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Show TLc Cicnril'AIcue llrgion. H C. D. Torter, of Wallace, Idaho, and H owner of the Custer mine, tald to be H onu of the llneet properties tu tho Ciuur H d'Alono couutry, thut describes that lH section of Idaho: "The Ctcur d'Aleue H mining district proper comprises a, H section Hu miles long by twenty. tlvu 1 milts wide. It la a veritable mat ot LH leud ore, une o( Its most reuiarkablu f pccullarlllea I elng Hint no proajiect of H goud aurface Indications hat ever been . M fcund which did not develop luto u . H prolllable mine. Though only live H years old, the district bus already tnade t M vast strides lu deelupmeut und tbu ' ore output, now having sixteen mines aH which ) ay dividends. Thesu dividends, H however, aru put buck aa fast as de. V dared in Improving and deeper work. CjHH lugo( tbu mlue or mines Irotn wulch M they huvu Ueu yielded. L'ereclal proiiruea hai beuu made lu thu Ciuur M d'Alene In the application ul modern CjH mining machinery aud rnelhods, there kH now bnlugiu Ihe diatnet thirteen con- i LH euutrators, (eurtten air oouiprcaeor ! M plunts, and ten uillta of Iron tramway, kH while thu Toorniin mine ha thu fJH lurgttt and tuott oomplete electrical M mining plant In tbe Untied Statu. Tliu H lead outut of the dlitrlct laat J car 1 waa about 600,000 tons cf ore. Which afl yielded lOO.Ouoiousof coucuntrates, tho B tonceiilratea In their turn iroduclng -9Bl 42,OOJ tonsofnctuil had, Aside from Jl lulcsd jleld the Camr d'Alonu la nu 'awJH lucouildtrablegold producer, Itsoulput IBBI cf Hilt rt clous metal (or lattjuar aWJaW leaching $300,000. I lie chief towns of tBl thu dlitrlct are Wallace, Mullen, fflM IlurLuand Wnrduer, the latter being , I robably tbe point j largest ore ship. jMH meat. Tlio Ctnurd'Aleuu Is tapped I by both tliu Union Taclllo and North- KaC urn Taclllo railroad ay slims. The VJaU touutry Is one of heavy forests, dcon 'flBl lake aud navlgabtu (Ivors. Thetowu J of Wallace Is uuly 700 feet nbovo sea flW! level, wbllu thu hlghett mountain In iflB.1 tbuuistrlct It ouly elevated 0000 feet above the waters cf the Taclllo ocean, JVjaM Ihu climate, sulctd tu theinlluence iiBH of Hie w Arm coast w hide, I mild, tlio heavy snows which (all speuJily dle'ip. -ljV tearing from the vullrts aud fuol- 'iAsbW. hills." 9 |
