Salt Lake Tribune | 1907-07-21 | Page 8 | Will Sink below Present Level

WILL IK BELOW PRESENT LEVEL Lower. Mammoth Company to Begin Sinking From the Seventeenth LavaL NOW ON THE TOP OF MAIN RESOURCES Work Full of Significance and Will Bo Watched With Interest. A plan of dovolopment work is to bo inaugurated tho lirst dxiys of the present pres-ent week by the management of the Lower Mammoth company at Tintic, which should result in dovclopmonts of croat significance and interest. This plan is no less than that of sending tho Lower Mammoth workings to depths from the 1700-foot level. This work will result splendidly, for the reason that those who have hocu tho 1700 level stato unrcsorvcdly that this level exposed ex-posed merely tho top of tho moiu oro reserves of the mine, and with dopth tho chutes on this level should bo ox-coeded ox-coeded in ovory way. Manager John Dern on Salurda3' vouched for tho word that sinking from tho 1700-foot level would bo started to? morrow or soon thereafter. Air. Dern is sa3'ing vory littlo about the Lower Mammoth, proferring results to do the talking, and ho was unwilling to givo tho proportions on tho oro bodies upon tho lower level. But as the 1700-foot levol cannot last forovcr, and stockholders stock-holders stato positivclv that tho campaign cam-paign of dividends -will bo maintained indefinitely, it is pretty safo to predict that tho indications on tho 1700 level aro such as to create no doubt whatever what-ever as to developments boneath. Tho Lower Mammoth is a groat mine, and the public gonorally appreciates what its present achievements mean to Utah and tho mining industry. The new powerful hoist for tho prop-ort" prop-ort" is now coming west from tho factory, fac-tory, and the dividend for July already has been provided for by the diroctors.