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Show TINTIC EMPIRE CO. PROGRESS IS RAPID Rapid progress is being made on the propertv of the Tintic Empire Mining compan'v. which lies in the Ea.st Tintic district." between the property of the Lehi Tintic and the Tintic Paymaster, accord-in" accord-in" to Theodore Nicholes. manager of the co'mpanv, who was in the city yesterday. The shaft has been sunk to a deptn of twenty feet. As soon as necessary t,m-berin" t,m-berin" arrives the gallows frame will be raised and operations in the Shalt resumed. re-sumed. At present a boarding house is being erected. The hafl is being sunk on a porphyry -lime contact. As the pornhvry dikes dip to the "vest, according to Mr Nicholes the shaft will leave the contact and cut s-c-eral ore-bearing fissures in toe lime. -',.'., firt fissm-o should be cut at a der.t.i of ".-0 feet. Thi.s fissure on the surtnee I wS three distinct outcrops, in which n.a.-o heen found sneclmens of a carboniue lead-silver ore which assayed as high as 'Tlmrcomnanv is plannintr to let a contract con-tract for the installation of modern mining min-ing equipment, it is sai'h |