Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-03-07 | Page 12 | United Tintic is to Sink Deeper

I HQ TiNTIC IS , TO SII DEEPER Believed That Its Ore Bodies ;l: Grow Larger With Depth. : 4 i ' A. Martin, president and general mnasr of the United Tlntlc Mines cornea corn-ea pany. returned from tho property In Kant Tlntlc yesterday. He J convinced that I ,-'' -4 with depO Uio ore hodlc will be much V 3 larscr, and will atari the pumps soon In ir.': t ordor that development may ho carried f i'J on In that direction. , . . !'.! Tho 3-fot level, on which moit of thn j.l 1 development work has lieit done, wan ,r , reurhed by a vertical nhaft from Avhlch ti f -i -rocut of 100 feet tapped tin vein, which f t) 1 nan now been drifted on for .80 feet. The ,1 ! water 1 encountered at ten feet below li'-i xMlt ,cve'. a demonstrated In tite shaft L"J' -."j and rovrral winze and It haw nhv been 'V'a ascertained that the vein wldonw nH It frij 'i job down. Several rnl from tbln drift 'in have been made. All In ore, which occcn Vt-'H'a In "mall but rich caroft. FW 9 The first mice mu made from thin drift j lily iu nt K Pol"1 2VJ fl from the shaft, and la u 38 notr up ninety feel. The second ralnn Is i' .;?a K lcw itcl hoyond tho llrxt one ami In i, r 53 up about forty feet. Both of these raises .J. 'l arc In Rood ore, and Just a few mon are 3 nb,B to xlract two tons dally. Tho show's- 'JL J ,ru nt tifl tlrnn Indicates that the ore i 'ftiH "wk practically to the Hiirface, and l ivli 11 wl" be foIlwed nH lonj; ih li lasts and r'l'i'l ln ra5c 's hljrh enough to permit shlp- H pine iff -ilMI i,tv Martin was mo welt pleased wltli rfirJ t,lc ore occurrennw that ho Immediately fejll cave orders to have all of tho equipment Kli!K3 put n flrat-claH condition and to start If .4hUm the pumps up af wn a possible. He Hfrtl w!" return to the property oarly next itala weelc. and ho aay '.o aui liavc tho mine Itt&fcil drained within ten day. They liave throo I?tTl cood pumps, a lW-horepower hoist, throo K J'K boilers and 500 feet of holstlnc cable. As )pft 1,0011 as lI,e wor):Inffs are drained tho xveat "M drift out from the iSO-foot ntatlon will be 'if'.! continued alone the fluro for the pur-so pur-so of tapping the deponlt at jrreatur , depth. This drift H no;v within tlilrty ;t J or forty fet of tho contact, and aa Boon ) "hi as the ore Is found In this working tho I Wl i mnnasemcnt will sink tho abaft to irreator ! M r doptli. H V Tho Dragon Iron ha fent out a. drift i tfiij feet below the present worklnra of tiiy ,h0 nltod Tint! for the purtoflc of tap- iaR IlnK thla watercourse. ThlH should drain the United Tlnllc. aftir wliloh operations t 'rtH '"an be carried on without the expense of ! 'JBEJ operating the pumpn. Tho management j rflr ti nnxJoiiB to comluct thla devclopmont. as i ; JjU property la In a woll-dufined mineral ! nlM Th.e ,,,lm! hn Hhlpjyfd ovon cars of oro I'Slra 'JQ 1,10 lMt H'x 'nonths which ran from 1 ' v$& to a (0"'