Show EVERY BOOST A KNOCK there has been a tendency in some quarters to sev severely knock some of mining districts notably tintic gintic in the mistaken idea that said knocks were by the way y of boosting emphasis has been laid on the alleged though unproven facts that mining in that camp was in such a co condition adi that its finish was in sight the old mines were being exhausted no new ones were coming in and capital could not be secured etc etc how anyone familiar with conditions in m this prolific old camp can become pessimistic Ril unless in truth lie he has bit where lie he should not is beyond our understanding tintic gintic never had a better year than last and where is the proof that this year is to be leaner tintic gintic has always had times when some of its famous properties had no ore in sight but that has not proven that ore was missing for times without number these same mines have come back into the producing column with colors flying the grand old centennial eureka with an illustrious past still has a very luminous future the knight properties are by no means dead in fact can more than one or two be maimed with any certainty as at an end of their resources the mineralized portion of the tintic gintic camp is being given wider bounds every year Is not the present condition of the chief con and eagle blue bell which paid their first dividends this year a cause for claiming the preeminence of tintic gintic are not the recent discoveries in the tintic gintic standard in the long prospected emerald rebuttals of the argument that tintic gintic is dying suppose the high grade ore is exhausted otis it is not the improvement in metallurgical processes is sure to result in treatment of the tintic gintic low grade ores cripple creek for many years depended on 20 to 12 ore for its prosperity it was impossible to treat lower grade ores however who does not know that cripple Cree eks prosperity now depends on ore that will some of it return only above the cost of the liening limning lim ning millions of tons of ore taken out in development work in the early days and in current exploration also are now being made the basis of operation of several mills tonnage replaces high value as the important factor much of fintics cs ore now regarded as unprofitable is sure to be reduced the beginning of zinc shipments last year is an instance of this in the year 1912 eight of fintics cs mines paid in dividends for the first eight months this year nine mines a net gain of one paid or at the yearly rate of compare these figures |