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Show ts; t Volume XX EUREKA, JUAB COUNTY, UTAH, FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1920: tae Wffl Spend San Oa eteran Utah Statesman Prominent Resident Of Eureka Goes To Reward New Plant Tinlio SUndard people.' feel confldent of the outcome of their milling venture; wcrk well in hand. . - recently-complie- . Break In Apex Standard Property - Sold Over Year Ago - - 0 -- At Nephl last week Judge Morrla gave a decision which will mean tbs recovery, by the original owners, of states Merrknan Manager Lewis comof Znma that he is still crosscutting the Apex 17,000 shareswhich was Mining sold for asStandard ground at a depth of 900 pany stock, sessment and costs In January of feat Drifts are being sent out along last The suit waa brought by break and both head- A. year. the P. McReu and James A. Beane, well mineralsoft a In and are ings who alleged ised formation The 'drifts, were both of Mullan, Idaho, some irregularities In the levying of started neaf. jfre point where the assessment No. I. The court act Apex Standard people got their best aside the eale and ordered the stock 'several months ago. Mr. ore showing to the original owners, "At Merrlman Relieves that the showing returned sale the stock did not gx Into the the of this aTtsontinuatlon piece Justifies of the Zuma 'cojnpsny but of development but later fn the year treasury sms purchased by Individuals, upon he will Tesume work in the main whom the expense of the suit and drift and push out toward the north loss of the stock will fall. Attorney as far as the big break, which is L. A. Miner of Nephl represented the about 100 feet distant. plaintiffs In the action and the de0 fense wae In the hands of Day, A Mark, well known Salt Lake Old Time Bonanza Is Still East-We- Following st east-we- st . r . -- Hop-paug- Sending Out''Good Tonnage A considerable' tonnage of ore is now eomlng from the old Bullion Beck mine, last weeks output being five carloads, and . with indications that the months output wiU be the highest in quite a, number of years. When asked regarding the property Bupt. John Enlund said that no important ore disclosures have been made recently .at thwfleCk but that fully eighteen blocks of ground are ..being worked' unddr the leasing sysfor tem, furnishing employment Practicminers. about . twenty-sially every! bla of ground is yielding good qreAnd this means that the finding profitable em ploymentJ The leasing operations extend from the surface to the 900 level. ' h law firm. - 0 Patent Secured By Local Man On New Auto Pump During the week Albert Peterson received his patent pipers, covering his recent invention, an automatic Mr. Peterpump for automobiles. son and soma of his friends here recently organised a company for the manufacture and sale of this pump, which Is undoubtedly the best' auto pump yet invented. It ia very small and can be attached to any car, and yet is powerful' enough to Inflate even the largest casings, such as are used on trucks, and will do the work almost as quickly and easily as the air ean be drawn from a storage tank. . " Is Ptomising Id d month, This work is being handled this big tract, may possibly undr contract by Walter Fitch., Jr., end while the character of the result hi new discovery. ground has b.ffrj'isurh as to make sinking exocpjjdnally difficult, esThe Knight people particularly pecially in rif-- of the fact that con- the founder of these mining entersiderable Vater has been handled prises, 'have a great deal of faith In almoqtfrom the beginning of the ithe outcome of the campaign of job, the contractor work which they are doing for the excellent work. tract of development of the Thia shaft la one of the largeat in mineral land owned large the by Empire the state end It is the first to bo con- Mines Co. Just at this time the Emcrete lined from topto botton. The pire Mines appears to be one of present depth of the ehaft is about Unde Jesse" Knights favorite Tin- 1900. feet and sinking will continue. tie whlch he feels ,ure to the permanent water level, which :Wi propertie. make him anothpr bIg bonaMa. will be about 1800 feet. j At any rate it is receiving a lot of 'attention. The present campaign of 0 b8ln iwork orried along under Pierpont Pleased With The very favorable conditions and is not Copper Leaf S 1C00 Level confined to one particular section of the ground .which thia company Thomas Pierpont of the Copper owna. Leaf Mining company states that the These columns, some months ago, 1000 drift has for some time been mentioned the work which is being cutting through a crushed sone, per--j performed through the Iron Blossom haps 25 rfeet In wMth and which for the benefit of the Empire Mines contains abme vajtfes in gold and and it is now reported that a drift not mougnto give the company has been sent out into the south end a commeLrfr product but sufficient of the Empire Mines ground from to convince the officers that they are what was formerly the Lower MamHon. Reed Smoot. close to an ore deposit. Scattered moth shaft. The work from the Chairman of tha Committee on Public Lauds aud holding portion' .through this low grade material are Iron Blossom aids is being dona on M the Important Committees on Appropriations and Finance, tba some small bunches of good ora. that mine's 9700 level and the drift isalor Senator from Utah la ona of the most efllrlent and hardworking In addition to the work on the gained some depth before reaching mambara of the great body. Now serving hie third term, 1000 the Copper Leaf company iu the Empire Mines. It was at a depth ho baa gained rank and prestige and stands out on the 1200 level where the of 1800 feet in the Lower Mammoth preeminently as an busy of the needs and Ideate of the great West and tsponeat Is just as promising. shaft that the drift waa sent over outlook done ttch to curtail waste at Washington and by 1 Mining work at the Copper Leaf Into ground which during the early ngllance has effected large savings la many directions. He Is an hns been moving along rather slowly days of tha district was owned by active and ardent Republican. during the past ten days, according the Star Mining company and which to John Taylor, the stormy weather la now a part of the Empire Mines. causing gas to remain In the work-- , During tha week this drift has been The Coalition which is Ings and making .it impossible for cutting through ground miners to remain underground. The badly broken up and which Is well Frank Thornburg, pioneer mining! known mining men of the state are racn haTB keen getting in about half stained with iron and shows other signs of ore. With work being curman of the south end of the Tintle equally as confident of the outcome time. , ried on in two likely looking sections District, was out from Suit Lake on 'if the work which ls now under way' tbs Empire Mines should soon get Sunday for the purpose of Inspecting, there. 'Eureka Bullion Winze Has into some commercial ore. the Tintle Coalition property, being ' While there has been but little Depth Of Over, ,400 Feet accompanied on the -- trip by C. 8. work In the south end of the district OW Sunbeam Opened To Goddard, a stock broker and promote in recent years that section promisee er of mining enterprises. They put to attract quite a lot of attention secfrom Tintle East the Reports Depth Of About 350 Feet In the greater part of the day check- -: during the coming summer. A tion show that the Eureka Bullion - . o ing ap on the surface and under-- j neighboring property of the Tintle ara atlli bui, on the- 800 E. R. Higgenson seems to be getwhich is the Diamond 1ev- and in the winze, which now ground conditions and it Is nndejKT Coalition, ting a fairly good tonnage of ore stood that Mr. Goddard was Queen, Is now putting in machinery of 430 feet. The winie from tha old Sunbeam property, on depth haga cam- and preparing for oughly plwaa Parted month, sgo and which he haa a lease. Most of the he will taki palgn of work and the Knight peo- - for the reater part of the distance ore which the lessee has taken from of tbe comi pie and others have acquired ground from the g00 ,eTel lt hal been annk the mine has been sent to the Tintie ' which lies toward the east. The pro through very promising ground. It Mill at Silver City, although a few 0 tion is Iocs .!is thought that after going another consignments of hlghejxgrade ore the Tintle one hundred feet sinking Outlook For New Mill Ig will be have bee sent out.N'lot of "dead ' bracing cla out toward work" has beenadeded to get Into ,nd dr,fu located ntfi Jhan a quarter of a tSaia To Be Fromising !the nortbeMt end southwest, cross- - the orer st thpSBnnbeam, the lessee century an And from which he has 1 cutting the country. having' to den out and retimber tbe C. C. Griggs, who tor the past two already slopped quite a lot of ore. On tbe 800 level of the Eureka ahaftanworklngs. At the present Some years ago he put something reeks has been busy compiling data Bullion one bending la being driven tlmartpeshaft Is open to a point near like f40,000 worth of ore, from pertaining to a new concentrating and during the wgek small banchea theCSO level, while the. present these same claims, on the market. plant for the ores of the May Day of ore were encountered. Tbe show- shipments are coming from the 100 . This was at a time when lead and and Uncle Bam, states that his preof or Is nothing to cause excite- and 200 levels. ing silver were both low in price and liminary work is nearing comple- ment but lt shows conclusively that Salt . Lake parties own the old ' consequently the same ore if shipped tion and that he is confident hie the mineralisation extends over a Sunbeam property, which waa. into- today would be worth twice as much. tests will Justify the installation of large area. a number of years. tlve fer quite Mr. Thornburg and his son perform- the needed milling equipment. This - - -- o o reed most of the work necessary to machinery will no doubt, be InstallOf Cut Shaft Come Go In And move that amount of ore, operating ed in the old May Day. mill building, Contractors Quartz Co. to a depth of 150 feet. Much of which was allowed to stand after Coalition East Tintie At The Central Standard their ore was taken from between the plant was dismantled. the 100 and 160 levels and their While Mr. Griggs ia not prepared At a depth of about 160 feet some ; Three or four different contracshipments carried from 30 to 40 per to give out any definite Information quarts, carrying silver values, has cent lead and from 18 to 22 ounces is generally understood that he tors have taken a whirl at the Cen- been cut in tbe shaft of the East silver.. When they stopped work has found In the underground work- tral Standard shaft only to throw Tlntic Coalition, which is located to there was still a nice showing of ore ings and on the dumps of these up the Job after a few weeks or a the west of the Big Hill' and Eureka which has not been touched by the two mines ample low grade material few months work, the job being a Bullion properties. This property present company for the reason that to justify the launching of a modern rather difficult' one on account of was recently equipped with machinthe officers are devoting all of their milling enterprise in which some of the water. This week Henry Fulk-n- ery and the present plans call for a and William Calder took a con- continuation of the abaft work until attention- - to driving a tunnel which his Tintle associates will be Intertract for sinking the shaft and as a will rat this same ore approximately ested. ' depth of 400 or 500 feet Is reach- 460. feet deeper. This tunnel, alBefore coming to Tlntic from Ne- the company has given them a pret- ed. The showing of quartz tn the ready In 1900 feet, has about 175 vada, wgre be was engaged in man- ty liberal footage allowance there la shaft is highly encouraging to the feet to go before it reaches a point aging mining. properties for eastern no reason why the work cannot be officers of the company. o directly under the shaft, and while Interests, Mr. Griggs received assur- carried on without Interruption. .The some Important ore deposits should ance that he would be able to get a flow of water appears to be 'decreasUNCLE SAM ASSESSMENT, be en counted in the vicinity bf the lease on the May Day and Uncle Sam ing to some extent ns the shaft work --oshaft the Intersectjoa of two veins, ores. Having been connected with progresses, which indicates that' It Directors of the Uncle 8am MIn- something like 200 feet beyond, Is tbe mines for many, years, during is a surface flow and should not ing company have levied an assessreally the point where Manager which time he operated both concen- prove a permanent handicap fo min- ment of one cent a share on the capiThornburg expects to get hjs big ora trating and cyanide milling planta, ing operations. tal atock of the company. The aso he Is In position to know Jnst what body. sessment becomes delinquent April The tunnel whh is now being rsn be expected in the way of reve- Storm Damaged Power Lines 22, and sale day is set for May 17. driven st tha TIntie Coalition Is fol- nue and bis friends here are quite a number of years the company And Stopped Mine .Work For sure that if the concentrating mill lowing a, well defined north-sout- h has done but little on company acbreak and for the past few hundred is placed in running order It will be count and leasers have been operatfeet this break has shown lead and an Important event, and that lt will A genuine blizzard struck Tlntic ing parts of the mine from time to silver values, small pieces of galena hie profitable to those who are Inter- lust evening, tbe storm ar- time. The Unde Sam waa a dlviVe being spattered throughout the ested In the proposed company ' as rivingSunday at about seven oclock and in- dend payer of considerable Imporwell as to the shareholders of the vein mutter. creasing In violence until about tance a few years ago. o Mr.. Thornburg says that it Is his two mining companies. eleven, when tbe lighting sysAT It Is quite likely that tbe ' new mill- tem was pnt out ofcity's intention to increase the force st the PARK MINE. LEASING commission. The o property and hasten the work In the ing plant will be put in operation damage which tbe power company , tunnel. When the tunnel reaches 1 within sixty or ninety days. A eouple of lessee are naff until sustained was not repnlred " o point beneath the a haft he feels conabout noon the following day. While work In the Park mine, which Is lofident that the Tlntic Coalition will New Ore Found Tn Old Swansea property at awaiting repairs to the Tintie lines cated near the ' be able to resume the shipment of business was suspended at some .of Silver City. They . have succeeded in opening some nice looking ore ore, bnt no matter what disclosures Workings Of The Plutus tbe properties of the district. are made at that point he will push and will have a shipment on the o on through to the Intersection of the It is understood that Galbralgh market In tbe near future.-- ft has RHirma from Alaska. two veins at which point the work- and Hanson, lessees, have succeedbeen netrly twenty years since this 0 . mine was in the shipping list. ings will have a depth of more than ed in opening n very nice bunch of - o 600 feet. ore in thq, old Tetro workings of the Among the .active properties of Is end of tbe A short time ago Andrew P. Ma ASSESSMENT. ore the rnns LILT the sooth' district high npsnyTfie ' o dsllue there hns not been Alaska, an old time producer which hefty, for so many yeara connected with the large properties of the Unitmrk. to determine the has been reinstated In thei shipping Another assessment of one cent ed States Mining company, visited M deposit the outlook is list through tbe efforts of lessees, per. share hns been levied on the the Tintie Coalition for the purpose quite favorable. In order to handle who have shipped quite a 'tonnage stock of the Eureka Lily Mining Co. of compiling a report' In which 'he the ore it will be necessary to In- of Are to the Silver City milL The It ia No.' 1 2 and should be paid Je-gave the property the strongest pos- stall a donkey engine on the old Ta- work there ia under tbe direction of fore April 8th, when It becomes W. M. Johnson of Silver City. sible - endorasmeat and other wall tra shaft. linqueut, with sale day on May 14th. . : ly - Progress Made In Sinking Outlook New Shaft At Chief Cons. . A - The Empire Mines Figures whisk were show that the new $0. 2. shaft of the Chief Consolidated Mining which has beeto sent out company has been sunk and con- Drift, creted at the rate of 85 feet per . into the old Star portion of James D. Stack,- former mayor of Eureka and who for many years took a most active part in the affairs of the city, passed away at his home last Saturday evening. His death came after years of suffering from a paralytie stroke, and for some months previous to his death his condition was exceptionally serious so that his passing from life was not About seven or eight carloads of unexpected. James D. Stack was born in Watbuilding material, steel rails, ties, ete., bare been landed at the site ertown. Win. on April 14th, 1989. selected for the Tlnlle Standards and the early part of. his life was new mill, which is near Warm Creek, spent In that state. He first took cast of Goshen. The railroad con- up school teaching and then telestruction erew has alreadjr put in a graphy and was employed by raillong sidetrack on which supplies can roads of Wisconsin and Minnesota be switched, bat two or three until 1890, when he came west and months work will be required to accepted a position as a railroad complete the switch, over which orei agent at American Fork. . Remainwill be hauled to the nejjr''mill, as' ing there for about three years, or well as finish other piepds of track. until 1892, he came 40 Eureka and Buildings are&ow beifffc erected for this has been his home since that the accommodation of the men- - and time. The same year that he came thO. work of putting in foundations to this city he was married to Mary for the mill building and the' mill A. O'Connor, the ceremony being performed at Tacoma, Washington. equipment Is'uaAp way. AU of the jmtt has' the appear- They have eight children: William ance of perumwpey and it can read-Vki- aud J. D. Stack of Twin Falls, Idaho; be seen that the Tintle Standard Raymond Stack, who Is in the U S. Margaret, Claire, Catherine, 'people are going Into the milling nary; Theodore Stack, all of game with a determination to suc- Gertrude and two ceed, In fact It Is generally under- Eureka. The deceased also has (Continued on Page 81 stood that teats already' made hare carried the proposition past the ex- -' perlmental stage. Idaho Hen' Secure Shard; o Number 21 J . all-jv- er, I law-maki- Inter-mounta- ia Untie Receive Attention . O' j - - ; - er -- . . -- - - . t i . |