The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-06-27

SeHVS ~ very promising opportunity 10
further development, as it should prov
as persistent at depth as the adjoinin
Red Bird.
! Williams and Policeman Claims
Two miles south, this zone crosse
Salmon river canyon, where big bod
of the brown iron ore is exposed jus
above the level of the river on tn
north side. On the south side of tn
canyon, the Sullivan hot springs rise il
pipe of this brown iron ore and ar
Indicative Of its genesis. Half a mill
south of hot springs the Williams groul
of claims carries some large bodies O.
brown iron ore with good showings o:
lead carbonate ore. Several shipments
have been made, containing 40 per cen
lead and so ounces of silver, while three
miles further south the Policeman
claims, shallow prospect in body OF
brown iron ore, has produced some
small shipments of galena carrying 20C
ounces of silver per ton. All these
prospects are confined to a narrow
horizon of steeply- pitching blue dolo-
mitic limestone with strong assuring
and faulting and it's adjacent lime shale
formations lying west of the quartzite
anticline, paralleled for some distance
by big dixie of andesite porphyry.
Livingston Mines
Railroad ridge, so called because of
its similarity, at distance, to q rail
road grade, is notable geologic fea-
ture consisting of a broad old river
channel of smooth washed boulders still
cemented few feet under their surface
with its original Eocene ice.
This ridge is at an elevation of 10000
feet above sea level and forms the
divide between the east fork Of Salmon
river and the main river canyon.
Traversing the bluffy face of still
higher elevation, with a north and south
strike and fiat westerly dip, the Liv
ingston Glow grade mine" on the south
side of the ridge, is one of the most
persistent galena assures in Idaho and
can be followed up the quartzite noun
tain face for 1000 feet in close sue
cession of open cuts and short tunnels
This vein varies from few inches to
3 feet of galena carrying so per cent
ead and so ounces silver per ton. It
IS paralleled within few feet by al
20-foot, quartz-porphyry dixie carrying
l little stibnite and some gold values.
The chief development is a 300-foot
tunnel in the middle section of this
ong exposure, with a continuous streak |
If ore from the portal and feet of
lean galena in the face.
The Livingston "high grade mine"
les on the north side of the ridge. 1t
s anarrow fissure in black shale that
trikes northeast and dips southeast at
wenty degrees and is also closely par
lleled by a narrow dixie.
The vein carries completely oxidized
lead ore resembling yellow
chre. There are several closely spaced
eveopment tunnels, all in permanently
rozen ground for the first fifty feet
/ from the portal and the vein carries
rom a few inches to two feet wide.
From development the mine has made
number of small shipments of crude
re that has given net smelter returns of
to 40 per cent lead, three to four
lnces of silver to the unit of lead and
J much as $40 gold per ton.
The Livingston mines were taken over
st fall by eastern interests said to be
with large manufacturing
'ncern which is large consumer of
adj About 100000 was spent in road
instruction during the past winter and
four-mile aerial tram, hydroelectric
ant and compressor are to be installed
is summer for the extensive develop
emit and operation of these interesting
posts.
Estes Mountain
Estes mountain is a 10,000-foot eleva-
IN. 1t is made up of rhyolite porphyry{
ifs and breccias on a basal member of
lssive green andesite flows. The
Idle formations are well assured with
'ep pitching veins, several of which
We produced rich ore. The McFadden
d Montana mines are the star per-
'mers; the latter credited with a So
| shipment made 80 years ago that
tied 80 cents per pound in gold and
yer All these old properties have
IN idle for a number of years; their
ximum development nowh ere exceeds
feet. The last importar. operation
S the Sunbeam mine, near theSfoot Of
mountain, which produced several
ldred thousand dollars in free gold +,
m selec ed siliceous ore courses in
300-foot zone of rhyolite tuff, the
ole of which is said to average $3.50
d per ton and may justify a large