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Show ism Send The Report er to friends in other parts of the o o u n t r y give them a chance to learn more about the Tintic District. elume XXIV. ;fSnT Mill jtah Fleiner Will Commence The Shipment Of Ore Is Making Fine Record county, utah, Friday, xoykmukk r. i re at refua-state- d slat-carlo- ad i ! , ns ; an average of 200 tona of ore! paying basi3. Twenty Modern Homes For Dividend Residents pros-- : these new homes, which will be within a very short time. Prt hi i. Tin-- 1 tic r? car-Vad- er op-ej- rd ( lm-us- e. ir-.i-t - i ut ! he i a-- ) ! Tunnel-Colorad- as-a- On JScotia Mine Dump Now Being Shipped On the S50 level of the North Standard, where drifting has been in progress for some months, there Is a very fine showing according to Manager John Manson who Is ones more in the district and giving his attention to the property. Mr. Man-so- n spent a good part of the the summer in the east looking after mining mailers, lie states that on the 8 0 of the North Standard quite a lot or iron and manganese has Wen encountered. with indications of leal, and if the ore ia not found there it ia the intention of the officers to prospect the very promising lime bed below. Their work on the MOD level showed tlie presence of a hard stlidous time but a more promising formation can no doubt W expected on the 1900. Three carloads weekly being sent to the smelter; old time mine of West Tintic again in the lime-ligh- t. Salt Lake parties who have a lease on the old Scotia property of West Tintic have for the past several weeks been shipping at the rate of three carloads of ore weekly. The ore which they are placing ou the market at Ihis lime Is consigned to the American Smelting A Refining company 'a plant at Uarfleld. It la coming from the old dump at the .. oScotia and has Wen made valuable Chief Cons Company enough to ship because of the recent n price pf lead. Issues Quarterly Report; The Scotia,hflmine produced eon- elderab!o ore many years ago when Report of the Chief Consolidated It was worked by the original owners. It was operated by the Chief for the third Mining company quarter ending September SO reflect- - j Consolidated people who also took ed tlie effects of the expiration of the out quite a tonnage of I'lttman act. According to Oeneral ore but they gave up their option on Mauager Cecil Pitch, comparing the property when an extensive cam- the results of nperatiuna In all prop- palgn of work failed to open new ore erties with the previous quarter, the deposits. development f (Hit age waa decreased During the time that development by 8000 feet, the average net value work waa under way quite a lot of per ton (Increased $12.05, the ore low grade ore, now having a value of tonnage decreased shout 40 per cent about twenty dollars per ton, waa and the silver production shows a piled up on the dump and the presdecreaso of approximately 55 per ent leasing partnership, of which cent; aiueltiiig, freight and sampling Henry Erickson Is the manager, charges show an average reduction hopes to lie able to ship throughout of $2.50 per ton. the winter months providing the This reduction Is chiefly account- road between the mine and tlie loaded for by the lower treatment on the ing station on the Union Pacific lower grade dry ores. This low System ran be kept open. The point grade dry ore tonnage represents ap- where the ore Is being place on the proximately 43 per rent of the total rara Is Jericho, approximately eighproduct, mined. Tho lead ore charges teen miles below Ttntlc. A dosen or are over 100 per cent greater on more motor trucks are now being lead ore than before the war. and we used In the transportation of the ora havo no encouragement that they between the Scotia mine and the railwill bn reduced during the term of road. ;I-a- lr These are busy times at the porous little camp of Dividend. ,h. p., roll of Standard mine. The mine was owned by the Tintic Standard Min never buster and surface improve- lag company. The first residences ments are moving forward at the which the company put up were nice extraction under the process In use. very ravorable aspect to the I'tah same lively dip that characterized comfortable homes but rather inexthe company's underground opera-- t pensive and each ffi'lie excellent work at the mill is! mining industry, succeeding contract ha resulted in better buildAs compared with other western ions. tifving nineb to do with putting the A short time ago the management ings. Now with everything to Indl- IJpilc Siandard company in its pre- - slates, I'tah Is particularly fortunate e rommenced the construction of an-- ; cate that the mine Is slat strong financial condition. Mr. in having mines producing oreu states that praetieally all of rying a sufficient percentage of lead other string of houses, something starting on its career of ore prnduc-ove- r mine's at twenty in all, and every oue of, (ton Mr. ItaddaU and Mr. Wadu dry ore is going to the, to allow profitable operations (j In-- t them strictly come to the conclusion that modern. It Is unnec-l.Hv- e so and at Harold metal this that the present prices eynpany's plant to that there is spirited future residences will he thoroughly of canary was not a dust say smelter Whies the dealt ry marketing staggering e fly ore, a most desirable' blow at the expiration of the litt- - rivalry among the employees for! modern. I.Tan&ement with the two metals man act. The state Is further blessc jrupying their present positions. ed with a copper mine, the Utah CopUnderground conditions continue per, which, notwithstanding the has been Eureka Standard Shaft Now Eighty Feet Deep t4$t improve at the Tintic Standard slump of recent months, ajtl while there have been no .new able to produce the metal and make strikes in recent weeks that does not during the third quarter ol the year f ban that no new ore has been open-e- l, profits amounting to $14,035,095 With two shifts at work the new shaft one of the largest that has ever as compared with a dividend requireNew ore Is continually being shaft of the Eureka Standard Miiilngj been sunk In this district, being 24 in such a property hut in most ment of $1,624,490. On the whole, the outlook for all company is going down at the rate by 6 feet. Sinking lias been under c$cg it is nothing more than a ron- about four feet per day and this way for about a month hut for the luation of the large deposits from (he metals is exceptional. When the of licit shipments havo been coming. history of the current year for cop- shaft la generally understood to be! first few weeks but one shift was In ; This week the shaft had a depth nAt present the mine is employing per is written, it is probable that the but the beginning of a most orce that is as large as that use i , week will show as one of the porlant piece of development work! of 80 feet. for a large tract of mineral land Eureka Standard Is rontrollod by ring the early part of the year nest of the year K. to which of lies south Tintic the the ' J. Raddutx, the president of the en silver was bringing $1 sn ouneSeldom has the future of lead been Standard mine. Standard company, and the 9 the jTlatlc too la or. increase to The is the bet foreign price tendency There ia should carry an extension of about nothing ground temporary a mber of underground workers, Ills'll to allow importation at profit. the improvements which are being1 the ore which has made Mr. Rad-pe mine pay roll at this time con-r.- a Domestic demand for lead la bain on the Eureka Standard ground. date's first East Tintic mining ven-Tthe names of 371 men. Next rjf-- by domestic production. The lead machinery is modern and the ture such a tremendous success. Is ck It may go over the 400 mark. o'ored ruble business reported to While the figures have not been 1m' s.dendid V.iile lead consnmp-;'- n cased It is generally understood h rood . I storks in the hands it the Tintic Standard's earnings if jobbers a:r .ported to be low. Sioux Cons. Will Work Through The Colorado i large; that each month sees a sum amount added to the rid lch ia being held in reserve and Tintic Junction Road Manager E. F. Birch of the Sioux through a tunnel and no effort was 1 the property has not had what it Now Is Improved Consolidated Being property states that made to acquire depth. Then in .) mid be termed a lean month preparations are now being made more recent years the Sionx people i (ring the trying time which follow- to the the expiration of the Pittman Act. The road improvement program for a campaign of development work devoted their attention a poro which the county commissioners that will be carried on through Phoebe 8. claim which carried o No. 4 shaft of the Colorado Cons, tion of the Beck the two out for the principal mapped es W. Wade Speaker company, the object being to pros- vein, being several hundred feet east highways in the Tintic. District (Euthe Sioux's west vein" several of the old original workings of the At U. of U. Homecoming reka to Silver City and also to Tin-ti- e pect hundred feet deeper than any of the Sioux. In the extreme east end of is nearing completion. Junction) of the property. older the Sioux, and on the Phoebe S. workings week trucks ' Alumni of the University of Utah Throughout the past now being assembled claim, the shaft has a depth of about is to Machinery been have hauling gravel busy f ghered at Salt Lake last week for for this new piece of work and the 1000 feet but very little work was t ft annual homecoming program. As the Tintic Junction road which willit shaft will also come in for some re- performed below the 600, hence ( jrh alumnus arrived a committee be completely resurfaced, making The development campaign much Importance Is attached to the In of pairs. one best of the highway pieces is on hand to extend a welcome for the Sioux, throngh the Colorado, work which Mr. Birch and associates ( id distribute souvenir booklets con-- ! this district. out. The county commissioners state will be at a depth of 1900 feet and have mapped Sionx & lng views of the campus and deSince the 250 Mr. states feet Birch about paused Into the that after in the coming spring, ft some deregarding the growth of the that early has of local hands the needed to be will of work that people all is had a chance to pack, the grave! school. James W. Wade, work baa been bandied la His line. Sioux reach velopment the a plan two roads these will give manager of the Tintic Stan-- d they from the Iron Blossom. Mr. Blren the large to follow to the west on an east-weMining company, was a mem- - finishing touch, using new means the this fissure and that ays that the showing at this point the contractthe committee having charge steam roller owned by local ia promising enough but that many old be will beneath the prospecting the handled who fof homecoming and also one of ors This steam roller as wellpaving as all workings of the Sioux, which in the things interfere with rapid and p principal speakers at the lunrh- - Job. con- early days of tie district prod need systematic mining and for that reaof the other of the equipment ft During his connection .with the a large amount of high grade ore. In son it has been dicided te operate Sureka in left be will I of U. Mr. Wade was prominent in tracting firm those days the Sionx was worked from the Colorado shaft i Jiletics and other school activities . throughout the winter. The Sionx officials are making ome important changes and improvements to their water system, which Is one of the most valuable in the east end of the Tlniie District About 6000 feet of four PlP being Mid for the purpose of conveying water to various East Tintic mines and it is possible Hint the water may be taken through to ! the farming section known as El berta. lead-silv- X limin' r 3 Recount Of Ballots Asked By Socialist Party North Standard Has Good Showing B. djlly, about 6,500 tons for the! g path, and recovered 90 per cent of;y-- 0j POSltlOH Big t'e silver values. aaThe presentif month! better j good, uai be equally Help To Utah Mines V irk has ever been done In a chlor-- ; I feing plant there Ib no record of It! I); mining briefs and publications. In) The steadiness of lead, the marked opinion of local kilning and mill j improvement in copper, the alight r in the Tintic Standard's mill has advance in silver and the bright tftken all previous records in silver outlook for all three metals give a of Tintic will appreciate a copy of The Reporter why not send the paper regularly to some close friend. m jn. At p. Kleiner is out in the Erich-- 1 meeting held last evening. vunt, the city council communicat-so- n members of the Socialist party od with Judge Burton and asked for District ihis week. pling his Eureka decided to ask for a re- - permission to break the seals and tention to mining property on which ot ,h riallou which were cast secure the tally sheeia which are a he has had work!rount force Osmall tons at treated 6,500 during ,,ie went city election. They deeded in the official canvas as for several months. Before his de-ferrors weralquired by law. Judge Burton ctober and recovered 90 per for the mine Mr. Kleiner ,a,e that several to give such permission but discovered at the time the city coun-- d he that intended shipping November cent of the silver; of good lead ore provide lici made an effort to canvas the re-- 1 that if a recount is desired lie will he was successful in securing teams turns and that statements of snmtv4ome to Eureka for that will be as good or better. or trucks for the transportation off Judges indicate that quits a He was requested to do so and the the ore to the railroad. He was ufj number of ballots were not correctly formal demand for a recount will go to this it is forward at once. It ia thought that ...v,.. the opinion that he could secure a ; fi'uiitt'i. the In addition ,j ,vul ,u judges in the No. 3 pre- - Judge Burton will attend to this lorplcal results the month of October couple of trucks from the Imperial alliedmade the mistake of sealing matter some time before the 15th of vgs the best in the history of the- Lead company, operating in the sarr..If,ncl H a,l so acif no and be,uP time will laly sheets, instead of the comiug mouth. jfcjtic Standard's milling plant, over to the cUjr record-- 1 The election of November 6th was them in turning ore lost on the tha Assistant to placing James; Manager clrding of the closest in the history of , er. and the only way in which these .on Wade. There have been months; market. - Kureka. Judge Edward can be is secured Pike, the by permlsMr. papers is Joiner Vvjhen the mill treated a larger! quite enthusiastic amount of ore and that of course' regarding the outlook at hia prop-naa- sion of the Judge of the district Oiiien party candidate for mayor, tinning by a majority of eight votes that it has made more money erty where there is an excellent court. end the result in some of the other 1$ a thirty day period, but the rec- - showing of lead. He feels confident instauces wss almost as dose. ia no which efds show that at no time have the that the shipment 1 be will an followed as others ready by recoveries been high. 4 1 uring October the plant treated that the mine can be placed on a of 5? A former resident nt st i Big Events in the Lives of Little Men Bar-pi- ns load-silve- r j - o our present contract. lienee the erection of our mill Gordon J. Currie Was and putting into prartice of the process wo have evolved. The work of Killed In Park City Mine excavating for tlie mill site has been started and tho construction work Gordon J. who followed will lie continued throughout the mining in thisCurrie, for several dlstrlrt winter. a few months ago, years only leaving Tho Grand Central mine Is now met death In a mine accident at Park on a paying Inisis, (he Gemini and last Friday afternoon. Ha was Eureka llill are still in the process City killed instantly, a slab of rock fallof development towards tho finding ing on him and crushing hia Skull. of new ore hoiliia and this work, Tlie items In the daily papers Indithough at present somewhat retarded cate tliut Currie was at work on the on of curtailing expenses, is 1300 level of the Silver Coalishowing up quite satisfactorily. tion mine, cutting out forKing an engine Work at tlio Apex Standard was bed, when the large rock fell and temporarily suspended during this snuffed out hia life. quarter pending your company's The deceased was about 40 yearn more profitable operations. of age and unmarried. He waa born Total shipments of the company In Canada and came of an excellent for the quarter were 36,931 tons, family. During his early life he redry, yielding after smelting, ceived the benefit of a thorough sampling and operating education and whils in this city charges, $82,813.60, aa compared made a large number of friends. Aa with 43,125 tons shipped the second far aa known be had but pne near quarter, netting $364,318.27. MeUl relative, a sister, living in Canada. production from this tonnage was When epidemic of In2687 ounces gold, 665,634 ounces of fluenza the first over thin state he silver, 4,970,460 pounds of lead. in suffered spread from an attack of tho dislead ores, 253,809 pounds of copper ease and his recovery waa .llttls in copper ores, 71,938 pounds of short of miraculous as his physical xlno-lealead In ores, and 118,958 condition before being exposed waa d ores. pounds of cine In not best. For a number of years Balance sheet of the Compaq Is the the deceased followed leasing In the as follows: Chief Consolidated mine, being in Assets Property, $3,237,17)t!,19; with Mark Milligan, who mine- Investments; $408,909.10 .cur- partnership ia now visiting at bis former borne rent and miscellaneous assets,and In England. The leasing operations balances, of Ihis partnership were exceptionalcompanies' subsidiary $301,272.07; Liberty bonds, 1654,- -' ly profitable but it ! understood cash. $34,124.48; 567.19; total. that Mr. Currie had spent all of tha $4,838,134.03. that he had made while work-iniriLiabilities Capital Block, $894 money this district. . 183; stock premium, $16,893.6$; . Q surplus as of December 31,- 1923, $2,116,748.66; net earnings for 1923,, pEJitajy. Burial Was $772,204.45, and interest on investr Conducted Here Sunday manta and deposits, $13,259.09;. Iq crease the total of the surplus tap J 'Xtigusl )!afdln, whose death took dividends for the year amounting to mili$J7,064.60, to $2,635,247.60; cur- blnce at Sale Lake, was given acemerent liabilities, $120,614.26; and. re- tary burial at the Kureka city serve accounts, $1,171,216.59; total, tery, following an impressive funeral service at thq M. K. Chiireh on Ban-da-y $4,838,134.03. o afternoon. Rev! Frary presided at cbtrch servicer and delivered the H. H. Bantu, Member Of the eulogy, while musfo wee furnishaci-oiiii- t ransportation. d sine-lea- - , in - Elks Lodge, Died Friday Tailings Dump Cannot Be Taxed Says High Court late last week the officers of Tin-tiLodge No. 711, B. P. O. Elks, received a message from Salem, Balt Lake county must refund Oregon, announcing the death of IL $160,000 In taxes collected from the H. Banta, who had held a memberUtah Copper company on assess- ship in the order during the past ments made In 1917 and 1918 on lls three years. tailings pond at Bingham together The news of Mr.' Banta's death with interest at 8 per cent, amount- was not unexpected, his condition ing to $230,000 In alt. The circnlt having been exceptionally serious for court of appeals has rendered a deci- several months during which time sion upholding a decision of Judge ho suffered from lung trouble. Tillman D. Johnson of the federal When Illness forced him td court which waa adverse to the up his work In this district hegive recounty. ceived treatment at one of the Salt Daring the period of high copper Lake hospitals and when he realised prices the company extracted metal that he was nearing the end of lifes from Its tailings dump and the Journey asked to be sent to bis forcounty assessed this damp on the mer home at Salem, Oregon, where basis of three times the net proceeds, his wife and other members of his holding that the tailings were a part i family reside. He lived bat n week of the mine. The company on the j or ten daya after his arrival there other hand contended that the and the burial ceremonies were high price of copper j ducted under the direction of the made it possible to extract metal , Salem Elks, In accordance with this dump which In ordinary istructlona from the lodge in this times was worthless aa a mine. city. The deceased was born In NebrasJudge Johnson rendered the decision in Jineary, 1922. ka 46 years ago and had followed j Payments made under protest sluiai muck of his life. He lived nave seen nsea isrgeiy aj we coumy ; in this district but five or six iontsMe of Salt Lake City, the Jordan years and during a good part of that land the Granite school districts and time engaged in leasing in tha Chief :by the state. These nnite will be re-- Cons. mine. Mr. BanU Is survived iquired to pay the Judgement unlesa.by his wife and two children, aged it la decided to appeal to the supreme j 7 and 11 years, and by many other In court. ed ( f ) church choir. . o ot-th- e - Planning New Work For U. S. Co. Mines ln-fro- m I hytbe first The deceased was one local men to enter the service of the United States following the formal declaration of war with the central powers and his war record was n most creditable one, hie discharge showing that he participated in many of the big engagements in France. Former service men assisted In the funeral services and carried ont the military burial. ' Sergeant John Downey commanded the firing squad which was composed of John Cronin, William Hancock, A1 George, Roy Allred, Arthur Haynds and J. L. Richard Haynei,, Dean Nielson. Ilenrlod and Edwin Shriver made up the color guard. I D. Theriault sounded taps.. ( LJ 'V I John Enlund, superintendent of the Centennial Eureka mine, returned home last Saturday after spending nearly three weeks at Salt Lake where he went to confer with other of flcera of the Centennial Eureka and Bullion Beck mines regarding future operations. Mr. Enlnnd says that nothing can he given ont to the public nntil the plan under con sideration ia given final endorsement by the eastern directors of the United Btatee Mining ft Smelting company, owners ot the properties. t i |