The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1923-09-27
WEST HUNTER COMPANY
RESUMES OPERATIONS
PLANS OUTLINED TO STOCK
HoHLDERS IN LETTER FROM
PRESIDENT cosGRoVE.

Active development work by the
West Hunter Mining company was
started on September Is, according to
announcement by T. b. Cosgrove,
president of the company, in a letter
just issued to the stockholders. The
West Hunter property lies on both
sides of Mill creek, about a mile north
of Mullan. and is joined on the east
by the Hunter and on the west by the
Morning. Describing conditions at
the property and plans of the company
Mr.. Cosgrove says:
Work on West Side.
AT present our work is being con-
fined to that portion of the property
adjoining the Independence and Morn
ing Mines. Five hundred feet south
of the independence No. 4 tunnel and
on an elevation below that of the
Morning No. tunnel, we are driving
a new tunnel westwardly towards the
Morning claims.
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production came from the Revett for
mation-this same formation consti-
tutes the western half of the West
Hunter ground. No work has been
done on this side of the property here
tofore, except necessary assessment
work on the surface.
1T was in doing this assessment
work this year that a strong mineral
lied vein was discovered on cur Pana-
ma claim, carrying good values in
lead and silver. The float is identical
with the outcrops along the Morning
vein. We have traced this float by
surface prospecting 25O0 feet west to
the Morning ground.
ION account of the American-Co
mander company increasing their de-
velopment program, we have not been
able to resume operations on our vein
exposed by a crosscut from their No
tunnel They have advised us that
we could start work on one shift
basis within the coming month. Work
here will be pushed with all possible
sped as we have every reason to sup
pose that we will cut a large body of
ore by our work in this part of the
mine. The crosscut from the Ameri-
can Commander No. tunnel, crosscut
our vein for width of ten feet and
at a depth of 500 feet. Approximately
200 feet of drifting has been done on
it up to date. Additional drifting of
300 feet will have to be done before
we expect to find the main ore shoot.
We base our opinion on the ore show
ings 300 feet east of the face of the
drift, exposed by surface work done
last year The face of this drift is al
ready showing several stringers of
naturalization containing galena.
Several very important strikes have
been made and new ore bodies de-
veloped by adjoining properties since
our suspension of operations. 1t is
more than probable that our ore body
would have been reached If we had not
stopped development last fall, on ac-
count of the shortage of funds. Ever
since the control of West Hunter prop
erty passed to Seattle and Van
couver interests in April. 1919, stock
holders have not been called upon to
share any of the cost of development
work. It was hoped that the property
would have been in a producing stage
by now and help from stockholders not
required, but owing to the high cost
of mining during the past few years
our funds did not last for the success
full completion of our development pro-
gram. In order to complete our present
plans of development the directors de-
cided that it would be necessary to
levy a small assessment of 5 mills
share on all of the outstanding capital
stock of the company as stated in the
notice below"