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Show RAILROAD TO EUREKA MINES figes n Properties of District Close for Three Days' Celebration. Tintic Standard Prepares to Begin Operation of New Equipment. Special to The Tribune. EUREKA, July 5. According to reports which were given out early in the week the work of putting the new railroad to the Tintic Standard mine is progressing in a satisfactory manner and should be completed by September 1. Already a good portion of the grading grad-ing has been done, and the rails are down to within a mile of the Miller ranch. While waiting for the completion comple-tion of the new road the Standard management is making no effort to crowd production. Employees of the Tintic Standard will be "given a six days' vacation, starting on July 3, in order that the switch from the old machinery to the new equipment may be made. There is also some repair work to be done in the main working shaft. Superintendent Superinten-dent John Westerdahl expects to complete com-plete this work within the six days, when the usual work will again De taken up underground. The old machinery will be moved to the No. 2 shaft, where work has been going on steadily for the past few weeks. At the present time the No. 2 shaft has a depth of about 1000 feet, and at this point a station will be cut for the purpose of connecting up the two properties with a drift. As soon as the station is cut the shaft will be sent on down to the 1500-foot level. Contract Completed. ! Earrv J. Beane, who has a contract I for $20,000 worth of surface work on 200 of the unpatented claims of the ! Chief Consolidated Mining company, i will complete the .iob this week. Four ! thousand one hundred feet was per-j per-j formed on each of the claims, which are located in the eastern and north-em north-em ends of the district. George A. Cdail, a Salt Lake attorney, attor-ney, who has been in Eureka for the past ten days, announces that a new mining company has been formed for the eastern end of the Tintic district. The new company will be known as the Tintic Eastern, a"nd the ground adjoins the holdings of the Apex Standard and the Tintic Standard. The officers are: i J. E. Myers, president; Andrew L. Hur-I Hur-I ley. vice president: these, with Jackson C." McChrrstal, CTeorge W. Morgan and Georee a", t'dall, constitute the board ! of directors. There are nineteen claims in the grout), and the company has been capitalized for $1,000,000, divided into i shares of the par 'value of $1 each. I Fire at Showers Mine. i The hoisting plant and all the build- i ings of the Showers Minine company of the southern end of the district were i destroved bv fire early in the week. I The cor.fia'ration started from a brush I fire. The Showers mine is ownedby 1 tV Wa"'"er Brothers comoanv of Salt i Lake, but at the present is being worked ! under lease. The loss is estimated at I $12,100. 1 Sirornents for the week 2re somewhat ! lighter than usual, owine to the fact i that the mines of the district closed ! down July 3 until the first of the com-: com-: ins week. Thev are as follows: i Chief Consolidated. 23; Iron Blosom, I T3- Dragon Consolidated. 12: Tintic ; Standard 12; Ea?le i Blue Bell, 3; j Colorado Consolidated, 6: Empire fne3 6' Vammoth, 4; Gemini, 4; Swansea, 3: Showers, 2; Centennial Eureka Eu-reka 2: Bidze & Taller, 2; Sunbeam, 1; Victoria, 1: Eureka Hill, 1. Total carloads, 103. Favorable Report From Zuroa. p J Fe-ne'.l, president and manazer cf the'Zuma proper!;.-, states that work ' is s-iil in progress at a depth of SJ feet two drifts beinz driven under con-t-ae The-e have been no recent ore dVelopmen-.s. but the showing is ssid to be favorable and a chanze can be ex'ec'ed almost an-' dav. The Zursa ce" wa first encountered at a depth cf500 feet, and as it appeared to be making beiow that level the winze t'-fouz'i which work is now being has-led has-led was unk. The w-inze followed t'v.e o-e for a good par' 0f the distance to th '-':' level, and when the ore dned" a-av from the winre sinking eo-:nud arid the work now being done i". for the purpose of cutting this same fe,n as well as other veins which oug.T. ; to contain something of importance at ""The Zuma is well equipped, and local reopK who are the heaviest snarehold-e-V have fai-h in it becoming a mine. Th annual meeting of the snarenn.; -era of the Zuma Mining company will b heid on .!.:!-- 14, at which time new o-'f-.cer- for 're company will be elected. |