The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-19
.DR|LL WORK IS
IN GOOD GROUND
TintiC Standard Diamond Drill
Exploring Formation of
Much Promise.
IRON BLOSSOM IS
IN FINE CONDITION
Interesting Mine Gossip of
Eureka by The Tribune
Correspondent.
Special to The Tribune.

opeCiSl 10 lne Tribune.
EUREKA Sept 1S.-With the instaIIa.
tlon Of the diamond drill at the Tintic
STANDARD property. splendid results ar,
being accomplished. With the two shifts
at work over ten feet day can be driver
though the drilling is through a hard rocL
formation Owing 10 a shortage OF water
the services OF one shift was dispensed
with last week, but that difficulty has
ABOUT been overcome and the regular
shifts will be at work the first OF the
49, n,trosPectins ,t is being carried on
/ ana the drift being driven from that
4 aepth is In over li0 feet, and passing
s!TT,,ouSm !T,,e 5I very encouraging formation.
/ INC property was never in more favor
@ @IDie conditlon than AT the present time
toI opening up hne body of ore as all
Indications point that way.
SAT- Lake parties interested I'm the
buckeye property visited tile claims last
week and on investigating the condi-
nons' order the retmbering of the
complishcd. the sinking OF the shaft will
be continued for several hundred feet
wien .r,, drifting ,i will be commenced
lhe old properties OF silver which have
neen dormant for years for the want of
capital, are now beginning 10 come 10
me front through the intelligent work of
Gay making paying mines out OF the old
prospects OF Tintic. There Is no doubt
put what there are many prospccts Ivinp
~ y. INC north and south portions of Tintic
tndt WIN capable management and the
luoicious use Of capital wcild open up
Donanzas and Increase the production OF
'flS great mineral belt a thousand fold.
Prospects are. that a rich strike at the
Utah Construction Is due now almost any
day. according 10 the report OF SupcrIn-
tendent William Mathews. as all under
ton. ''''''
- Ths iron ore now. being produced at
me Iron king mine is paying all current
ent management has deemed II advisable
10 40 away with the night shift while
TN, The day shift viii be kept busy removing
the iron ore for shipment
Dan Tranter. who has the contract
work for sinking the shaft at the Crown
Point property, Is making rapid progress,
asng vs now Fsaehed Na ,a depth OF over forty
completed between the Crown Point and
Colorado properties. the machines will be
put in operation and the work of sink
Ing .hastcned very materially The new
machinery for the mine will be here in
short time and work on the shaft house
and gallows frame is being pushed for
Its reception.
Rapid progress is being made with the
drifting work now being carried on from
the 800 and 500 levels OF the Colorado
mine. the drift from the 500 level being
direction. so as to encounter the vein
that vas cut In the 200 level Of the
crown Point property several years ago
and which dipped TO the west in the Colo
RADIO ground On the 900 level of the
Colorado. which adjoins the Sioux Con-
solidated property, the drift Is just be-
low the ore bodies and raise will be !
sent into these deposits next week, and
everything is favorable for opening up
rich and paying ore in good quantities. |
Charles krvser, James Morgan James |
Leetham and Mrs Kitte Hines have !
taken lease on the claims OF the Provo |
mine in East Tintic and have COM
menced development work on the 800
level OF the property, large amount of |
work has already been done on the |
claims. and the results were very salts
factory and there is no reason why the
leasers should not make good.
Superintendent Charles Zabriski states
that the workings at Iron Blossom No I |
are In fine shape and the ore body on
the GOD level is growing in richness and |
that II Will exceed in values far above
runs high in gold silver and lead and
regular shipments are being made from
this level. Shaft No. / has now al
tanned q depth of 1925 feet. In the work
lngs of No. 500 feet to The south OF
the shaft, on the 500 level a fine body
of ore has been encountered. which looks
Ike a continuation Of the vein from
the Iron Blossom is producing over TWEEN
" carloads of ore weekly. and Is fast
becoming one of the big producers of
Tintic district.
During the past week Messrs kellogg
Ind Scott. who have a contract for sink
ps the shaft at the Yankee Consolidated
nine, have accomplished over fifty feet
~ sinking and are making record In
shaft sinking In the great Tintic dis
riot |