Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-07-27 | Page 12 | Utah Galena Does Good Work in Shaft

Utah Galena Does fi Good W Work orl in Shaft Work In I the northeastern the part of the tho Tintic mining district is i not being beig on exclusively by the big ruinIng ruin min m. m Ins Ing i companies one learns lears by reading th the camp cap When in i Eure Eureka ka kl the other day L. L L. L Olson Olon told of the surprising amount of at develop ment performed on the property of the Utah Ut Galena corporation holdings ed eel e north nort of the te Standard and Lily The Galena Is no ISO longer a mere prospect hole holc Its It main working shaft Is down 55 feet Mr Olson Olon sa says s 's the machinery machery Is 1 modern and very powerful pow erful anti and and a crew of eight men Is 1 continuously con con- employed Until recently a drift was in I progress on the level New work is I concentrated on the sinking of ot the shaft The Te fissure has ha quite Quie a dip and should shoud be Intersected by the shaft in i less than feet Mr Olson Olon who is superintending the work says say the formation has ha been changing during the last two weeks week The shaft Is in ill a a dolomite lime lie suffused with wih Iron Ion oxides and sulphides sul sul- In the last lat few fe feet fest t con consId d. d erable rable quartz has hi come comeI in Th This with wih the occurrence of natural gas ga strong enough occasionally to drive the miners ruin min mi ers to the surface gives the Galena Indications common t to the te biggest producing mines mie of the East Ent Tintic district distrIct The machinery with wih which the mine Is equipped is I Igo good go for 1500 feet feet A. A G. G Burritt Burrit the te company compan geologist Is I very scry sanguine in hi hit hie anticipations of mineral deposits in n the lt lige ge fissures fis fis- that traverse this thi part of at North Tintic