Salt Lake Telegram | 1917-11-23 | Page 12 | Bring Good Reports from Lehi Tintic

BRING GOOD REPORTS FROM LEHI TINTIC Salt Lake men who have just returned from a trip of inspection of the Lehi Tintic which has been been operated for some fifteen years by George Nichols a prominent American Fork resident ex express express ex- ex press the belief that it is about to come I into its own The property consists of fourteen I I claims that are traversed by two parallel fissures one of or which according to geological geological geological geo- geo I logical reports Is the principal ore makIng makIng makIng mak- mak I Ing fissure of the Tintic Tintie Standard The I development consists principally of two I tunnels tunnels one one the upper tunnel in approximately approximately ap ap- ap- ap 1 I proximately 1300 feet with drifts cross- cross j I cuto and raises one of which extends to the surface The Tue other the lower tunnel In about 2100 feet has during the last few tew weeks passed through an iron quartz dike feet and opened a silver lead-silver carbonate vein eln some ten or twelve feet in width without either the hanging wall or foot wall having been found with a strong galena showing all of which samples shipping ore The company is now sacking this ore and I is prepared to shortly begin regular shipments