Show around the state because of lack of funds the iowa copper at park city has suspended operations and will likely be closed down until spring superintendent paul hunt of the park utah company at park city reports ore showings at the property as improving rapidly recently a seam of high grade ore that had been uncovered in a new portion of the workings opened up to twenty nine inches and is still holding out strong and increasing in size C J hannifin has finished up his sinking contract at the property of the east crown point a sufficient amount of work having been performed to cover the assessment for 1920 on the nine claims owned by this company some time ago the company started a double compartment shaft on what is known as the maple leaf claim and this years annual labor was done in this shaft E R higgenson who for about a year has been operating the old sunbeam property at silver city tintic gintic under lease has mined and shipped approximately sixty five carloads of ore in recent months he has not been handling a large tonnage but the ore which the old time mine is producing is of good grade operations at the sunbeam are now confined to the and levels the old daly is now under control of the judge mining smelting smelling Sm elting company according to superintendent oscar friendly there will be no changes in the working of the property at present mining engineer guy mckay of the judge company will devote much time to the study of geological conditions of the property and acquiring general knowledge of the underground workings etc when conditions are arrived at a system of development will be decided upon and a largely increased force of men put to work unusually rapid progress is now being made with the sinking of the no 2 shaft for the chief consolidated company this job has been handled throughout by walter fitch jr local mining contractor and when completed will be one once of the largest and best shafts in the west being the first mine shaft in utah to be concrete lined from top to bottom it is understood that the chief cons people are planning an extensive campaign of prospecting in that part of then their ground which can be reached most easily from this new shaft the completion of two new buildings one seventy five feet by twenty feet and the other ten by twenty feet at the of the wasatch mines tunnel at alta will make it possible for the company to board all of its employees at one place heretofore part of the employees have been boarding at the old flagstaff mine min and the others at the portal of the tunnel development work in the mine has been handicapped recently according to J E beveridge manager because in order to complete these buildings before severe weather set in nearly all the men have been employed on the outside the mammoth mine at tintic gintic is back in the shipping list again having a temporary arrangement which will permit the shipment of a carload or two of ore daily most of the ore from this mine carries copper and under existing conditions there is but little money to be made in mining the red metal however manager mcintyre is anxious to keep the old time property in operation and if conditions do not become worse he will undoubtedly be able to do so there is a scarcity of ore at the smelters shelters sm elters and it may be possible for the mammoth company to resume the shipment or of its mill dump A change has been made in the manner of operating the at tintic gintic work being suspended on the 1755 level where some important developments have recently taken place and prospecting resumed on the 1000 level it was on the 1000 level that the first ore was encountered in the and acting under finder the theory that the large deposits of commercial ore would be found at greater depth but very little prospecting was donzi dona at the point where values were first encountered but while awaiting the completion of the no 2 shaft considerable attention will be paid to the 1000 the new shaft down to the water level the prospecting of the will be simplified and made much more inexpensive arvid johnson local carpenter has taken a contract to erect a string of cottages and a lodging house at the tintic gintic standard mine according to the eureka reporter the smaller buildings for employees of the company who are married will contain three and four rooms and there will probably be twelve or more of them the lodging house a large frame structure will be similar to the other lodging houses which the tintic gintic standard mining company now owns and operates mr johnson who has recruited quite a number of carpenters will hasten the building operations as much as poss possible the buildings are badly needed in order to properly house the large force which is now employed at the big east tintic gintic mine manager john mansen has just given the shareholders of the north standard company an outline of the campaign of work which has been mapped out for the winter months he states according to the eureka reporter that the shaft which is now past the level will be sent on down to a depth of 1000 feet it is on the 1000 level that the north standard people expect to do some extensive drifting and as they will then be well within the ore bearing limestone the result should be satisfactory con sid erable work was performed on the level of the north standard and from the information gleaned there it would indicate that ore of commercial grade can be expected on the 1000 level or at almost any point beneath the level |