The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1923-05-24
CEDAR CREEK SHAFT
GOING DOWN IN ORE
HAS LARGE TONNAGE
Extension of Shaft 200 Feet
to be Followed by Construc-
ton of Mill
HAS LARGE TONNAGE
"HE CEDAR Creek Mining & De-

NelOpmenU company is now car
rying out the final development
plans preparatory to placing
the mine on a permanent productive
basis. In fact the mine can be said
to be in that position now, but the
management with commendable eau
ton, decided to test the ore at further
depth before proceeding with the con-
struction of a mill 1t is for this pur-
pose that a shaft is now being SUNK
from No tunnel level on the vein
and which will be extended 200 feet
If the showing of ore holds good at
this depth, and from present indica-
tions it will be even better, the con
struction of a mill will be taken up at
once and before snow flies the district
will have another producing mine
The shaft is now down 80 feet. 1t is
accompaniment shaft and follows
the foot wall. 1t started on ore and
has been in ore continuously, at times
showing Is inches of almost clean
lead silver ore as well as two or three
feet of good mill feed. At a depth of
100 feet a crosscut will be run to the.
hanging wall where if the same con-
ditions are found that prevail on the
tunnel level, an even better showing
of ore will be found.
Ore Shoot 400 Feet Long.
No. tunnel is a crosscut 2450 feet
in length, straight and of large dimen-
sions adapted to providing a perman-
ent working outlet. Having been ex-
tended a short distance beyond the
vein to prospect the ground, a drift
has been run easterly some 500 feet
to get under the ore shoot as exposed
in the upper tunnels. The vein show
ed ore continuously throughout the
drift. which followed the foot wall,
and for the last 400 feet the shoot av-
erages better than two feet wide,
much of it high grade along with good
milling ore But the best showing of
ore proved to be on the hanging wall
side, as disclosed by a series of cross
cuts and further proved by drifting
some 40 or so feet from the last
crosscut about $50 feet west of the
shaft. This work has practically
proved the hanging wall shoot to be
400 feet long and having an average
width of three feet The distance be-
tween walls is about 35 feet, and the
ground between the two shoots is
heavily mineralized and carries more
or less milling ore.
Ore Proved 500 Feet Above.
A raise from No. has been extend
ed to No. tunnel level, 100 feet, also
following the foot wall in ore. On
this level the ore has been proved by
drifting over 200 feet being about the
same amount and character as that
on the level below. Although no
crosscuts have been run from the
drift on No. 2, it may reasonably be
assumed that the shoot found along
the hanging wall on No. 3 viii also be
found on No 2. Practically the same
ore showing has been developed on
No. 1 tunnel level, 300 feet above No
.. Summed up, Cedar Creek has two
ore shoots 400 feet in length on No. 3
level each averaging about three feet
in thickness. One of these has been
proved by a raise and drifts on two
levels to an elevation of 500 feet above
No 3. also by the shaft to a depth of
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Crosscuts will doubtless expose the
other shoot on both the upper and the
shaft levels. This represents large
tonnage actually in sight and certain
" iustifies the management in its
nIans for a mill. The Cedar Creek
comnanv owns 81 claims, eight of
which are patented. The portal of
No 2 tunnel is about IL miles from
the North Side branch of the O.-W r.
&, n. and while this line is out of
commission now. the Cedar Creek
management has assurance that II
will be restored as soon as ore ship
ments are ready to move.
SawmiI and Timber.
The Cedar Creek company has
sawmiu which is capable of turning
ont 10000 feet of lumber day. This
is driven by water power and is sit
mated adjacent to a fine stand of tim
Der on the companys ground. Logs
representing 5000 feet of lumber are
on the skids at the mill. Thus the
company is in position to turn out
the lumber for the mill and other
buildings and also to provide sawed
timber for all underground workings
While Cedar Creek has everything in
the way of buildings and equipment
necessary for development and to pro-
vide comfortable quarters for en-
ployes, there has been no needless
expense in these respects. the policy
of the management evidently being to
make every dollar count in under
ground development.
Last Sunday J. w. Weyer, president
of the Cedar Creek company; William