Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-02-06 | Page 20 | Additional Mining and Financial News

Additional Mining and Financial Fi ancial News GOAL IN SIGHT h AT KING DAVID DAVI I Dev Development work at nt n the tho ho Tintic David mine in inthe Lead L company's King Dvid t th the Frs Frisco district of Beaver Bever county has hag reached a highly interesting stage It was announced Thursday by Paul Pull H. H Hunt Hunt in charge car of operations op op- eaton at the te mine I From the te bottom of the te foot foo 75 triple compartment shaft the company corn com hat pay pany tiple has 1115 ba drifted northward a com I d distance dis- dis tance nc of 30 feet fet toward its It objective I tv tive an en west cut fissure 80 feet teet wide at the tho surface and end about three miles long Over the We te greater part par of the te distance the drift has ha b been n in unaltered limestone but in the ho last lat 1 feet it has cut several everal dikes dikea of I quartz porphyry I Since Sice the the- middle of November Mr fr Hunt Hut said the tho to company has hu hube be been n cutting a 8 er of af narrow quartz a hlf half inch to tw two inches wide containing galena zinc a and This Ti condition has hns persisted for the last Jat feet feet Late reports report from the mine nine are ae to b t the te effect that the drift has bas entered a 6 zone of increased shattering chattering with wih greater amounts amount of galena and North Nort of tho the fl fissure ure and ad between It and the Uca d limes adjoining an a Immense boy body of monzo is i a zone of intense ton which has hM been bee uplifted 75 feet teet or more This zone is i shaped much like en an inverted pyramid end and it is i toward the te downward dOward point of ot this tL I irv inverted pyramid that the company is ts i. i drifting Cutting of ot the te fissure ure It Is Li J believed will wl open the bottle bottleneck bottleneck neck of ot an a immense ore body that extends extend extend to the te surface more than tan 1400 4 feet away Mr Hunt says he expects expect to receive word at any eny time j reached that tat the te sheared zone has ha been