Show here and there around the state diamond drilling soon will be started in the silver shield property in tintic gintic it is announced by the management the first hole will be drilled from a about fifty feet below the foot level the salt lake stock and mining exchange seat of W M havenor havener has been transferred to H E havenor havener and approved by the governing board of the exchange havenor havener pett co local brokers trade under the membership ber ship park record work is going steadily ahead at the park galena ore is being mined and marketed from the upper levels while persistent development work is being prosecuted by the company on the lower levels those in charge speak optimistically of the future of the property the eureka hill railway company of provo in an application filed recently seeks perm permission assion to discontinue its seven miles of narrow gauge line between silver city and knight mines in the tintic gintic district in its statement to the public utilities commission the company claims that most lost of the mines served by the road have been shut down production it is said has been curtailed at the eureka standard mine while a new piece of development work is under way A is being sunk from th the 1100 foot level which will be put down to feet where a drift will be run to cut an ore body which was exposed on oil upper levels the now is down to a depth of eighty feet the eureka standard is controlled by the tintic gintic standard milling fining company the objective vein where a commercial ore body is looked for is being neared in the south standard lease of the t little may mining company in eureka according to resident president john matson the vein toward which a long tunnel is being driven cuts the property on the surface and d is the same one which has made the large ore bodies in ln the mammoth and tintic gintic standard mines according to engineers and 6 geologists ceolo 9 ests ore left in the old callahan opened up in the early is now being shipped by the kearsarge standard mining company according to officials of the company who recently visited the ophir dry canyon property in company with matthew van sicken for many years a united states bureau of mines engineer others in the party were N G morgan dr john T white L W smeltzer and harvey R D heist company engineer preparations toward sinking a new shaft on the east crown point ground in tintic gintic have been completed and work will be carried on as rapidly as possible it is announced by joseph president of the company the new shaft is located 2300 feet southeast of the present shaft in which no commercial ore was found it is estimated that the first ore bearing stratum in the new shaft should be cut at a depth between and feet A new explosive will be introduced into the coal mines of utah if tests authorized by the state industrial commission are satisfactory the commission heard an application on the of the united states fuel company for a permit to use cardol in breaking up black diamond coal in its mines the permit was granted provisional on tests ilia made de after it is determined whether the united states bureau of mines has approved the explosive as permissible the annual excursion to the tintic gintic district under the auspices of the mining committee of the chamber of commerce was pulled off on sunday on the way out the visiting excursionists were given a chance to view and inspect the big plant of the columbia steel corporation just beyond provo and the remainder of the day was spent mostly in the vicinity of dividend where the train stopped in sizing up the activities of the tintic gintic standard and other eastside east side mines of the district W J lawrence of the kentucky utah mining company reports that the company has let a contract for driving feet of heading from the big cottonwood coalition tunnel in big cottonwood canyon near brighton the face now in the formation about feet is being advanced toward the southeast to cut the downward extension of the woodlawn ore deposits at a depth of 1500 feet below the surface supplies have been put in and preparations made for steady work all winter A contract for additional drilling in the oil well of the leonora mining company on the north shore of great salt lake has been approved by A P new york capitalist who recently acquired a controlling interest in the venture according to word received by A 0 jacobson manager of the interests in salt lake the contract given to the Inter intermountain mount ain drilling company calls for repairing and extending the hole from to feet at which point it is expected that oil sands will be encountered |