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Show ft ii'r f I ' ' r . , . . ' . 'is' , .. V: 'V-- " 4f A tad The Report-- r to friendi in other parti of the e0oatr five them a chance to learn more about the Tintie District, A former resident of Tintie will pndate a eopj of j x A EUREKA, JUAB COUNTY. UTAH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1923. Volume XXM- - Surrey To Be Elade rte: ::s v.; ' Of Dmdeod Road Hi P Eureka business men and Tin-;'p- o Standard dffioere attend-e-d meeting before the state road commission. Representatives of the Tintie Standard Minina company, commissioners from Utah and Jnab conntiM and business man of Baraka made a trip to Balt Lake on Tnaaday, meet-inwith the state road eommleeion for the purpose of discussing a change is the auto road leading into Tintie from Utah county, . The plan uuggeeted to the state road commission nt the meeting this week was to Improve the present road which extends almost straight ' west front Elberta, and vhieh is now . used by employees of the Tintie Standard mine, building an entirely .new highway from the mine to and putting it in such condi- tion that it would carry all of the district's traffic. If such a route is f feasible, the residents of Tintie desire the change which will put the ' little town of Dividend on the dls- -' trlct's main auto road. Among those attending the Balt - Lake meeting were: John Bunnell, James Norman, P. H. Craven, Dr. A. H. MeChrystal and P. P. Kimball, 'all of Eureka; Manager Janies W. Wade and Engineer Payne of the ..Tintie Standard Mining company; Commissioners James Gardner and .1 Fred Matley of Utah eounty and the members of the state road commie- - n . , Eu-fe- ka Members of the Knights of Columbus scored a ' great - success with their Halloween dancing party, and carnival, given at the pavilion on Wednesday evening of this week. Mora than SOS tickets were sold and to say that the dance went over big is putting if mild. It was by far the most enjoyable affair of the season and the members of the lodge1 received liberal praise for the manner in which all the details were handlr ed. The big work was In the deco- ration of the pavilion, a yellow and black color scheme being carrlel out, and a lot of money was expended for such. things as noise makers, caps, baloona, and other favors, ' The Knights of Columbus have for some time been giving about two dances a year. They are handled on such an elaborate scale that the exexceed the penses occasionally revenue but the lodge members always feel repaid if the parties are a success from a social standpoint. dance could hardly Wednesday's have been more enjoyable it was an affair that will long be remembered by people of this district. o- - Jennie Coatee Died Wednesday At Capital .0 " Miss Jennie Coates,1 quite well known in this city, died on Wednesday at one of the Balt Lake hospitals. The deceased was born at 8t. George, Utah, 47 years ago, and is survived by three brothers and two sisters. They are: Charles Coates of Dividend, Frank Coates of Bt. George, William Coates of American Fork, Mrs. James Crooks of Eureka ft was pointed out that a road and Mrs. Effie M. Kaighn of Balt ' through Dividend would shorten the Lake. Funeral services were conducted trip into Tintie about three miles and that It would be of great bene- at I oclock this afternoon at the fit to the people of Dividend and former home of the family at AmeriEuireka. Dividend residents have can Fork, a number of Eureka relafor some time been eager to secure tives and other friends attending. . a state toad and especially one that place them in doner touch JOHN GATLEY SUDDENLY ' wjth Eureka and the other camps of STRICKEN WITH ILLNESS the Tintie District, as well as furnish : - o proper outlet to the main highways , John Gatley, well known business of their own county. James W- - Wade is not only inter- man of Eureka, has been quite seriested but quite enthusiastic regard- -' ously ill during the past few days time. lng the proposition and on various but it somewhat better, at this Tues'.occasions has stated that his com-- " Mr. Gatley became seriously ill mornpany will do everything possible to day evening and the following bring about the construction of sock ing was sent to the Holy Cross Hospital, being accompanied by his ' a highway. and nephew, Dennis The Tintie Standard mine is one brother-in-la' of. the heaviest taxpayers. in Utah Theriault and James Gatley, Jr. to the hospieounty and at least ought to be en--' Before his removal titled to some consideration nt the tal he suffered from convulsions, presumably the result of acute kid- hands of the commissioners. This one property is enriching ney trouble. Utah county, in taxes alone, to the extent of f 200,000 annually add this Untie High will play its next ; is only a part of the money that game of football with the Payeon gravitates from our mining section High School as opponents. The game to such places as Provo, Bprmgville, takes place on the local grounds one Spanish Pork and Payeon. The old week from today. plan of giving us ss little as possible la the matter of road improvements must be revised. Tintie has over the proposed route with local long suffered because of poor roads people, who are interested. In an. efand the time has come for the con- fort to determine its feasibility. If struction of a highway equal to those their report is favorable a further found in other parts of the state. survey will doubtless be ordered anl Mr. Wade and other Tintie people plans made for tha construction of who appeared before the state road at least a portion of the highway commission .made it quite plain that during the next few months. State road officials are said to be Tintie s road problem is one that should have prompt action and be- opposed to building roads where the fore adjournment Utah countys of- maximum grade exceeds six per cent ficers promised to investigate the but it is thought that it will be posnutter at the earliest possible date sible to find a way of getting from H.B. Kerr, assistant chief .engineer the Tintie Standard mine to Eureka employed by the state board, will without exceeding that figure. In some of the come to Tintie within the next few order to eliminate days and ha will be accompanied by objectionable features in connection Mr. Jones, the road engineer for with the present roaa its location Utah eounty. Together they will go will have 'to be completely changed. - w . . t ' ; . . !( Number 52 Are Pavement Celebration Arranged Zuma Shareholder! Favored With Report RaOroid Spur To sec sot sot set the' Chiefs New recently Dance And Carnival Tonight the a report to president to be Hallowe'en Party Was Unusually Successful mc 4 i ir .i The Reporter why not lend the paper regularly to some doee Mend. sec II W. F. Shrlver, of Zuma Mining company, caused brief mailed o each of the shareholders, announctwo of years must elapse before peo- ing the selection of three new board Excavating for plant, railroad Bucks's paving Job is 'fast members, one of whom will direct lng completion and arrangements ple start tp acquire confidence in the and wagon road, now under mining operations at this well have been made for a big celebra- a mining camp, before they com- known mence building with a view to the property. way; with favorable weather tion this evening, when the Provo future. In recent Shareholders of the Zuma have years residents of band will furnish music for a mask- Eureka have constructed better been exceptionally loyal, responding good progress is possible. ed street dance and a carnival of homes, business men have ' erected to the calls for funds which from time necesto time have been made fun. One reason for bolding the better establishments and mining Engineers representing the Rio program at such an early date is the operations have been of a more per- sary, and they have the satisfaction: manent nature. We are beginning of knowing that each assesament has Grande Ry. company were in Eureka ll.weather wWc carefully expended that yesterday for the purpose of laying part of Tin-tic- 's been most 9Un8' Jyor J1 Church to realise thatis tha best cent has been used in the out a new spur line which will serve every be to written yet history ed an informal program which will that the districts record of ore pro- actual development of the claims and the milling plant to be erected by the commence at about S o'clock and last duction is going to continue un- no part of it taken up in overhead Chief Consolidated Mining company. until midnight. The city officers broken for a long time to come and expenses. The same policy will be Excavating for the new mill was have polished off the new pavement that with the discovery of new mill- carried out by the new board and started a week ago and it Is thought in the business district and the stage ing processes the prosperity .of past such a system of mining cannot help that the construction work can be is all set for dancing and merrymak- years is but a tithe of what can be' but succeed in the end especially continued throughout the coming where the outlook is as promising as winter, officials of tbe company being. expected in the future. ing anxious to complete tbe plant as It la no doubt fitting that Tintie Come out tonight and celebrate at the Zuma. Perry Fuller, well known Tintie early as possible during the coming people, particularly residents of Eu- the paving of Main street and the reka, should hold such a celebration completion of nearly a mile of new mining man, will hereafter direct the summer. The rallrosd spur is one of the as the paving of Main street is the aldewalk. A continuation of such Zuma operations. He has a1 splen- T knowledge of the district glean-thfirst things to be considered as it biggest Improvement in the camps improvements will place Eureka In years of study and will be needed in transfCrlng mahistory--- a piece of work that should very vanguard among the more . ,4. trouB1 have been taken up many years ago. prosperous mining camps of the mine work and local people who have terials and machinery to tbe site, invested in the stock of tbe Zuma but the mill Is located quite close to It appears, however, that a score or whole western country. company are highly pleased because the line which serves the Eagle A Mr. Fuller has consented to give his Blue Bell and Victoria mines and close personal attention to the de- not more than 1600 or 1000 feet of velopment campaign now under way. railroad construction will be reIt is the intention of the Zuma of- quired. ficers to keep stockholders completeThe Chief plan to fiOfflcals of the company are suite poorest sample showing not ly informed on all matters pertain- nance the millcompanys the sale of through Jnbilent over recent disclosures in than 60 (ranees silver to the ton lng to the company's operations and treasury stock, which is to be proj Mr. Bhrlver announces a evenface while a taken last is that sample plan the east vein of the Iron Blossom showed the ore to carry around now being worked ont whereby the rated among tbe shareholders, seems mine and there seems to be no ques- lng 00 ounces. The mining of this new development of the ground can be to be meeting with popular favor. tion but what the opening of this ore in all the blocks where it has continued without serious hardship The response has been quite prompt and it is thought that practically channel will have much to do with been found is now being carried on to even the largest shareholders. every shareholder will want bis pro. .. the future production of this old under many disadvantages but witho portion of the new stock at the price lime bonansa. It appears, from re- in a short time crosscuts which are Price Decline fixed, which is fS per share. cent reports, that three different now being driven will facilitate the Copper Forces enDownward now During the past few weeks there have work to a great extent. Wages leasing partnerships When has been quite an Increase in the outcountered the ore while half a proper connections sre made some o dosen others are busy driving for of the lessees mentioned above will The recent decline in the price of put of the Chief Cons, mine, an arit and with everything to indicate be in shape to produce a large copper has resulted in a new wage rangement having been made wherethat their efforts will meet with soc amount of ore and no doubt other scale at practically every copper by it is profitable to ship quite a strikes will soon be made as half a mining camp In the west, the change tonnage of slllcious ore even though The Iron Blossom's east vein is dosen headings are being driven to- having been announced late last the values are not high. about 100 feet to the east of the old ward the same vein. week. ore channel which has already given Utah mines affected are the large Other Knight properties, includthe shareholders nearly three mil- ing the Dragon, Colorado and, Tin-ti- c properties of Bingham from which Upper Main Street lion dollars in profits. The points DralnTnnnel, are being operated most of the states copper ore is Sidewalk Job Finished where the new ore is now being in a satisfactory manner. The Colo- taken. The notices which were mined are perhaps 140 feet above rado is now shipping heavier than posted announced a reduction in The contractors who for the past the 400 level of the No. 1 shaft usual, a part of the present output wages effective on the first of Noand work which has been performed coming from one of the dumps, vember which was yesterday and few months have been busy on local during the past few months indicates while an Important piece of pros-- undor this new arrangement the street and sidewalk Improvements that the ore will be continuous for j pecting is also under way in the common laborer will receive 40 cents will finish up within a very Short at least 1000 feet, and perhaps a lot north end of the Dragon Consolt- - less each day and the wages of all time. The upper Main street sidefarther. dated ground where E. R. Higgen-- ! other employees of copper mines will walk, which extends from a point near the Tintie Garage to the Rio Hanson and Haws were the first son has a lease. Mr. Hlggenson has be reduced 60 cents a day. On the same day the large smelt-tendin-g Grande crossing some distance above lessees to encounter ore of com- Just completed a Job of sinking, ex- mercial grade and their block has the old Black Dragon shaft, lng companies returned to the wage the High School, was completed yesterday. For the first few hundred already produced quite a nice sum down to a point about ISO feet be- feet the sidewalk was constructed of money. Later the same ore was low the main tunnel level and is now over the old water course, presentpicked up by Arthur BtayAy and in shape for drifting. He is quite cut of 60 cents a day, Tintie mines will continue paying ing a rather difficult piece of work, during the past week John Leyshon sure of some ore at this depth. It and his partner have made a most is from the opposite end of, the the wages which have prevailed for but one which adds greatly to the important strike. In the Leyshon Dragon Cons, property that the pres- several months and there will be no appearance of Main street. The ground the ore has been followed ent large tonnage of iron ore ' is change at Park City or any of the walk should also add something to the value of every piece of propother lead-silvcamps. by a raise for about' SO. feet, the coming. The Tower wases in the Bingham erty fronting that part of the street district will mean a reduction of a as is covers up a long stretch of unFederal Building Fund Silver City Sampling quarter of a cent per pound In the sightly open sewer which has always MiU dosed This Week been a collecting place for rubbish Still Contains $2,500 coat of producing copper. The change in the wages at the and filth. smelters .amounts to a cut ranging As predicted in last week's issue Quite a substantial sum of money, from 7 to 16 per cent of the old of . the Reporter the Silver City Tennis Court Will Be fS.600, will be left over scale. giant of the Utah Ore Sampling com- perhsps Mils In connection with Euwhen o pany has suspended operations. This re kas sllnew federal Completed Very Shortly building have was made necessary when the Chief ButCons, people, from whom the sampler been paid, according to J. H. The cement workers, who have was getting the bulk of its business, tle, the government representative has been located here ever Just completed the sidewalk and started sending their ore direct to who the first excavating was taken Members of tbe mining committee curbing for Eureka City, have been the Salt Lake Valley smelters. With- sinceand who will remain until the of the Balt Lake Chamber of engaged to build the two tennis out the Chief's sampling the mill up are released and paldmerce at a recent meeting stated courts at the Tintie High School and could not be operated at a profit and Eurakas postoffice building that throughout the United Btates it is thought that they will be ready the Knight mining companies are off. now sampling their ora at Murray. has been completed and occupied for efforts are being made to discour-som- e for use late next week. Tbe Job of time but there are a few things, age mining stock and mining project pouring the cement started today The Utah Ore Sampling mills, in Investments and because of this fact and within three days the work Tintie and at Murray, are owned by unfinished and while they are rather the Job must be com- plans are being worked out for an should be finished. Borne few days the Knight Investment company of unimportant plete in every detail before Mr. But- educational campaign with reference will then have to elapse before .the Provo. tle will be able to leave this city. courts can be used and during that to Utah's wonderful mineral When there is a sum of money left sources. Speakers will be asked to time the nets and backstops can be over on a government Jobof this talk on Utahs mines whenever an put up. it is placed in a local bank, portunity presents itself, not only A considerable part of the money and kept there until it is needed fori before public gatherings in this state required for the construction of the improvements, repairs, or something but in other parts of the country if courts has been donated by business of that nature, as it cannot be paid funds can be made available for that men of the city and while they are out for ordinary maintenance; neither, purpose. The committee also ar- located at the Tintie High School it ia it customary to return it to the ranged for a series of talks before is understood that they will be at the mining students of the University the disposal of the puMlc certain federal treasury. hours during each day. of Utah. ," Iron Blossom Opens New Ore - ; er The Heating Problem ' J . Mining Men Will Discuss Smelter Rates Activities of the Utah section of the American Institute of ' Mining and Metallurgical Engineers for the will be opened by a year IISI-161- 4 dinner at the Newhouse hotel this evening. For this meeting an interesting and important program has been outlined by the board of directors. The only number on the program will be a discussion of smelting rates. W. H. Eardley and B. N. Rickard will speak for the smelters, and F. V. Bodfish, W. Mont Ferry and J. W. Wade for the mining operators A general discussion will follow in which anyone may participate. One of the Important orders of business will be tbe election of officers for tbe year. Following this will come a consideration of the plan Grand Central Route Regarding m m m m Delta Has Cause For Complaint The following information regard- over the northern routing, he ing the auto roads through Utah ap- through ranches, with no chance for peared in a recent issue of the Utah to gather his coin; If, however, Chronicle of Delta: he is routed south through the whole Once for all let us plainly lay the length of the state from Salt Lake to finger on this matter, and not mince St George, great gobs of bis wallet matters doing it. are parted from him. The State of Utah accepted $126,-00- 6 And if the tourist is routed from the Lincoln Highway as- through Eureka via Delta to Ely, or be sociation to used on tbe west out- through Ballna via Delta to Ely, Millet for that highway through the lard countys county seat gets nothupper part of the state; the state has ing. neither returned the money nor used The why is perfectly answered It. and still unjustified for breaking faith in both instances. Very discreditable. Millard county voted, on a pubWe believe the Ely Record and the to enlarge the activities of. the lished schedule, with appropriations Eureka Reporter will see now why detailed as to where the money the Grand Central is a neglected engineering council of Utah. be spent, and how much, the road; they will plainly see why This organisation consists of the should of S60,000 for roads; among Fillmore and Milford can and four local sections of the national sum was this $60,000 for the road from will route traffic that' way to the engineering societies and the Ameri-- n Delta to Garrison, called the Grand detriment of the shorter road front Association of Engineers. Its Central The full $60,000 Delta to Garrison. purposes are to coordinate the act!' has not Highway. Politics is a dirty business. And officialdom of vltles of the various technical bodies Millard been spent, county will not spend it politics is withholding the Just apand secure concerted action onfall an injunction is served portionment of a voted bond 1 matters affecting the welfare of en- ( withoutthem do so) and there the from the road it was voted for. making . gineers. ... . rests. . matter The public wont take its . . v o . . , The why of both cases? part Additional mining new 4, ora. ShipThe state breaks faith because if Ely and Eureka ments and stock sales on page i. a tourist is shot out through Utah copy. Ne-ph-i, . - . . . - - . I |