Show new developments in eastern tintic gintic chief cons people have cave a mar ket for manganese ore and will push work on newly acquired mining c claims I 1 a 1 in s manganese ore Is now being mined on some of the east tintic gintic property which was recently acquired by the officials of the chief con consolidated oli dated mining company the claims which contain the big vein neill of this metal are located just east of the homans ville pumping plant and before their sale to the chief cons mining corn com pany they bere rere ere embraced in the ho mansville mansi mansil ille lle mining company in which L C doty charles baker george bridges james morgan and oth era ers were the heaviest owners the vein of manganese crops to the sur face and appears to be getting stronger as its development pro gres es ea of course only the best part of the ore can be handled at a profit but the chief cons people ex hect to be able to mine a consider able quantity of ore which will run better than forty per cent manga nese there Is not only a local mar ket at the silver city mill for a limited amount of thia this manganese but manager fitch of osithe the chi chief f gong cons company has succeeded succeed d in fi finding ng an eastern market tor for mis Is ore an inexpensive bucket buc et tramway tra Y will be used in baingi bringing th theore or from the top of the hill t ta th emain aln wagon road in Homans vi e anyon from which point it will be b hauled to the loading station a short distance away A short time ago the chief cons company erected buildings and in stalled the necessary machinery tor for the campaign of work which is to be taken up in the eastern end of the district and during the past couple of weeks their plans have been slightly changed electricity be ing secured to take talie the place of steam power connections have been made with the lines of the utah power company and a new compres sor having a capacity of cubic feet of tree free air per minute has been jt purchased the compressor will III be used in the operation of machine drills not only in the manganese ground but on other claims some dis tance to the north the second point at which work will be carried on will be at the R G W bround which has been taken over by the chief cons mining company and this piece of drifting has been con traded to walter pitch fitch jr nearly 2000 feet of work was done in the R O 0 W ground by the original company of which R G wilson was the chief owner the chief cons company will work from the main R O 0 W tunnel which is in a distance of about 1000 feet |