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

1Nt4ft mics aJOF6 tAdl-5r Day
horse creek enters the Salmon river
from the west It IS three miles Up rhis
small stream to the town Of Bayhorse,
and about eight miles TO It's source in I
large area Of eruptive granite. Three
miles above the town, on the north
side Of the creek, Ramshorn peak is
1000 feet above sea level and is ira
versed from the canyon bottom through
an elevation Of 5000 feet to the SUM
nit, by the Ramshorn vein, persistent
6ssure striking a little west Of north
and dipping west 80 10 20 degrees.
Il is enclosed throughout It's entire
course IN pre-Cambrian states and as
ISOLATED with 2 few small dikes OF
diabase. The fssure IS from three 70
I've feet wide, with a gangue Of almost
clean spathie iron and usually a thick
salvage Of taley material. This vein
was actively operated during the SOS
and produced crude ore TO the gross
value OF over 100000 from q sue
eession OF adit tunnels driven On the
vein at 100-foot intervals. The prin-
eipal ore Of this deposit is gray copper,
associated with some argentite and
other rieh silver sulphides, and a little
galena; the gray copper mineral carries
fairly Uniform value OF 80 ounces OF
silver 70 each unit OF copper; shipments
Of clean crude ore have been made that
have given returns OF 1000 ounces Of
silver per ton in carload lots.
Equipped With Mil
The property was idle for % years
and its re-development undertaken
about 3 years ago, when 1t was equipped
with an extravagantly constructed sui
phidizing rotation mill OF 80 tons daily
capacity and hydroeleetrie power plant
using the small bow OF Bayhorse creek,
under four hundred foot head, which
however. only furnishes sufficient power
for the mill and compressor at the mine
during a short high water period Since
its re-opening, with the mill operating
. few months in the summer, the prop
erty is said to have produced and ship
ped approximately 100 carloads of con
eentrates and crude ore of values rang
ing from three to five hundred dollars
rer ton. Mr.. Frank Skeels, formerly
OF Wallace, is now in charge of the
operation. which still shows handsome
reserves Of rich ore.
skylark Old Producer
Adjoining the Eamshorn, on a par
allel vein TO the west, the Skylark mine,
q fat-bedded fssure with the same
strike and dip Of twenty degrees to the
west, has been idle for % years 1t
was formerly stopped for 1000 feet in
length on a succession OF short shoots
Of gray copper ore in similar spathie
iron gangue for depth of few hun
ired feet. and produced s2,s00,G00. This .
vein showed a succession of 10 to 2o-foot
step faults and was lost against big
vertical fssurs in silieeous schists,
known as the shamrock vein
Camps Output Large
The slate formations are succeeded 4 (
mile below the Ramshorn vein with 1
blue dohmitie limestone and
the old camp of Bayhorse is situated be-
tween high vertical bluffs OF this for
mation. A thousand feet north of the
town, the Beardsley, Excelsior. Hood
Pacific, and River View mines traverse
the north border Of the limestone for
nation near q shale contact, presenting
; line Of assuring and fraeturing in the
Err IS. ,Ee with a northwest strike and
4 tseo northeast dip carrying a sue
sessiOn of pipe-ike ore bodies exelu-
sively confined TO the limestone forma-
ion. that were operated quite extern
,ively in the early history of the camp
~ produced a total output eonserva-
ivelp cstimated at 100000 worth of
rude sand carbonate ore, carrying 10 {.
% 80 per cent lead and uniform as
,oeiated value Of two ounces silver 70
zach unit of lead.
Beardsley Reopened
One of these old ore pipes on the
claim was reOpened by Mr..
Roy Huffman, an enterprising leaser,