The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1923-09-27
FIRST NATIONAL CO. HAS
NEW DEVELOPMENT PLAN
EXPECT LARGE BODY OF RICH
ORE AFTER TWO VEINS
COME TOGETHER.

party of stockholders Of the First
National Silver Mines. including a
mining engineer representing a group
of eastern investors. recently made a
trip of inspection to the holdings of
the company east of Wardner Pre-
yious to that date party of local
shareholders made an examination Of
the mine.
Last week stockholders meeting
held at the Offices of the company in
Spokane the shareholders had under
consideration, and were strongly urged
by local mining men of wide experience
and present at the meeting for pur-
poses of consultation, a plan to tap
the First National veins at the great
est depth possible this notwithstand-
ing the great showing made in the No.
. tunnel sometime ago. The reason
for the move is principally from an
economic standpoint
There are now opened mp i'm the No.
tunnel of the First National two
separate and distinct veins. one of
them has a strong dip to the south
while the other recently encountered
vein, about 125 feet south from the
former vein has a dip of forty-fve /
degrees to the north If, as is believed,
these veins will hold true in THEM dip
for a short distance they win come
together at further depth Of about
fifty feet
Enrichment at Depth.
In vein No. 1 an ore shoot showing
commercial values of gray-copper and
silver ores was recent. opened
in tunnel No. 3 From this same level
a crosscut driven south at a point
about 125 feet south. vein No , was
encountered and has now been pene-
trated for more than forty feet with
no foot wall in sight This vein is
also well mineralized II development
work was continued on this level each
vein would have to be developed sep
arately and at great expense This is
one of the reasons why the driving of
the lower tunnels was so strongly sug-
gested as the more economical method
of progress. Another essential reason
is that mining men of extensive local
experience believe that at the junction .
of these two veins great enrichment
must have taken place in the character
OF the ore, stating the proof for this
assertion exist in the teaching SO much ]
noticeable in the upper workings.
nr.4t ,
First National Silver Mines. states s
that surveys which have just been s
made show that the new tunnel will {
have total length of 1870 feet to I
ntersect the vein at a point to give I
an additional depth of about 200 feet E
This is the lowest possible point for T.
/ tunnel leaving just enough room for !
good waste dump c
Company Well Financed.
At distance of about 1899 feet the
placer Creek fault will be encountered
n the No tunnel some fair values /
we're found in the fault filling matter "
nd some close observations viii be b
made when this fault is reached i'm the 6
lew tunnel The company is well fl 2
anced to carry on these operations o
nd the management expects to COM s
lete This tiinnei at an early date next Il
pring. The property is equipped with
Machinery and all necessary buildings
D carry on this work. Supplies to p
AIRY on this work during the winter C.
ne now being taken to the mine Il
This work is of great import ii
nee to all the Big Creek proper y
es located in the Revett quartzite of n
pper Big Creek which is an eastern VI
ytension of the Wardner ore zone and al
which many prominent producers ei
re located