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Show UTAH COUNTY DEMOCRAT, HORSE SHOW EDITION 21 Knights Great Mining Interests In Tintic I The Colorado, Beck Tunnel and Other Interests. lhere are a great many mining Tunnel workings o for air and Mricts in this western country venience. bich are profitably operated part ' the time. At certain periods ,v are all activity, which after a year or so, changes con-tio- n, depression, and Hr popularity wanes almost to r vanishing point. Other camps ere are which are always good. a time of The Colorado Mine. Colorado mine, on the east lope of Godtva mountain, Tintic district, has made history fast The -- within the last eighteen months, it has few and as a dividend-paye- r equals in the west. This is an emenating from Unde" lesie Knight, of Provo, and yet ,l is only one of half a dozen se The New Smelter which is Being Built and which will Soon be In Operation feet in bodv measures thirtv-fiv- e width. The ore on this level has been drifted upon for a distance Colorado Equipment. of 150 feet, and it has been sunk The south shaft of the Colorado upon, in a winze, for thirty feet, is equipped with a Ilendrie & the bottom wing in a body of Bolthoff hoist ami mineral of splendid grade which an Ingersoll-Ran- d air assays from 6 to 10 per cent copcompressor. Here, also, the com- per, 200 ounces silver, ami from $3 to $5 in gold to the ton. On pany has one of the finest and all of the levels, down to the 11th. . nest equipped machine shops to the ore body has been followed be found in the district. on its strike for a distance of is The north shaft equipped 3,000 feet, and the feet along this with a Ilendrie & llolthoff 50- -' ore deposit setts of timber four nr Setts n with and six or horsepower single drum hoist. in heighth, hate been necesseven Air from the south hoist furnishes sary to prevent the caving of the power for two Ingersoll drills. mine after the ore has been company has been gi mg tracted, and this fact will give emplovment to a force of about! some idea of the magnitude of con- - six-dri- ll . , ex-T- he j the Equipment of the Beck. group. This shaft, on the The south shaft of the Beck first of the month, had attained Tunnel company is equipped with a depth of 210 feet, and the botthe first steam hoist eer oper- tom was in gray dolomite lime ated by the old Bullion Beck & and spar, in which formation the ore bodies of the disChampion Mining company. trict generally make. This is a single-druThe Iron Blossom. hoist with a history. Formation of the Beck. The Iron Blossom is another Beck of the The formation Knight proposition. This group ground is almost identical with joins the Crown Point on the that of the Colorado, and the geo- south, and is equipped with a fine logical conditions are practically hoisting plant, steam battery and the same with the exception that, air compressors. A in certain portions of the ore bod) shaft is being sunk of the Beck, there are intrusions which has attained a depth of of a dry, bony quartz, which de- more than 170 feet. At the 2(X) crease the allies of the ores to a station will be cut and a drift a certain extent. The north will be run in an easterly direcworkings of the mine were m this tion to cut two known parallel dog-toot- h m er triple-compartme- nt oppositions backed by him which iiave made good during the past few vears. In the beginning of work in the development of the Colorado mine, a shaft was sunk on the southern portion of the lode. Ibis shaft was sunk in the lime rock a depth of 250 feet, and a drift run to the east for a distance of seventy feet, when ore was enThe workings were countered. then run 400 feet to the south, following an immense body of ore the entire distance, the face, at the time of the visit of the writer the first of the month, being forty feet in width, with a world v of ore in sight. In the ered cave, above the face of the drift, the ore body has nevvly-disco- been followed for a, distance of thirty feet further. From the end of this cave to the south end line of the Colorado group, the distance is 628 feet. It is seldom that a mining company is hin- dered in its work by a superabundance of ore, and yet this is the case with the Colorado, bor some time the management, in its eagerness to drift on the ore to its southern limit, has been unable to make much progress owing to the fact that the mine product, a sand carbonate, keeps sliding down from a heighth of twenty feet, or more ; and, instead of miners, a greater number of muckers are needed to move away this constant accumulation and it of "dividend money, would be almost as easy to run a drift through a mound of sand as to penetrate the Colorado ore body without being caved upon. Seven hundred and fifty feet north of the Colorado shaft, and 250 feet south of the Beck fun- nel end line, a new hoisting plant has been installed, and a double compartment shaft, with manway, has been started. This shaft is being sunk in the lime, and, on the first of the month, had attained a depth of 200 feet; the expectation being that ore will be level, encountered on the 250-fowhen drifts will be run north ot this wonderful ore deposit. Some e of the ore from this portion of the mine assays as high as 9, OCX) ounces in silver to the ton, while the mine average is in the neighborhood of $100 to $150 to the ton. From this portion of the Beck about $1,000,000 in ore has been taken from which the company has disbursed $820,-00- 0 in dividends; a record that would be difficult for any mining company to eclipse, or even duplicate. North from the shaft the comThe Beck- Tunnel group, con- pany is drifting in ore, and the sisting of ten or eleven claims, vein has been followed in this diadjoins the domain of the Colo- rection for two or three hundred rado company on the north, and feet, the ore body maintaining men, and is shipping in the neighborhood of thirty tons of ore daily. With restrictions on production removed, and with a larger force, the output could easily be raised to 100 or 200 tons hours. every twenty-fou- r The ore values range from $75 to $100 a ton, although some of the chloride ore will go 1,000 ounces silver, 35 per cent lead, and from $2 to $5 in gold to the ton. Beck Tunnel. thirty-fiv- e high-grad- formation at the time of the visit of the writer, but the indications were that a few feet more would take the drift into ore bodies in the regular gray dolomite lime, from which high values can be expected, and from which point the company will have fifteen feet of excellent ground before getting to its north endline. Still, the ore makes in this "bony ground in the same massive bodies which characterize the mineral depositions in the workings towards the south endline of the group, and it is confidently believed by Superintendent Roundy that the northern portion of the Beck will open up to such an extent that it will k o UNCLE JESSE KNIGHT. Jesse Knight is not an ordinary mining man As a matter of fact, he is not looked upon as a mining man at all, and vet he is a past grand master when it comes to making mines. 11 is is the gift that all might envy, and but few possess. When he says: "Dig here, and you will find ore, you can bank on the truth that Uncle Jesse puts ore is there. extensive equipment on a prospect when there is not a pound of ore in sight, and more, he builds ore houses at the same time that he installs his huisting plants, so confident is he that he will have steady use for them in the near future. Those who have followed his lead have made money, and not from stock sales and stock profits, but from dividends; and bis only regret is that the timid have been frightened into sacrificing their holdings because of the recent Hurry in all kinds of Till-- NEW SMELTER AT SILVER (TTY securities, lie does not believe in backing up his stocks in order to covers at least 3,000 feet of the nearly regulation size but being make even a bigger and better assist speculators, lie di es not mine than is the Colorado, if such deal in stocks nor has he ever sold extension of the Colorado vein, its of lower grade, as stated above. any of his holdings in the various One thousand feet north of a thing were possible. north end line abutting upon the companies in which he is presiOther Knight Properties. territory of the Yankee Consoli- the old, or south shaft, the comdent, as far as we can learn. His dated. In addition to the Colora- pany is now sinking a The interests of Mr. Knight in shaft and manway. This Tintic district include several profits come from dividend disdo vein, the Beck Tunnel group bursements and not in stock specembraces two other known ore shaft is down over 250 feet, and a other besides the Coloproperties is zones or ledges, one known as drift will soon be started, if not rado and Beck Tunnel. In the ulation and manipulation. lie and any the Crown Point vein, and the already under way, to be run to list is the Crown Point, joining making mines; that's all, work for can man hiip. other the Yankee and Humbug the east, the expectation being the Colorado on the south and competent his political or reore channel, the latter cutting that the qre channel will be en- east. The Point is no matter what Crown ligious beliefs may be. as long as through Beck ground well within countered in that direction within equipped with a donkey hoist and behe does good, honest work, and is shaft its western sideline. a distance of from 100 to 200 a of earns his pay. ing sunk in the development level the ore feet. On the 2,000-fo- : nt . and south in pay dirt, the intention being, at the earliest possible moment, to connect with Beck veins having a northerly and southerly strike. The Black Jack. The Black Jack adjoins the Iron Blossom on the south. This is a consolidation of the Black-Jacand Star Consolidated mines, and both properties are fine hoisting equipped with plants. three-compartme- nt ot Uncle |