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Show Volume XX EUREKA, JUAB COUNTY, UTAH, FBIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1919. Untie Zenith Will j Ha?e WoHdng Find ititltitltitltit it. it Tooele County Mining Man Paid Camp Visit -- W. J. Boffe, who la Interested it 4 ule t .K 44444444 one-thir- fOs lc s, j a- Good Progress In President The Mining Resolution Zuma was the sensation of the character of the ore denotes per-weamong the mining properties maneney. The ore cornea in the south of Tlntic, the newa of a strike on the drift, In a north and south break 800 level sending the companys; which haa a westerly dip. Copper shares up to a new- - high figure. ' A values appear on the footwall and week ago these columns contained an the entire quarts deposit la Impregannouncement of new ore develop- nated with silver and lead. ments in this property and the story It will be recalled that the Zuma that a bunch of high grade ore had got its first showing of ore on the been encountered, which was given 500 level and that It was for the out on Tuesday, was no surprise to purpose of following this ore that those who have been keeping in close the winse was sunk to a depth of 800 feet which means that the pretouch with the work there. Over night the price of the stock sent developments are at a depth of doubled and on Wednesday's call 800 feet and centrally located Jn the sales wers recorded as high as 42c. companys grow A couple of weeks previous the While Iteperhaps a little early shares had been, a drug on the marmakpredictions local mining ket at 10 or 11 cents. leoxwho have inspected the new declare that the future of the Quite a number of local peopl have been underground at the Zu property Is assured and that with during the past two or three days such a showing of ore it is practlo-all- y a cinch that a mine will be opand all of them appear to be very enthusiastic regarding the ore which ened. has been opened. The best InformaEureka people own most of the tion obtainable Indicates that the stock In the Zuma, among the largsouth drift from the bottom of the est shareholders being P. J. Fennell, 200 foot winse has opened a ten foot W. F. Shrlver, F. D. Kimball, Rasdeposit of quarts with two or three mus Nelson, James Knowles and Mrs. J. E. Driscoll. feet of high grade ore showing. The ground is adjoined on the Assays show this ore to run exceptionally high In silver and lead, north by the Iron King and on the with some copper and gold, and lo- south by the claims of the East cal mining men declare that the very Crown Point Co. Iron Work King Tlntic mining men and claim owners should at once file notice of their Intention to hold Three drift being driven, two mining claims for the year 1818 from bottom of shaft and one under the provisions of Joint House Resolution No. 841, at depth of 1000 feet; showwhich does away with assessment work for this year. The ing good in upper drift. resolution has been signed by the president. Three drifts are being driven at Where the annual assessment the property of the Iraq King Minwork has been performed it is ing company In the eastern end of best to file the undoubtedly the district, one of these drifts being regular affidavit, or proof of labor, and where claim owners it sent out toward the west at a dcnlh wish to hold ground without it of 1000 feet in the new shaft and doing work they should place the others having recently been startthe "exemption paper on reed from the bottom of the shaft cord. which has been sunk to a depth of 1565 feet. On the lowest level one drift is being sent out toward the northeast and the other Is being Provo And Salt Lake Men driven In a southwesterly direction. Visited Tintic Properties Each of these drifts Is now In a dis-- i tanee of about 40 feet, while the Quite a number of Provo and Balt drIft on the 1000 level has been sent Lake mining men were In this dls--j forward about 200 feet and ,a now trlct last Saturday and Sunday. In cisttin some Iron and a gray Quarts, The iron deposits on the upper one party which' visited the Lehl-Tintic and Eureka Bullion as well leve,a of the Iron KlnB are in remiss other properties In the northern neM for the ehlpmeUt of ore upon and eastern ends of the district ,h completion of the new railroad were: J. A. Barclay, W. H. Trask,, lnt0 the eastern end of the district. Jr., John Puts, George B. Doyle, John Bestlemyer and N. C. Hicks. Wilman Carter Succeed c, The new manager of the Levels Centennial To Be Merriman At The Yankee Charles Zabrlskle, is fast exIn getting things shape for an It is reported, and the story seems and while the older levels of the tensive campaign of work. Already Wilman Carter, the superinten- to have all the earmarks of authen- mine have no doubt been pretty a new building has been erected for dent of the May Day and Uncle Sam it will prove the accommodation of the men em-- : mines, will also direct the develop-ploye- d thoroughly "cleaned ticity, that the upper workings of an exception to an established rule and work is being push- - ment of the Yankee Cons., having the well known Centennial Furoka If there isn't something left for leas- ed on there the new tunnel which will cut succeeded Lewis Merriman as super- mine will soon be turned over to ers, who seem to have a happy fa- at depth three Important mineral-- , lntendent of the, last mentioned pro leasers. Perhaps this change Jn the culty of opening new ore deposits In bearing fissures. The portal of this perty. Mr. Merriman has for some operation of the mine will not be old time mines. The success which new tunnel is so located that teams time been devoting much of his time made until the first of the coming attends the efforts of leasers Is un- can reach it with supplies and fol- -, to the Apex SfMidard and It is his year as some weeks will be required doubtedly due to the close supervl-l- o the connection with the ore tentlon to move out to the property survey and map the old workings, jslon which these miners give to their deposits the handling of ore will be Just as soon as his new residence It is hardly likely that leasing oper- - work. A mine superintendent has made much more economical. building is completed. He was with atlons will be permitted below the an entire mine to develop and study The visitors were highly the Yankee company for ten or 800 level but there is a probability of while the leaser devotes all of his with the outlook at the Eu- - twelve years and regrets that his othpresent almost everything above that point attention to a small block and if reka Bullion where a winze Is being er Interests made It necessary for being worked under the leasing sys- there is anything In the ground he nk to cut the lnterwsctlon of two him to resign. Mr. Carter is a very tem which Is quite popular with the usually finds it. fissures. The winse had a depth of capable mining man and will no The losing of the upper levels of older properties of the Tlntic Di0Ter ltlt feet durlnR the doubt he able to handle the affairs he Centennial Eureka will doubt- - jomethl t of the week Bn(1 there strict of the Yankee in good shape, the The Centennial Eureka Is owned ess mean the employment of a much mine being located between the May into of chance ezcellent ,n ietting by the United States Mining company larger force in that mine. Day and the Uncle Sam. Recent In near future. the ore the developments In the Eureka Bullion indicate that deeper work Is needed May Day Following Small Now Busy On Dump Should Be Some Way Of in order to reach the main part of Stringer Of Ore On 1800 At Old Bullion Beck Mill the ore body, which was cut several Protecting Shareholder months sgo. There appears to be an excellent During the past week C. J. HanniEveryone who has the Interest of chance of the May Day getting into the mining industry at heart sincere- fin, well known leaser, commenced Feels Confident Of Being a nice body of ore on the 1800 ly hopes that It will be possible to work on theold dump at the Bullion Able To Build New Road level, where a drift has been sent prevent a reoecuranee of the shabby Beck mill. This plant went Into the over Into this company's ground treatment which unfortunate share- discard many years ago but during the Yankee Cons. reholders of the East Crown Point the time that It was In operation a Charles Zabrlskle, manager of the from the shaft ofnow this drift has For some time ceived at the hands of a small clique large amount of ore was treated and Lehl-TlntconfiIs quite property, In which a break been following intercontains who the Salt Lakers of many dent that sufficient money will be "pooled tailings dump and conare some values, there good ests and bought in a big block of thousands of tons of low grade mar available for the construction of a It Is a most desirable piece sequently cent Like of a all the stock half at terlal. per early day Eudelinquent new road Into North Tlntic, from share when this stock had a market milling plants the one operated by reka, during the coming spring. Mr. of prospecting. On the 800 level the May Day peo' value of more than six times that the Bullion Beck company saved Zabrlskle has already raised a good are mining, some good ore. The ple values a and of amount. silver the only part portion of the amount needed, this deposit is not large but it will not tailsome of the Lake Salt Some suggest that the It is thought that money being subscribed by mining Stock Exchange be used as the sell- ings can be shipped at a profit. Mr. companies and business men of this be at all surprising if somethingcom-of much importance to the ing place for delinquent stock; as Hannifin has had considerable exper- camp, and If some help can be secur- pany lagreater there. developed "combinlow in ience one way of eliminating the grade dump ed from the commissioners of Utah handling ation" evil which has existed for so ore and feels quite confident that he county the new road can be construcmany years. We dont believe that will be able to profitably handle ted. Drift Is Still Following the suggestion is worthy of serious some of the Bullion Beck mUl time the wagon At the present Ore At The Apex Standard consideration for the reason that road is in such shspe that It cannot not all of the mining offices are at be traveled by auto and It is also Salt Lake. It appears, however, that Tintic Drain Tunnel Is Conditions at the Apex Standard Impossible to take any kind of a we should have a law governing such are as favorable as they property of to mines that the section, by 4000 Ft. load, Of In Distance matters and providing a penalty for were a week ago, according to the team. its violation. We are not so sure officers of tbe company. The drift Jesse Knights big drain tunnel is but what our present laws could be on the 800 level, In which the ore 4000 over feet In a distance of made to reach an official of a min- now was encountered, to now following a Mining Making Industry and according to Frank Birch, local bunch of nice ore. The eourse of ing company who violates the confiHeavy Contribution In Taxes the drift to to the north and a short dence placed in him and enters Into manager for the Knight properties, In satisa moving along a deal which results In robbing the work is distance ahead Manager Merriman After passing and It is estimated that the combined expects to reach a cross-brea- k shareholders of his own compony, factory manner. the some soft rather ground taxes paid by the mining Industry In at that point a much larger body of whose Interests he is being paid to through on the pro- all its branches during 1817 amounts shaft which Is being sunk ore should be found. safeguard. 0, perty of the Tlntic Drain Tunnel Is ed to the enormous total of In a harder formation and work or about 85 per cent of the Iron Blossom Leasers Are can be pushed along much more ra- total corporation taxes of the nation. 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 it The flow of water encounter- In addition the excess profits and Tintic Mines In Need Of it Shipping Considerable Ore pidly. Increased not In has shaft this ed war taxes are expected to extract Legitimate Advertising and a few minutes work each day nearly two hundred million more Leasers at the property of the Iron with the pump is sufficient to keep when the revenue department Is able Utah mining men who have it Blossom company are mining a large the workings unwatered. The flow to own laws. its In the east In recent 4 been Interpret no while ore of and impor- is too near the surface to be considquantity state that a vast amount months in will These languhave-beetell, In made figures tant discoveries ered permanent and in the long run of eastern money to being inrecent weeks much of the leased it should be more of an asset than a age intelligible to all, the true value vested in western oil and minof the mining Industry to the naground Is yielding ore of good grade, liability to the company. west but because to the tion and ing propositions particularly making the leasing system profitable The shaft on the Tlntic Drain Tunthis state has not advertised its to both the miners and the company. nel ground Is now down 175 feet. where metal mining Is one of the resources to sny extent invest- it The splendid price which silver is The machinery Is thoroughly mod- greatest employers of labor. And lanto ors are paying but little atten-- 4 it. allowed is this Industry bringing has helped wonderfully at ern and ought to be good for almost yet tion to our mining properties. it the Iron Blossom, making possible any depth decided upon by the of- guish in uncertainty while politiMuch of the eastern money it cians argue over the Interpretation the shipment at a profit of ore which ficials of the company. has been going Into "boom dis- it of complicated laws. was of but little value some years tricts of Nevada, for the very it What these fellows cannot underago. Returns From Convention In a good reason that the mining 4 of from vantage point stand, men of that state long ago it Of The American Legion swivel chair, is that a mine Is wastNEW COMPANY FORMED. learned the value of advertis- it direct in wastes asset that it and ing reore of ing. amount the to AmeriA new mining corporation is now The first convention of the proportion Legitimate advertising is ofbeing perfected to be known as the can Legion was held at Minneapolis moved. They argue that a mine paybenefit to any mining dls- it be should great much so this men good east Utah year in situated the week Tlntic Winchester, last ing anjl.ajnbng and it to really to be re- it trlct next and amount same year Tlntic about thred miles southeast of attending wifylohn C. Downey, the for the the people of the It that gretted possibly more the year following. Knights Drain AnnneL The ground chairman crahe local post of the never bad an oppor- - it have east it misto a be man imknows sane this amount A on of surface ore the has good Any slrowlng large more about 4 of it not should a learning and mine tunity view and mining men think that with a portant business was transacted at taken district in the it little development work it will be- the session in Minneapolis, with dele- be compared to a manufacturing pro- it Tintic. No othersame opportun- - 4 come a producer. The incorporators gates from every state in the union position as it Is only a question of it west offers the section is 4 on in other and lties exhausted mine a it has are Dr. Tllson, L. N. Ellsworth, present, and Judging from the rapid time until with 4 the played - self while manufacturing game can it be bemining soon will and William Hawes of it the Legion growth Trotter, concerned. to 4 all such fairness it after and built year in factor 'come larger every an Important larger Harry B. Cole, all except tbe last' It it it it it it it it it it village and city in the United States. year. being residents of Payson. I ad- - it in mining property which O. it K. of Tooele Silver the Joins made for of; Arrangements county, was in Eureka laat Sat-- it 1,000,000 shares of treasury urday. He la now doing some 4 stock at 10c, giving company work on his claims and la con-- it it fldent of being able to open $100,000 within year. some good ore. Mr. Boffe waa 4 Recent ore development In the formerly In charge of the de- - 4 velopment of the O, K. Silver it Apex Standard property In the east-er- n from which some exceptionally 4 end of the Untie District have fine ore haa been shipped, and it attracted a lot of attention to nelg he Is of the opinion that the it ground and it la now practically certain that the. Pintle Zenith t mine will again become produo-- it people will be able to dose the deal a tive. In the O. K. Silver the ore carried lead and silver and 4 for the aale of 1,000,000 aharee of one of the cars shipped several 4 their treaaury atock. The price at years ago la reported to have it which thla atock la to change handa la 10 eenta a ahare and 150,000 of brought the company about it it 111,000. the sum which the block will bring it. it in la to he placed in the treaaury of the company within the next alx montha, and an equal amount will be Knights Have Leased Section Of Sioux Con.1 paid over alx montha later. While the detalla of the tranaae-tio- n have not been given out to the Since the property was acquired public It la generally underatood that by Jesse Knight and associates the prominent Salt Lakers, who have older workings of the Sioux Cons, had a lot of mining experience in mine have been opened to leasers, Park City and elaewhere, are to ac- the first block being turned over, to quire thla block of atock. The 100,-00- 0 Alex Blight and C. E. Hulsh who will be uaed in the development have already commenced the develof the Tlntic Zenith ground, conslst-In- g opment of the ground under the diof eighteen claims and adjoining rection of the former. This lease is In the Phoebe S. the Apex Standard. Just aa Boon as the deal la oloaed, which ought to be claim, and It will be remembered within the next few days, orders will that this claim carried for its entire be placed for needed machinery and width the same ore deposit which preparations will be made for sink- made dividend payers of the Beck and Iron ing a deep working shaft. It la also Tunnel, Colorado, Siou d Blossom. While tlJiUoux people stated that the undivided Interest in the Tlntic Zenith hold- mined their part otUns ore very ings, which was held by Greely Sny- thoroughly there isClways a chance der at .the time of the Incorporation that something has been undisturbof the company, haa been turned into ed and that it will be found by leasthe company and that there la noth- ers, or that ore which years ago was ing In the way of an aggressive cam- not marketable can now be bandied at a profit. Lead and silver values paign of Work. Among the heaviest shareholders predominated in the Sioux at the In the Tlntic Zenith are George A. time the mine was such a heavy Udall and A. W. Larson, the original shipper. The comThe fact that the older workings locators of the ground. pany la capitalised for 2,000,000 of the mine are again receiving some aharea with 1,100,000 In the trea- attention and that Important developis also being done in sury, and the aale of the big block ment-work will still leave 200,000 unissued. behalf of the company, from one of the deeper levels of the Iron Blossom, ought to stimulate Interest in Buildings Being Erected which for some time has the Tintic-Davis do. been Sioux By The inactive and the stock but little John Dayia, who was in camp yes- traded In. terday from the Tlntic Davis proCo. Of North perty in North Tlntic, aaya that the Greeley and been Tintic Sinking Shift erected haa frame gallows that buildings are now being put up The Greeley Mining company, for the1 accommodation of the emproperty in the vicinity of owning Material of the company. ployees Lehl-Tlntand being controlled for these buildings waa secured from the haa commenced a Provo people old by the Daisy property. nedr the to camp of Murcur, the ompany pur- development campaign accordingTlntc North the from information ofl a large buildings couple chasing which have been ton down and the section. The shaft Is down about as lumber moved to the North lintlt far as it can be sunk by hand and preparations are being made for the section. installation of electrical machinery. The shaft on the Tintic-DaviThe Greeley' property, which was where the new machinery is to be Incontrolled by Theodore about formerly of a depth stalled, now has Nichols and associates, is now In the 78 foot is another There feet. fifty shaft on the property. George H. hands of some well known mining men of Provo, among Taylor, of Salt Lake, who is a former and business owners of stock at the resident of Eureka, is the manager the heaviest of this new company and a numoer present time being: Henry B.Heal, 8. of well known Salt Lakera are inter- Jack Boyd, J. W. Prows, Curtis and Nels Seamount. ested In the proposition. . 4 4444444 Hu Signed Zoma Has High Grade Ore On The 800 Level Number 3 Upper Of Be ek 444444444 Leased Lehl-Tlnti- ; , Ij lc 8770,-000,00- Ati - v ' if.- V |