The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-01
ONE WEEK FOR
OPEX REPAIRS
Plant Now Being 0verhauled to
Facilitate More Work
at Depth.
IRON KING TUNNEL
OPENING GOOD ORE
Colorado on Fifth Level Nearly
One Hundred Feet to
the South.
Special 10 The Tribune.

Special to The Tribune.
EUREKA July 31-The OpeN mine
was closed down on Thursday 10 make
necessary repairs TO the machinery
which Will take about week. The
hoisting engine will undergo thorough
overhauling. and everything put in FIRST
class shape for long seiee Of develop
lnent work on the lower levels OF the
property
The tunnel at the Iron King is In
over a distance OF 1000 feet, and $50
tons OF good ore are being extracted
daily. Everything is working smoothly
al the property. and Superintendent Nick
Roberts is highly eratiiied with the man
ner in which the work is progressing.
A distance OF ninety feet has been at
tanned from the shaft on the 5oO-foot
level at the Colorado mine. Drifting Is
being carried on toward the south, and
the showing grows better as work is
pushed.
in the character of the ground at the
Tintic Central mine in sinking the shaft
which has now attained depth OF $40
feet. The cable now employed at the
mine has about reached its end. and II
will have to be heightened before any
more shaft work is accomplished. In
the meantime, drifting operations VIII be
commenced WGlCn from present
tions should open up n body of ore.
Bad air being encountered IN the work
ings at the Admiral Farragut mine in
North Tintic this week, Superintendent
pend operations for the present From
the 260-foot level a wlnze had been sunk
a distance of lorty-seven feet. and ev-
erything looked very encouraging, the
winze passing through highly mineral
ized quartz. There is scarcely a doubt
but that the splendid producing vein
which runs through the Gemini and
Ridge and Valley properties extends
through the Farragut grounds. but like
all North Tintic properties IL Is going
10 take depth and capital TO properly de-
veloD that section OF Tintlc.
The tunnel being driven in the prop
erty OF the Utah Consolidated by Su-
perintendent William Mathews is now
IN over ninety feet, being driven through
present. shaft sinking has been discon-
tinued.
The installation Of the new pumping
plant It the Centennial Eureka mine is
being accomplished with speed and accu-
racy, and il is expected that 1t will be
connected with the electric power within
the next M two weeks Two units com,
handling 500 gallons of water per min
ute. When the fun power OF the pumps
Is IN operation, the plant. which is one
able OF handling over one million and
half gallons of water every twenty
four hours This will enable the man
agement 10 extract the ores far below
the water level for many years to come
The power for operating the pumps is
obtained from the plant recently Installed
at the mouth of the Holden tunnel, which
extends a distance OF 1000 feet into
the oOo-foot level OF the mine. and saves
the hosting OF the water 800 feet. The
pumps will draw the water from the sta
ton located on the 2,200-foot level OF
the property TO the tunnel level
Manager j. G. Sullivan OF the Victoria
mine has decided to have the sinking of
The shaft on that property done by con-
tract, and 100 feet has been let to Harry
Reed. who has already begun opera
tions with three shifts Of miners, and
VIII make rapid progress.
Besides making neat bit of money
FOR the May Day company, the lessees
on the property are making good bread
money. in fact. making more than wages.
The tailings on the dump OF the old con-
eentralins plant are being utilized by the
May Day mill. which has been operating
on this ore for the past month and II
Is proving satisfactory In every manner
II will take until snow files to work out
The dump.