The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-26
cENTENNIAI-EUREKA HOSTING WORKS T1NTIc DISTRICT.

beautiful specimens from it's immense
Slopes repose today in cabinets all over
the east and in England, where, for
many years, the controlling interest
was owned.
Since 1874 the property has been al
most constantly in litigation, and the
ipternecina warfare between some OF
the principal stockholders now stands
in the way of a thorough development
of it's still wonderful resources. A small
| force Of men keep the mine in cordi-
ton, and just enough ore is marketed
to pay operating expenses A suit is
now pending for the ownership of 44,OOO
shares of stock, and until it is decided,
officers for the ensuing year cannot be
elected. In the early history of the
property a great deal of very fair ore
was thrown over the dump, the process
of reduction then in vogue being in
capable of handling it at a profit.
Messrs. Peter Burke and j. 7. Hays
took a lease on a portion of this dump
during the past year, and worked it at
I a. fair profit to themselves and the
company.
THE SIOUX-AJAX TUNNEL.
Eighteen months ago, Manager Geo.
H. Robinson, of the Tintic Mining &
Development company began work on
a tunnel with the intention of tapping
the ore bodies of the Sioux and Utah
mines, and intervening properties, from
the Mammoth side. The distance is
about one mile. and 5000 feet of a
double-track tunnel eight feet high, had
been driven when work was discontin-
ued, late last summer On Dec. 1 work
was resumed. and ten men and two
Burleighs are working by day and by
night 10 complete the work. When
finished, it will enable the company to
unload their ore by means of an I'M
foreground tramWay, into cars of the
new East Tintic railway, on the oppo-
side of the mountain range. From there
! it IS g. short haul TO the Oregon Short
Line and Rio Grande Western at Mann
moth, so that the ore is handled but
once from the mine to the sme1ter. In
the meantime the Sioux is practically
idle, but is in good shape to resume ore
shipments at any time.
At the Utah Mr.. George Robertson is
working q force of Is men on a lease,
and is extracting considerable good ore.
The Sioux-AjaX tunnel, besides the
Ajax, will pierce several other good
properties, which will be worked
through it, and will be the means of a
great deal of development in and
around Mammoth mountain. 1t is by
far the most expensive and important
work in the district.
THE MAMMOTH.
Excepting for short time during the
summer, the Mammoth mine and mill
have been worked steadily, but no div
idends have been paid for several
months. A fine new steam hoist has
been placed on the side of the noun
tain above the old tunnel level, and
during the last months of 1897 ore and
concentrates and bullion have been
shipped regularly. The 60-stamp mill is
running constantly on low grade ore,
and about 65 per cent of the bullion
value is in gold.
The Mammoth is truly named-the
ore bodies are simply enormous, and in
the early days gold ore was taken from
a great pit near the present hoist, of
fabulous value.
During the great battle between the
Bullion-Beck and Eureka-HiT COM
ranies. in which the latter company
claimed apex rights experts advanced
the theory of three distinct ore zones
in Tintic district. The eastern zone
takes in the properties on Godiva Hill,
and the Utah, Sioux, Northern Spy,
Carisa Red Rose and others The
central zone embraces the Eagle, Grand
Central, Mammoth. Ajax and bends
south through the Lower Mammoth,
and through the Silver City mines.
The west zone, on which lie the Ge-
MIMI Bullion-Bec Eureka-Hill and
Centennial Eureka, IS believed to con-
tinue through the mountain south. This
extension would take in the Southern
Eureka. the Tennessee Rebel, AMMAN
dale, Emerald and Opex. This theory
is endorsed by the United States sur
veyors who have just completed a geo.
logic survey Of the district; they give
III ridth ~ the wast 7onc as nearly