Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1909-10-03 | Page 32 | Standard Lime Iron Blackened

STANDARD LIME IRON BLACKENED Change in Tintic Shaft Shaf Greatly Greaty Enhances Prospect Prospect At the depth of 5 3 feet fet in the new shaft shaf which is being bing sunk by b the Tintic Standard company the dolomite limestone has h become bome so IO thoroughly impregnated with iron that it i might almost be b mis mistaken mistaken taken for manganese That it might at any time tm encounter the manganese mangan which in that locality encases the ore bodies bies is not improbable for the shaft is being bing sunk unk in one of the time two great geat fissures which course cure through Standard ground gound Manager E J 1 who was at the mine yesterday was WI highly elated elate over the changed formation He lie had for th chang some sometime sm sometime time b been en of ot the thA opinion that it might be advisable to sink the shaft shaf deeper der than SW feet before drifting to get well wen out of ot the th zone of ot excessive leaching The new situation has caused him to revise revis that opinion He lie le is positive now that the shaft is getting into the ore country so s far tar as deh is I concerned It may be necessary nen to drift or cross crosscut cros crosscut cut on the level to catch an ore oreby body by and again agin the shaft may mey find it Conditions are arp altogether favorable not only for finding ore or but for or finding large bodies bie of ore Leaching of the values for tor more than tha 6 feet from the surface that Hlat there means must be excessive values somewhere below