Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-10-19
MANMOTH'S BIG
MILL IS NO MORE
Plant Operated in Tintic District
For Years is Being
0ismantIed.
TETRo MINE SHUT DOWN.
Sioux Con. shaft Below Two Hundred
Lcycl-May Day MN
Changes

Special Correspondence.
Eureka. oct 1s.-The old mill at
Mammoth. belonging 20 the NAM
moth Mining company. and which has
been Idle sor the past several years.
is being dismautlcd. The machinery
viii be stored away. while some OF
the timbers from the building will
Doe used for underground timbering
In the mine. Years ago when freight
and smelter rates were much higher
than they are at the present time
practically AN of the low grade from
ih' Mammoth mine was run through
rms mill Tho process did not OK
btci all Of The values from the ore.
$50 naturally enough when the smeItcr
people and the railroads showed "a
Willingness % deal fair with the mine
owners. the Mammoth company
closed its reduction plant
The SHAFT az the Iron King On East
Ilnuc has attained "a depth Of rs feet
ana some Mice looking quartz has
made IT'S appearance 600 the bottom
or the SHAFT Two shifts are beIng
Kept at work. and the superintendent.
}. j. b1mclly who rs the giperin-
tendent Of the Grand Central mine
ai Mammoth. states that he expects
t' drop The Iron King shaft down 100
feet every 80 days 80 stations will
Doc cut and mo- drifting win be com
mcnccl until the 300 level has been
reached The new electrical equip
didly.
About three tons OF possibly 81. 900
worth or copper matte was found IN
sumo open freight cars brought into
during the week. The cars came al
rect from the amelter and were com
signed 20 the Centennial Eureka Min
ing company. The product was COW
cred up by old gunny sacks and was
round by a. r. Aversion. who has
charge of the loading Of cars for
me mining company ana was shin
ped back TO the smelter.
The Tefro mine was closed down
TINS week and 30 IS thought bv local
mining men that the disapuearaDce
OF the secretary Of the cOmuauv
Ernest Williams. from salt Lake rs
-ponslnle. The company's dlrcc-
TOTS are pretty badly scattered Just
now and lu all probability the mine
Will remain closed until they can ret
together and settle the didlcuIties
Ernest Williams was well known and
nus great many aCquaintances In
Ilnuc. He was one Of the cbief
Factors in the old Success companv
when was taken over by the Color
"uo Niilll"s company couple Of
John y. Smith. OF Lehi. together
with some mining men OF that civ
ana salt Lake. visited the NichoIes.
llntlc property ia North Unite Wed
nesday They made the trim nom
L., IA 10 The mine in two big automo-
bues. and then tried 10 come an go
mountain ia
hung up on top OF the hin north ~
Hoinansville and il was necessary 10
telephone for rig with which To con
unue their journey
The sioux Consolidated shaft has
passed the 200 level. and the superin-
tenueut OF the mine, A. y. Holdawav
rs hlshly elatod over the shovgipg 81
ing made. lie believes the pr.5icti,,,s
made rev months ago are heinz hor,,
out Mr. Holloway states than IN v,iii
NOT be az all surprising If mo chad
at'-h INTO the ore near the $50 foof
ieNeL AZ this level ne will most likely
cut station and then start drtfffnp ,,,it
toward the east ~ Is reasonabie ,o
believe that the Sioux viii DO one III M
nlg mines OF the east end" before
long.
# is stated by G.. O.. Griggs superiD-
tendent of the Uncle sam and NAV
Day, that the changes ln the min nov,
under way win De- completed y.itbt,
DO DAYS at the most when two sbiffe
VIII Then De put to work The MN
has been enlarged so that with the tUo
sniitN li VIII have capacity daily az
t1 tons of ore. When This amount ~
ore is being handled 90 Is understood
that tho May Day hoist viii be- gblit
down. and AN thc ore from the Nav
Day ground proper raised through the
Uncle Sam hoisting plant There viii
hle' be Two ahlfls put 10 work az the
mine ANA ore extracted from both
thg old workings of the MAY Dav and
the Uncle sam which grounds now ~
course combined constitute the Nav
Day Mining company. A portion of
this ore VIII Doe handled by the min.
and the other sent Go the smelter
John J1ckmau. who was for several
years employed as engineer at the
Eureka Hill ana other TlnUc mines.
has Just returned tU camp after several
years spent I'm Nevada
Preparations uro being made al the
Victor mine for the shipment ~ iOl
tom lot of orc akon from the new
-tr.k" above thc 500 Lowell Boo that PROV
strike above ih IONS OF this ore De- now
iu the bins at the mine aud "a c0uple
of teams viii be- Immediately out %
work hauling Do t1 She railroad station.
Joseph Irrlnur. superintendent M the
property says that De has made
connection between tho raise whore the
Ura WAS uncovered aurd tho Wiuzo ou
the .nN HnI chat be- ls now drifting
upon fne Orc which from every iudica-
furnish reEu|nr shipments iu tho fu-
turo
FreI Schmidt -tW has force OF men
uI work. roo tur odd American driving "a
tuHHU. which D. NOW Iu "a distance of