OCR Text |
Show Ttatto is tin gnat-- t Tintic's sihrer producing camp in the ) United Stats Volume XXI EUREKA, JUAB COUNTY, UTAH, FRIDAY, JULY 1, 192L Edward Victoria Ore Cut On v 4- - 1550 Ft Level ff according ,to Bupt. Packard Of v Edward W. 'Packard, who owns the controlling Interest in the Gemini mine at this place. Is now In the state and according to Manager Jackson C. McChrystal, ho will visit Eureka before returning to hie home. Mr. Packard makes his home In the east and visits Utah once each that there Is year. It a likelihood of the Gemini mine being reopened' below the water level Just as soon as mining conditions are more favorable. This proposition has been brought to Mr. Packards attention and he Is inclined to. look, on' It with favor. Several years ago when the pumps were In operation both tho Gemini and Ridge ft Vpiley mines (both being worked through the same shaft) mined some high grade ore below the water level, the Gemini having profits of about $100,006 from one Much of this high grade deposit. ore remained when pumping operations were stopped. It plans are again made for deep work It Is thought that the water can be pumped Into some of the open, fissures Instead of lifting It to the surface. Things look brighter at tho Eagle ft Bine Bell and Victoria mines, both of.which ere operating through the shaft of the former company, and according to Bnpt William Ovens about 1SB men are now on the pay rolL It is quite probable that the fores fill he Increased to '150 after but the Independence Day lay-othen seems to be no scarcity of labor. Most of the local miners have and recently mine employment workers have been coming to Eureka from other parts of the state. On from the Eagle ft Blue BeU and Victoria mines is bejhg sent to the A. 6. ft R. smeltee'at the rate of about four carloads each day. Most of the ore nqvAelng mined at then propertlee Is smut Is known as a dry ore, eontalnjng silver values only, hut a fourth of the dally output la a high grade lead product Both mines are In unusually good shape, W-- Iron Blossom Company Has Encountered New Ore Ovens. Then Is a large amount of good ore New developments in the Iron Blossom, which hold out considerable encouragement to the local officers, have Just taken place In the raise about 100 feet above the 600 level of the No. 1 workings. Frank Birch, local manager for the Knight companies, says that copper-silve- r ore of commercial grade has been entant on body1 that has ever countered. Borne of this ore Is suitopened In the Victoria and perhaps able for treatment in the Silver City one of tbb biggest finds In that par- mill and the remainder of the deticular part of the district. Not- posit contains sufficient values to espoeed and recent developments have been more than pleasing. :At the Victoria the big depoeit of silver-lea- d on which was tint encountered on the 1150, then tapped oh the 1451, has Just been reached with a drift on the 1S50 level. .This is, Without a doubt the moet Impor1 withstanding the fact that a large make It a smelter product amount of work has already Mr. Birch says that this ore has performed It Is yet too early to get been uncounted ed In an undeveloped dea line on the dimensions of the section of what Is f kprfwn as the posit. Arrangements an now being "'west channel, apdih a part of the same on out the after drive made to companys groundLfhat really ought Inon. the 1700 level as everything a largwore body. When to dies tee that It extends far below the the carry company slowed up on develop1160 level. Perpendicularly the me ment work, some months ago, this has already been opened for a dis- piece of. prospecting was continued tho ISO and feet of about tance and it looks very much as though showing on tho 1660 foot level Indi- the result Is to be most satisfactory. cates that a good part of the deposit The Dragon property of the. Is below that point Knight people continues to send out a fairly good tonnage of' Iron ore, which Is going to the plant of the City Council Win Tlx United States Smelting company. r. Tax Levy At Next Besaion 1 Number 35 Two Tactions Scrapping Tor Diamond Queen Control Gemini Now In State Deposit which haa now been cut on three levels promiaea iobe the moat important ever opened in that section. 1 Silver Production in 1920 Exceeded nut of any other Camp. The Tooele Smelter Will Close At Once For some time thpre has been dissension In the rank of the Diamond Queen shareholders .and this week It terminated in an Injunction against the sale of stock delinquent on account of the recent assessment The sale day for the delinquent stock was June $8tb and according to J. E. OConnor, manager of the company, the Injunction waa issued on account of a technical error in the minutoe of the meeting at which the assessment was levied. Instead of selling the stock that was delinquent on June 28th the officers of the company proceeded to levy another assessment giving proper credit to all who have paid "assessment No. Tintic mines hays not bean shipping to this plant for several months and will not be effected hy shut-down. According to an Item which appeared In the dally papers on Wednesday the plant of the International Smelting company at Tooele Is to dose on the first of July, or shortly thereafter. Some months ago the company dosed down Its coppsr furnaces and since that time haa 11." been treating. a limited amount of The shareholders who are fight- lead and sliver ore. In the treating the present management and ment of the lead and silver ore but trying to get control of the affairs two furnaces have been In use and It of the company are Henry Osborne, is generally understood that a sufA. N. Wallace, Humphrey Williams ficient amount of ore has not been and Edward Collins. There seems received to keep these two furnaces to be some question as to which fac- In operation. tion owns the control. This trouble As none of the Tintic properties has been brewing for some little Is shipping to the International time, according to those who are smelter the dosing of the plant will familiar with .the affairs of the com- not seriously affect this district pany. When things were moving along in The holdings of the Diamond a normal way In the Tintic District Queen company are In the south end some ores were sent to the Tooele of the district, nine claims being emthe Chief having been quite a braced in the group. Machinery has plant to the International been installed and other preparations heavy shipper made for the sinking of a deep work company up until three or four months ago, and the mines In the ing shaft Mammoth end of the district having also shipped a considerable tonnage Power Connections Tor The to Tooele. Chief Cons. Co's. New Shaft Even though the storing of the Tooele plant does not deprive our mines of a market for their ores we During the week connection mede which very much the announcement with will regret make indentified possible the Col. C. E. Loose has been prominently use of the electric power at the that has Just been made as the nsws atwas He Tintic ever since the early days of this district. Chief Cons, companys new east Tin-ti- e shows the very serious condition of shaft known as the "Water the mining Industry In general. tracted to this locality soon after the Bullion Beck and EuTintic has fared so much bettor no lost and he . Lily workings of the mine. This into came prominence reka Hill properties than tho average western mining which will be shaft, three compartimft in mqnmiig ground which made him a lot of money. ment In alze, has been equipped with district that we have much to be His first big success was the Grand Central mine in the Mam- modern hoisting machinery and of- thankful for. Our largest mines, beof high grade silver moth end of the district, which was one of the districts con- ficers of the company hope to be able ing producers are able to enjoy a measure of ore, to continue the of work campaign which sistent dividend' payers for more than thirty years and which has been taken up there. Three prosperity. It 'is true that profits is still a most valuable property. Mr. Loose spent a fortune shifts will be used and the big shaft, have been greatly reduced by the In the price Of lead but the id the development of the Grand Central before the mine which has been started on an Ideal slump outlook for this metal Is quite prolocation for the development of the shipped its first lot of ore, or before it was established on a large east Tintic tract of mineral mising. If lead receives some adland which the Chief people own, ditional protection, In the new tariff paying basis. AvintTior mine which he controls and which some years will be sent down at a very lively measures, Tintic will enjoy Its old time prosperity. Such protection la dip. ago was a heavy producer is the Gold Chain, while he was promised and almost sure to bo one of the heaviest owners in the Victoria at the time the HUGE GOLD SURPLUS IX U. S. forthcoming at an early data. t vu , o property was under the management and control of the late cent of the world's gold No per Forty Sioux controlled the also CL Loose Col during supply Is now In the United Further Time To J. Sullivan. 8tates, Be Allowed Claim Owners that it was paying large dividends. The Sioux car- according to eastern financial the Blos- writers, and If Imports continue to Beck of famous the ried a part Carter Shipping From increase we will have 60 per cent fAt their next session, to be held WASHINGTON, D. C.. June Lease At Yankee Cons. som ore cone from which Uncle Jesse Knight took millions by January 1, 1121. The total stock fix will this evening, the city council claim owners will be given sold the few Mr. a ore. of worth of dollars Loose, ago, years of In this country on May 1, no further extension of time in which gold tho tax levy for the year 1011. Last WllnAan Carter, who was superin- control of the Sioux to the Knight people. He had other claims was $1,080,671,711, only $12,207-(6to do annual assessment work on year tho city tax levy was 10 mills, less than the peak figures of their claims Senate divided as follows: 4 mills for con- tendent of the May Day and Yankee in the vicinity of the Sioux ground during the early days of Joint resoluwas mines until work May 1, 1017. Gold Imports for the tion 22 which suspended at for a furthar tingent expenses, I mills for water these lies which provides of valuable owns a still and Tintic property piece first four months of this year from extension of time to do assessment properties a short time ago. Is purposes, I mills for street Improveas known In London now his amounted to Grand at luck the the between the Flutus and Central, being leasing $110,000,006 work for 1920, which time was extrying ments and 1 mill for maintenance of Last week he sent out the Central Mammoth. according to the Financial Review tended last fall to the public library. It is barely pos- latter mine. July I, 1921, wlU of New York, which says that the not be sible that a heavier levy will be his first carload of ore and another to the house for acCol District reported of Tintic the end eastern extreme the Soviet enIn government of Russia Is tion, the measure having been killed necessary this year because there has car was loasjfd during ths present a slump la the assessed valua-o- f week. Mr. Carter states that this Loose has the Iron King property on which there are immense deavoring to convert Its gold reby the house committee on mines Inestimated mined ore a at serve, Is short distance $260,000,000, being' property within , the city mining. The resolution also deposits of iron ore, from which a large tonnage is now being to silver. The Financial Review and contained a provision to change the limits. However, this Is a matter above the main tunnel .level and that and are Iron the of large King estimates that the 1821 silver pro- time in which that cannot be determined until the It carries lead and silver values. shipped. The holdings to do annual atsncs extensive of shaft duction an not world two been havs the at 122,000,000 ment work so that the campaign shipments from two or three levels of a deep amassment figures are received from the county These of which 40 to 46 million taken from a new discovery but from of assessor's office at Nephl. is in progress, with conditions exceptionally ounces, year would end June 20. prospecting ounces are ore credited to which bunches of have United the small Up to this time the city has an for encountering deposits of rich ore. When Mr. States and will be purchased by the Indebtedness of $6,000, which was been exposed In the old workings favorable for government for coinage. Of the re- Case Against Brokerage borrowed from the local bank early ever since the Yankee was a regular Raddatz of the Tintic Standard mine launched a company In' Juno. It will be necessary to bor- shipper. There are a number of the construction of the Goshen Valley Railroad, which taps maining 77,000,000 ounces motion House Is Being Heard picture companies are expected to row. some more money before the excellent leads and some of them Mr. Loose joined him in consume Tintic of the end eastern District, the 20 million ounces. Under to to be larger keys Urns for the collection of the 1011 may prove ore deposits. the business enterprise and at the present time practically the Pittman act the government has A number of Eureka people have taxes, late In the year. at total of 66,726,197 been In Nephl during the week, beall of the ore handled over this line is coming from the Tintic purchased ounces. ing summoned there as wltnssses la Standard and Iron King. the case of Jas. Morgan vs. the Child, Cole ft Co. brokerage house. This vice Metal he is where Eberhart White a Provo at resides former Loose Bauer, Eureka .Mr. of president Is Prodaction First In Utah whose home Is at Payson, was case has been in court for nearly of the Provo Commercial & Savings Bank and where he has man In the district the week, twelve years. Mr. Morgan brought interests. In his mining opera- visiting with his during other and extensive should rank, about third. state in time farming Carl and suit against the brokerage company history, first the sons, for Utahs silver output Is the largest in Although Utah's production for tions he has entered a number of the other districts of Utah. Heber Bauer. Eberhart Bauer has on account of a transaction In Sioux stock, claiming a considerable the United States. This became 1010 Is the largest In the United Mr. Loose is a native of Hlinois but he was only thirteen some very promising claims In the Cons, end of the district on which sum of money. The case has been northern known when advance figures for million several lacks It years of age when he was thrown on his own resources in he has Just completed the 1920 before the supreme court and la back Montanas metal production for States, ounces of being the state's record Utah. He in the district court for final hear1010, compiled by C. N. Gerry of the just naturally drifted into the mining game, work- assessment work. ing and naturally many Tintic people survey, output. In 1017 a total of 18,479r United States geological New Arizona and this in Nevada, in California, state, James Crooks, and B. H. Grant are Interested In the outcome. B. N. reached Salt Lake Monday. During 111 ounces was produced; In 1016,- ing the taut deeade or more the state of 16,466,607 ounces and In 1010, 11,- Mexico. Gradually he worked his way upward improving were down In the southern part of C. Stott, former Eureka attorney, is has' ranked first as a pro- (40,961 ounces. The large output every opportunity that came within reach. Today he is one the state last week, going as far as looking after Mr. Morgans Interesta. ducer of .stiver. Utah, during the Juto to.TfoducuJn"? Sw Bt prominent men of Utah. He has seen'dl the npa Milford, where Mr. Grant made an of Assessment No. 16 on Eureka Bulp? Inspection of mining property. They last few years, has reached a dose drove through by auto, going by way lion stock will become copper properties which were, dur- and downs of Tintic bnt has never lgst faith m the district Nevada third on Tunnel-Colorado-Ir- on 21.--Mi- ning 1 -- Mw-tii- i. second, fourth. During the years 1110-1- 0 Montana 1ST, 000, approximately produced 000 ounces of silver, according to Mr. Gerry; Nevada 116,000,000, ounces; Utah, 116,000,000 ounces, and Idaho 9700, 000 ounces. However, dur- ing those years, operating at capacity. - Since the greater part of the In Utah Is associated with lead, rather than copper ores, and alnce the copper mining Industry has been In doldrums for the past year and probably will continue to be during the remainder of 1921 at least, the Beehive state should to lead In the production of the White metal. The greater part of Montanas output Is produced by the Anaconda Copper Mining comfrom ths treatpany as a and its sine ment of Its copper-silve- r . ing the last three or four years the output of Nevada declined, while that of Utah Increased, a fact which hag made the mines of this state a dees second In the production of diver to those of Montana. -Utah, during 1010, according to Mr. Gerry's figures, produced Ur 101,070 ounces and Montana 670,171 ounces. A comparison of During recent years the Anaconda thosO figures sheers that the mines oMJtah have exceeded In production Copper Mining company has been those of Montana by 617,701 ounces. recognised as the largest silver proAs .Nevadas production has averaged ducer In the world. Approximately abound 6,000,000 ounces during the 10,000.000 ounces were produced by the company during 1911 two yean, tho "Sage-brus- h con-tln- us 1 n l . . i ' - - 1 Ball Games Will Take Will Operate Pumps On ! ' Enreka Citys Old WeU Place On July Srddth - -- of Delta and returning over tho route. delinquent the 2nd day of July Saturday. Tho amount Is cent per share. one-ha- lf o The citys Old well, located some distance to the northeast of town and which In yean past has supplied water for street sprinkling and for lawns and gardens on Leadvllle Row and upper Main street, will again be ed during the present summer. Connection has again been made with the lines of tho Utah Power Co. and the pump will soon be In operation at the well. Some water for street sprinkling will also come from tho Chief Cons, mine but the citys tank at the latter place Is too small to furnish all of tho water that Is needed, especially when the lawns along the line are taking a considerable amount of water. Manager John Hill of the Eureka ball team says that games have been scheduled for Sunday and Monday next, when the fast team from the BotterU Auto Co. of Balt Lake will visit Eureka. The local team did not fare very well against Payson last Sunday but Mr. HUl says that the bunch has been strengthened considerably and the fans can expect real baseball on Sunday and Monday. It takes practice and support to make a ball team and "Hilly has had the players out every night this week. They now ask that the local people give them their support Attend these two games and boost for the Eureka bunch. Independence Day Celebration Planned ForEoreka Eureka will have the usual In- - Eureka Band, tho parade will form dependence Day program and the at 10 a. m. and will be followed by people of Mammoth, Silver City and interesting exercises at ths Elks Dividend are asked to Join us In the Pavilion. Tho whole afternoon will celebration. The business men have be given over to sports, including n been very liberal with their con- baseball game between Eureka and tributions and ample money Is avail- a Salt Lake team. The races, conable. Cash prises, amounting to tests, etc., will take place ou Mala $200, will be distributed for tho street and win be followed by a band various races and contests. Then concert and a daaca. there will be a free dance for tho All business men are expected to youngsters at which refreshments decorate their buildings and they will also be distributed to alL are also asked to prepare floats for The program will start with a the parade. Prises will bo awarded salute at sunrise and muals by tho for the best floats. - vTi a r3f. Z? |