Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-08-21 | Page 6 | Jesse Knight Made Manager of Emma

JESSE KNIGHT MADE IWffl Of EMI Famous Old Alta Properly Will Be Developed by Noted Operator. At a meeting of the board of directors direct-ors of the old 'Emina Minin compau-, held in this city Thursday afternoon, "Uncle" Jesse Knieht, the wizard of Tiutic, was unanimously selected as Cteneral manager. Several tnouihs nao Mr. Knight purchased a generous share of the Old Emma interests, so his connection, con-nection, with the camp of Alta is nothing noth-ing new. But tho selection of Mr. Knight as manager means that an energetic en-ergetic campaign of development work is to be started without delay on this property, and Mr. Knight admitted as much to The Tribune late yesterday afternoon. af-ternoon. The history of the Old Emma mine at Alra is almost too well known for repetition, re-petition, and it is sufficient to say thnt at one timo it was oue of the most lib-oral lib-oral producers in Utah and the "West, and became the object of international complications owing to tho sale of the property to English capitalists. Tho property has been worked only a few months out of the past manv years, and 110 great depths have ever been secured on the resource?. If there is anything left in the Emma. " Uncle"' Jesso stands a mightv good chance to find- it, aud that he will lose no time in securing results stands without comment in tho light , of his energetic and successful career as u Tintic mine operator. Mr. Knight wasasked yesterday if ht was uoing to makV tho race for governor gover-nor of Utah. TTo laughed, bub made no attempt whatever to dodge the question. ques-tion. He said: 'I never have considered the question ques-tion at all, nor has it been considered except in sonic few corners perhaps. I am not a candidate, and do not want to be."