The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-05
T|NT|C MINES At
WORK ON PROPERTY
Prominent Capital Begins a
Campaign of Development OIL
Promising Group.
PROPERTY ON NOTED
RICH MINERAL ZONE
More Extensive Activity Being
Planned for Other Mines
of District.

Along lines of development suggested
by II y. Brown, superintendent OF the
Centennial Eureka company of Tintlc,
the Tintic Mines company has started
work on what is known as the Bradley
property, one of tbc two groups owned
by 1T in this district. Mr., Brown has
had nineteen years of experience III TINS
and neighboring territories where the
same geological conditions exist, and IN
letter TO the local officials he rcitcr.
ates the belief that geological conditions
arc the same in the Tintic Mines group
as they are in the Centennial Eureka.
NJ. +. Sammon. for years the foreman
OF the Gcmini company, and one OF the
best known operators Of the llntlc
camp. has charge Of this new work.
The Bradley group has been known as
one of the most promising propositions
in Tintic for eighteen years, at which
time Il report was made on it by w. >.
Keys, !he prominent gcologist and en-
glncer. y shaft was driven some years
ago to the 3O0foot level, and at depth
of 100 feet vein Of manganese and
iron ore, 15G feet in thickness, was
developed. and how much more eXten-
slve tins VEN is has not been deter
mined. as the vein on its dip left the
shaft rs Ncrk was continued, IT is now
the pian ro clean this old working out.
and 10 explore this vein, in which, in
the early 6avs, bouldcrs of rich silver
ore were found Nh Sammon has un-
covered 4 quartz vein ranging from
eight 60 fifteen feet in width on the
surface, and he has started stripping
this in fine Eelicf that with more depth
It will develop into a big ore body. n
force of men is now at work, and as
soon as the new boarding honse is com
plcted the company intends TO material
" increase It's mine force.
The other group owned by the I'm
tic Mines company is located on the
samc great blue dolomitc lime zone as
the Mammoth, Grand Central and VIC
turia properties, and with the Victoria
lines tkc cTcs have been 1Cm, ustratCd
to a DOint within Il few hundred feet
Of this gIoUp, known aS the Town NleN
property. from one o. the adjoining
groups. t;.c Town Ni,w property can
be developed on the llOOiJOt !tNel, and
such development work is now being
arranged. 1t is stated that not over
800 feet Of work will bring the cross
cut into the Tintic Mines territory. The
company owns 5000 feet along the strike
of this lime zone. which contains some
of the great mines of the camp.
On June IL, 1897, o. a. Palmer made
a report on the Bradley group of
claims, portion of which reads as
follows:
''The ores occur in dolomitic lime
stone of the carbonifcrous age, the beds
of which. after having passed through
the various stages Of mountain making,
are now found nearly vertical, with
slight dip to the west and strike near
" north and south, The sedimentary
beds of this part of the district are
about two miles wide and six miles
long, nearly surrounded by eruptive
rocks The vein proper consists of
about 300 feet in thickness of blue
cherry limestone. in which the ores oc-
cur in large irregular bodies, more or
less plainly connected together, re-
scmbIing filled caves. and sometimes
following for hundreds Of feet single
strata of the limestone. These ores are
very cheaply mined, as this district is
free from water, which is
confined TO the cruptiyc rocks, none
being met with in the limestone for at
least 1900 feet below the surface.
"This Eureka lode is now being sue
cesstully worked on It's strike for dis.
taBce Of over three miles, and to depth
of cver 1900 feet. Your claims are
situated but a short distance north of
this part Of the lode, are, in fact, on
the lode itself, and in my opinion need
only development TO produce paying
mine. This assertion is based upon "A
knowledge Of the district extending over
q period of the last twenty years.