Show SHOWING IN THE MARSH MINE 1 special correspondence spokane wash sept 24 the marsh mining company in which the principal owners are united states senator dixon and C L cowell of missoula soula eugene carroll of butte and edward and J V pohlman of spokane has added a great silver lead producer to the coeur calenes dA lenes by the development of properties known for twenty years as the mark cooney group which covers the east extension of the once noted tiger poorman mine at burke idaho official announcement is made in spokane that the crosscut from the bottom broke into five feet of galena ore on september 10 fifty per cent of this is of clean shipping grade averaging more than 50 per cent in lead and 30 ounces of silver to the ton experts who have examined the ore showing declare it is superior to that of either the hecla and tiger poorman at similar stages of exploitation saying also that it will ultimately prove a larger dividend payer than either of the two properties the owners of which have disbursed millions of 0 dollars since they entered the shipping list from the day of its location considerably more than a generation ago the property has been considered one of the most promising prospects in the coeur dalene district its location and surface surface showing were such that no other estimate could be placed on it its original owners clung tenaciously to it and demanded what most mining men considered too stiff a price for the privilege of developing it their poverty kept them from doing the work anem selves As a consequence the hecla with much less surface promise was developed into a great dividend paying mine while it yet ranked only as a prospect finally the necessity of finding another big producing silver lead mine decade so insistent at the time that good prospects had become few by process of elimination that a party came forward with sufficient courage to risk a fortune on the issue the pohlman brothers of spokane assisted by Y montana capital bonded the group and organized the marsh mining company to equip develop and purchase it their first development work was to drive what is known as the no 2 tunnel this cut the ledge when in feet from which point it was continued eastward along the vein as a drift for feet showing an average of more than two feet of ore all the way the clean ore encountered averaged 70 per cent in lead and 40 ounces of silver to the ton no drift was run westward along the vein for the reason that the ore shoot was narrow at that end and the workings at no greater distance than feet from the surface development on that level having proved so encouraging and satisfactory it was decided to explore the ore shoot at depth A 21 station was cut out at a point midway on the ore shoot where the vein carried just two feet ot of ore the shaft of double com apartment part ment s ze was started on what was believed to be the dip of the vein which it followed for feet here the vein flattened and the ore body left the workings though not until it had gradually widened to four feet carrying usually thirty inches of clean shipping ore no eff effort ort was made to reach the ore body again until the foot level of the shaft was reached when a 12 foot crosscut opened the showing of five feet of ore already described curing occurring Oc at a depth of more than feet from the surface in an ore shoot already proved to have a length along the vein of feet with only one end in sight on the no 2 tunnel level the conclusion is reached by experts that the marsh is a rich mine with ore reserves worth millions of dollars already practically in sight development work will be pushed with vigor E E booth formerly engineer at the hecla mine who is superintendent at the marsh says the property is in excellent shape to begin production almost at once it has a full equipment of electrical machinery including an eight drill compressor and a 40 horse power hoist lumber for the erection of a machine shop dayroom and other mine buildings is on the ground the mouth of the no 2 tunnel is only feet from the tracks of both the northern pacific and oregon railway navigation companies |