Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-28
T|NnC MINES
ARE VERY ACTIVE
Old Mill Yields Golden Harvest
For the Second
Cleanup.
MANY CONTRACTS ARE LET.
Many Cars of Orc Shipped to smeltcrs
During Past Week--What
Mines Arc Doing.

Eureka, Nov 27.--Leasing Is still go
Ing on at the Eureka Hill, and the leas-
ers, most OF them at any rate, are tak-
Ing out the usual amount of ore, but
there has been no Important strike, as
was reported few days ago. In the
"l'raction Block. near the line OF tue
Eureka Hill and Centennial EUREKA
mines, Messrs. Brinton, Carter. Ghr,-
stephenson and Matthews are at work
and expect to open rich body OF ore
almost any day Near this point the
Centennial Eureka has, so it is under
stood. worked q rich body of ore uoon
+ It's side of the boundary line. IRWIN
Sprigg has just competed cleanup
OF the old Eureka Hill mill under
lease. and 1t is reported that ne mas
secured about 25 TASKS of quicksilver
and seven, bars of bullion as the result
of his labors. This will represent a
nice sum of money. as the quicksilver
Z IS worth about 80 cents pound ana tne
TASKS contained I61a pounds each. me
e bars of bullion will weigh lis pounds
each. III cleaning up the old mill MT.
Spriges used Il machine of his own IN
35yention The machine was used sue
cesfully br himself and his brother,
Henry Spriggs, several years ago on
The sand OF the Snake river. Idaho. rms
Is the second cleanup of the old mil.
There seems to be a. great amount OF
activity among the mines and prospects
of &tha district at the present time,
many of the latter having already
started work for the winter and sew
@eral more are making preparations ~
commence a campaign of DEVELOPMENT
work. The shaft at the Tintic Com
5bination property Is to be sunk another
hundred feet, which will take it to the
200 foot depth. Elmer Duncan and Al
Moore ayfew days ago completed their
contract for the sinking OF the smart
the first 100 feet. and MIR. Duncan mas
taken another contract for the next loo
feet The showing at the depth AZ
ready attained is even more enconr-s
aging than the officials anticipated.
85 At the Tintic Central. over In the
same locality as the first-named prop
erty, work will soon commence again IN
the shaft that was abandoned q lew
days ago on account of the contract
having been completed for the sinking
i of the first 100 feet. within Is now
being used at this property. but ems
ployes at the property have been in
structeel to commence eXcavatlnE for y
new hoist. which will be installed ut
am early date.
over at the Montreal property. which
lis owned by practically the same peo
q pie who have the control of the Tintic
Central. a small hoist will be installed
and a Shaft will be sunk.
The Baltimore Consolidated Mining
Co.. which was Incorporated last Sat
IS ,,rdny. has a,%force OF men sinking
shaft upon its ground. This shaft has
attained aSdepth of so feet. The off,
cials say they will have no trouble In
placing enough of the treasury stock
to sink the shaft to the 300 level ana
ll,- tY, n
With good machinery. The con1pany's
ground lies in the eastern part of the
district, just north OF the Big HILL and
consists of five claims. The original
owners OF the claims are said to have
refused a substantial offer for the
ground not long ago.
The Homansville Mining company
recently Incorporated, owning the TIP
Ton ground OF mining claims near Ho-
,nansri1Ie, will have it's office in Eure-
kn The claims will be patented i'm
meCliately and the company VIII soon
start deyeIorment work In earnest. me
company has an immense body or
manganese showing up beside other
mineral values. The vein has heen
stripped and shows that 1t .traverses
the con1pany's ground Tor a distance sol
& about 5000 feet
The ore shipments in cars from the
district for the week are as follows:
Centennial Eureka A. Sioux 6. Bullock
l. Uncle Sam 6. Bullion Beck 8. Utah
Cons. /, Nav DaY>4, Eureka Hill A.,
Eagle and Blue Bell 2, Yankee 4, beck
Turnel 2 Gemini 3. and carloads OF
concentrates from the May Day mill.
The two car loads from the Book Tun-
mel went to the Tintic ssmelter. while
the others We're sent out of the district.
The Great Eastern Mining company,
whose property is in North Ttntic, at
the regular annual meeting held the
Z other day. decided TO put small as
sessment urun the stock for tho pur-
pose of doing the annual development
work for this. ard next year.
The new hosting machinery for the
Lilly, in East Tintic. is now en- route
ia, the property, and should arrive with
IN the next few DAYS. when no Ftime
will be lost in placing it In operation.
In the meantime the retimhering of
the 800 foot shaft Is going along rap
idly, and teams are busily engaged IN
hauling lumber and timbers to the mine
10 be used in completing the many i'm
provements which the company has
mapped out.
The Rullock Mining company Is in
+ the market this week with n carload
OF ore. but the figures OF its value We're
not given out. although II is stated that
the lot Will net the comnany fairly we'll.
The values run in conner and silver,
chiefly 1t Is stated by the manager
of the company. r. n. Bullock. that the
mine Is showing UP srlendidlv and that
another contract will soon be let for
the sinking Of the double compartment
shaft an additional 100 feet
The North Cliff has purchased the
hosting works ar the old Joe Bowers
property near Diamond. It will be
moved over to the North Cliff as soon
n