The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1923-05-24
IMPORTANT STRIKE ON
THE FAMOUS YANKEE BOY
ADDS MANY YEARS TO LIFE OF
MINE-ENcoURAeEs DEEP
DEVELOPMENT.

The strike by the Sunshine Mining
company on Big creek, to which brief
reference was made in the Miner last
week, is evidently of the greatest i'm
portance not only to the company it
self, but also in its bearing on future
operations in the Big creek district.
For more than thirty years the Sun
shine, more Familiarity known as the
Yankee Boy, has been a producer of
high grade silver ore and it is credit
ed with making a fortune for its or
iginal owners and numerous comfort
able stakes for leasers who for years
have worked in a series of tunnels
and who are still making good pay
For several years efforts have been
made to find the Yankee Boy vein in
a crosscut driven a short distance
above the creek, but the faulted and
disturbed condition of the ground
presented a difficult problem which
was not solved until last week The
finding of the vein and ore shoot on
the new and deep level means that the
Yankee Boy is about to enter upon
new lease of life which viii probably
be as long as it's past record and far
more productive for the ore shoot is
much larger than in the levels above
and will doubtless be found continu-
GUS at great depth below the discov-
cry. It presents substantial encour-
agement for the deep development of
all other properties on Big creek, for
the strike must be accepted as moth
ing less than proof that the ore bodies
of that section are deep seated, which
is characteristic of the ore bodies in
the Occur d'Alene district generally
Vein 10 Feet Wide.
According to the Wardner-Kellogg
News, the new discovery was made in
the lower crosscut tunnel where the
ledge was located after a search of
many months. AS now exposed the
vein shows 10 feet in width, with the
entire face of good milling ore while
a streak of first class galena II inches
wide lies on the foot wall. Assays
from this gave returns of as per cent
lead and 1853 ounces of silver. Several
stringers of gray copper are in the
vein. picked samples from which gave
assay returns of 76O ounces of silver
The ledge was located about 10 feet
from the face of the north crosscut
run by d. w. Price some years ago,
further work on which was resumed
by the Sunshine company recently.
fault had cut off the vein below the
No. level and it's downward extern
sion has been a subject of close study
by engineers. The fault displaced the
vein for a considerable distance, ma
king uncertain it's location on this
lower level, some 500 feet beneath the
outcrop. A drift is now under way on
the vein and the ore disclosures are
reported to be more extensive as the
work progresses. From where the
Yankee Boy vein was cut it is only
short distance to a big copper lead
and in close proximity to the Polaris
vein the three veins evidently con-
verging near the present discovery
The mine is well equipped with cleo
trically driven compressor and COM
plete mining equipment including
5O-ton concentration which has been
operating successfully on ore from
the upper levels of the property. John
sawbridge of Yakima, Wash, is pres
ident of the corporation, and J. B. Cox
of Kellogg, secretary.