Show GREAT SHOWING IN THE EAGLE AND BLUE BELL by WILL C HIGGINS the writer can well remember some twenty odd years ago when the mining camp of eureka tintic gintic district utah wa hardly more than a straggling street with the nearest railroad point at ironton five miles down the canyon and out in the flat at that time the eureka hill and bul lion beek beck and champion mines were virtually at their best the gemini keystone was hardy bard y more than a prospect although producing some sensationally rich ore at fore his death several years ago he had acquired possession of a number of mining groups favorably located included in the number being the eagle plue flue bell situated just east of and adjoining the cen tennial eureka the eagle B bue ue ben always stood well in the estimation of mr mcchrystal and his old time friends well remember his hig oft repeated assertion that this ground in time would take rank as one of the really great mines of dis victoria consolidated on the east and the chief consolidated on the north the trend of the ore bodies in eagle blue bell ground is northerly and southerly sout lierly and the group is traversed by three parallel veins principal operations at the present time being largely confined to the mammoth grand central victoria ore channel big body of high grade ore the eagle blue bell mine has always held the attention of the mining public gMAR naw A V 47 71 z 0 T M Z pt photo by will C higgins panoramic view of eagle and blue bell mine tintic gintic district the time and the centennial eureka was just reaching a producing stage at the time we speak of john mcchrystal then in all the vigor of middle age and one of the most important and influential man in the district was manager of the eureka hill and also of the gemini keystone no one hardly was more familiar with the history of the c armp mp or its geological conditions and so profoundly was he impressed with the eplen did possibilities of tintic gintic district be brict had he lived to this day lie he would have been gratified at the wonderfully fine showing now being made in this property pro percy and would have had every assurance that his judgment was good and sound and that his prophecy was in a fair way to be fulfilled the eagle blue bell group of fifteen patented claims is almost sur surrounded founded by producers of note it joins the great cen tennial tennia eureka on the west tb the e king william and grand central on the south the 1 l t 1 and this attention and interest has been intensified fied of late by reports of a rieb rich strike made in its underground workings a description of which may well be a source of gratification to minis mining review readers this new development which was inspected a few days ago by the writer in company with general manager imer pett was made on a blind level the 1340 this level wa was S e established after sinking a on a pipe of high grade ore from the 1300 level at a depth of forty feet in this the ore decreased in value and as the raise from th the e 1350 to connect with the was nearly completed it was decided to drive a drift in a southwesterly direction in the hope and expectation 0 of finding ore of higher grade soon after starting this drift the values began to improve and when the strike was made it became a certainty that the aage aag e blue bell had been launched upon a great pro and profit making career the drift from the bottom of the had been run for a distance of forty feet in commercial ore before the big strike was made this body of ore really came as a surprise and the miners were into it almost before they knew it As yet no definite idea has been ascertained as to its magnitude m a at the time of the inspection made by the writer it had been drifted upon for a distance of thirty feet and since then has been driven fifteen feet further and ard raised upon for thirty feet the drift being twelve met feet in width with oro on i both sides and neither r wall in sight the ore is a fine textured quartz and the whole mass as broken down averages abbit bol it 40 gold and 75 ounces in silver to the ton toil much of the ore is a sugar quartz acost a most as white as the driven snow alff an i which pulverizes almost as fine as sand in this body of ore there is a zone of about six inches in width that carries values of 60 gold and as high as ounces silver so far as developed deve Toped the new find represents a small fortune in itself how big and large it is no one can even conjecture as it is in virgin ground but its strength and evident permanency gives ground for the belief that it will prove to be one of the greatest and richest ore bod bodies es ever encountered in eureka mountain A car of ore from this new source 0 of f wealth was shipped on the and as soon as facilities handling of the ahe ore better cili ties for the are provided the management will be sending out three or four cars a week from the new find in ore extraction the product is dropped down the to the 1350 level and conveyed veledin in mine cars t to 0 the shaft and raised to the surface to prove the size and extent of the new find a crosscut cross cut is being driven south from the 1350 while another crosscut cross cut is being run west from the 1300 it being expected that this upper drift will reach a point directly over the new discovery A ta X M COW eagle and blue bell power house and shaft house photo by will C riggins other ore sources at the present time the eagle blue bell is shipping in the neighborhood os 02 tons daily ore of marketable grade exists on the foot level northeast of the shaft here a body of mineral ranging from two to twenty feet in width is being mined that averages from 14 to 24 per ton while several shipments have been made from this chis p point going to the ton the 1300 level up to the present time has been the principal source of ort orb y for several years here an ore body exists along the mammoth grand central victoria channel that has been proven and partially mined for a distance of feet along the strike of the vein with its extent on its dip not yet determined ter mined this shoot of ore ranges from ten tell to seventy feet in width in this huge deposit values vary greatly A large portion of it is good shipping material rial smelter te returns have run as high hi h as on a carload of fifty tons to ns while in p aces values run down to ore of payable e rill content it is believed that the S new salik s ri is on this same zone L ore occurrences the splendid ore bodies in tho eagle aas blue bell make as is usual in that ocal 44 in the eureka limestone and the oc cut bences are similar to those which have ma the eureka hill the bullion beek beck the aralle gra central the victoria and the chief ca Q soli dated so justly famous in tintic gintic brict ore is where you find it and wi cheli it is found it is generally in large and r bodies in mining operations in this di i brict a mine may be without ore one d ah and the next it may have a mi million alion or mol mi in s sight ight in commenting on this condit condi tio J R finlay the noted mining engineer W bently had the following to say regard dim the mines of tintic gintic district certain mines of district titan tat which I 1 would be willing to val value ue on assumed life of five or ten years do show ore reserves for even three month the ore occurs in an immense mass of kimt li stone through which mineralized sout so ioA have passed and have been diverted t various intersecting fissures the W bodies are irregular sometimes small sometimes swelling to large size soak soi times they go down vertically courto four to at 1 hundred feet forming a pipe then abna go off horizontally for four or five hund feet and up again shooting to the aloi rii or to the left if nothing were known n abo ab the persistency of these ore bodies olla aou d be justified in being exceeding exceeding exceed ine in skeptical about the future but the e peri ence of thirty years has s shown hown th i the these se deposits in spite of their irregular it are exceedingly persistent in making IP valuation the intelligent engineer will k course consider this fact a pro pronoun 4 asset development t the eagle blue bell mine is worl work through a two compartment shaft with MIC m way that has been sunk to the 1350 6 level the shaft is finely and substantial subs sub stantA tantia timbered and is one of the best and lar la from this shaft drift dri est in the district have been run out on the ath and levels while drifts and cpr upraises up alses raises c ci hect with blind levels which do not int capt the shaft in the upper workings 95 the mine there is an old shaft and an all 01 0 tunnel the ventilation in the mine woi wo ings is excellent equipment the property of the company has bei supplied with up to date equipment and prove ments these consist 0 of f hendrie bolt one horsepower 1 geared hoisting engine three horsepower boilers e of 01 two rand com compressors bresso presso rs capable ve loping 2000 feet of free air per m and d S gen all one general electric motor S ator set furnishing t light for surface buildt ings shaft and stations one numa rock drill sharpener ingersoll rand dairs s and sullivan and waugh sto pers complete underground equipment in eluding clouding two ottumwa and one anaconda hoists one hendrie bolthoff horsepower hoist in the old tunnel at the old shaft water for mine use is brought in from the companas comp anys well at Homan through feet of 25 inch pipe the surface equipment consists of power house carpenter shop and saw mill shaft house blacksmith shop ore bins and assay office and laboratory ab oratory the ore as it comes from the mine is recent dis discovery covery of the splendid body of ore above described in firmly establishing the mine on a regular producing and paying schedule mr pett has been most ably assisted by his superintendent wm owens a well known and popular mining man assisting mr owens are ike and jerry mux mul phy shift bosses daniel fields is assayer at the mine the eagle blue be bea J mining company is capitalized at shares of a par value of 1 each the officers of the company are james P graves president henry N sweet vice president sidney S millett secretary and treasurer and imer pett general manager boston office 60 congress street salt lake office dooly block 11 7 V ajit A ER 42 10 4 N 7 trestle and ore bin eagle blue bell photo by will 0 higgins crammed over a trestle and dumped into ore bins on a spur track from the main line of the D R G railroad and is delivered through chutes into cars and shipped to the american smelting smelling Sm elting refining company A force of seventy five men is employed at the mine the eagle blue bel be 1 l company acquired its tintic gintic property in 1904 and has been shipping in a desultory manner ever since although during the past two years production has been regularly maintained operations however have met the requirements of the payroll and the expense of new equipment during the past eighteen months two dividends of five cents a share each on outstanding stock shares have been paid much of the credit for the gratifying condition of the eagle blue dell bell is due to general manager imer pett during whose incumbency a profit making basis has been established to say nothing of the |