The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-24
EUREKA HILL ORE
EASY To SMELT
Smelling Company Pays Compli-
ment to Shipment Sent by
This Property.
CONSIGNMENT RAN HIGH
IN PRECI0UL REL MLIA.,
Honorable History of Pioneer
Mining Company Of the
Tintic District.

Perhaps In all the long and honorable
been no more sincere or significant COM
piment paid to 1t than that Of the
present week. when the United States
Smelling, Refining aud Mining COM
pany informed the officials that the last
car OF copper ore. from a smelling view
point. was the finest ever received by
that company The United States com
pany has handled cars OF richer ore, but
none so free from everything objection
able. This car of Eureka Hill ore ran
AZ per cent copper, the iron and silica
contents neutralizing one another
II is to the record OF this company
that the richest lot Of ore that ever
came from the Tintic district was from
the Eureka Hill mine. This lot was con-
signed to the market several years ago,
and the principal values were silver.
The lot consisted OF ten cars OF about
twenty tons each. and the result was the
checking out TO the company OF some-
thing over S125,000 The Eureka Hill
company is one of the most interesting
with which the recorder Of Utah mining
history has to deal,
Long History of Company.
The present company. composed of
prominent Salt Lake and Eastern capt.
talists, has worked the property for the
past thlrty-one years, and before their
day the property WAS worked for several
seasons. The vicissitudes OF the present
organization have been many during the
years that have witnessed Its efforts.
Difficulties have not come singly, yet
throughout the thirty-oue years not a
season has passed without the mine add
Ing to the pockets Of those so fortu-
nate as TO own stock. The company
Is strictly a close corporation, and
he hos
been one OF Utah's steady dividend
payers, and still Is. the exact amount OF
profits shared never has been known.
One OF the most difficult problems that
has ever presented itself before the man
agement for solution was the proper
method of handling the ores OF the prop
erty. So complicated were the metal
lurgcal processes necessary that 1t
took high order OF courage and liberal
outlay OF money on the part of the owners
TO stand up under the burden. The Ell
reka Hill ground endlines with the
Centennial Eureka, and side-lines with
the Bullion Beck property. The Eureka
Hill ores In part are identical with
those Of the Centennial Eureka. which
are essentially copper and gold ores, and
in part they are identical with the Bull
lion Beck ores. which are essentially
silver and lead. The metalIurgical COM
plications that naturally have arisen over
but these have been conquered success
fully.
Much Underground Work.
Although the Eureka Hill company
pioneered the way for the Tintic district,
the company never made any effort to
expand their boundary lines, the COM
pany being at the present time the owner
OF only twenty-seven acres OF ground.
For all this. however there have been
between twenty-five and twenty-seven
miles OF underground workings done, a
record which few II any properties In
the country can equal The mining prob
lens which have been met were almost
equal In extent and difficulty TO those OF
handling the values In the ores, but all
these triumphs have been achieved with
out the company making much noise In
the process
AT this time the major portion OF the
development work is being done by
leaseEs. and about 100 men are at work
upon the property. The output from the
mine ranges in the neighborhood of 1000
tons each month, and there are many
years OF usefulness still in store for this
property and company.