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Show MIC MIL PLAN " STARTSJiSCUSSiDN Impression Prevalent Only Porphyry Section in South Would Be Benefited. The announcement regarding the organization or-ganization of a company to drivo a tunnel tun-nel with which to drain the mines of the Tintic district has resulted in a general gen-eral discussion here of the matter, says tho Eureka Reporter. The impression is prevalent that only the mines in the southern section would be benefited and that the draining of the deep mines is out of the question. j The porphyry section, lo'-ai mining I people believe, ' where the water coaies within a few hundred feet of the surface sur-face could undoubtedly be drained into the Goshen valley, and a .tunnel of this kind would no doubt be a profitable investment in-vestment if all the mining companies would go into the proposition and put tip the.'r pro rata of the expense. In the south end of the Tintic. district the water has made deep work impossible, although many of the mines have done sufficient work below the water level to show that the ore bodies are just as strong below the water as they are above. Among the south Tintic porperties where work has been carried on below the water level are the Swansea, Te-sora. Te-sora. United Tintic and Dragon L onsoli-dated. onsoli-dated. In the main section of the Tintic district dis-trict where the deepest work ha? been done the water level is from 1600 to 2400 feet, according to the elevation of the various shafts. In the Gemini the water was encountered at a depth of about 1600 feet and work has been carried car-ried on fully 300 feet below this point, the pumping equipment at the mine taking tak-ing earn oi the water whiie this work was going on. In recent yearts, however, how-ever, no work has been done below the water level. There is no question but what there are some very valuable ore deposits below the 1600" level in the Gemini, iu fact some of the richest ore that has ever been taken from this mine was removed from the 1600 level while the pumping plant was in operation. In the Centennial Eureka water was encountered a short distance below the 210 level, and a month or two ago when an examination was made of the shaft the water level was .iust 2101 feet below the collar of the shaft. The shaft at the Centennial Eureka is 2304 feet deep. It will be remembered that this companv spent an immense sum of mon-ev mon-ev for pumping equipment and made a remarkable fight with the water and then suspended operations below the water wa-ter level. Prospecting below the water level increased the flow of water so rapidlv that the Centennial Eureka people peo-ple quit before they encountered ore of commercial grade, on the level which thev were nnwatering. The Bullion Beck and Eureka Hill mines, two of the older properties of Tintic. have not reached the water level. The Eureka Hill shaft is 1C0O feet deep. The Beck shaft is but 1.100 feet deen. The Chief Consolidated shaft is 1SO0 feet deep, which is t be water level in this mine. An investigation made bv the oflicials of this mine indicates that the water level in the Tintic mines, such as thr Chief Gemini, Centennial Eureka and Grand Central is within fifty feet of the level of the Utah lake, giving the water an elevation of approximately 4704 feet above the sea. The Grand Central mine has the deepest deep-est shaft not onlv in Tintic but in the whole state, the depth being a little over 2300 feet. Water was not encountered until a winze was sunk from the 2300 level. The winze is about 100 feet deep, but it contains lifty f""t of water. At the Mammoth mine the main shaft is down 2100 feet while a winze has been sunk 2S0 feet below the deepest level of the shaft, giving the workings H dtith of 23y'i. Xo water has been en-countered en-countered at the Mammoth. The Eagle shaft is down over 3 0i)0 ff-et whil" the Iron Blossom. Yankee find a lialf dozen othr mines here in Tintic have shafts that are almost as de,p.' |