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Show DDES his mm - ONTOBFK "Uncle Jesse" Knight Refuses to Break Custom by Going Go-ing Underground. Jesse Knight. J. Will Knight. W. Lestor Mangum. P.. E. Allon and N. C. Christensen. Chris-tensen. all of Provo, were In Tlntlc on Wednesday, coming horo for the purpose of looking over the new milling plant which ls being erected in the south entf of thcdlstrlct. Mr. Knight also spent a few hours In visiting some of his mining properties, although he did not go underground: under-ground: in fact, he has never been underground un-derground in any of his mine.". Mr Knight Is the only successful mining man In the state of Utah, and perhaps the only one in the whole world, who does not visit the underground workings of his mines. The nearest ho has ever come to making an underground trip Is- when ho has gone a few feet into one of tho many tunnels, driven for the purpose of developing devel-oping his Tlntlc properties. He has never been down tho shaft at the Colorado, or at the Beck Tunnel, Iron Blossom, Dragon. Drag-on. Black Jack, or any of his other Tlntlc mines, notwithstanding the fact that he pays them frequent visits, says the Eureka Eu-reka Reporter. Mr. Knight Is a great believer In surfaco sur-faco Indications and whenever conditions are right ho is willing to put up his money for the development of the ground. As to the underground work, he In willing to leave that entirely in the hands of the men who are assisting him in his mining enterprises. He frequently consults with them regarding this work, hears their reports re-ports and offers suggestions and advice. Ills superintendents never suggest that he go Into the worklncs, because they all understand that, he has nover made a practice of doing this: In fact, he has religiously re-ligiously avoided It. Few mining men aro better vorsed on geological matters than Mr Knight and none has a better knowledge of the Tlntlc district, especially espe-cially with reference to surface showing. Colorado Mines Ore. The new bunches of ore which were encountered several weeks ago on the 300-foot 300-foot level of the Colorado mine aro holding hold-ing out exceptionally well, according to Superintendent Perry Fuller, and the weekly output of the property ls running pretty close to 100 tons. After being absent from the shipping list for some little time tho Colorado people succeeded in opening two very nice bunches of ore, one In the north workings work-ings of the mine and tho other In the south end of tho property. The ore bodies were something like 700 feet apart, and while they are no doubt nothing more than offshoots from the main deposit, which had previously been quite thoroughly thor-oughly mined out In the Colorado, they have been the means of putting this old time producer and dividend payer back In the list of live ones. Superintendent Fuller says that the sensational sen-sational silver values, which a few weeks ago mado this ore a very high grade product, pro-duct, are now missing from the ore. but in each end of the mlno there still remains re-mains a splondid face of ore which can be handled at a nice profit In the south end of the mine the stoplng of the ore ls now In progress, and the deposit has already been followed for a distance of about twenty feet above the level. This deposit Is by far the most Important and from present Indications a considerable quantity of ore can yet be shipped, although al-though the ore has narrowed down somewhat some-what The discovery of these two bunches of ore has stimulated Interest in the Colorado Colo-rado ground and. some additional prospecting pros-pecting will bo done In the vicinity of the main ore zone in an effort to locate other offshoots which undoubtedly exist Bullion-Beck Success. During the monlh of July a very good tonnage of ore was sent out from the old Bullion-Beck mine, the output for that period amounting to nearly 400 tons. Some of this ore was mined by the company com-pany rxid the balance was handled under the ea.s"ng system, which at the Beck ls still furnishing employment for quite a number of minors. Th0 shipment of dump ore has been one of the chief sources of revenue for the Bullion-Beck company during the past few months, and Superintendent Super-intendent L. C. TJoty states that the contract con-tract with tho smelter will mako It possible pos-sible for the mlno to continue the shipment ship-ment of this low grade ore. The dump from which the mlno has been shipping during the greater part of tho summer still contains about 1000 tons. Reports from the Crown Point property prop-erty Indicate that there ls a very good showing In the winze which Is . being sunk from the 600 level. After a drift had been sent off toward tho south for a distance of about 200 feet, this winze was started with a view to getting greater depihJrI bod of fine looking lime. Joseph Jo-seph Wirthlin, tho president of tho company, com-pany, visited tho Crown Point a few days ago and states that tho work will be continued in this winze. whl slders a very Important plea pectlng. Opohongo Resumes. ; The work of prospecting lh(t tlon of the Opohongo property' up a few days ago and Supj Samuel Cox states that the 5i Is headed off toward the uoijtl be crowded along as rapidly D Two shifts are bclr.g used la and at the present time Unpeople Un-people are doing no other It work, all of the older woikia mine having been turned 0 lessees This drift from the W level will have to be driven' a about 600 feet before U rsica 33- directly above the old ore bodil this ls the objective point of J the management believes Uai- p, bearing fissures will be eneem fore that amount of drifunf i done , ,, i During the month of Juir,' tons of very good copper ore out from the Opohongo. fio - ore was the result of a gtnts of the old stopes, made by (it men preparatory to turning a over to the lessees, and he w mined by the lessees after lMJ given access to the mine. k. Royalty on oro mined of 1 should be almost Biiftlclent w expense In connection ltaw campaign of development wonti ... per portion of the mine, 1 |