The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-12
SHAREHOLDERS
MEET IN PEACE
Montana Tonopah Annual Is
Pulled Off This Year With
out Trouble of Any Kind.
KIRBY Is COMPLIMENTED
REPORTS SHOW COMPANY AND
MINES UP WELL.
KIRBY IS COMPLIMENTED

III great contrast was the annual
meeting of the Montana Tonopah com
pany, held in this city yesterday. with
that which required three days TO wind
up one year ago. Last year there was
a determined effort made by the Salt
Lake and portion of the Nevada con-
tingent to floor G. e. Knox and his fol-
lowing; yesterday all was peace and
goodfellowship, and but for the routine
business the session might have been
commenced and finished i'm thirty min
utes. of the $4,000 issued shares in
the company 53S,102 were represented.
and unanimously voted for the follow
Ing board Of directors and officers: c.
II. Knox of Berkeley. Cal, president;
Charles e. Morris of Pony, Mont, vice
president; r. p Dunlap of Tonopah.
second vice president; w. b. Alexander
or Tonopah, secretary and treasurer;
Henry d. Moore Of Philadelphia. ].
Herbert Mullen of Westchester Pa:
r. M. Kirk of Cleveland, o.: j. j. Nc
QUillan of Tonopah, and Thomas T.
Lynch of Salt Lake and Tonopab In
addition to being selected as secretary
and treasurer Of the company, w. B.
Alexander of Tonopah was also desig-
mated as assistant TO General Manager
Mark B. Kerr, who, by the way, is "a
brother of Kenneth c. Kerr, the affable
travelling passenger agent of the Salt
Lake route.
Kirby Is CompIimented.
While the past years operations of
the company has been one Of develop
ment. equipment and general prepara-
ton for the work of money making
ahead, and while delays in securing
machinery, etc, has more or less re-
tarded the campaign, President Charles
%. Knox makes an exhibit i'm his re-
port TO the shareholders which, upon
its submission in printed form. cannot
fail to impress them with the fact that
they have a big mine, a mine that will
last and produce many millions Of
money. In discussing the contents of
his report after the meeting yesterday,
MIR. Knox stated that he was anxious
that everybody should know that his
company was pleased with the work
that had been done by John A. Kirby,
who had made splendid record during
the year he was manager of the prop
critics. Personally, Mr.. Knox said, he
knew that Mr.. Kirby had labored for
the best interests of the company and
had handled the mine with Just the
same attention to detail as though II
had been his own personal property
The company was exceedingly sorry to
lose him, but satisfaction was had i'm
the knowledge that he had made a
great deal of money and had business
to look after that was more important
to him than the care of ANYBODY else
mines. In his successor. Mark B. Kerr.
Mr.. Knox said his company had a most
valuable man, who had the details of
the business all down pat and who
would make the property a great deal
more valuable than it is as the years
went by.
New Equipment Placed.
Last November and December orders
were placed for new mine equipment,
including a sixtyfoot steel gaIlows-
frame, a double-drum, double cylinder,
15x1S hosting engine; a twelve-drill In
sersoil-Seargeant air compressor, a 200
horsepower electric motor and all the
Cteher paraphernalia that goes to make
first-class mining plant. All of this
machinery, with the exception of the
hoisting engine, han been installed, and
owing to delay in delivery, that was not
landed at camp until a few days ago
The mine has produced enough ore to
meet all these expenses, including the
milling plant that is now being ordered
and TO. the installation Of which work
has already commenced at the mine.
During the year $500 tons of ore was
shipped and 10,7S7 feet of development
work was done in the mine, which now
boasts total openings of 22,S52 feet
Drifts and cross-cuts run during the
year amounted to S,2O3 feet, while 644
feet of wines and raises, made for de-
velopment and air connections, were
run. the remainder of the total amount
of work done being represented in
slopes, etc.
Mines Ore Reserves Big.
The Mcdonald vein was drifted on
westerly on the third, fourth and fifth
levels. adding 900 feet of previously un-
explored territory in the Mcdonald
vein between the old workings OF the
mine and the Midway lines Drifts
were also run easterly i'm the Mcdonald
and South veins. opening up 500 feet
of untouched territory between the old
workings and the North Star In this
new territory it is now possible to
measure up 1852 tons of milling ore
alone that will average $27 a ton. This
estimate does not include any OF the
ground between the new drifts that
have been run and not connected up
between levels, but which is certainly
all ore.
But milling ore is not all that has
been developed in the mine by any
means. In what is known as the north
west splice of the Mcdonald vein ore
has been opened up on the third level,
near the Midway line. for a length of
lao feet. Through winze this ore has
been followed down to the fourth level.
while a drift on the sixth level has re-
Gently encountered the same body Of
ore. Until Connections had been made
with the winze little work could be
done in the ore on the sixth level. but
IL has been proven up now for 1913 feet
on its strike and at the narrowest place
II Is eight feet thick. Average samples
for the last fifty feet, and with no walls
exposed in the end OF the drift, shows
$50 a ton In values. The work of the
last forty days in this portion Of the
mine alone is estimated TO have added
$500, 600 TO the mines ore reserves
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