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Show i T1NTIC MINES. ; Produce a Low Grade Ore and TJn-fe TJn-fe FavoraWe Oouditions Oould Bo Made to Pay. 2AILE0AD 6EADED TO THEM- 'Historical Facts Concerning the Dis-!'ict Dis-!'ict Situated on Cherry Greek Eeview of the Property, , 200 feet of developetnent in all. . The rein is a contact between granite ami . lime about three feet wide and a pay streak of from si to eighteen indies. The silver ore is prineiply chlorides. Outside of the silver pay streak, there is quite a quantity of copper ore that will return assays" of 10 per cent copper cop-per sneoimeus "going as high as MO ounces in silver. Considerable ore has been shipped from time to time, but the miue is badly gouged down to a depth of thirty ' feel, when the vein pinched and work was suspended. There is another good prospect adjoining ad-joining the Lilie called the 88 which has a well defined vein of four feet wide, of carbonates and galena at a depth of ninety feet from the surface. It is a concentrating ore and will run after being treated, about 30 ounces of silver and tiO per cent. lead. There are several sev-eral hundred tons on the dump at this time. There are hundreds of claims taken up in the district, but little work has been done. THE 1HSSKKTMSTRICT. is about twenty-live miles west of West Tintic, the veins being all true fissures in grauite Ihe most prominent mine is the Red Bird on (irauite mountain, which is developed by an incline of 130 feet. It has a four-foot four-foot vein of pyrites, carbonate and black oxide of copper and is owned by Orrin Rockwell. ' Northwest of Granite mountain about twenty miles is Death canyon, where a large number of prospectors are now working, and developing claims. Ihe best mine so far is called the Mammoth which belongs to Chipmandc Rockwell. It is developed by a tunnel a hundred hun-dred and fifty feet long following the vein It is probably twenty feet between walls with a pay streak of carbonates and galena of six and a half feet. So ore has ever been ship-p'd ship-p'd from this mine because of low grade and distance from the railroad, ft was examined last week by t. W Vat on. of Bingham, with a view of determining its value and working it. The results of this inspection have not yet been ascertained. Spitleniau stopping at the Conti-il Conti-il ho has recently returned from West Tintic district, gave The 'fs' reporter souio uews of tliisdis- lt Tintic is a district that' is sol-Heard sol-Heard of now, yet some years ago 'u considered one of the richest and l liromising of tJtah, situated on y creek. It is about twenty miles s fronton, aud is reached by a good m road from that point. The Wains in which the mines are J(lrise isolated and alone out of the s to a height of two thousand feet re above the valley. These mines been located, prospected and work-l)r work-l)r the. last eighteen years, but the ;n Hie surface wero either worked or became too low grade to be 'tabic with the long pull necessary watle by wagon to a market, and district was for a time almost de- .formation in which the vein and wits are found is quartzite, granite "n; but like the Tintic mines it is rally found iu irregular deposits. o veins of mineral are discovered, ?weially in the quartzite, aud there ',ar almost perfect the pay " being uniform and the walls leaned. When ore is found in the to, it seems to be an offshoot ; that found in the qnartzite ore found in the granite Sil preponderance of copper as a can-ying gold and silver, while wind in the quartzite and lime is .' Hie district is - generally very - JWthis drawback has seriously rred with extensive prospecting. tot generally known that a line of ;"al has been graded for more than ',, distance between West Tintic 'onton. 'Should it -ever be com-ihe com-ihe district could produce a 'leal of low grade ore. In addi-'.n addi-'.n this, there are several mines ln" considerable bodies of in the desert bc- which return- assays of 10 1 ent v ounces in silver aud as i' iveiity per cent lead. the best properties there is , SCOTIA, Jt" hus al,out 3U0U feet of develop-, develop-, .nt has produced about $00,-" $00,-" was worked some fifteen years .,ai"lj the lead which it produced ""Wed i,y train tQ the gtueiioi at '"syilh;, where it was' used for 1" Vc orRs of the Eureka Hill, "!-'caiid "!-'caiid Mammoth mines. The ji'Vis now working under lease l-srs' J -p- Leshetand others, who . ji'Pjng about ten tons a week of a ridcaUe of Ralena, carbonate and THK-LILIE Oilier promising property which , sliaft about forty feet deep and |