The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-02-23
OPERATIONS At
EAST TINTIC
Lively Work Going on at a
Number of Properties With
Good Results.
MANY SHAFTS BEING SUNK
WELL DRILLING OUTFIT OPEN.
ING UP FORMATION.

Eureka. Feb. 22.-The present financial
stringeney has not interfered altogether
with development work in East Tintic.
On the Tintic Standard Mining company's
ground. consisting of fourteen claims, all
hut two OF which were acquired last
fall by e. ]. Raddatz of Salt Lake for
John Bestelmeyer, steady development
work is being carried forward This group
lies TO the southeast of the Lily and
east of the Tintic Development com
pany's ground.
The small steam friction hoist installed
last year is working well and the shaft
ls now down to a depth of 220 feet.
FROM this point drifting has been done
towards the southwest. the intention of
superintendent o. E. RaddatZ be-
ing TO reach what is known as
in over eighty feet and there remains
about ITO feet more to be penetrated be
FORE the vein is reached. When the drift
was In about seventy feet the men We're
going through rotten lime and decom-
posed iron rock. which assayed we'll and
everything looks, good now in the face.
The shaft is in good condition, being
well timbered. and measures Axe feet in
the clear The force of men-six in all
is well cared for, the company having
erected a comfortable bunk house and
two small cottages The water used for
the boiler ana also for culinary DUR
poses is obtained from a spring on the
Count claim. which is owned by Thomas
Barrett As Yet the bottom of the shat
is dry.
At the Big Hill and Lily.
About I. ree-quarters of a mile west of
the Tintic Standard company's ground
the Big Hill, one Of the Jesse Knight
prospects. is running with two shifts of
operation and the shaft, 41Ax61k feet in
the clear. is down about 165 feet. Work
started here last October When the
management feels that it has gained suf-
ficient depth. drifting Will commence to
the ledge, which is supposed TO be a
cross-vein or fissure of the Lily vein
and at a distance from the shaft Of
about $50 feet. From assays of sam
pies from the surface of this vein val
ues of from four to six ounces in silver
have been obtained. In the shaft good
iron rock has been encountered.
On the Lily group of three claims,
owned by Provo outfit. nothing is do
ing at the present time the manage
ment having contented itself with simp-
~ doing the assessment work last fall
for 1907. On this ground the shaft is
down 800 feet and upwards of 600 feet
of drifting has been done on the three
levels.
Another group-the Gridley-of seven
claims. is idle at the present. only the
1907 assessment work having been done
and application made for patent
Pushing Things at August Group.
The August group of five claims and
a fraction. recently the bone of cOnten-
ton between the Big Hill company and
John Bestelmeyer. is. since the settle
ment of the suit, the scene of much ac-
tivity. A road to this property from
Knightville has just been completed.
Two shafts have been sunk on this
ground. one 100 feet deep and the other
10 feet. In the latter a large, open lis
sure has been broken into, in which a
body of tale and iron four feet wide
was encountered. In this shaft, which
IS on an incline. further DEVELOPMENT
VIII be pushed. A 25-horsepower steam
hoist has been bought and the work of
installing the machinery which is being
brought from Heber is in the hands Of
J. NJ. Bestelmeyer. jr.
No difficulty is experienced in obtain
ing water, as there is a sufficient guam
tity on the ground, the Water Gulch and
Hannibal springs being water claims IN
corporated in the group. Application has
been made for patent. The principal
owners in the group are John Bestel-
meyer, ]. NJ. Bestelmeyer, r., both of
Provo and George n. Lawrence and N.
A Robertson Of Salt Lake.
Keystone Drill at Work.
On the East Tfntic Development COM
pany's ground the keystone drill under
the direction Of ]. c. Jensen is still run
ming. After reaching a depth of 200
feet and drilling through the granite,
the drill Yks moved some seventy wards
70 the south and they are now boring
IN the contact between the granite and
the porphyry-
spring by newt summer East Tintic
promises to be a veritable beehive. A
Tumor is circulating that Jesse Knight
may resume active operations at any day,
which is good news to all.