The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-12-03
CHIEF CON. MINE
MAY Be IMMENSE
Manager Fitch Confident He
Is in Characteristic TintiC
Ore Zone.
MAKES NICE PRODUCTION
NET EARRINGS OF $4,000 A
MONTH APPEAR ASSURED.

As result or q relauAe4y 5llulL INlt
devoted to exploratory and development
work. and with very little having been
said about it, the Chief Consolidated com
pany has opened a mine i'm Ilnuc dlstfict
which promises to take its place Ia lhe
class OF such famous producers as Cen
tennial Eureka, Mammoth and Grand
Central The company entered upon lls
incorporating period IN october, the Het
earnings for that month having been SiUJ.
Shipments for November Tor Wnlcn re-
turns have been received Indicate tnat
the net earnings for that month WlA Dc
between $4,000 and $4,000.
In q recent letter to Jne eastern head
quarters Of his company, PRESIDENT WaI-
ter Fitch said.
ing IS practically as good as ever, and
] think we shall be able to ship from II
200 to 500 tons a week, which, II tne ore
maintains its present quality, VIII repre-
sent a profit over and above all expenses
Of 5000 or $500 week, or nearly s5O,JOJ
& month.
Enough development work has been
done TO demonstrate the character OF
the ground owned by the company, ana i
am firmly of the opinion that We nave
now started upon a long period OF con
tinuous production.
Looks Like Great Deposit.
every days work on this new ore body
gives us more confidence as TO lls
strength and endurance, and II now pc
one OF those phenomenal deposits winch
every one Of the successful mines Of the
district has had at times, and the win
nings Of those mines from each such de-
post have been all the way from quar-
ter Of a million 20 two millions OF dollars
with the exception Of few lots OF
lead ore from the IO00-fOot level, prac-
ticaly all OF our earnings to date nave
come from the opening on the 400 level
ana. as our ownership on the ore zone
extends 20o0 feet Ia each direction, IT VIII
be readily seen that we have ample op-
p0rtunity for further development
Drifts at different levels are being pushed
north under the toWnsite Of Eureka,
where. through control Of the Eureka
City Mining company we own the mineral
rights and in that locality i anticipate,
as indicated by our present developments
we shall find very valuable ore deposits.
John Van EVera, one Of the founders or
the Chief Consolidated company, in an
interview given IN Hougntoni Allen-, salu+
-tThe ore channel in which Chief Con-
solidated Is working is very well defined.
We have crOsscut it on the lOU-IOOt and
]. 400-foOt levels. demonstrating that IL
has a width Of about 400 feet. Its strike
IS approximately % degrees west Of north
and east of south. It's dip is at the pres
ent time unknown, not having been de-
velOped to a sufficient extent We have
started crosscuts 20 intercept this chan
mel on the 20-fOOt and 1,60o-fOOt levels
and it is our intention as soon as the SMART
reaches the IS10-fOOt level to crosscut
shaft between 400 and 800 feet.
Has Characteristic Channel
''It is in this mineraIized ore channel
OF fractured zone in the limestone that
the concentrated values are always found
I'm the Tintic district. and it is absolutely
frutless to look for them outside of a
zone of this character. Chief COnsOli-
dated has this ore channel for approx
matelv a mile in length on its property.
1T has been the history Of the district,
in mines which have gone to depth, that
the values increase downward, and so far
as developments have gone in neighbOring
mines the higher values are now obtained
at the lower levels. This is true i'm the
Centennial Eureka Of the United States
Mining company, ana also In the Nam
moth both of which are below the 2.000-
foot level. From these lower levels they
occasionally ship sensational ore values,
which run as high as 10000 per carload
Of ore,
"This excessive enrichment in lower
levels is because Of the gold values. The
upper levels Of the ore channels carry
high lead and silver values, with very lit
Tie gold With depth the lead gradually
disappears, copper comes I'm and the gold
values Increase