Show ACTIVITY IN TINTIC DISTRICT Gemini Will Increase Force and Swansea Swan sea Con Is Putting v in New Pumps Special to The Herald Eureka Utah Aug The Tintic mines have finished up uri another busy week Although the shipments are not quite so large for tor the week there are some notable additions to the list such suchs s 3 the Lower Mammoth and the Reel Bee Tunnel The Gemini is tow now employing about fifty men and ina In a few tew days das more will be put on the force torce On the whole the new pumping plant is 14 working saUs satis but a few tew repairs here ant anZ an there have bad b d to be made The big pump Is now handling h about gal gallons gallons lons Ions of ot water per minute and Is In Installed installed stalled a short distance below the 1600 1 foot station tatIon At the on the 1900 foot toot level another elective pump is 8 being put in place and when this is IR completed the pump in the shaft will willbe willbe be operated at Its limit but for tor the present will not run at its full tull capacity Two new electric hoists will be in installed In iii stalled on the lower levels and when they are ready read hoisting of ore will commence in earnest The report that the Beck Tunnel was out of oC is not true as during the past week eight cars ears have hale been b en sent to the th new Tintic smelter Over at the Swansea Consolidated where they are in new pumps ore is being taken out and shipped to the smelter The new pumps pump although in position po are not yet in trim to send the water out oit of ot the mine mineA A very interesting piece of ot work Is being carried forward on n the Iron Kin ground round over in East Tintic A tunnel 1 Is being run from the t nd of o othe the ground which will be about a mile mUe milen In n length and will vill tap lap the tte shaft at a depth of ot about feet In its couise cOln southward and west the old Noon Iron mine property now part of or the Iron King will 11 be thoroughly prospected at nt ata nta a depth of about COO 00 feet At present his work worl is being done by hand l but as soon as the new compressor which the company Is ts installing is in place olace a Ie ie line will be run to t the tunnel and air drills will be put in inera op operation 1 era tI Mr Holdaway of the Sioux states that the work has again agnin been resumed In n the end says that tha t the showing show In is very ery favor favorable fa favorable 01 able Victoria orla Has Ha H 1 a Strike Reports from the management of the Victoria the twin sister of the th Grand Central and worked through th thi lat latter latter latter ter are to the effect that a of Time importance has been made mad on n th tl level This Th strike is on 01 o now new ground round and opens up Ul u new possibilities pos for the mine This ore will be b to the Tintic smelter with t tl h Grand Central and the Victoria ra have jav a ft Contract for the handling of oC their out output output output put putA A the prospects that ire are e being pushed pu hed forward at a rapid rate is the Montreal over oer to the east ea t Here a con contract contract on tract for feet of drifting has been finished and the contractor George will probably take on Oil an another another another other feet ted The popl of ot this ground are the of or Provo who also own heavily in the Tintie Tintic Central At 1 this latter prop property erty the shaft Is I down having hain reached rached a dc dt th of oC about abuIt tifty feet since Contractors Moore Ioor and Dun Duncan Dunean Duncan can ean took hold ho Although A nothing definite definite nite is given Ien out It il is rumored tint thit the thic In the bottom of the shaft at looks l O promising On the lien Ben Bolt group situated in hi tin tIlt northeast part of o the th district and 2nd oio Oie 01 mile north of the R it G W Yo group grOllI and the th White Star on the tile eart emt A AR AF AE R E F Laud LallI and ard W V B Hughes are sinking an m n Incline shaft hat on the tac vein which is in ill inthe inthe the contact between the lime and the thu are sire three claims in the Ih roup und and some Fome picked haw have ha as 15 assayed assayed sayed sa td as n high h as JU 11 In gold J and It H ounces in silver The owners oner are much ht d over their EU C ce 5 and are tc pushing their assessment work through h and ur uno on the forthcoming of o the necessary n esary funds systematic development work worl will be rc re resumed Christmas Property A ri of oC the Ben Bol fbi BolIs BolIs Is the Christmas property where they the ire lre following a very vcr strong tron vein of mineralized lime into the hill hll The tunnel tunnels tunnell l s now n in a distance of about seventy event feet reet and some gold Iod values have been en encountered eri encountered countered The vein can be traced for a n along long distance from the south Fouth and seems to be a i continuation of 0 the Iron cropping which shows fo so o plainly on the th R G W V und The owners of this property are Robert Rebert Thompson on and J 1 Jensen bo of oC Eureka They The are at it t present doing doin t their annual assessment as work but will en endeavor endeavor deavor to further develon the ground th winter as ns they firmly believe heleve they thay have something worth going after A H If Pettis who will have hae charge e of o othe the work on the Copper Copner Jack ground out In the district was out at the during the wp wk weak k with Hermann H mann Hoesch of o Grand Junction Mr Hoesch ch who ho came here AS ns the representative of the Junction pennie who are In Interested Inter ter ted In the Flying Firing Dutchman group has hits returned to his home feeling that B a Brood rood food bargain has hR been made that the af nt affairs fairs falI of ot the Conner Coner Jack will wilt be pushed forward successfully now and that the theRb absorption Rb of DC the Dutchman by the Copper Jack JAk Is a good thin for all con concern cern d There Is a fine mineral showing out In that country and the Copper Jack Is the cream of oC the tile district m |