Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-26
Material and Machinery Tor
HOSTING Arrives at Little
Chief Mine.
REW SHIPPER FROM TlNTlc
sncltcr ships as...osl Bars OF Bullion
rhus Far This Montls-Worls
on Furnace SLOW.

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I,t1ereka, Dec. &26..-'rhc local share
!, holders Of the Mckinley Mining com
pany are feeling good this week, me
occasion being developments at me
property which have opened up a DIG
cave. This cave WAS broken into early
in the week, by the drift which was
headed in a northerly direction from
the shaft. and while no ore has as yet
been found in the cave, the showing, is
very gratifying to the management as
well us the local shareholders who
know, what the breaking into a cave
means, or at least indicates, in this
district. The cave is 200 feet in length,
bv about 80 feet from top to bottom,
and 100 feet wide, The cave shows
iron and also ore- bearing lime. and It
will not be at all surprising If the ore
S|is not found to underlie the cavern
This is the opinion OF Manager Henry
Alatsch who has been watching de-
yelopments at the Mckinley very
closely II for several days past.
Il All OF the material and machinery
!! for the building and installation Of
the new hosting plant for the Little
Chief mine is now upon the ground.
THE erecting of the buildings having
been going on for some time. 1t ought
not to be Very long after the first OF the,
+ year before the company is able to
5takn up elopmerlt work in the mine
\. LATEST SHIPPER.
The latest shipper OF the district, the
East Tintc Development company
icb SIDr0uls rf ALA ct
week. lis undoubtedly on the high road
s to success The car sent to the smelt-
ers last week was loaded at the spur
this side$of Goshen brought good re-
turns, and from the first of the year
s the company will no doubt be heard
from regularly in the shipping line.
The orc from thesmine so far has been
taken from the 100 foot level, but at
present a drift is being run In from the
$50 foot level to tap this body OF ore
at greater depth, and when this Is done
( the body will be sufficiently large to ms
4 sure regular shipments from the prop
ertN for a long time to come. Two otis
er drifts are being driven on the $50
Z foot level, one west and another to
the south, =
ORE SHIPMENTS. Il
The mines closed down Wednesday
in order that the men employed in
tueEs ilto day, laYoff for
lftt $ ~ Oh Ing Week telClnS We'd
nesaay, tile following ore shipments
were made from the districts: Sioux.
consolidated, y cars; Iron Blossom,
g; Colorado, 4S; Dragon Iron. 10; Cen
$tennial Eureka, Al; Eureka Hill. o.
i May Day 2; YANKEES. 4; Uncle Sam, s;
AJAX, Black Jack, 4; Swansea, l.;
Gelnini. 3 Eagle and Blue Bell,2; Low:
a er Mammoth, 2; Victoria 8; Victor
Cons, 4: May Day, Concentrates ~
" total / IS cars. ss545s 4 q &a
The shipments from tile Colorado,
+. Dragon Iron and one Of the four ears
sent ont from the Iron Blossom, We're
Z small cars Of 20 tons capacity sent to
the Tfntic shelter. the others being the
regular 50-ton cars. The Black Jack
Y and lower Mammoth also shipped to
tho Unite smelter.
BULLION FROM TINTIC.
During the past six days the smelt-.
n r has shipped out G,500 bars of bull
lion. This however, does not represent
& the output Of the plant for that per-;
iod OF time, as there are at least two
carloads Of bullion piled up ut the
plant awaiting Shipment. which Nil.
he made the first of next week, For
: this month. so tar, the smelter has
shipped Il total of 2a,aS4 bars OF bull
lion. The third furnace ut the plant
g has not been btovfn-in vet. the ,le-
{ lay being attributed To not being able
1o5nake connections in the TRANSFORMER,
houss at the smoker These connec-
tinns with the power aonpay will prob
ably be made Monday, when the third
furnace will be pvt into commission
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