The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-30

BuIlion-Beck Tunnel.
Uncle Jesse Knight of Provo has
again been instrumental in opening up
a mine, which is not only a dividend
= payer, but an absolute wonder. In all
$305, 600 has been placed into the pock-
cts of its fortunate shareholders since
the first of the year. The mines ship
ping record is about car a day and
ii is indeed a joy to lcok upon the ore.
which is of very high grade. What
= is also a gratifying feature to those en-
: gagged in business in Eureka, all the
: dividends of this grand mine do not
o leave the district A large number of
the stockholders live in Tintic and
o greatly deserve their good fortune as
9 they had faith enough in the undertake
ing to put up their regular assessments.
! Local people also seem to be in for
n | another piece of good fortune, as the
o Stock of the Colorado, a neighbor of the
+ Tunnel company lying to the south on
: the same ore chute. No surprise will
9 be manifested when the news goes the
, rounds that the ore has been. encOun-
6 tered here also. Uncle Jesse is one OF
: the chief owners of stock in this enter
/ prise, and there is no doubt that he will
:. have the pleasure of handling another
= bonanza.
d The American.
T So much for the producers of that
: part of TiDtic that make Eureka their
S shipping point. 1t is seldom that much
e space is devoted in The daily pupers &C
X what are considered the mere pros
l. rects of the district. but the country e
{ the east of Eureka gulch abounds in
4 va st possibilities to the inv estor TINS
l first one that attracts ate ntion by rea-
: son Of its proximity 10 the now famous
d Beck Tunnel property is the old Amer
i | lean claim, owned and operated by a
company of the same name. of which
Fred and August Schmidt. Judge o. w
= Powers, Judge MariOne3uX. w. H. Dick
e son and John r. Vance are the prfncipa
o stockholders. This property lies be
e tween the Narrow Gauge. one IF the
/ Tunnel cOmpany's claims. and the Col
|, JradO ground. 1t was on the Narrow
o Gauge claim that the Beck people first
e encountered their ore, and as this orr
:. chute strikes through the American il
i is a cinCh that the ore VIII soon De
n reached. AS was the case in the Colo
q RADIO and Beck Tunnel. local people are
falling all over one another to get inc
This promising snap. The shaft is dowr
to a depth of 112 feet, and the Schmidt
d brothers are driving towards the ledge
V and they arc now in 4 distance of about
l. forty feet 1t was about six months
" ago that systematic work was iraugu.
= /
: that when the ledge is reached that the
: American will receive its promotion
IS from the awkward squad Of mere
n prospects to the rapidly swelling bri-
It gade of dividend payers.
Grant Group.
A property that is now attracting con.
siderable attention, but no more than Il
- deserves. IS the Grant group There are
! Gxyo oil in lie ha f,Viu 1ir
&c owners of which are Humhert Gustald
e end James a. O'BIien. They lie to tat
/ north and east of the Beck TUNE
70 ground and indications are that they
Il are on the same ore chute. In fact tn
ore that the Tunnel people are following
II is trending in an exact line through tbs
&c Grant. and it is merely a matter of
: few months. with the proper expendit
Z Ure of a comparatively trifiing amount
II that this group will graduate from
Il prospect into a mine. A great deal o.
money has already been expended OF
!, the ground. From the new shaft, which
y is down 100 feet, drifting is going on to
. ward the east and also to the south
|. and SD far this latter work has been al
" in ledge matter of a very promising
kind The group is incorporated fol
SIS, 000 with shares at a par value Of
10 cents, and it is known that the own
!, ers have refused some very fatterins
II offers for the control of the proposition
Tip Top Group.
Two gentlemen, Charles Parker ant
:, Captain George Bridges, who fave per
: sistently claimed a bright future To-
:, East Tintic, and who are owners q
: several promising prospects in that 10
y cality. are doing some persistent worl
l. on the Tip Ttop property. This com
rrises five claims the Tip Top Nos
= and 9 Venus. West Dip and Oxen. an(
a they adjoin the south end OF the r. G
e w Mining cOmpany's patented ground
n On this group there are crOpringS o
i, manganese iron ore varying from siI
p, to ten feet wide. These groupings ex
h tend clear across the entire group. Oh
f the footwall shaft has been sent dow
l. iE manganese ore to the depth of ski.
10 feet, and cross-eutting is going on from
lie this depth for the purpose of determn
N ing the width of the vein. As yer Their
he is no sign of a hanging wall, and tn
ii cross-cut is IN ore all the way in tn
manganese iron ore. values ranging
from 40 to co per cent. This is undoubt
eddy one of the largest deposits of tn
I'd metal in the district. and it is likely t
~ turn out bonanza for the owners.
&c Wicklow Mining Company.
J. Coming from the Tip Ttop group. fur
lie Their south and directly east Of the Van
W kee mine there are several groups tina
Ill seem to Fave caught the eye of the in
De vesting public Adjoining that promis
D. ing eroup. the Grutli, in which Georg
Of Have-can,p and several Provo capital
le lists are interested, which i'm turn ad
ne joins the Lily, are the holdings of tn
is Wicklow Mining company, consisting o
six claims. viz. the Natrona and Ma