Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-07-16 | Page 6 | Eagle &Blue Bell Sinking Main Shaft

EAGLE & BLUE BELL k SIIIMIN SHAFT Work to Be Resumed on Victoria Gold Mining , Property. ,i i : i j Notwithstanding tho Eagle Jfc Blue I : Bell is prevented by the smelter from i , shipping more, than fifty tons of oro ' ' a dar, "Superintendent William Owens ,'. is alile to use a force of moro than " ; seventy men, keeping many miners busy on development work, says the Eureka . Reporter. One piece of work is sink-i sink-i j in? the shaft. Since this work was i taken up the shaft has been sent down : about sixty-five feet below the 1700 j I level and will continuo to the 1S50 level. I Mr. Owens states that the shaft men are making excellent progress. Two drifts aro being sent into tho Victoria propertv from the 1000 and ' 1300 levels of the Eagle, as the management man-agement considers this an excellent time for connecting up the two mines, and in addition to this the Eagle people are also driving two new drifts on the 1300 level and another on the 1500 level, these being for the development of Eagle territory. ter-ritory. The present limited tonnage of ore is coming from the 1300 and 1700 levels, but there are large quantities of ore exposed on almost every level in the mine. During the week Mrs. R. S. Robertson Robert-son was out from Salt Lake making an inspection of the property of the Victoria Gold Mining company of North Tintic, where an important piece of prospecting is now under way. Mrs. Eobertson is familiar with the geology of North Tin-tic Tin-tic because of her many years of mining min-ing experience there. Aiter retimber-ing retimber-ing and fixing up the main working shaft drifting was taken up at a depth of 450 feet. This drift is now in the dolomite lime and within the next few weeks it should encounter the big iron deposit which crops to the surface and which can be traced for miles in that part of the North Tintic district. Mrs. Robertson, in addition to owning the controlling interest in this property, is also the owner of the Highland Mary foup of claims in the same section. !" She is confident that systematic derel-i derel-i opment work is all that is needed to bring bth properties into the productive : 6tage. ! Last year the long end of the tax on , I the net "proceeds from the Iron Blossom i mine was paid into the treasury of Juab ' countv, it being shown that practically all of the ore mined had been taken from ground located within the boun-1 boun-1 daries of Juab county. Previous to last ' year Vtah countv had been claiming j and collecting the' bulk of the tax, and . this rear it seems that the fight be-' be-' i tween the two counties foT this tax I money is to be renewed. Statements which have already been i ' ' i filed by the officials of the Iron Blos-f Blos-f i som companv indicate that Utah county is now entitled to about 80 per cent of I , the tax money, but the commissioners j of Juab countv say they will have to be f shown, as they have been led to believe i that more than 90 per cent of the ore mined during the past year has been L I taken from that part of the Iron Blos-i Blos-i Eom ground which is in Juab county. To arrange for a fair division of the money for the year 1916 a survey of the mine may be made.