The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1923-07-26
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ing no platinum while those of doubt
ful standing found the metal in abund
ance For these reasons the investiga-
ton was taken up by the bureau.
Personnel of Commission.
The following gentlemen were sell
ected to make the investigation and
report their findings: Francis A
THOMSON, administrative officer of the
Idaho bureau of mines and geology,
mining and metallurgical engineer of
wide experience; DR.. Francis B. La
ney, representing the United States
geological survey, who has had IS
years experience in the study of met
Ialliferous ores; S c. Lind. superin-
tendent of the precious and rare met
ais station at Reno. New. who was I'M
able to be present, but who cooperated
with the committee; Raymond Guyer,
president. and L. X Armstrong. secre-
tary of Columbia section American
Institute of Mining and Metallurgical
Engineers; and Rush ]. White. mining
engineer of Wallace.
Properties Examined.
Taking up the work of the commits
sion the report says: 1.-THE Home
builder Mining & Development COM
pany was represented at the prelimin-
airy conference in Occur d'Alene, on
April 10, by Messrs. +. NJ. Slagle, of
Pullman Wash. president, and c. c.
Titus local manager and assayer.
Messrs. Slagle and Titus stated that
it would be entirely agreeable to them
for us to visit their property on the
following day Mr.. Slagle explaining,
however, that he would be unable to
be present giving no further reason
except that he must return to SpO-
kane. Mr. Titus stated that he also
to the fact that he must go to see a
teamster in regard to hauling a sec
ond- hand air compressor. However,
both Mr. Titus and Mr.. Slagle stated
positively that VIM. O. Halliday, their
engineer at the property, was thor
oughly familiar with the workings and
would be able to point out the places
from which Mr.. Titus had secured
numerous samples. which Mr.. Titus
personally assayed and found to con-
tain commercial amounts of platinum /.
In our contact with the Caribou /
Mining Company, Limited, we met as /
is representatives Messrs. G. r. (
Scott, J. w. Boothe and f. w. Reed /
md at the conference previously men !
toned Mr.. Scott stated that they well |.
,omed such an inquiry and would ex- /
end to us every possible facility and (
his promise was fully carried out. On |.
he 18th the members of the party, b
With the exception of Mr. Guyer, went /
" launch to the Caribou property in |.
ompany with all three of the gentle
men mentioned and as their personal
uests.
THE Wilson Mutual Mining & Mill ,
ne company, through its representa-
i've. J. S. Green, extended to us full !
emission to visit and sample their {
roperty. Mr.. Green, however did not
us on our visit to this pro- $
erty but stated that all of the mater ,
Il on the dump at the portal of their n
lnnel was high grade ore and upon Is
UT return lIOll llAlo BAOHNANFf AiN 81
amples collected were submitted to
Ir. Green for his inspection and he Y
them all fine ore a
SampIins and Assaying. t
Samples having been taken in ac o
,rdance with standard methods, they
ere taken to Moscow. crushed to
D-mesh. separated into 16 parts and II
It's of u samples sent to the various is
boratories listed below: Il. s bureau s.
mines precious and rare metals sta b
on, Reno, New Idaho bureau of 'cl
ines and geology. Moscow Idaho; .h
rovincial government assayer, bur in
IA of mines, Victoria. b. c.; Colorado 81
hool of mines Golden. Colo; Abbot II
Hanks, San Francisco; Ledoux & lei
D.. New York City: Canada Consoli- l..
ted Smelling Co. Trail. 3. c.: Ana sd
nda Copper Mining Co. Great Falls, in
ont: American Smelling & Refining w
j.. East Helena. Mont; Bunker Hill iSl
Sullivan NJ & c. Co. Kellogg. Ida in
B.: Irvington Smelling & Refining ar
orks. Irvington n. J Through f. p tn
co
Find No Platinum. al
A tabulation shows the returns on ar
mples from the Homebuilder, Carl mi
II and Wilson properties from each sic
the laboratories listed above, every eli
e of which failed to find platinum. fro
,wever. the United states geological i'm
rvey reported a trace" in one sam fol
from the Homebuilder and one ito
m the Caribou. Explaining the re- let
Is. DR.. f. L. Ransome. Of the geo. we
ical survey. says: no
I selected 5 of the u samples for pr,
iay. with the thought that If these mir