The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1923-08-16
MINING OPERATIONS
CO. IN B. c.
CONTROLS 3 PROPERTIES
Two Gold and One Lead-Sil-
ver---Wide Range of Comp
any's Mining Activities

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- manager of the Federal Mining
& Smelling company, returned
last Saturday from British Col
umbia, where he had been for several
weeks to inspect three mining prop
critics in which the Federal company
owns controlling interests. one of
these. the Fairview, has been under
development by the Federal for more
than year, while the other two are
of more recent acquisition. Wallace
is the operating headquarters of the
Federal Mining & Smelling company
and the Morning at Mullan is the
largest single mine owned or con,
trolled by the company. Its field OF
operations extends from Oklahoma to
central British Columbia, and its staff
of engineering scouts are ever on the
lookout for new mines to develop or
for old ones to rejuvenate. In okla
homa the company is operating three
or four zinc mines and is carrying on
an extensive prospecting campaign to
find more. In the Wood river dis
trict, in southern Idaho. the famous
Minnie Moore mine, near Bellevue
long inactive. may soon be restored 20
profitable production through plans
now being carried out by the Federal
Here at home the Morning continues
its large output of lead-silver and zinc
ore with no sign of diminishing on the
deeper levels. In British Columbia
gold is the attraction in two mines I'M
der development while the third has
galena with an exceptionally high sill
yer content. Mr. Burbidge. general
manager makes periodical visits to
all these widely separated mining pro-
perties of the Federal ana is of ne
cessity a very busy man. However
since his return from his recent trip
to British Columbia, he took time TO
tell the Miner something about the
properties controlled by the company
north of the international boundary
line.
The Fairvew.
1.-THE Federal company owns the
controlling interest in three mining
properties in British Columbia" said
Mr.. Burbidge zone of these. the
Fairview is situated near the town Of
Fairview and about 20 miles north of
Oroville Wash This property has
quartz vein averaging about 20 feet
wide carrying gold, and in which sew
eral shoots of pay ore have been en-
countered. With additional ore which
is expected from development work
now being done, it is probable that a
mill will be erected on the property
Work is being done through an in
cline shaft which is now down 21O /
feet
Dome Mountain.
Another property. which is being /
developed by the Dome Mountain Mi /
ming Company, Limited, is situated % .
miles from Telkwa, on the Grand .
Trunk Pacific railway. This also is a
gold property. 1t has one strong vein
known as the Forks vein and four or
five smaller veins. At this time work
on the property is confined to sinking
a shaft on the Forks vein. The ore is
of very good grade and it is expected
that the property will prove to be
very valuable.
Hudson Bay Mountain.
1.-THE third property controlled by
the Federal consists of a group of
claims on Hudson Bay mountain,
about II miles from Smithers. also on.
the Grand Trunk Pacific railway, and
a short distance north of Telkwa
Smithers is also about 125 miles east
Of the Portland canal. Here the ore
is galena and carries high values in
silver. Seven or eight carloads have
been shipped so far. the average value
of which exceeded 800 per ton Work
on the property is being prosecuted
by a tunnel driven on the vein. The
provincial government is constructing
a new wagon road to the mine, which
is expected to be completed within 60
days"