Show 4 t W the eagle blue bell Is one of tintic gintic s big mines t new ore body found on 1350 13 5 0 level is i s the bea yet tv tj V I 1 4 4 14 1 4 TN A 0 A aa 4 W j j A J it 4 aak aw panoramic view of eagle blue bell mine photo by will C higgins BE following article regarding T eagle blue bell 1311 mine at this place is from the pen of will C higgens the editor of tha the salt alt lake miring mm ng review i the writer can well remember pome some twenty odd years ago a when the mining camp of eureka tintie district utah was hardly more than a straggling ing street with the nearest rail railroad point at ironton five miles dov down the canyon and out in the f at at that time the eureka hill bill bullion beck reck and champion mines ai ilig 0 were virtually at their best the gem ni keystone was u as hard y more than a prospect although though tl prodoc ng some sensationally rich ore at the time and the C eureka was just reach ng a pro producing ducin stage at the time we speak of john ale chyrstal Chr stal th n in all the vigor of middle age ani on of the most nn im and influential dpn in the astri t was manager of the eureka kerstine hill stIne jand and also of the gem ni I 1 1 key keystone no one hardly was more i cami lar tar with the h story of the camp or its geological conditions and so A profoundly was he impressed with the asplend d 4 pos sibil ti a of that before his death s veral years ago he had bad acquired possession essian of a number of mieng mm ng groups favorably favo favorat raby located included in th number be ing the eale blue bell situated just east and adjo n ng the centen nial eureka the eagle blue bell al stood well in the eftim at on of mr mcchristal and it s old lime time friends well remember his oft repeated assert on that th a ground in time m would take rank as one of the really great in pes ties of tin X tic district had he lived to this day he would have been gratified at the wonderfully monder fally f ne shoving nov no v being made in this prop rt arty and would have had every as assurance surane e that it hs s jud judg neit ne it was goad good and sound and that it s prophecy was in a fair way may to be fulfilled the eagle blue bell group of f fuen patented claims is 13 almost sur bounded by producers of note it jo ns Us the great centennial eureka on I 1 the west the king william and grand central pit the south te continued on last page AN I 1 7 eagle blue bell one of big bi ig mines of tintic gintic continue I 1 from first page I 1 i tona toria consolidated on the east and the chief conail dated on the north the rhe trend of the ore bodes bod es in eagle blue bell ground is northerly and southerly and the group is traversed by three parallel veins principal operations at the pre sent time being largely confined to mammo h grand grana centra victo la ia ore channel the eagle blue bell mine has al always ays held the attention of the mining pubic pub ic and th s attention and interest has been intensified 0 late by reports of a rich strike made in its underground workings a de of which may well be a source of gratification to mm ng be view readers this new deve wh h bh ch wa ka inspected a few days ago by the writer in company with genera manager imer pett u nas as made on a ba nd level the 1310 1319 th s level was estabi shed after sinking a on a p pe of h gh erdl ore from the 1309 1300 level at a dep h of forta fort feet in this tha the ore decreased in value and as the raise from the to conn ct et with the wa nearly completed it was decided tr tc drive a drift in a southwesterly di lection in th hope hpe and expectation of finding ore of higher grade soo after starting this drift the th e va ue began to improve and when th strike was made male it became a certain ty that the eagle blue bell had been laun h d spoil ori a great prodie ing and profit making career the drift from the bottom of the had been run for a distance of forty feet in commercial ore be fore the big bi strike was made th ien body of ore rea ly camf as a th in n ra rs were into it almost before th y kne v it A yet no definite id i a has been ascer tamed as to its magnitude at th time of the inspection made by the writer it had been drifted upon toi foi a distance of thirty feet and s nee then has been driven fifteen feet further and ra sed upon for th it rt feet the drift being twelve feet in width with ore on both sides and neither wall in sight the ore is a fine textured quartz and the whole mass as broken down averages avera cs 40 gold and aa 70 ounces in silver silver to the ton much of the ore is a ugar quartz almost as white a the driven snow and which pulver izes almost as fin as sand in thi body of ore there is a zone of about six inches in width that carries val iles of ot ebu gold and as h gh as ounces silver bo so far as developed V the new find represents presents le a small for tune in itself how big and large it is no one can even conjecture a it is in virg n ground but it strength and evident permanency gives ground for the belief that it m will ill prove to ba be one of th greatest and richest ore bodes bod es ever ered cred in eureka mountain A car of ore from this new soiree so irce of wealth was sh aped on the and as soon as facilities for the better handling of the ore are brov ded the manage ment will be sending out three or four cars a week from the new f nd at the present time the eagle blue bell is sh aping in the neigh boyhood of tons daily ore of marketable grade exists on the toot foot level northeast ot of the shaft here a body of in ran ranging ring from two to twenty feet in witch width la is be ing mined that averages from 14 to 24 per ton while several ship ments have been made from this point go ng to the ton the 1300 level up to the present time hag been the principal source of ore supply for several years here an ore body exists along the mammoth grand central victoria channel that has been proven pi oven and partially mined for a distance of feet along the strike of the vein with its extent on its d p not yet determined this shoot hoot of ore ranges from ten to seventy feet in width in this huge delorit values vary greatly A large portion of it is good shipp ng mater lal ial smelter returns have run as high as 4 on a carload of fifty tons wb ie le in places values r in down to ore of payable milling c con 0 1 1 tent it is believed thit the new v strike is on this same zone much of the credit for the grat condition of the eagle blue bell is due to general manager imer pett during whose incumbency a profit making basis has been dished to say nothing of the recent of the asplend d body of ore above described in firmly ashing the mine on a regular prodoc ng dg and paying schedule mr pett has been most ably ass sted by h s superintendent wm win 0 yens vens a well iw ino and ar in n ng man As is ing air 1 0 vens are edwene eugene S alo t ind and jerry murphy sh ft bosses daniel F eldi is assayer at the mine |