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Show Vb r.i ted Th A former resident of Ttntio will a oopy of The Reporter why not send the paper regularity to some dose Mend. Report-c- r to Mends in otter parts ot the oonatr y five them chance to ap-preda- to ten mom about the Untie District. 'V Volume Xa1.II, EUREKA, JUAB COUNTY, UTAH, FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1923. Two Miners Lost Reepsscz Gee In French Soldiering in the Ruhr I 'Underground Workings Deepest Workings A couple of miners, who were putting la their first shift In the Victoria, lost their bearlnga when the wUl soon be days work was finished and after wandering around for some time Eureka HU1 shaft retimbered to the 1500; r ' mine's lowest levels soon to he opened to lessees. M Thi Job of retimbering tha old til Baraka Hill minor now owned by the Chief people, la going forward at a record-breakipace. First the main shaft was re timbered to a depth of 115 feet and various levels above that point were pat In shape for mining . operations; now the lower portion of the shaft la being numbered. - Already this second piece of work Is . well along toward be completion and will doubtless finished at an early date. The old shaft has a depth of ISOS fact and naturally the bottom of It was In the worst condition as far as the old Umbers were concerned. About 75 feet of work, however, la all that now remains unfinished. While the Eureka Hill shaft has a depth of 1500 feet most of thv development work, during the proe-perodays of the mine, was above the 1000' ' level. It Is generally understood that the Chief Cons, company .will conduct an aggressive on the 'Campaign of development lower levels, of the mins and some time In the future will carry this prospecting to points below the water level.' At the present time the bulk of the .Chief Cons, ora Is coming from ground which has been drained, and which Is below the normal water level of this district, and It Is bpt reasonable to, suppose that "under water" mining operations can be carried on Just as successfully In such mines as the Eureka Hill and the . Gemini. ' All of the mining In the Eureka H1U will be handled under the leasing system which has been worked out In such a successful manner In other properties of the Chief Cons, company. The liberal arrangement gives the miner an opportunity of making a dally wage while searching for ora and no limitations are placed on his earnings If he Is successful la opening a large deposit At this time about forty blocks of Eureka Hill ground are being operated by lessees. This Humber will be Increased considerably when the lower levels of the mine are reopened. , Con-Mlidat- ed ng us . ' found themselves at the' Grand Central shaft In Mammoth. They were hoisted to the surface and later walked to Eureka. While experiences of this kind dont happen to many miners, for the reason that in most eases they are In touch with other experienced employees when they make their first trip underground, nevertheless almost any new man might have made the mistake that these men made for the reason that It Is necessary to "back switch" to get Into that particular par. of the Victoria which was first. worked from the hill. Manfmoth side of the If one follows the track in the usual manner he would eventually find himself at' the Grand Central shaft Instead of the Eagle ft Blue Bell, through which the Victoria property la now worked. The man who Is unfamiliar with mine workings might be led to believe that tha average miner has an instinct like the birds and bees, which enables him to find his way through the labyrinth of drifts, topes, raises, winsea, etc. At any rate it dont take him long to familiarise himself with the many miles of underground workings which are pretty much a pussle to the man who follows other lines of work. The Victoria men who went to work on one side of the mountain and came ont through a shaft on the other side, finding themselves confronted with a five or six mile walk In order to reach their boarding house, were soon at the receiving end of a lot of good natnred banter from fellow workmen, hnt the mine bosses were quick to understand Regarding Advance In Price Of Red Metal like Hard Work Looks and Mammoth. ! O IN CK the Franck tavadsd Germany's coal region, the Ruhr, the native workmen have nearly all struck. Bo, as they came after coal, the French soldiers are taking their own. A detail la shown "requisitioning" a carload of fuel. It Isnt called "confiscation.' though it looks like lj - 'much the same things t .. . gravel. They have Jusl completed a modern loading station at the base of their Gemini dump and at the present time a train load of gravel Is leaving the district dally, being sent into Millard county. It la understood that the next thing in order will be the Installation of a conveyor and a crusher to take care of the coarse material which necessarily Is rejected, under the present system of loading. With a crusher In use It may be possible to load a total of fifteen carloads of road material dally and as there Is nothing better or cheaper for road construction the demand Is quite sure to Increase from month to month. Lead Advance One To Decreased Output wondering ducer, will fare a little better than Tlntic where there Is a lot of low grade silver ore containing no lead, but most of the local mine owners are taking a rather optimistic view explanation cal and that Is that some of the big- of the situation. At any rate they gest lead mines of the country are are not going to cross the bridge unslowing up In their production, ow- til it looks up before them, but most ing to the fact that some exception- of them are conserving thdr funds ally large deposits of the metal have and putting as much silver ora as, been worked out uithout Gnding oth- possible on the market while the dollar price prevails. er ore bodies to take the'r places. o It isnt every mining district that produces lead, in fact there are No Chance For Silver scores of mining sections that add littlw or nothing to the worlds proLegislation This Tom duction of this metal. With the expiration of the PittSenator William H. King, after a man act In the very near future diver camps are sura to suffer, but the conference with a number of the ones which will suffer least are house leaders, says that there Is no those haring ores; In which lead chance for silver legislation at this He Is satisfied comes along with the silver. Not term of congress. all of the Tlntic ore carries lead but that the senate will not pass his bill continued purchase quite a lot of It does and when the authorising lead and silver come together It is under the Pittman act, nor will It going to be quite easy to continue pass his resolution authorising the operations because the depredation president to appoint a commission of the silver will be about equalised to go abroad to confer with Eurothe advance In the price of lead. pean governments with a view of by ' A camp like Park City, where Interesting them In Increased use of practically every mine Is a lead pro silver. A lot of people are expenditure Is an unusual demand $1,600,000 should be started within why there anch has More Time Has Been sent the price the next two weeks, according to an- for lead, which np around 8 cents a pound. There Given Automobile Owners nouncement made by L. F. Rains, Is one that sounds logi- f Auto owners of Utah will have until April 1st In which to take out their 1SSI license plates, according to Information given out early in the present week. This additional time was granted by unanimous con- sent of tha state legislature. It has always been customary for the secretary of state to permit tha use of old numbers until March 1st of the following year but the atato legislature has for the past month or more been considering a new automobile law and because of that fact the owners of cars have not taken out new numbers. It Is generally understood that the fees are to be reduced but provision has been made for refunding the money to those who "got In early to avoid the rush." In other words the nun who sends for his 1811' license without waiting the outcome of the legislation now ' pending Is reasonably sura to get a refund If lower fees become effective ' after the passage of the new bills. 'ji'V, vice president of the company. Monday, March 18th, has been tentatively fixed as the date for turning Grot dirt for the new plants. Work Is to be started simultaneously on the blast furnaces and coke ovens by April 1, 1884. The plans at this time call tor the erection of only Grot units of the blast furnaces and coke ovens, the furnaces with a production capacity of 450 tons of pig Iron and the ovens with a capacity of 650 tons of coke a day. The ultimate program calls for three more units of each, or a total pig Iron production of about 8000 tons and 8500 tons of coke a day. The coke ovens are the Becker that the type and It Is estimated Grot unit Installed will produce, borides 650 tons of coke, approximately 10, 000, 000 cubic feet of gas dally. This gas, according to Mr. Rains, will be seeking a market, as the present plans of the Columbia company do not contemplate a need for gas In Its operation. Gold-Silv- er THE PINCHING BOOT. Coppers- - rise during the present buying movement la the most rapid . o advance scored In more than tan years of the metal s peace history. Central plant of this company Predictions are freely made that the price will go well over 16 cents be- . now haa capacity of 6700 fore the present buying movement cubic feet of air per minute; doses. Domestic as well as foreign sales are large. lines to subsidiary mines. The outstanding factor, according to the Boston News Burean, accounting for the 80,000,000 pound proA new compressor, having a duction in the refined surplus of cop- city of 8500 cubic feet of air per In January was the heavy move- minute, has Just been added to the ment overseas. In that month total equipment of the Chief Consolidated foreign shipments amounted to near- Mining company. ly 86,000,000 pounds. This la 8Sr The new machine was put In run000,000 pounds more than In Decem- ning order a few days ago and Is or an Increase of nearly eighty working as efficiently and smoothly ber, per cent.. Against average monthly as could be desired. With the new shipments to foreign shores In 1888 unit the capacity of the central comof 58,000,000 pounds, Januarys pressor plant of this company has movement shows an Increase of been Impressed to 6700 cubic feet of pounds, about fifty per cent. air per minute which is sufficient In short, with Germany bankrupt for present operations and France and England not In the In the Chief underground as well as the Gemini, mood for overcommitments In any Enraka Hill and other subsidiary commodity, American copper is be- properties. ing shipped to Europe (sold, really, A surface air line extends from for no metal to speak of now goes the Chiefs mala workings to the on consignment) at the rate of over Eureka Hill and preparations are be700.000.- 000 pounds annually. made for an underground air In her palmiest years before the ing line from the Chief to the Gemini. war Europe never took much over With the completion of this latter 850.000.- 000 pounds of our copper. line the compressor which is now What, then, are the possibilities for supplying the Gemini, and which was further expansion of copper exports a part of the equipment when that when and if Germany should be mine was purchased by the Chief granted international credits and Consolidated will no company, France and England notch up their doubt be allowed to remain Idle scale of Industrial activity? although it will not be removed but Notwithstanding output of kept In running order and used In of refined pounds copper case of emergency. last month, the largest months proManager Cecil Fitch states that It duction since 1818, this 80 per cent is the Intention of his company to increase In exports and the Increase centralise all of the compressor of 80,000,000 pounds, or 80 per cent. units as this will mean more satisIn domestic shipments were responand economical service. sible for a reduction In surplus factory he hopes to be able to Eventually stocks of 80,000,000 pounds to run an underground line between pounds. the No. 1 shaft of the Chief and tha This surplus today Is not over six Grand Central but before this Is week's consumption, based on Janu- done It will be necessary to add arys export and domestic shipments. another large compressor, of perhaps It Is but S3 8 per cent of the 5000 cubic feet capacity, to the alhigh and Is the basis for the ready large plant at the former sharp advance In copper prices the mine. past fortnight to 16 cents to 16 ft cents, the highest level since late BLASTS MUST BE FIRED BY 1880. MEN WHO ARE COMPETENT This metamorphosis In the copper situation and its resultant advance O In the price of the metal spell greatIn the coal mines of Any person for copper this state who is not an authorised ly Increased earnings companies. Copper shares are be- shot-Gr-er wUl be prosecuted for ginning to reflect the new order. putting off his own blasts, In this to John W. Crawford, mine according They have been laggards Inspector. thirteen-mont- h bull market; and for A recent communication Crawthe first time in four years they have ford to superintendents from and mine on statistical situation healthy foramen In the coal camps, approved which to base an advance. by the state Industrial commission, 177,-000,0- 00 Waste material from the Tlntic mines has been found to be an ideal road gravel. Local road builders discovered this many years ago but it was only last year that the matter was brought forcibly to the attention of the state road officiate. Pines that time a lot of gravel has been shipped to other parts of the Rials and It Is barely possible that an Industry has been worked np that will mean steady employment for a number of men and a lot of business for the railroads which are operating in Tlntic. The Chief Cons, people are responsible for this new enterprise, the classifying and shipment of road Will Start March 12ih of approximately 268,-000,0- 00 1-- . deaths spector refers to general coal mine safety orders which state that shots shall be Grad, electrically by some authorised shot-Grafter all the other men are out of the mine. Superintendents and mine foremen will be held responsible If they have no authorised Grer. The railroad company officials have announced their Intention of spending about $18,000 on this Improvement, this sum being placed In the 1823 budget which ought to Insure almost Immediate action. Eureka City plans to Join with the railroad In the purchase of the ground with a view to enlarging Church street at Its intersection with Main street. Thera Is no question but what the plan Is a good one and Mayor Church and other members of the city government should be encouraged In the work which they have undertaken. Road Work Promised On Highway Leading To Tiniic er . 0 station. Mission To Be Given By Vincentian Fatten A week's mission will open on next Sunday, March 4th, at the morning masses In St. Patricks Church of this city. This mission will be conducted by two Vincentian Fathers from the Vincentian Mission House, Bangor Penna, who are engaged during the whole of the Lenten season In giving missions In different parts of the diocese of Salt Lake. The members of the parish and the public at large are earnestly Invited to attend the Mission and hear a series of eloquent and practical discourses on tha great truths of Commissioner Matley and Road Engineer Jones were np from Utah county on Wednesday, Inspecting the Tlntic auto road and consulting with C. B. Hulsh regarding Improvements which are to be made in the near future. Mr. Hulsh was told to employ men for emergency work on that part of the road which is nearest Eureka and It Is understood that John Roberts, the road man at Goshen, will at once commence work on the slope to the west of Elberta. Mr. Roberts will cover that part of the toad which extends from Elberta to the Pinion Canyon and will be given Instructions to pnt It in Grot class condition. Owing to the fact that the road may soon pass Into the hands of the state road commission It will not be surfaced with gravel bnt the proper grade will be established and If the highway Is built In such a manner that It has drainage It should withstand the heavy travel of the coming spring and summer. Mr. Matley will make another trip into Tlntic In the near future and he has promised to do everything In his power toward providinge. a decent road for the people of Tin-ti- However, Utah county Is In v very serious financial condition Eternity. The first mass on next Sunday brought about by the extensive road will begin at 8 o'clock and the last building program of the past tow mass at 16.15. Evening devotion at years and funds must be passed out 7.45. very carefully and used as economare eordlally wel- ically as possible. come. o Odd Fellows Of Utah Non-Catholi- . ft ft ft ft ft., Mile Of Power T.iww Being Built By cniipf , o mile of new line Is being ft St Homansvllle for the ft purpose of giving the Chief ft A- . Wifl Gather In May e d Tlntic Odd Fellows will be In learning that plans have now been completed for the grand lodge sessions to be held at Balt Lake City on May 15th and 16th. Dr. Harry Phillips, chairman of the general committee, announces hid Intention of making the meetings representative of all lodges tat Utah and he expects the largest attendance In the history of the state Inter-este- ft built ft Cons. Mining company one ft point of distribution tor various ft enterprises ' which are ndng ft electricity, from the lines of the ft Utah Power A Light Co. The ft mining company has pumping ft plants In that section, which ft supply Eureka City and various ft mines with water, and also ft uses electricity at its Hsu ft quarry and lime burning plant, president or department heads,- plans ft At present then are separate for negotiations with foreign govern- ft lines to each of these plants, ments to the same end. . .. ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft. a to recent o During the week Mayor Church sent a letter to the officers of the Union Pacific System, Informing them of the willingness of the present city administration to assist In the movement which Is expected to give Eureka a new passenger use of gold and silver la the United States and elsewhere. The effect of the' decreased production of gold and silver upon commerce, Industry, exchange . and prices. The commission also would ' be authorised to confer - with dtisenc, or corporations associations foreign countries with a view the stabilisation and wider . use silver In exchange and to propose, either formally or Informally, to the - m calls attention Inquiry To Be Made At Once transportation, marketing and post-bellu- caused from miners Grlng their own Eureka City Offers To shots and going back too soon when Assist Railway Officials they tailed to discharge. The In- WASHINGTON. Fed. 28. Creation of a Joint congressional commission of gold and silver Inquiry Is authorised in a resolution adopted today by the senate and sent to the house, when action is expected before adjournment. . The resolution was Introduced by Senator Nicholson, Republican, Colorado, and Its adoption was recommended after hearings by a subcommittee consisting of Senators Poindexter, Washington, and Oddi, and Walsh, Nevada, Republicans, Montana, and Pittman, Nevada, Democrats. The proposed commission hrould consist of five senators and five members of the house, and would be directed to inquire into: The canoes of the continuing decrease In the production of gold and silver. The canoe of the depressed condition of the gold and silver Industry in the United States. In the production reduction, refln-lng-,. . Corecsr 00 Colombia Steel Work Breaking of ground between Provo and Springvllle by the Columbia Steel corporation for Initial plant construction, representing an New Added AiChirf - the sitnation. Most of the mines .in the Eureka section of the district are now connected on various underground levels and there are a number of passageways leading from the Chief, Eagle ft Blue Bell and Victoria properties over Into the Grand Central Number 17 V. ft ft ft ft ft ft ft organisation.William E. Borah of the ft Senator ft Idaho lodge will be one- - of tha ft speakers If present plans do not mis- v . ft carry. ft ft Additional mining nowu, ere shlp-- ft meats and stock sales on page S. - . |