Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-15
LITTLE CHIEF IS
GETTING DEPTH
Shaft Is Completed to Fourteen
Hundred, Where Station
Is Being Cut.
PICNIC MAY RESUME SOON
Sioux Consolidated Equipment In
Commission--OthcrT intic
Mining News.
PICNIC MAY RESUME SOON

Eureka, Aug. l4.-In little loss th'iH
three months. 400 feet of sinking has
been accomplished in the shat at the
Little Chief which breaks all reccrds
for shaft sinking in this district. ana
on Thursday evening the 1900 level was
reached. Supt. Haninn states that a
station vii! oe cut OF tic 400 that
some prospecting will De done on THIS
level also on the 1900.
A party consisting of Kingdom Gould,
Rush 9. Estee of MONTICELLO" VT, Geo,
r. Danehy of New York Carlos Es-
panoao of Lima, Peru, and Frederick
Kruse. Jr.. of New York, came to Tn
tic last Monday evening in special
car belonging to young Gould, ana
Tuesday and Wednesday were put
in in visiting the different mines of
the district, among them the Swansea,
Colorado. Centennial Eureka, Slack
Jack and Dragon Iron. The party was
piloted over the district by Supt. Nc
Caffery of the Tintic smelter l.. II.
Ritter Jr., and Fred Huntsicker. VIII
liam Knight and W. n. Rosberg ac-
companied the party ON portion OF
the trip, which was made so that the
visitors of the district could obtain
knowledge of the geology of the great
Tintic district.
trict for the past week mounted to SO
carloads, the contributing mines and
amounts being.
Centennial Eureka, Al; Bullion Beck,
3; Eureka HILL; Yankee, 2; May Day,
4; Iron Blossom, / Dragon Iron 3;
Uncle Sam, 6 Colorado. IL; Eagle and
Blue Bell. /: Carsa, 3. Gemini, 3; Bull
lock /. The Grand Central sent nine
cars to the local smelters.
Supt Treloar of the Victor Con-,
states that he is yet unable to state
definately when the company will re-
sumo operations, but now that the
company is free from litigation it
should not be long. The Victor ore
contains values principally in copper.
The old Picnic property. which in
the past has produced some shipping
ore, but for a long time past has been
Idle, may resume work. At recent
meeting Iie following officers were
elected. William II. Tibbers. presi-
dent; A. A. Pike, vice president; w.
II. Child, secretary and treasurer, who
with william Bradley and Frank
Schuyler compose the directorate. The
company owns five claims, portion
OF which takes In part of the Silver
City townsite. There is good reason to
believe that the property viii again be-
come productive.
The affairs of the Zuma Mining COM
pany and j. G. Jensen, of Provo. have
been satisfactorily settled and il must
be gratifying to the stockholders of
the Yuma to know that they have at
last been freed from n protracted lit
igation suit, and that they now can
go ahead with the development of their
ground. Mr. Jensen was here Monday
last and met with the board of direC
tors of the Yuma, and a friendly and
satisfactory settlement was agreed up
M 10 in ba
pany's patent has been withdrawn.
The company will Immediately put on
the market treasury stock so that the
work which was temporarily abandoned
last fall can be continued. Already
SIS, 900 have been spent In developing
the property. the major part of which
went into machinery and other equip
ment. The company has erected very
fine shaft house. SO horse power
hoist has been installed. and also a
three drill electrically driven compress
sor.
The Bullock mine over in the south
end of the district marketed one lot
of silver-lead ore this week The new
shaft at the Bullock property has
reached depth of about 40 feet, and
new hosting equipment will soon be
installed. The new shaft being sunk on
the Tintic Central ground. over near
the Bullock, is also down 40 feet.
The Mckinley company levied an
other assessment. No. ~. shaft has
been sunk 500 feet and two drifts are
now being run to cross-cut the terri
tory. These drifts which are going
both east and west have been run
about 20 feet, and the one west OF the
shaft is cutting through some very
encouraging ground. Henry Matsch
the managing director of the COM
pany. is highly pleased with present
conditions.
Del Roberts Is now in charge at the
Sioux Con. mine. He states that the
new machinery is all in position and
that before the beginning of the coming
week will have a force working on ore.
The new Eureka Hin railway has put
I'm switch to the Sioux which viii
greatly facilitate the movement OF ore
In the future.