The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-08
NORTH TIHTIC
MINES SOLD
Gold Blossom and Nicholas
Bring $4,000 and Will
Form New Company.
BOTH MINES HAVE THE ORE
(. p. JENNINGS MAKES FAVOR
ABLE REPORT.
Especial to The Herald1

Lehi, Sept 1T R. Cutler, John Van
Evera, w D. Livingstone, John Y. Smith,
Van d. Spauldlng, c. S. Burton, H G.
Whitney Thomas Webb. Landreth and
Fitzgerald today completed the payment
of $4,000 and took over the control OF the
Gold Blossom and the Nichols Tintic Min
ing companies and will in a few days file
articles Incorporating the Lehi-Tintic
Mining company. with capital stock Of
a million dollars, and which company viii
absorb the properties of the two first
named companies.
The old Gold Blossom a dozen years ago
caused much excitement in North Tintic
because of the sensational ore taken from
IL at the grass-roots, and the Nichols-Tin-
tic only three days ago, and since the re-
port which follows was made, made a
strike of three feet of almost solid galena-
The ten men above named took an op-
ton on the two properties a month ago,
and had Z. p. Jennings, the well known
mining expert examine the property AIT
er an exhaustive examination of the two
groups of claims he made a report, in
which he said, in part:
Beck Tunnel Formation.
The property includes the Nichols
group of seven claims and five claims OF
the Gold Blossom group, joining the
Nichols group on the south and east
These claims are on the east side of the
North TintiC district five miles from Eu-
reka- This portion of Tintic is included in
the same limestone area that contains the
Beck Tunnel and the Colorado and other
well known mines on the east side OF the
Tintic district
THE lime formation contains two sys-
TENS of assures the first having a gen
eral strike Of north So degrees east, and
the second a strike of north so degrees
west. There is also evidence of a third
system having nOrth-South strike These
three systems of assuring must intersect
IN the Nichols ground south of the Mich
OILS tunnel and north of the north side
line of the Gold Blossom ground. Ore in
the Tintic district occurs at the intersec-
ton of two or more systems of assuring,
and follows either one or both assures
for a considerable distance.
Nicholas Group Development.
The development on the Nichols ground
consists of several open cuts and shallow
tunnels, which have served to locate the
fissure. In addition a tunnel 100 feet long
has been run to the Nichols fissure, and
a raise 100 feet high advanced from the
face Of this tunnel, and a Wine 100 feet
in depth has been sunk at point near
the face of the tunnel, while a drift forty
feet long has followed the vein to the
south. All these openings disclose a strong
heavily iron-stained vein, which carries
galena and lead caTbonates in punches
The filling of the vein is quartz and cal
cite. similar to the well known Tintic
lodes. The width of the fissure is from
three to ten feet.
Gold Blossom Showing.
The Gold Blossom ground has been
opened by a shaft, short levels and in
clines TO a depth of 200 feet and to a point
near the dividing line with the Nichols
ground. These connected openings have
followed a strongly mineralized lode on
its strike and have furnished shipping ore,
as well as considerable quantities of low
grade carbonates. On the west slope a
tunnel has beeen driven with the inten-
ton of cutting the Gold Blossom fissure
but has not been finished. The Outcrop-
ping north-south lode has been developed
with a fifty-fOot shaft and exposes a
strong irOn-stained quartz-calcite vein
containing some galena- None of the
work is of sufficient depth to demonstrate
more than the presence of the mineral
bearing assures and the fact that they are
more or less lead-bearing.
Ground Worth Developing.
Il consider the ground worth develop
ing for the following reasons: First, the
rock is the ore-bearing limestone of the
Tintic district. second. it contains three
strong mineTalized assures, one of which
has produced ore commercially valuable;
third, these assures undoubtedly intersect
on the Nichols ground, and as far as
known these conditions favor ore deposits
In Tinuc and undoubtedly Will in North
Tintic as well, but the amount and quail
fly can only be determined by proper de-
Velopment work"