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Show Vi $4.00 10c Per Tear. A Complete Review of the Mining Operations Per Copy Prom Newsdealers and Newsboys. ofTintie. EUREKA, JUAB COUNTY, UTAH, FRIDAY. Volume XX Eureka Bullion Company Has Resumed Operations $10,000 Reservoir To Be Constructed ...... lureka City must spend Mg sum to bring the water sys- tem up to higher standard; work to start at once. . system "which sooned oldster must be installed In Euretsa Mayor Bourne aaydhat It Is this tPleee of new work, whleh will cost $10,001, that has approximately made It necessary for Eureka City to go quite heavily Into debt at the present time. The plans eaU for a loan to the dtp of about $10,000rtha sum of $0,000 in exeess of that needed for the water system Improvements being required to take eare of the running expenses of the dtp for the remainder of the year, or until the 1010 tax money will be available. Buck Improvements as the administration has planned tor the water system would ordinarily call for a bond Issue but sll of the officers of the dtp are opposed to floating bonds under existing conditions. They fell that the money ean be repaid after the 1110 taxes are collected and that sufficient money will be left In the treaaurjr4o5U7 on the business of thqdty for another year. The new reserVptr will be located on a higher elevation than the preu better sent tanks and this fire protection, not only a larger supply of water but a much heavier pressure. The change may possibly make lower Insurance rates if the ... X AUGUST 6, 1920. Number 40 . wW-mee- matter la brought to the attention of the proper offldals of 'the insurance companies. Higi&r OmI Prion Gan Be Expected Very Boon ' 0 -When .the new freight prices go into effect the price of coal Is quite sure to bo advanced and, the people of the Untie camps should lose no time In buying fuel for the coming winter. Every winter there Is a fuel shortage In this section and yet It Is next to Impossible to Impress upon residents of Eureka the necessity of the summer purchasing eoal during ' months... Local eoal dealers state that only a small number of people have prepared for winter by storing a supply of oal. IfL'f LM Canfield Pleased With The Outlook At Yankee FIRST FARM BUREAU PRESIDENT FROM RANKS A - and-feel- s "1 j at-!?- mlll-,forV- lo accummulated;"!.!" Located By City Officers !parleldrif,,,l' rTeraJ hundfed feet apart, ago work was discontinued in one of. these drifts but the one whleh la farthest to the north haa been kept going and at a point which is fully 1500 feet from the moat easterly known ore deposits the new lone waa located. Manager Cecil Fitch states that scattered through the deposit of low grade ore which has been encountered are bunches of high grads lead and It is reasonable to suppose that by following this vein It will be possible to reach ore of commercial grade. The ore aa It is now being broken down la a low grade product but tbia may be the casing to the Chief of Police Cronin and Officers j William Boyer and Carl Fields located another still early In the week, arresting Jeddy Peterson and Bay flyer, who occupied the building In wh'ch tbe equipment for making whiskey was located. The still was ln n naMence near tbe Rio Grande depot and Peterson assumed ail responsibility by pleading guilty. He jwus fined $200 by Judge Kryger and Dyer was released. Peterson bad no with which to pay his fine j money :and was sent to Jail, but It la understood that hfa friend will come to his rescue. It appears that Peterson and Dyer are new comer In Eureka, Butte be The atl'.l Ing their former home. which Peterson admits constructing and operating was exceptionally complete. The owner waa using corn . dividend, which was declared some weeks previous. The amount was 10 cents per share and called for the distribution of $88,413.10. That sum added to the previous dividends from this company brings the grand The American Farm Bureau Federation drafted a real farmer" total up to the handsome sum of from the ranks to serve as Its first president. He Is James R. $1,788,084.47. Howard of Clemons, la. Three years ago Jim Howard was known The last dividend checks were acto bis neighbors as the best farmer in central Iowa," so they elected bim bend of tbe local County Farm Bureau. Last year tbe state companied by a brief statement from organisation selected him, and now he beads tbe national body President Walter Fitch In which he Howard grew up on the same farm where he now lives says: "The reduction In the price of tbe original quarter section now numbers 480 acres. He attendedonly school silver of nearly 88 per cent has left at Grinnell. Penn College and University of Chicago. He teaoh- last quarter practically without net UnklB'ubl11 10 yeara r,urned to active main deposit.' tbe old Notwithstanding this the now is rated one of the best la tha charge of earnings. state." directors decided to make the preThe point where this work la In sent dividend payment as the manprogress la about 1200 feet from the Chief's new shaft and It la probably agement believes it can make adjustments which will In a measure re1900 feet due north from the body Involved In Annually Big store the earnings. . It la thought of quarts which was found a few best to Issue this cautionary note to years ago when' a campaign of work ra , ln.th ?a?u , d,( other waa In progress through the work-seArguments are still being submitt- more Important caae than the pre-- 1 say that should the anticipated re800 moonshine and had about one would ever come before the sults prove disappointing the dlree-tor- e ed before the public utilities comInj o the victoria, for tha benefit the a, of tbe Plutus territory. The work may find It necessary to either mission of Utah In the case of the commission, several million dollars reduce or omit the dividend usually being Involved. Figures S8'had Jurt dump!d OTrJj0,Iworth..fj through tbs Victoria was at s depth 1 Utah Power company, which corpor- annually to the cost of producing power have VeJy m!e of 1200 feet. paid In November." ation several months ago made an at- been badly shattered by experts em-- 1 een placed on the local market but H t new sone has been located at wal preparlngfor s Brisk bum- -; tbls point in tha Chief Coni, mine It tempt to Increase rates and cancel ployed by the mining companies of Behind Says Utah sll special contracts. The largest the stale and Mr. Lucus said he hop- ness when our officers stepped ln!wm have a Tery lmporUnt bearing of the power company are ed to show that it does not cost mors and nipped bis game In the bud. jon the PlutUB because the general In Matter Of Auto Roadi customershard 0 direction of Tlntic ore bodies would fighting against tha advance in than five mills per kilowatt hour to the rates for power and It Is thought serve any user of. power at 44,000 Efforts Being Made To j take this new ore through the very John Toungstrom, who recently that the case will not be settled for voltage, and that the Utah Copper center of the Flatus holdings. returned after a trip to Colorado, 'some months yet. . A good pftrt of company, according to the power Speed Up Coal Shipments o says our state Is considerably behind ths past week was taken up with company's own figures, was being Adkinson Writes About the adjoining state In ther matter of from representatives of the served at s cost to the latter com,Tbere la quite s serious shortage In almost ev- Utah Copper company of Bingham. pany of four and three-tentroad improvements. Mining Wealth Of Utah mills of cars with which to handle the 0 ery section of Coloradp which Mr. One of ths mining company's men, per kilowatt hour based on present freight business of the state and It Is rumored that for a few weeks at Henry M. Adkinson, well known in Toungstrom vfsKed hi found road Rnssell G. Lucus, declared that no operating costs. least s larger number of empties will Tlntic where he engaged, in mining Improvements m progress not miles be sent Into the coal eamps and a and milling a few years ago, has Just of road torn unimr so one at work, smaller number to the metal mines. written the following article regardas In Utah, but hundreds of men and Oat Good Local mining men and the represen- ing the mineral weath of this" state: scores of teams and steam shovels The additions to the mineral tatives of the railroads are unable and all busy. Colorado has many sub- wealth of this nation which have on the information to any hundreds of miles of fins roads and give Tom O'KMfe, one of tha bait The material from which these conbut are not greatly alarmed as been contributed by the State of ject particular attention Is now being known mill men of th low was were s made trite! grade state, has they claim that many of the ears Utah comprise a record of which evpaid to the highways which carry the taken the superlntandency of the odqst from the old mill dump at which are being used here In Tlntic ery Utahn may he exceedingly proud, tourist travel. ' ay Day, but notwithstanding not suitable for ths transporta- and the story of this production , "The mining camps of Colorado Griggs-Hulsconcentrating plant, s fact it has been posalble to make are makes page In mining history most of coal; tion are by no 'means as prosperous as succeeding William Desson. Mr. an unusually high saving. Manager of mines coal some time tbe gratifying to every citlsen who haa Young-stroMr. For states of those Utah, OKeefe has been with the local comof the mill says that ore of "Tellurlde is perhaps in the pany for the past few months, as- Griggsgrade for milling Is now being tbe state have been operating sway Interested himself In this phase of good Most Utahns on account of the dif- our industrial life. under best condition. Some of the others, sisting in the Installation of the ma- dumped Into the bins from ths old ficultiescapacity railroads have ex- know In a general way that the minwhleh the sufferare Including Cripple Creek, Is and and mine famh chinery, thoroughly workings of the May Day has played an Imporing greatly as the result of the slump iliar with every angle of tbe concen- that the necessary connections have perienced In moving the eoal and ing industry months tant part in the development of the few a with now winter only la the price of sliver and the high trating game. been made to enable the leasing comare being msda to speed state's wealth, but exact knowledge mining costs. Borne excellent concentrates have pany to draw ore from the Yankee. sway efforts of and stave off a serious concerning the accomplishments up production already been made although s part Three shifts are being organised for eoal shortage during December, Jan- the Industry Is lacking. The mors of ths present week has been taken the mill and within a very few days and February. specific knowledge of the Importance up with the usual adjustments fol- the first lot of concentrates should uary of the mining Industry to the state a lowing ths starting of s new plant. be ready for the market. be had, following figures have Pinion Queen Company Will may been compiled from data supplied by Drift On 900 Foot Level the United States Geological Survey: Tintic Paymaster Will Officers Drive Gypsy Utah has produced In gold, silver, Sink Deeper In Vein . The Pinion Queen Mining company lead, copper and sine, from X86S to Band Outside City Limits o inclusive 81,047,000,000. Bingo , is one of the East Tlntic concerns A bunch of gypsies, traveling in ' Work of cutting s new station on which will be able to weather ham, the oldest camp, has yielded In level of tha Tlntic Pay-- through the financial difficulties of all these metals, from 1868 to 1918, high power ears, Instead of the old the 400-fovehicles, drifted master of North Tlntic will be com-Int- o the year. According to officials of 9419.000.- 000. Tlntic has produced style hone-draw- n town on Wednesday and werejpletcd this week, according to H. Q. the company the treasury now con- up to 1918 $180,000,000. Park City doing ai thriving fortune telling busl- -. Snyder. Aa soon aa the station la tains sufficient money for a contin- has produced to 1918 8169,000,000. other districts have totaled ness until they were driven out of cut sinking on the yeln will bo start-tow- n uation of tha development campaign Forty-si-x that evening by Chief of Police ed and pushed with all reasonable which has been In progress for some $146,000,000. Even with this magnificent record Dan It appears that one speed. time. Two shifts are busy In the The Tlntic Paymaster Is adequate-Thompson- 's shaft, now down to a depth of 780 of accomplishment Utah men do not of the women called at Heffdrnan- store and after purchas-jl- y equipped, has already Installed ms feet, and It Is understood that at the strive to let the world know what 900 foot level sinking will be stopp- has already been done, and of tbe Ing s few small artleles from Yard chlnery and has ample power the clerk! ties for reaching any desired depth, ed temporarily while the country Is enormous possibilities that lie In the future. As. an example of the posout $80 whleh was taken from the .according to Mr. Snyder, although It crosscut to some extent. sibilities the specific accomplisho till to lend the proper sentiment and Is believed that the second ments of individual mines sack as ment of the vein will be encountered to the fortune-tellin- g Ice Plant Is Churchs the Utah Copper, the Silver King stunt which the gypsy worked. The Operating At Capacity Coalition, the Ontario, the Chief money was not missed until closing Consolidated and more recently the o time at night when the matter was John Church states that he Is now Tlntic Standard, may be taken. These reported to the officers. A search lea plant at Its full ca- particular performances are merely of the gypsy camp convinced the ofMr. and Mrs. John Youngstrom, operating his over five ton of lee typical Instances of what may be ficers that the woman who took the who left Eureka a few pacity, making years ago, money had gotten out of town In one have returned and will again take np each day, and that a iargerjjnonnt done In doxens of other properties, of the cars. There was nothing that their residence here. Mr. Young- could be sold it ft eojJMnndi. A given the same careful management the onfpefbithe plant Is now and the proper financing at the outcould bo done toward the recovery of strom to his former posi- part ofsent to Pay son, the plant st set. Certainly citizens of Utah can the money so the officers did the tion atreturning being the Gemini mine, where he not next best thing and. booted every served as master mechanic for a that being large enough to point with pride to the states replace long care of the lee business of that cord, showing a mineral production take member of the tribe but of town and time. Blnee leaving Eureka Mr. and of more than, fl, 000, 000, 000, and to tha next gypsies who hit camp will Mrs. Yonngstrom have lived in Pro- city and snrronndlng territory. Church's plant Is employing two the facts that Salt Lake City Is tha no donbt be similarly treated. vo and Salt recently returning ice men and turning out greatest smelting center In the It has since been learned that this to the state Lake, after an extended auto experienced that the mines of Utah and ice. of world, excellent an of grade fortnne tellers tnnch particular Colorado, where they through trip more than shareholders o have paid out of of many the have relatives. has been driven 1200.000.- 000 In dividends. DEATH OF INFANT CHILD, Utah towns. In fact most of the largo er towns will not allow these wandBENNION NOT CANDIDATE. ONLY A FEW VACANCIES. Cleo, the infant daughter of Mr. ering grafters to stop. o and Mrs. Lawrence Stapley of Mam, Hon. Harden Bennlon, eeeretary Prof. I. L. Williamson states that moth died last week, following MAMMOTH SCHOOL CENSUS. his list of teachers for the coming lllnese of about one month. Bishop of state, who has been prominently O D. 8. Church at mentioned as a democratic candidate Tha school census for Mammoth school year Is almost complete, there Chatwln BJbo-L- T' of the funeral j for governor, will not be out for vacancies had four or three that but charge place has been completed, showing 187, being children of school age, which Is an which will be filled within the next services. The interment took place either the gubernatorial post nor to succeed himself. la the Eureka cemetery. increase of about 8 5. over last year., week or two. i ; i I , Millions Power Case I nt ! !'; ie Ii , hs Turning Grade of Concentrates h t TRY fEfeDlMG HEffl lilt ot faclll-Zabriskl- e, flim-flamm- ed enrich-lnsplrstl- .X 'O' 4l May HW New Ore Channel Manager Canfield of the Yankee Consolidated Mining company was In Eureka during the present week and while here made an inspection of the have Griggs-Huls- h new concentrating1 Important developments taken place on the 1800 level plant, whleh is now in successful op-- j eratlon. Mr. Canfield la exception-- ! of this mine; new discovery ally pleased with the new mill will help Plutus. that through Its operation the o Yankee will derive considerable! What Is thought to be an entirely revenue as the owners of the mill . . . . rne have a learn on the olhrklug. of ha the Yankee and expect b?dln,i of th draw a big: ed! cn",dated company It la tonnage of low grade or. from the t0 early ,Ta any defl t property. The Yankee has never fearflBf thla( ew tempted to do anything with Its !L lug ores which have be by far the moat important deIn its workings during the many to of In minlocal the year years that the mine has been In op- velopment matters. ing eration. For some time the Chief Cons, o people have been pushing out toward Well Equipped Still Is the east on their 1800 level, two During the past week mining operations were resumed at the Eureka Bullion property, following a brief shut-dowfor machinery repairs, during which time some of the employees of the company topr i vacation. The- -' officers ofJdfe company to state that it is thmnrlntentlon hasten the underground work Just as mueh as possible, being of the opinion that they now have sufficient depth and need only to more thoroughly prospect their ground. Manager John Bestlemyer will remain at the property and give his undivided attention to this campaign of development. Mayor Boom ud numbers of the etty Connell state that engineers are preparing plana for the new concrete reservoir, which will take the place of the tanks now ln'ues ns a part of the dtp water system, and that the aetaal eonitr uctlon' of this reservoir will bo commenced at an early data. The new reservoir, which will have a greater capacity than the tanks Chief Coni. Company now In use, is badly needed to bring Pays Regular Amount tha dtp's water system up to the pro per standard of efficiency. This On Tuesday of this week the sharereservoir will bo a permanent Imreprovement and It might be termed holders of the Chief Consolidated, checks ceived the for last water quarterly mueh better a of nucleus the - t . |