Show TINTIC MINER NOTES Increased Activity Throughout the District I Thirty carloads of concentrates are ready for shipment at the BullionBeck mill and will go out as fast as the cars can be loaded It is reported that the Sunbeam will start UD again next Tuesday April 26 but we are unable to secure positive information The Black Dragon people are taking out lots of good ore They are building build-ing a new ore house and will soon be ready to commence shipments The Homestake people are taking out considerable good ore The have also commenced sinking the shaft from the 300foot level and will earn it down io thp 10 T H Becfe and James Potter who are working the Bryan lode at Diamond Dia-mond arc In CO feet in their tunnel apd are reported to have a very favorable favor-able showing ExCongressman Lare Pence and George ll Ml dletnn of Denver and Charles J Pence of Salt Lake were cut the first of the week looking l over the CentennialEureka Ttye new Mammoth Jioist was started up Wednesday and the stations marked on the cable The hoist is now in active ac-tive operation and Is one of the finest I plants in the west Stcretry Cobb of the Triumph Mining Min-ing company advises us that the force at the mine has been increased and that the development hereafter will be pushed faster than ever S P Moore who was up from Provo I advises us that arrangements are being be-ing completed for the commencement of oncrations or the Peru and that work will surely begin about May 1 Martin Harkness the well known mining rxriert who came down last week to inspect the Hot Stuff property was detained bore until the fore part of this week making a thorough examination exam-ination o te mine Peter Brown commenced work in the Old Susan mine last Tuesday W S Fugate who recently purchased the Clift location covering the same ground < s out this week presumably to take possession and the commencement commence-ment of a lively lawsuit is in sight L Hyrum Beck was over from the Northern Spy Sunday He advises us that he is now cutting out a station at the 240 level as well as equipping the different levels with new tracks He says he has a good shipment of ore ready but will not send it for some time vet Mr Beck expresses himself I as most sanguine over the prospects of the Spy The leasers on the Wheeler claim at I Silver City struck into a body of quarts in the shaft a few days ago which I shows assays of fiO ounces silver and 9 I gold The Wheeler promises to be an j other addition to the list of shippers from the Silver City end of the district dis-trict The extraction of ore from the new strike in the Uncle Sam was commenced I com-menced Tuesday In the meantime the tunnel is being timbered and put in good shape Mr Knight advises us that the hauling of ore for shipment j will probably commence today or tomorrow to-morrow I We are able to positively verify the I report of a new ore strikein the Ajax reported by the Salt Lake dailies Managing Director Ryan says that the new strike is a big one and that it I promises to add greatly to the profitable profit-able output of the mine The ore is I high grade silverlead bniaments froth the district for the I week are as follows From the Bul lionBeck mine 15 carloads ore from the CentennialEureka 7 carloads ore from the Eureka Hill mill 5 carloads concentrates from the Swansea I carloads car-loads ore from the South Swansea 5 carloads ore from the North Star 1 carload ore from the Dragon Iron mine 3 carloads ore daily The BullionBeck company has made a contract for its output during the next year with the Germania smelter I We expect as a result of the closing of the contract to see a great increase in the output of the mine and mill which has been cut down since the termination I termina-tion of the contract with the Mingo I Jesse Knight and J W Jackman have let a contract to the Straw Bros for 25 feet of drifting in the Miners I j Delight claim which joins the Carisa I The drift Is now in 40 feet and the I owners expect to tap the ore vein before be-fore the termination of the contract Mr Knight says the Miners Delight will be a shipper inside of 30 days I George Naylor advises us that thE > I newly incorporated Murray Hill company com-pany will commence sinking on their I property in afew days The propertY of the company consists of the Murray I i Hill Sego Lily and Silver Dick claims I lying just east of the Rabbit Foot I There is already a 52foot shaft on the I ground and in past years the mine has produced considerable shipping ore I It is reported that William and Charles Miller will contest the patent application of the Rabbit Foot company I com-pany on the Ground that the property i was abandoned by failure to do the I assessment work for 1895 Work on the Rabbit Foot was su aended the forepart I fore-part of the week pending an Investigation Investiga-tion but has since been resumed Pitsldent McGhan advises us that tncie is no foundation for the claim of Miller Mil-ler brothers and the company will go I ahead as usual Dr McCurtain was up from Provo I Monday and visited the Last Chance j mine at Diamond in which he Is interested i tJ ah l1fe al f I terested The doctor states that the 100foot contract on that pro > erty is I completed and that the appearance of the mine is most satisfactory He also I states that arrangements are being 1 at ea 11 made for the immediate resumption of operations and that the property will be thoroughly developed The owners II intend at once making application for a patent President L Holbrook of the Grand Central was out Tuesday Inspecting that property Jlr Holbrook advises us that the new strike on the 700foo level of the mine is all that was re pcrted and more The new strike is in a winze from the 700foot level I amore am-ore extraction will not commence until un-til a donkey hoist has been erected on that level which will be in a few days Mr Holbrook expresses the grandest confidence that the Grand Central is going to develop into a big mine M D Howlett has purchased the quarter interest of Herman L Lock erty In the Lucky Boy group and arrangements ar-rangements are now under way for the incorporation of the property The Lucky Boy lies about a mile southerl of the Buckeye mine and makes a very favorable showing for the amount of development done The sinking of a 100foot shaft was just com < leted a few days ago and work has been temporarily tem-porarily suspended pending the completion com-pletion of the Incorporation The other I owners of the ground are Charles Hanks Gus J and E J Henriod I |