The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-06-12
|DOD GRADE ORE
i or MAMMOTH.
npany Sending Out Four or
Five Cars Weekly of
New Ore.
|ITS TWO THOUSAND
DOLLARS PER CAR
ireka Reporter Gives Many
Facts of Interest About
Tintic Mines.

|anaeer Samuel Mcintyre has been at
Mammoth mine during the past week,
esates that the new ore body upon
500 level is still opening up In nice
oe AT the present time the ore is
"a developed upon the 500 level and
y by means of raise which is now
|ething like fifty feet above this level.
ore body Is now being called upon
about four or five carloads of ore
4 week. and this ore is bringing the
many in the neighborhood of $4,000
h. Mcintyre says that he is now MAX
an effort TO get the same ore upon
1000 Upon this level a drift has
n pushed out 10 a point where the
should have been found and failing
open the vein, Manager Mcintyre Is
raising This strike is one OF the
4 important that has been made in
Mammoth mine in recent years, and
he ore Is also opened from the 1000
4 Il Will add greatly to the import
} OF the discovery
thin the next week or ten days the
& Of sinking the main shaft at the
|ofia mine will he under way The
orIa Is now operating at a depth OF
feet. and IL is said that the SHAFT
be dropped down TO a depth OF 1900
/. Owing TO the fact that the big
OF quartz upon the 1850 level has
been crosscut for a distance OF
n 500 feet. important developments
Expected upon the next level below,
rev hoist is now in successful opera
and while sinking is going on there
be the usual shipments of high grade
from the property
some manner a piece OF timber up
The 1000 level of the Eagle g. Blue
mine caught afire al an early hour
-Ia.t s,,.x No., i,n rn- ,,t
day shift went 70 work they found
h parts Of the mine filled with smoke.
Owens and some OF the
Immediately located the blaze which
soon extinguished without any diff
~. There was no damage except the
OF about an hours time. The air
ent carried much OF the smoke over
.fthe Centennial Eureka mine. but
Employees OF this company were able
eep on with their work as usual.
ie fire probably started from can
which had been left burning by the
& shift.
,on the 2a00-or below the water level
|. the Centennial Eureka mine two
IS are still being pushed out toward
|pened. and Notwithstanding the fact
about 1900 feet Of drifting has al
" been done al this depth. Superin-
ent Brown does not expect TO get
the ore bearing ground for some
| time yet The work is going along
|plendd shape without materially
|ging the flow OF water. which can
AIKEN care OF with but one unit or
large pumping plant,
perintendent Brown is now driving a
upon the 1000 level. and he expects
onnect this drift with the 1000 tor
purpose OF improving the ventilation
! the latter level.
le large slopes OF the mine are pro-
ng the usual tonnage. and the de-
pment work is kept up In such a
ner that the heavy shipments which
Centennial Eureka has been sending
for years is scarcely lessening the
liable supply OF ore. The opening OF
below the water level will put this
derful mine In line for even greater
gs.
iring the past few days an excep-
aly large body Of silicious ore has
opened in raise above the 500
in the No. ! workings Of the Iron
som mine. II was In this part of the
that the company opened some
copper ore some time ago. Re-
iy Superintendent Zabriskie com
ced raising for the purpose Of de-
pins this copper ore. and after he
q short distance above the level and
taken out a few cars OF the copper
broke into large body OF the Sill
3 product. Today the raise is en-
y In this ore. and everything lndi-
& that the ore body will be an i'm
ant one for this mine.-Eureka Re-