Show the year 1 in n the gintic tintic TI antl c district BY JEROME U B IRELAND camps may come and camps may go mining excitements excite ments flare up live their brief span and die but there is one grand old district which goes forward year after year not making any particular noise about the wonders it brings forth and apparently caring little whether it has any great publicity or not but producing its millions with a regularity which speaks volumes for inq ilg ore reserves and for the men who stand back or of its development work no matter what other districts of the west may do when the holiday season rolls around the tintic gintic district of utah always reports that it has closed a prosperous year and the report is always true it is claimed that no other district of similar area in the world can boast of as many producing properties and dividend payers the section closed 1916 19 1 6 with fifty two producers about twenty per cent of which were dividend payers during the year reports are not yet complete regarding tonnage from the various properties propertied but the grand total is estimated at approximately tons valued at practically 12 in 1915 there were tons shipped for which was received it will be seen that the increase in the tonnage nage e was practically 40 per cent and in ill value nearly per cent over the preceding year dividends from the district during 1916 have been in excess of 0 0 and have been disbursed by the centennial eureka chief consolidated eureka hill eagle blue bell gemini grand central iron blossom mammoth and may day new section makes good every mining district has its joke section sect t 1 on the part where it is generally agreed L t that 1 bat t there 11 ere is no use doing any cevelo fluent work because nothing will ever be found foun lio there and it is refreshing to see many such sections make good when given gi chance there have been plenty or of 1 ti the 11 e engineers and experienced mining men who were inclined to laugh at the steady development work carried on oil in the eastern end of the lintl tintic c district by the tintic gintic standard mining company under the management of E J but this property has proven the sensation of the entire state by the enormous developed there during the past few months mr commenced the opening up of this group of claims about nine years ago after an exhaustive study of the geology of the district some ore was found from time to time but only enough to prove encouraging for better things to come along about last september it began to wo whispered broadcast that the mine had suddenly become a bonanza A great had been entered by the shaft at a depth of 1550 feet here a drift was sent out a distance of feet in the ore and a sent down to the 1600 level sloping commenced at the latter point and at this writing a chamber eighty five feet by feet and eight feet high has been opened with am MO th as the may day mine at eureka utah in foreground godiva mine in background photo by will C higgins hi agins ore showing in every direction the ore Is shipped as it is broken there being practically no waste in the body it nets the company from 1000 to 2200 a carload it is difficult of access and for that reason only about three carloads a week have been shipped but the company has started a new working shaft at a distance of about 1500 feet from the old incline and this will furnish an economical method of mining and hoisting there is no way to tell yet what the actual size of tile the is but engineers estimate that worth ol of ore is already in sight tile the property seems destined to be one of the big ones of a great district another great Ore body the eagle blue bell mining company just to prove that romance is not dead yet while sinking its main shaft to get under proven ore deposits dropped directly into a new body which bids fair to prove another bonanza it was first found about the mide tile of last summer at a depth of 1830 feet at the time the company announced that it would sink through the new find and that it would go to the 1900 level if necessary which was estimated at about feet above the permanent water level however when it commenced to pinch down at 1875 feet the company cut a station preparatory to sloping operations when a sump was started here the importance of the strike became more apparent as the ore again widened out sinking was resumed and when the work reached the water level early in december the ore was still going down strong tile the management has announced that no further sinking will be done at this time but that the new will be developed and scoped the water was reached at a depth of 2020 feet so that the new shoot has been proven for a vertical distance of practically feet assays essays ot of tile the ore gave values of from 15 to 40 per cent lead and 12 to 20 ounces silver making it a valuable shipping product the drift on oil the 1875 level has been extended about feet to get under a foot which was sunk in ore from the 1700 level le vel and it ft was announced late in december that the down ward extension of this body had been cut tile the company shipped from thirty to tons a day during the year dependent largely upon smelter conditions it also installed a electric hoist and other expensive equipment and did an ail enormous amount of development work two dividends were paid one on july and one on december each calling for practically and bringing the total disbursements from the property to tile the property is under tile the able management of imer pett of salt lake districts heaviest shipper again as in 1915 tile the chief consolidated mining company of which walter fitch is president and general manager was tile the heaviest shipper of the entire district preliminary figures place the total at approximately 1900 carloads estimated at about tons this is another property which ten or twelve years ago was regarded as being outside of the mineralized area and which as the little chief struggled along for several years without any great enczur argement either from nature or man it was developed by mr fitch backed by M michigan i C h i gan capital and has now earned a place among the really big mines of the camp it embraces a total of acres and has a dividend record of a third of which has been paid within the past year disbursements bur were made on february may august 2nd and and november 2nd and each calling for a total of slightly over the company has shown its progressive spirit during 1916 by the acquisition of a great deal of new territory including the fourteen claims of the mining company adjoining its ground at eureka and a considerable acreage in both the northern and eastern ends of the district at its mansville homansville Ho property a new shaft has been sent down to a depth of feet at which level a prospecting tunnel is now being driven it was in the sinking of this shaft that the worlds record of feet in thirty one days made during august was hung up by the contracting firm of walter fitch jr inc of eureka the firm had already made a new record in july when it sank tile the triple compartment shaft a distance of feet the ore from the chiefs main property at eureka has come from all bevels from the to the 1800 level the latter being tile the permanent water level in the property the ore is going down strong below that point but has not been followed the companas comp anys dividend disbursements during the year reached a total of this great property has a wonderful future before it as much due to the progressive ideas of tile the management as to the natural intrinsic worth of tile the companas comp anys holdings may day has good year shipments from the may day dropped off somewhat during tile the year from the figure made in 1915 but reached a higher figure than that of 1914 the curtailment was due largely to the slump in the price of spelter however the company showed up well in the dividend list for the year disbursing a total of paying on february on may and a similar amount on december they brought the companas comp anys total to the property clos closed ed the year with the miners following a promising lead in the upper workings with all indications of its opening into something really important two shipments had been made from this showing the carload lots running better than 75 ounces silver to the ton and some of the ore carrying in excess of ounces the management regards this showing as of importance and presaging important developments early in the new year john dern bern of salt lake is president of the company and jamos james C dick is general manager other dern properties tile the lower mammoth and the uncle sam consolidated the other dern properties of the district and also under the management of mr dick have both produced steadily tile the former shipping about seventy carloads and the latter approximately twenty five A great deal of development work has been accomplished by the management and they close the year in splendid condition mr dick announced during the holidays that a f SEE 7 i s N 05 ar OA A LA C I 1 view of the gemini mine and hoisting plant eureka utah photo by will C higgins deal whereby the knight interests of provo secured control of the lower mammoth had been consummated and that a new directorate would be elected at once the knight investment company took over shares of the stock and it was stated that it would name four of the seven directors the knight investment in a district of the size and of this one there are always powerful combinations bi of interests and they are generally of great benefit to the district probably no other corporation has done as much for tin tic as the knight investment company of which uncle jesse knight of provo utah is president and general manager mr knight is rated as a millionaire several times over a large portion of his great fortune having come from the mines of this and surrounding states and when he and the interests associated with him take over a property it is a foregone conclusion that it is to be developed along progressive and active lines the companas comp anys principal producer the iron blossom at silver city pro deuced approximately 1100 carloads of ore during the year just closed which was a slightly greater tonnage than in the preceding year tile the property was also the heaviest divid dividend erld payer of tile the district reaching a total of in tile the three payments made A disbursement of was made on april one of on oil july and a similar amount on october they brought the grand total from the property to the company could have shipped a considerably heavier tonnage from this property early in the year and during tile the summer but the smelters shelters sm elters orders for a curtailment of consignments consign ments prevented it the shipments were heavy during the closing months of the year an important occurrence was tile the consolidation of the colorado mining and beck tunnel mining companies under the name colorado consolidated mining company which was consummated in may the new company was incorporated for shares par value 10 cents each and stockholders in the old companies received share for share each property comprised thir teen claims so that the new corporation holds a big area in tile the heart of the silver city section other companies controlled by the knight investment company include the black jack consolidated mining bonneville mining dragon consolidated mines lucky boy consolidated soli dated mining milling apex consolidated mining rico wellington mining eureka hill railroad spring canyon coal tintic gintic milling utah ore sampling utah missouri mines and the knight woolen mills heavy shipments from gemini the gemini keystone is a grand old mine with a production record extending back through the years to the early days of the camp its shipments during the past year were practically double those of 1915 being more than carloads the company also paid two dividends of 5 per share each and 0 one ne of 6 bringing the years total on the shares of the company to the grand total since organization is 2 A large part of the work at the property is done by leasers leaders lea sers and as usual they have opened some sensational pockets and lenses of ore during the year one ot tile the most important finds was in tile the lease operations of victor carlson and Her herman illari B backman ackman on the 1400 level here a ship shio ment valued at was extract extracted pd 1 m three weeks followed a short time later by one almost as rich another big find was made by lee thorne and associates on the 1000 level late in the year this showing has opened up big and it looks at this writ ing as if the lessees lessels will clear a fortune from the block of ground A great deal ot of development work on company account has been done between the and 1600 levels under the direction of jackson C mccrystal manager for the company this work is destined to make interesting history for the property during the year just starting the ridge valley tile the extensive development work accomplished during the year will undoubtedly place the ridge valley mining company in the list of dividend payers during 1917 the property is being opened through the adjo adjoining inin 9 gemini ground about 2000 feet of development work was done during 1916 and a great deal is planned for the coming year shipments aggregated approximately gross practically all from development work as the treasury has beet been in good condition and the management has devoted its energies to opening the property for heavy future shipments the main ore shoot on the companas comp anys ground has been followed for a distance of about feet and during the past year it has been opened by a from the 1600 to the 1700 level showing from ten to twelve feet of ship shipping Pint ore on the 1650 the north heading on the 1700 shows a six foot breast of ore assaying 24 ounces silver and 27 per cent lead no 4 at this point is to be put down to the asoo 1800 level where heavy pumps will be installed the company has equipped the property with electrically OP and ild aerated crated hoists compressor and pumps pump a now has its ground opened up in such a ivay w that 1917 promises to place it among the big mines of the state this property also is under tile the direct management of J C mcchrystal Ic Chrystal leaders leasers at godiva operations at tile the godiva which is also controlled by the mcchrystal and allied interests te rests have been confined during the past year to the work of tile the leasers leaders lea sers they have shipped between fifty and sixty carloads mainly of zinc ores which is about five times the amount shipped during 1915 it is stated upon reliable authority that operations on company account will be resumed immediately the mine contains an all immense body of zinc ore averaging about 35 per cent which has been followed a considerable distance on the GOO level and on to the where it is still going down strong tile the property has produced nearly in the past it is equipped with a ton concentrator a steam hoist capable of going to a depth of 2500 feet a 1000 foot nordberg compressor power drills and other modern machinery at the present steady market for zinc the company has a prosperous year coming up the eureka mines company A new mine of the district and one which gives every promise of being a real one is that of the eureka mines company it comprises eight patented claims and is completely surrounded by such famous producers as the centennial eureka eureka hill eagle blue baue bell chief consolidated and gemini development can call be accomplished economically through the deep shafts of any of these properties the present work on the ground is being done from the 1300 level of the gemini in a raise i from rom this drift a large body of low grade ore was opened after about feet of work and drifts from that point are still in the ore it |