The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1923-08-09
BUREAU OF MINES AND
GEOLOGY BUSY SEASON
REVIEW OF IMPORTANT WORK
IN VARIOUS PARTS OF
THE STATE.

The activities during the present
summer of the Idaho bureau of mines
and geology staff Illustrate the widely
varying nature of the mineral re-
sources of the state and the diversity
of interest with which the bureau has
TO concern itself. This Organization,
although not a part Of the university,
being controlled by a board of which
Governor c. c. Moore is chairman, is
nevertheless under the law admins
tered from the office of Or. Francis A.
Thomson, as dean of the school of
mines.
Oil Possibilities OF Idaho.
The work which is perhaps attract
ing the greatest popular interest is
that having to do with the oil posi-
biities of the southeastern part of the
state. Here two parties are doing the
work, one in the Bonneville Caribou
area, east of Idaho Falls and north of
Soda Springs, under the direction of
Virgil r. Kirkham, one of the mem
bers of the geological staff of the
school of mines, assisted by w. II.
,Birchby a recent graduate in geology.
This party is engaged in mapping the
structure of the beds, which, in parts
of Wyoming. have been large produc-
ers of oil, and which at suitable places
to be determined by this survey would
seem to justify prospect drilling in
this state The other party, under the
direction of A. M. Piper, member Of
the bureau staff not connected with
the university. and assisted by Felix
Plastino, a graduate of the university
and a member of the faculty of the
Idaho technical institute at POcatellO
is making a reconnaissance survey of
the oil possibilities in Power and On
eida counties.
Gold Resources Investigated.
S. NJ. Ballard of Placerville has re-
Gently completed about three weeks of
field work in Idaho county, designed
TO supplement and bring down to date
the data which has been collected
both by DR.. Francis A. Thomson and
Mr. Ballard, during the past three
years. DR.. Thomson has also COM
pleted a brief reconnaissance in the
Pierce City country. All of the mater
ial under this head is shortly to be
embodied in a bulletin which will
probably be entitled Geology and
Gold Resources of North Central Ida
no." to be issued this fall Mr.. Ballard
is now completing the field work and
laboratory studies for similar bull
letin on the Geology and Gold Re
sources of the Boise Basin"
Geology of Seven Devils.
DIR. f. B. Laney, head of the depart
ment of geology in the university and
a member of the United States geo.
logical survey staff, will shortly con-
clude the field work in the Seven Dew
ills and adjacent areas, preparatory to
the preparation of a scientific publ
cation of the genesis of the copper ore
deposits of this important region DR..
Taney's production when completed
will probably be issued as a profess
sional paper by the United States geo
logical survey.
Prof. D. c. Livingston, formerly a
member of the university staff but
now head of the department of geoi-
ogy at the Oregon Agricultural school,
is completing a study begun three
years ago on the ore deposits of the
Cuddy mountain and adjacent areas.
PROF.. Livingstons work is expected to
result in a bulletin on this area to be
published by the Idaho bureau during
the coming winter.
In Wood River District.
Clyde P. Ross of the United States
geological survey staff in cooperation
with the state bureau, is at present
completing and correlating the work
done in previous years in the HALEY
area by Messrs. Umpleby, Westgate
and others, and it is anticipated that
a bulletin including all of this work
viii be issued by the survey early in
the spring.
Upon the comp elton Of his work at