Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-08-03 | Page 8 | Big Pumps Are Being Put In

I BIG PUMPS ARE BEINGJUT IN . Tinfic District for First Time as Camp Requires This Machinery. PUMP WORK IS THE MAIN CAMP FEATURE Many Mines Are Installing Equipment to Go Deeper After Ores. I Sail Lakers who try to keep in touch with tho mines of Tlntic. on returning from visits to tho district express as-tontahmcnl as-tontahmcnl at the oxtonnlvo line of mining min-ing equipment which Is being Instnlloil on all sldcn. In spite of tho tremendous production from this famous old camp of Utnh, its ore bodies never were more perfectly devolopcd and available than they are today. Said one mining engineer engi-neer on Tuesday: "While In the camp I visited the Ccn-tcnninl-Eureka surface works. I also passed tho Gemini. Easlo ana Blue Bell, Chief Consolidated, Mammoth, Victoria and Yankee, on each one of which new machinery Is either being Installed or much Is ready for Installation, while I heard of one or two other companies in the district which recently have put into position some heavy equipment, llko tho Tlntic Mines company, for Instance. "All this extensive mine machinery Installation In-stallation shows that the hoists and other machinery that Ifave done service during dur-ing tho years past must be done away with; they are not equal to tho demands of the times, for Tlntic Is becoming what you should term a deep mine camp. There are a great many sections of the camp, the eastern part especially, which have not yet hecn sounded, and which promise well at rather shallow levels to begin with, but the camp proper must go deeper from now on. "What Impresses mo more than anything any-thing else In this campaign of mine equipment equip-ment is the extensive pump installation. Tlntic 1b I lie most wonderful mining camp In tho world in that it is dry for a great depth. The Contcnnlul-Eur-ka company, for instance, lias what they call water levol at a depth of 2200 feet. This company and many others arc now placing big pumps InLo position to sound the water or sulphide zone. This, to me, Is one of the most striking fcalurcs of present-day mining in Tlntic."