The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-05
IRON BLOSSOM A
DEEP, GREAT MINE
Uncle" Jesse Knight Expresses
Utmost Faith in This Tin
tic Property.
PLENTY OF ORE In
OLD SHAFT WORKINGS
Wizard of Tintic Gives Many In.
teresting Points About His
Propositions.

People apparently seem TO forget
that we have ore in the Iron Blossom
property, and that we have had it fol
five or SIX montbs,'' said Jesse Knight
president of the Iron Blossom company
who was in Salt Lake Wednesday OF
business connected with his various
mining propositions, Mr.. Knight con
tipucd: 'Tbis orc We discovered by
the work in our old shaft, a shaft that
is fully one mile south of the new
shaft where we are now looking foI
the ore at any time
1.-The fact that we did encounter this
ore III the old shaft seems TO show me
pretty clearly that the Colorado ore
channel continues on down 20 the south
without taking any circuitous routes
into the Carisa or into any other prop
ertY on either side OF the Iron Blossom,
OF course, we can not sec into the
ground any farther than the other fol
low, but that the far south shaft is
seems very apparent TO the Iron Bios
som officials.
'.We found nc ore in the old, or
south, shaft oG the 400"foot level,
where VIC cross&t for thirty feet in
ore.s We found the same ore on the
500-foot level, wbcrc IL was fifteen Icot
N width. We are upraising from the
tho ore from the 400foot level, and
both these workings arc going into
an improved character of ore coHtinu
ally. The ore on the 400 and 500 lev.
els is not very rich, but we can ship
1t at q good profit TO the Tintic sme!'
ter, and we will do SO as soon ms we
possibly can. But, as say, the, up
raise from the 500, aud the Wine from
the 400 levels. both are showing
IN Improvement N the quality of the
ore,
''This old shaft is down to the 500.
foot level, where we are crosscutting
over TO the ore. On the T00foot level
breaking into maganese formation
that usually brings the ore with it.
and that we will find il l have no
5oubt whatever On the 600.foot level
we find that tho copper Indications arc
continually growing better, and with
more depth I am of the opinion that
the Iron Blossom will be q big copper
mine.
"Now. do not want TO boom lron
Blossom, and have no interest whatever
in sending the stock up. / have said
all along that the TinLic stocks have
been selling for too much. But ] have
the utmost faith IN the Iron Blossom,
and believe Wc Will make great mlno
OF it. We bavo not found the ore ID
the new shaft vet, but we must not be
far from it,. The Iron Blossom is go
ing 10 be deep mine, and onr sole
intention is TO mine and not boom
il. -
When asked about tbc smelter. Mr..
Knight stated that Mr., Vivian has met
with splendid success with the one fur.
mace in operation, and the second fur
~ h.,
two or three days. He expressed the
positive conviction that the Smelter was
going 10 be one of the Utah smelling
successes, and that il would not be long
before the management will be calling
on its regular customers for their per-
ceDtage Of ores required to keep the
furnaces we'll fed.
When Mr. knight made mention OF
The fact that the Iron Blossom company
from the old shaft on the 100-foot level
was breaking into manganese orc, he
let go something that is considered eE-
tremev important locally. This cross
cut is making for the Great Eastern
vein, the vein that crosses the Crown
Point territory farther 10 the north. and
II this Great Eastern vein contains ore
in the Iron Blossom at depth the pos
sibilities for the Crown Point are un-
limited, And as this working is appa.
reutiy within q few feet OF the vein,
Judging from present indications. local
stockholders in the Crown Point will
not have long 70 wait for something
definite.