Show HOISTING WORKS DESTROYED Uncle Sam Plant at Tintic Completely Burned Down The hoisting works ot of the Uncle Sam Consolidated Mining company at Tin Tintic Tintic tic burned to the ground yesterday morning about i 7 O lock The origin of the fire is a mystery and th the darn age has not yet been com computed There was no Insurance carrIed thi the pl plant nt John perl Dern and ene ilm 4 n lh fr f 1 t ll uli tt d morninG with wh t ver detas ate are Ob b tamable concerning the of the hoisting engine and boilers which it itis I is thought wUl have pUlled through I without a great deal of damage owIng to the fact that they occupied a sort ot of leanto to the main structure where there was vas not lumber and tim timber ber bel to make the fire so large and fierce fIelCe as in the main structure There Is 18 no wa way ot of estimating the damage done at this time said r I n nagel nager ager agel Dern at noon yester yesterday uy but if the boll rs and engine are arc in such con condition condition that they can an be us d again I think an will put us usia In sh shape pe again tho th h the building itself mn may be quite quit as s large and good as the Old one I am glad to say that the flames did not reach th the mill anda and a we had but recently removed the blacksmith and repair shops from the hoisting works to the mill no lo lowas ios was encountered on that account The nt tells mo rn that the shaft shafts s r feet below its mouth while the fire was in progress so no damage will be done below belo that point while it Is possible that bers did not burn down that tar far The hoIst was located at atthe atthe the mouth of the Uncle Sam tunnel t several hundred feet hIGher than U the e mouth of the Cr Crandall tunnel below whIch the and ore bins are lo 10 located a fact which h probably accounts for the fire not g them The great bulk of the ore re comIng Con ng from the mine Is from the Crandall tunnel The hoist was used to raise the theore theore ore to that le level eJ fr m below and also alsoto alsoto to lower the ores above it so lit littIe tIe lIe can be done until the plant has been replaced Coming just at a time when the corn com I pany was doIng so well and paying dividends the management and share shareholders shareholders holders in general will feel the loss or of orthe the plant most keenly not altogether because of the actual loss Joss In but because of the interruption of o pro production du tion and the probable passing of a dividend or two The treasury trea ry reserve would of co tide the company over but It ft Is not believed that a d dollar will ivill be paId to the stockholders that Is not being earned If it is found possible bl ble however to keep the rom going while the hoist is being replaced an anthe and the sh shaft ft rea it will not be many weeks till the com company pan is on its feet again Only esterday morning Manager Dern received a letter fr from m the super superintendent superintendent telling how well the mine was looking and how full of promise the future was In the face of it to have operations Interfered with was a 30 condItion of affairs that caused very every officIal of the company to feel pretty blue |