The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-20
WEST TINTIC MINEs.
Renewed Activity In the Home of tn
Scotia, Orient and War Eagle.

Renewed Activity In the Home of the
Scotia, Orient and War Eagle.
West Tintic district, which was so
noted in the early days of mining in
Utah for its producers of high-grade
ore, promises to show renewed activity
during the coming year, and it is more
than likely that in the near future this
ancient camp win make a splendid rec
ord as a steady shipper OF rich min
eraL
AS is we'll known in Salt Lake min
ing circles some effective work has been
done during the past summer in the
development of the old Orient mine in
West Tintic district and that disclos-
ures have been made in this property
which would indicate that it will not
be long before it can be classed as q
regular producer. The new workings
in this mine comprise drifts which have
been run from the bottom of the 100
foot shaft, it having been demonstrated
that the ledge, which has strike to
the south and a dip to the southeast
instead of to the northwest, as former
" believed, is all of 100 feet in width
the quartz being highly nineraliZed and
carrying traces Of copper, and The
Herald is informed that in a cross cut
made in the ledge from the north drift
a pay chute of about eighteen inches
ia width has been opened and is be-
ing followed into the hill, which carries
values OF p per cent lead, q ounces
silver and So in gold to the ton, the
mineral being a heavy iron ore which
viii net the company from So to SIS to
the ton at the Salt Lake smelters, and
the showing at this point is so encour-
aging that the company Will not only
follow the pay chute, but it will sink
a Winze upon it in its further eXplora-
ton and at the same time the shaft
VIII be deepened to the 300-foot level
having already attained a depth of %
feet below the 100-foot level, the works
having passed through a layer of blue
lime, the bottom now being in vein
matter, while the indications are that
ths ore body will soon be encountered
on its dip.
Judge o. w. Powers, one of the Off
GERS OF the Oriert company, is highly
pleased with the showing and states
that where such immense lodges are
found there is every reason to believe
magnificent bodies of pay ore win be
disclosed with development.
Between the Orient and the old SEQ
tia groups is the Bertha ground. a
promising property which is now being
Incorporated upon under the title of
the Prairie Bell Mining company. n.
n. Brown DeluS IN the city at the pres
ent time to attend to the details of the
organization.
The group VIII embrace the Bertha.
the r. G. w, the Jennie and Aollie
Parsons lodes, and associated with Mr..
Brown in the interpretations will be c.
f. Loose of the Grand Central and
Jackson McChrystal, the superintend-
ent Of the great keystone mine at Eu-
reka. it being the intention to place the
capitalization at 10000 shares of a par
value of 10 cents each.
The Bertha has fine showing of
grade ore at a depth of only fifty
feet. from which a small shipment has
been made by wagon to the smelter, the
mineral going 49 per cent in lead as
well as high in silver, and of this class
OF ore a carload is now on the dunn
awaiting transportation to the market.
while several more are blocked out in
the workings of the mine ready for ex-
traction
Another of the promising properties
of the camp is the War Eagle, formerly
known as the Stonewall Jackson, from
which ore has been taken during the
past season which gave assay values Of