The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-07-13
MATTERS IN TINTIC.
Review of Present Conditions and
] Prospective Changes.

REVIEW OF Present Conditions and
Prospective Changes.
L Eureka. July IA roundup Of Tin
Il tic district this week finds business
/ rather sluggish among the mines, with
here and there a promise of better con-
L ditions.
L The Centennial-E Eureka, which had
i given semi-official notice of an inten-
ton TO resume operations on the 18th
inst. with a force of 800 men. failed to
/ make good" presumably because of a
further delay in equipping the big
United States company's smelter, Of
which IL is TO be a feeder. Both the
manager and superintendent are absent
in Colorado. and an animation has gone
i forth that the season of county fairs
i viii have come ere the whistle sounds
4 again.
The Yankee Consolidated is the heav-
fest and most regular shipper on Go
diva hill, keeping up an average of
twenty five to thirty carloads a month
of high-class siIver-lead ore, in spite of
the policy Of the management to curtail
the output. On this grade the company
is given a very fair treatment charge,
nothing under so Ger cent lead being
allowed TO leave ths mine. AS this class
OF ore makes tonnage very fast, its ex-
Traction doesn't encompass a great deal
of territory, and the ore reserves are
81 reported as better than ever.
The Godiva has been silent since the
last day of June. depriving the Tetro
OF air for the operation of both hoist
and drills. At the Nav Day which lies
between the Godiva and Yankee. the
4 night shift has been laid Off, the man
hgement not wishing to hoist any more
milling ore until the mill is again put
4 ~ AQperauon Four carloads of first
class ore We're shipped during the last
week OF June and the first week of
dump, shipping an average of 240 tons
of concentrates a month.
#. W. Wood, the Inventor of the dry
. process used in the May Day mill, is
here after three months absence in
san Francisco, where the Grown COM
pany's factory is iocated. and has given
Il directions for. the necessary changes in
the plant, upon which work has already
been commenced 1t will be probably
sixty days before the plant is ready
i for business, but your correspondent
is assured that when again placed in
commission il will do its work TO the
4 satisfaction OF every one. Mr.. Fred
k'lindt, one of the lessees of the plant,
and than whom a more practical mill
H man can scarcely be found in Utah, has
h the utmost confidence in the success of
the Grown forces.
At the La Refine, operations have
been slowly moving along by means
n VI manu- QLlilcs Dul the Ena0aRemenf
is negotiating for air for the use of its
burleighs.
At the Utah. south of the La Refine.
Underwood d Depue continue to ship
at intervals a fair grade of ore from
their lease. and are also operating a
Jig on the product of some old Slopes
n that was considered too low in grade
when the big ore channel was opened
4 several years ago.
The Carisa continues to employ a
force OF sixty men at the Carisa and
spy workings, besides several leasers
Il the output ranging from five to eight
carloads week. The recent strike i'm
ground continues to produce a good
tonnage of copper ore, and teams are
also hauling from the Carisa bins.
superintendent Bail is opening up a
splendid body of ore below the LOCO
4 foot level at the Lower Mammoth
silver in carload lots, besides a good
Il percentage in copper. and the manage
ment, 1t is understood, is rapidly de-
creasing its indebtedness.
There has been q little hitch be-
tween the management of the Grand
Central and the railway people, it i.
reported. concerning the extension OF
the East Tintic railway to its ore bins
The Central agreed TO furnish a mini
mum of 175 tons a day of low grade
ore for transportation TO the Bingham
conner and gold smelter, but. accord.
ing to a story from Provo, where arr
located the general offices of the com.
many and the homes of the big stock.
holders. the railway people insisted
rlpon five years contract, which tn,
Il company fatty refused to sign. In tn,
i meantime the product viii be trans
4 ported to the main line tracks by team
& the output being confined TO about Is
H tons per day.
81 tn the immediate extension OF the or,
road. it is said that the Central vii
order an aerial train 20 connect it
bins with the tracks of the Short Lin
and Rio Grapde at Robinson. 1t i
4 hardly likely. however, that the rail
4 way people viii allow this good thinl
Il To escape them. as the ore road, whiel
Il would have to be extended but shor
distance. would receive 80 cents per tol
for hauling the ore from the mine &
4 1Tanr,oth station. and it is quite Ger
tain that the output viii exceed 10000
tons.
The Bingham copper and gold smell
ter people are again negotiating Tor IN
Eagle e Blue Bell mine, which lie
i on the slope of Eureka peak. betwee
Il The Grand Central and the Centennial
j F,ureka mines. and this time it seem
A fbat they may be successful 1t i
understood here that the o1er mad
4 IS satisfactory 10 several OF the bi
shareholders, but that the consent @
some of the heirs OF the McChrysta
estate. TO whom the property belOnge
before it was incorporated, has not We
been secured.
In the mine are vast bodies of sill
q ceous gold ores of grade approx
mating SIS a ton, ready Tor extraetoi
Il a most desirable product Tor me SINE