Show here and there around the state mining men who have visited the queen esther the past week eek says tile the park record report conditions as decidedly encouraging cou raging work is being prosecuted drifting both ways on the contact cut last week and the management is hopeful of soon breaking into ore stockholders of the company are quite enthused over present conditions articles of incorporation have ben filed by the tintic gintic peerless mines company 1 snyder is president of the company J C jensen vice president H 11 greeley snyder secretary F J sylvester and robert B parry with the three officers constitute the directorate the company is incorporated for divided into equal shares ten men are now employed at the old silver reef consolidated a compressor has been installed and drifting is in progress on the foot level of the cobb property alex colbath is in charge of operations it is expected that within 30 days the force will be increased this is the first compressor ever installed on the property and the first machine drills are being used all former work NN was as done by hand considerable interest has been aroused in mining circles by the rumor that eastern capital is considering a deal that would mean large scale exploration of the tintic gintic ophir mines company group a consolidation of numerous of the leading properties on the lion hill side of the camp of ophir including the northern light the chloride point the lion hill and winter quarters producers of several millions from the surface down to a depth not exceeding feet R i evans salt lake mining man is in charge of negotiations the exposure of ore opened up in the incline in the star of utah mine at park city about feet from the tunnel portal has widened to three and a half feet according to superintendent in J D fisher who was in salt lake last week the ore a good grade is associated with a strong fissure that is evidently Ivi widening dening as the lower horizons are approached this showing said mr fisher lies at a depth of feet below the main tunnel level in the or about feet vertically superintendent fisher sher was in the city to select a compressor for the mine timbering Re of the central standard shaft from the collar down to the foot level has been started contract for this work has been awarded to john W taylor of eureka for many years superintendent of the central standard it is thought this work can be completed in thirty days the central stand erd d main shaft is 1240 feet deep the management is sanguine low ow that neighbors on the south the north lily the eureka lilly ly and the tintic gintic standard have demonstrated that the big ore re zone trends north and south that central standards loca tion on justifies the expectation that it will also be in the money 11 one e of these days another epoch in the history of the columbia steel corporations po activities in utah county was reached recently when the e new battery of coke ovens were charged in tile the presence of the e plant officers the new battery consists of 23 coke ovens making asking a total of 56 ovens at the plant each one of the ovens has a daily capacity of 15 tons of coal construction activities on the new ovens began july by the koppers company of pittsburg the same concern which constructed the first battery of 33 ovens when the activities of the steel corporation first began in provo four years ago A full face of ore has been opened up on the level of the north lily mine of the international smelting smelling Sm elting company adjoining the eureka lily and tintic gintic standard mines near eureka grade of the ore is said to be excellent lead assays essays range around 39 or 40 per cent gray metal ore has been drifted in for twenty feet which proves the continuance of the big deposit sloped on the level and extending to the level the tintic gintic giant mines company has been listed on the salt lake stock and mining exchange and was called for the first time a week ago W V 1 I snyder salt lake attorney is president and treasurer and 11 greeley snyder secretary the company is capita capitalized lazed for divided into shares cash assets of the company amount to and indebtedness debt edness A compressor and hoist are being installed on this tintic gintic silver lead prospect after sinking a new shaft a depth of forty three feet the raven gilsonite mine crew at roosevelt was forced to abandon the work due to water approximately gallons of water per hour was developed overtaxing overtaking over taxing the pumping facilities with a new pump on hand soon and drier weather it is possible that work on the shaft will be resumed work of deepening the old shaft is being carried on and will soon be completed the raven people are shipping in the neighborhood of ten tons of this rare mineral daily walter D salt lake mining D man and capitalist was elected president of the salt lake stock and mining exchange at it the first annual meeting of the new board of governors mr heads the local exchange for the third consecutive year he has been a member of the exchange for more than twenty years and has been a leading figure in this organization since the time it was operating on west second south street up tip until the present time the board of governors named E 1 I lowe jr of J A hogle t company first vice president B W dixon former president of the exchange second d vice president and F C dern mining man and capitalist third vice president ned mckenzie secretary of the exchange reported that business in in 1927 was more than twice that of 1926 and the volume of business that year exceeded the year yea I 1 r before by several million dollars over feet of pilot tunnel has now been completed in the zion park end of the mt carmel highway ac according cordin Z to B A brown chief construction engineer on the project who was in st george recently over men are now employed and with three eight hour shifts rapidly the work is being pushed in the tunnel and two shifts on outside construction the total will be feet and in length of tile the tunnel when completed this distance there will be six galleries or side tunnels or openings doted drifted from tile the face of the cliff to the main tunnel these galleries will average from thirty to one hundred feet in length tile the openings are built primarily and from I 1 11 I 1 to 30 feet in depth for ventilation purposes in the main tunnel and also to motorists with a space off the and will provide aid in lighting their cars out of the way of park main tunnel where they may traffic and enjoy the wonderful view of zion canyon the main tunnel will be electrically lighted the eagle and blue bell dump at eureka consisting 0 of tons of low grade ore is to be shipped to the garfield plant of the american smelting smelling Sm elting refining company kent evans will have charge of loading A steam shovel will be used to handle the material united states senator kings bill authorizing the patenting of mineral lands without discovery applicable mainly to mineral land in which the deposits are deep seated will no doubt be passed accor according accordia dim to washinton washington advices advises ad vices opposition to the measure from the interior department has been withdrawn it is stated the bill should be of considerable benefit to mining operators of the state twelve hundred feet of exploration has been done in the park city formation in the sphinx property at park city according to manager guy R mckay about feet of work has been done on the of the cottonwood Cot onwood fault at present the tunnel is in the hanging wall black limestone which overlies over lies the ore bodies of the silver king and the daly west mines no ore is expected for feet when the of the black limestone should be reached in the limestone beds productive in the silver king coalition and the daly west underlying the black limestone mr mckay expects to find ore progress is fifty feet a month another shift is to be put on to double speed of development according to camp advices advises the binic standards new ore body encountered on the 1250 level has been sounded out for a distance of feet in the process of drifting and in addition to this three crosscuts cross cuts have been driven these being anywhere from twenty to forty feet long while a fourth crosscut has been sent out in a direction opposite to that of the other three much has been published regarding the value of the ore already developed in this new deposit but most of this information has been in the nature of wild guesses without the sanction of the tintic gintic standard officials who prefer to wait until they have had a better chance to learn more about the dimensions of the ore before making a definite statement there is no question the report states but what the new discovery is important enough work has already been done to convince everyone of that fact but some weeks will be required to reach the same ore on the 1350 level and to more thoroughly develop the deposit on the 1250 level the heading on the 1350 will be speeded up as rapidly as possible and in addition to this the company will commence a more systematic search on the 1100 level |