Show around the state reports from mining districts all over the state indicate that claim owners are finishing up on the annual assessment work on mining claims both the 1300 and 1400 foot levels of the old bullion beek beck mine at tintic gintic are to he be reopened and prospected under the in tendency of john enlund james H wolfe and james A hogle both of salt lake city have filed applications with the state land board for oil lease on sections 32 abud 36 township 19 south range 11 east in emery county favorable indications are being encountered in the drift of the 1800 level of the may day mine in the tintic gintic district according to george H dern for a distance of 1500 feet the drift has been crosscutting cross cutting the formation recently a cross break was encountered newly elected officers of the american mining congress who will serve gerve for the coming year include W J loring of san francisco president J S douglas jerome robert linton new york W J loring san francisco carl charleston W va and hugh terre haute ind directors senator smoot of utah introduced a bill in the united states senate on the ath instant providing for an extension of time for doing mining assessment work from december 31 of this year to june 30 of next year and also providing that thereafter work shall be done between july and june 30 of each following year reports from the west section indicate that the force at the imperial lead property has been cut down to three or four men and that the shipment of ore has been stopped for the present the stock of the company is being assessed and it is reported that difficulties between some of the larger shareholders have caused the slowing up of development work frank thornburg says that the development campaign which for some time has been under way in the property of the tintic gintic coalition company of south tintic gintic has resulted in the discovery of a very promising stringer of ore which comes in a large deposit of iron and quartz work is being carried on through the main tunnel recently a small cave was encountered I 1 9 manager john manson is highly pleased with the progress which is being made in sinking the main working shaft at the north standard at gintic tintic and he is also confident that ore of commercial grade will be found either in sinking or soon after drifting is taken up on the 1000 level which is the present object objective ie point for the shaft the foot mark has already been passed tests and surveys are being made of ex potash fields on the west branch of what was lake bonneville according to J E conley of wendover mr conley is confident that the acres in the heart of the great american desert will be productive not only of potash but as well of other chemicals such as magnesia phosphates and bromide of potassium in commercial quantities the utah copper company and the bin bingham garfield railroad have entered into a contract by which the railroad company rents its plant and road to the copper company A copy of the contract has been filed with the public utilities commission the lease is signed by A C jackling vice president of the copper company and charles hayden vice president of the railroad company andrew berg and carl holt have been awarded a contract for driving a drift on the 1800 level of the centennial eureka mine at tintic gintic this is rather an important piece of development work and two shifts will be kept on the job the drift will be sent entirely through the grand centrals holdings for the purpose of reaching some of the centennials Centen nials ground which is far from the old workings at the north beek beck property to the north of eureka tintic gintic development work iscon is confined to the 1600 level where two drifts are being driven max who is in charge of the work says that he has just had a larger motor installed and that while some time has been lost in making the change and in getting the new machinery in running order things ought to move along in a satisfactory manner in the future the company has decided to award a contract for driving the two drifts western utah copper company at deep creek is shipping tons of lead silver ore a day according to sam Sou engineer for the company who just recently returned from an inspection of the mine A drift on the level being driven to the southwest is expected to open additional ore so that shipments may be increased to tons per day A crosscut cross cut that is being driven on one of the upper levels of the mine is expected to reach the ore very shortly so that production can be started from that point also gintic tintic c standards ore shipments tg for november totaled carloads which is a record breaking tonnage for the mine the heaviest shipments for any previous month was carl carloads odds for october around the companas comp anys mine office office there is a general understanding that decembers shipments will exceed carloads possibly going as high as cars if there are no mishaps up to this time the mine has shipped nothing but the higher grade ore but early in the new year a considerable tonnage of lower grade ore will be sent to the new mill which is rapidly nearing completion |