Show INGO SMELTER CLOSESt Report From Sandy That It Has Been Blown Out VARIOUS RUMORS ABOUT IT A TwoFoot Vein of Good Lend Oro Encountered in the Tiernan The Shoebridgo Bonanza Finds a Newt New-t Body of HighGrade Ore Manager packard Talks of the Star Consolidated Consoli-dated Mr Babcock to Push Work on the Giant Group Deep Creek South Swansea Shaft Notes Sandy Dec 2GThe Mingo smelter Jias closed down Some predict that It will run again about February 1st while many are of the opinion It will never turn another wheel There area are-a few men yet working around the mill and cleaning up the yards but after two more days the only employees will bo a night and a day watchman Superintendent Su-perintendent Hazleton left this morning for a months visit to his old home in I fT nntiivl vn nf n RfkYiiA ilnclnrr flir amnl r ter tho ofllclals made each employee a present of a Christmas turkey The Information conveyed by the foregoing communication will be received re-ceived with great surprise and be the object of considerable conjecture by mining men generally The Mingo was Wcnnsylvanla and has been running run-ning for many years It went through the hands of a receiver during the time of the Swartz entanglements at Pitts burg Pa when It was made an asset 1or the protection of his creditors and a number of Improvcmentswcre made under the direction of Mr James the superintendent a thorough smelter man Its sale to the American Smelting and Refining company was another change In Its career and since that time it has been operating steadily The only thing to which mining men can attribute at-tribute the closing Is that perhaps the machinery of the plani hay reached such a stage of decadence that the management deem the blowing out of Its fires a more economical course than that of repairing 1L However the American Smelting and Refining company com-pany Is now actively engaged upon the construction of a new plant capable of handling 1000 tons a day and to Involve In-volve an outlay of at least 1000000 The completion of this is not promised until next August and what the company com-pany will do without the Mingo will afford lots of conjecture It is possible possi-ble for It to forward the ores that would have gone to the Mingo to any of Its numerous smellers outside the State so that the future of the Mlngo looks cheerlessly problematic Manages Man-ages Jones could not be seen last night In regard to the matter Strike in the Tiernan A twofoot vein of good lead ore has recently been encountered on the Tier nan property In North Tintic the assays as-says from which yield upward of 40 per cent lead and several ounces of silver The find was made on the drift 100 feet below the tunnel level and the vein which is well defined has contained con-tained small bodies of galena for quite a distance before the strike was made The opening of this body encourages the management to expect It to be oC considerable extent as several years ago good values were obtained on the property but the chute was finally lost Shaebridge Bonanza Find A new body of highgrade ore which Is as yet uneven in Its dimensions was receiftly encountered In the Shoebrldge Bonanza The find was made on a new upraise from the 625foot level and ore is being taken out for shipment Assays from samples taken from the vein show fair values In lead and silver sil-ver a small amount of gold and exceedingly ex-ceedingly high values In copper The ore is expected to be of the value of at least 550 a ton |