strike. after years of development
york and an expenditure of something
Ike $4,000, has added the Cedar
'reek group to the list of tonnage pro-
ULCERS. The strike has been suffi-
iently explored at considerable depth
o warrant the claim that tonnage is
resent and ready for extraction. This
trike alone is an important event, as
t has been made in a section hereto
ore drawing attention only to surface
roduct, which afforded small ship
nents. Half a mile north on the main
tream of Granite creek the Giant
edge company has continued drifting
N the 400 foot level. bringing to the