Show report on tintic gintic very interesting salt lake brokers have something to say about this district in their market letter relative to the tintic gintic D str et ct W 11 child co have the following to sa say in their do you know utah weekly letter DO YOU KNOW UTAH in what year was the first mining location at tintic gintic made in 1869 on the sunbeam claim what is the nearest practicable es dimate of the value of the ore pro deuced by tintic gintic mines what mines of tintic gintic have begun the payment of dividends within the year the chief consol dated and the algle blue bell what is the deepest mine work ng in ithe ibe tintic gintic dietr ct et the 2330 level of the grand cen con aral how much have the incorporated mining compan es of tint c pad pa d in dividends about 18 why is the ground aj alo tintic gintic of particular promise because of the irregular d tion of the rich ore bodes bod es what other resource insures the future prosperity of tintic gintic its millions of tons of milling ore the narrow and regular veins in the porphyry or inon at the southern end of the district were the first developed at tintic gintic be tore this zone had been thor hughly developed attention was centered in the larger ore bodies in the lime on the west slopes of godiva ard eureka mountains which formed the gemini and centena al at zone this development had not become an old story when the mammoth ajax and grand central opened another um tm of fissuring for a time it was believed that the ore bearing zone had been out lined the wining mining ground of tintic gintic was on the west slopes of the moun bains said the experts but one day a prospector picked up same some marvelous ilver silver ore under the eastern eaves laves of the mountains and the go diva utah northern spy carisa zone was established it was w a a hardly thought worth wor th while to carry the search tor for mineral east a this zone and for many years the boundaries toun boundaries daries of the producing section mamed intact important dincov enes eries were ere made from time to time but they were made in the settled zones and did not cause the excite ment that is bred by finds in new territory there ensued one of thos per when everyone takes it for granted that the beat best is kno ar ay d the worst yet to come during th s per od a former freighter and ranchman jesse knight was do ng his development work on a raw ct oa on the northeastern side of godiva mountain and ing the way bously tor for a mining era such as tintic gintic had not known since the first ach ch discover ies his ct et was far less ng than many that are being wor worked ked today but it became the humbug mine in which chambers holding close to a million dollars of ore were opened again there was a lull and then came the greatest development of all proceeding from frona the humbug to the auth jesse knight opened the ore channel in the beck beek tunnel and colorado C E loo e senator reed smoot and others tapped the same treasure vault in the eastern claim of the sioux consol dated and mr knight brought in the iron blosom mine on the colorado ve n south ot of the 8 the shares of these companies bere widely distributed and the wealth the mines y elded was disseminated throughout the united states the beck funnel consolidated pa d to its shareholders the colorado the sioux and the iron blossom is still d every three months after paying a total of 1 1670 the colorado channel has therefore y elded in profits to the owners of shares in companies along the zone 5 aill all in a period of eight years mr knight knights s success encouraged additional prospecting to the east aind and i a large body of iron ore was developed on the iron kin king and silver lead ore in the east tintic gintic development and provo mines four miles beyond the colorado channel the development of rich ore bod es in the iron blossom brings the bis his tory of tint fint 0 mining almost to date but there have been still more re cent occur ances to emphasize the al at nature of ore occur ances in the camp the last t vo years have witnessed witness eit the open ay of very rich ore bod es to the north north of the early discoveries in the mammoth and grand central mines by the eagle blue bell and chief consol dated their discover es have placed them in the firt first rank as producers of ore and have earned their oeners divid ends aggregating nearly a quarter of a mill on dollars |