The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-25
MINING IN TINTIC.
Items of Interest CuIIed From the
Eureka Democrat.

Eureka Democrat.
The Centennial Eureka has been in
creasing it's underground force, which
larged shipments.
The Eureka Hill and Gemini-Key-
stone properties are maintaining their
regular bullion and shipping records
The ore bodies in the Mammoth are
growing bigger and better as work pro-
crosses, and it is safe to say a resump-
ton of dividends may be looked for not
later than July.
The Whitaker tunnel is being driven
ahead as rapidly as possible in favor
able breaking ground
The activity in the vicinity of Silver
City and Diamond shows no abatement.
The Swansea, South Swansea and other
properties in that part of the district
are more than holding their own, and
the tonnage from the former is such as
to justify the Rio Graude TO run a
spur from the main line to the mine.
From center to circumference the dis
trict has at nc time in its history pro-
duced so heavy an output or as high
grade ore in quality as during the past
few months.
The owners of the Godiva have de-
cided to run drifts from the bottom of
the 160-foot Wine and will begin at
once stopping ore for the market. The
ore body has widened to thirty feet,
and is of excellent shipping grade.
On Sunday the Bullion-Beck viii be-
gin working their employees only eight
hours, making three shifts a day of
eight hours each. 1t is to be hoped the
management Of other mines will follow
the same course.
The board of directors of the May
Day Mining company met in this city
on Wednesday evening, and as a result
arrangements will be made to begin ac-
tive development work upon the prop
erty Immediately.
George Kappes of Silver City has
leased to E. n. Jenkins of Salt Lake
City, for a term of five years, a group
of mining claims adjoining the Four
Aces. consisting of the Silver Bow,
Granite, Utah and Blue Rock lodes,
and work Will be commenced on the
group Immediately, there being con-
siderable development work already
done. which shows UP a good vein of
silver-lead ore in the shaft running as
high as thirty ounces in silver. The
property is in a good locality and prom
ises to be a shipper this summer.
A contract has been let for sinking
the first 100 feet of the vertical work
ing shaft on the Uncle Sam This shaft
will cut the formation and also the vein
system at varying depths in its down
ward course. The Uncle Sam embraces
within its boundaries the apex of the
mineralized groupings of the great ore
zone that trends northerly from the
Mammoth and Sioux Consolidated, and
has for years been considered among
the most valuable properties on the
east side. There has been none of the
stock of this company thrown upon the
market, and the incorporators will use
their private means through the early
stages of development and until the
value OF the property is demonstrated
The general sentiment now is that
spring has come to stay, although
somewhat slow in getting here. The
bright weather of the past week has
given a striking impetus to mining
operations, and the hills are covered
with prospectors, old stakes and monu-
ments are being put in place and a
good deal of new ground is being taken
up; particularly is this the case in the
quartZite belt to the west and south
west of the city. There is but one new
Incorporation, to note this week, but
Nsose recently announced are all en-
gagged in active development work or
taking the necessary steps to do so
soon.
The latest enterprise of Importance
that has been brought to a successful
termination is the decision of the stock
holders of the Uncle Sam Mining COM
pany to at once develop their ground
adjoining the Godiva. This means that
another great mine will soon be added
to the list of Tintic's shippers.
Work was begun upon the immense
Sioux Consolidated company's tunnel
the first of the week. and it is expected
will be continued without interruption
during the year