The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1923-10-18
FIND GOLD ON NINE MILE
RECALLS PIONEER DAYS
SAMPLES FROM GOLD LEDGE To-
GATED BY COLONEL WAL
LAcE-PLAcER GOLD.

In announcing last week that the
Nine Mile Mining company was ar
ranging to resume development oper-
ations and describing in general terms
of the mineral conditions on the
property, the Miner overlooked one
very interesting feature and one that
may possibly prove of great value to
the company. This refers to an in
dependent parallel vein that carries
free gold and which attracted much
attention many years ago. The open
ings made by the original locator to
develop the vein, on what is now the
Nell claim, one of the Nine Mile COM
pany's group, are caved and almost
concealed by vegetation. Recently o.
H. Linn, one of the directors of the
Nine Mile company in looking over
the ground of the company, rediscov-
cred this gold vein, which he recalled
had been located and held for many
years by Colonel w. r. Wallace, the
founder of the city that bears his
name Mr.. Linn brought down sam
pies picked up on the old dump and
taken from the vein where still eX-
posed and left them with Otto A. Ols-
son, secretary of the company. Free
gold can be seen with the naked eye
and the samples are evidently very
rich, though no one knows at this
time anything about the character of
the vein or-the extent and value of
the ore, but it at least appears to be
an important prospective addition to
the known mineral resources of the
Nine Mile company's group.
Gold on Nine Mile.
The rediscovery of this gold ledge
on Nine Mile recalls that it was To-
Gated by Colonel Wallace probably in
1886 or even earlier, and that the dis
covery was probably the result of a
search for the source of placer gold
that was found in Nine Mile creek.
Colonel Wallace placed a high value
on the gold vein, and doubtless would
have developed it further had it not
been for the unfortunate litigation in
which he became involved over the
townsite, which was deided against
MIN ana IOllOWiHB WhASh hC ASAS NhN
district. 1t will probably be news to
many readers of the Miner to know
that Nine Mile was the scene of
pretentious placer mining enterprise
in the early days. The discovery of
placer gold, especially at and in the
vicinity of the forks of the creek, in
duced Colonel Wallace and Sam
Black. a '49er and a widely known
pioneer prospector of the district, to
start the construction of bedrock
flume. About half a mile of the flume
was actually constructed, the work
being done for the most part by Mr..
Black and it was pronounced an ex-
ceIlent piece of work. The amount of
labor involved is indicated by the fact
that every foot of lumber that went
into the flume was whipsawed by Mr..
BLACK. But the flume was never com
Melted 1t extended for half a mile
about where the town of Black Cloud
now stands and has long been covered
with tailings and debris. Years later
an effort was made to recover placer
gold near the forks of Nine Mile, but
the recovery was not sufficient to pay
All of which adds interest to the
samples of ore from the Colonel Wal
lace gold ledge, now owned by the
Nine Mile company. and which may
prove valuable resource.