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Show I! BLACK JACK MINE 1 BUILDS ORE BUS i Company Erects Bins at tliej Mouth of Long Tunnel Just Completed. I TLYTIC IS VERY 1 BUSY THIS MONTH Work Being Commenced on Sev-j Sev-j era! GroupsThnt Have Been Idle. I. Special to Tho Tribune. EUREKA, Jan. 9. At the mouth of ' the 2100-foot tunnel of tho Black. Jack " property- a largo .ore' house has been erected, connecting -with the Eureka Hill railway, which does away with hauling the ore by team and gives close market for tho ores of the mine, which amount to about twenty-fivo tons per day. The main shaft will be sunk from the 1400 level to tllo 2000 level. ' The Tintic Central property is rap idly corning to the front, under the management of A. 2s. Holdawaj. The vhim house is completed and a modem mod-em hoisting plant will be installed. The formation has changed to quarts, and small fissures, bearing ore, have been opened up. Superintendent Joseph Hannafin of the Little Chief put the new machinery in operation this week and everything moved like clockwork, and active op-orations op-orations will be commenced at once. All of 1400 feet of guides will have I to be installed in the manway of the shaft for the counter-balance attach ment of the engine, which, when completed, com-pleted, will allow work to be resumed where it was abandoned when firo destroyed de-stroyed the shafthouse and injured the phaft, and seriously damaged" the machinery. ma-chinery. Drifting will also be commenced, com-menced, on tho 1000 and 1400 levels. The American Mines syndicate, which adjoins the Little Chief, will probably be devol'ope-d through the workings of that property. The north drift on the 400-foot level nf the Tintic Standard property, located lo-cated in East Tintic, is showing well In minerals. Tho drift extends in a jlistance of 275 feet and is nearing the 'broES-fiBsnro, where it is almost certain the' ore body exists. E. J. Eaddatz of Bait- Lake visited the property this week and is highly pleased with the )hwing at the present time. I Charles C. Parker and Gus Doetsch have finished the assessment work on a -group of ten claims, which they own, I fend which are located pear the Scran- I ion mine in North Tintic. I -The hoisting plant at the Eureka XOy 1b now in working order, and the 1 new. machinery will at onco bo put in I ! operation. Three Bhifts are now bnsi- I ly engaged in retimbering tho shaft, I J and have over 200 feet completed, but I 5Ve over 100 ieet more to retimber. I iwhen this is completed development I work will commence in earnest. The I Xily Is well located m and under tho I present management it is only a ques- I ition of a short timo when it will bo I listed with the Tintic producers. I j Fred Ott has taken tho position as I foreman of the Colorado mine, succeed- I ;ing Andrew Madson, who has resignod. I Charles Kryge.r, Del Eobor.ls and I .Hal T. Gear, who have a lease at tho I JEa'gle and Blue Bell mine, are making I jgood by shipping two carloads of nico I fore' every month. Hanson and Con- I .'Belly, who also havo a leaso in the I Bame mine, recently shipped a carload I -of ore which netted them $3000. 1 The Wicklow company, which owns I a fine group of claims in East Tintic, I has levied an assessment of onc-quar- I ter of a cent per share on the capital I jGtock, and when this iB paid devclop- I 'ment work will be continued. I "Work will soon bo resumed at the m Opohongo mine, which has been idle I for several years. The property is lo- I cated on tho mountain just above Mam- I imoth. I Manager Henry Matsch is making iBplendia progress at tho McKinloy 'property, located just west of Eureka. I tA drift is now being run beneath tho I leave which was recently opened up I .and indications show that with groat- (or depth the ore bodies should be en- countered. E. B. McCabe and Thomas Startin (have taken a contract to do develop- ment work on the Desert Mountain (claims in IVest Tintic, and have start- H ed work with a force of men. H Superintendent Bobert Cowan has a iforce of miners at work drifting from (the 600- and 600 levels of the Carisa mine. |