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Show vr MOO Per Tear. lOe Per Copy A Complete Review of the From Newsdealers aiyj Newsboys. Mining Operations of Tintie. - Volume XXI EUBEKA, JUAB COUNTY, UTAH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1921. North Btudard Prepares More New Klaclunery Another large electrically compressor will soon be installed; preparations being made to sink No. S shaft op-erat- ed Manager E. J. Raddats reports the Tintie Stindird mine in exceptionally fine .condition, with many improvements under way and a plentiful and efficient supply of labor. A short time ago the company, in preparations for the sinking of another large working shaft, placed an Order for new machinery including one of the largest compressors that has ever been shipped into the state for -- C- . mine use. This compressor will have a capacity of 1,000 cubic feet of free air per minute and like Jte other be eleo-b- e machinery of the needed trlcally driven. It in order that the campaign of development) planned by the officers of fhe, ipany, can be not known when carried out. IC sinking will be taken up at the new No. 3 shaft as there Is quite a lot of preliminary work which must be taken care of before the shaft is started. New County Officers Took Charge On Monday To Drift On 1000 Level For Tintk Standard - - The new ore house, which has been under construction for some weeks, has been completed. It is a commodious structure and will facilitate the handling of ore, particularly milling ore which will soon be moving, In large quantities, toward the new mill. When asked regarding the new mill Manager Raddats said that the plant is hardly ready to go into commission. Another weeks work, perhaps a little more, will be needed to put the plant in running order. Connection has been made between the No. I shaft and the new workings of the Tintie Standard at a depth of 1800 feet, this making the second connection between these two points, the other connecting drift being on the 1000 level. This second connection, made recently, has resulted in better ventilation in the big (topes from which the heavy tonnage of ore is now coming. When asked regarding the development work in the south end of the Tintie Standard Mr. Raddats said that two drifts are being driven on the 1000 level of the No. 1 shaft and that it is his Intention to take up another piece of drifting on the 1200 level. Last year the company did considerable work with a diamond drill and located some ore which will now be cut by drifting operations. - Copy Of Mining BUI Signed By The President e The bill signed last week by President Wilson extending the time to July 1. 1111. for performance of annual assessment work on mining claims for 1020 reads as follows: "That the period within which work may be performed or improvements made for the year 1920 upon mining claims, as required under section 2124 of the revised statutes of the United States, is hereby extended to and including the first day of July, 1121, so that work done or Improvements made upon any mining claim in the United States or Alaska on or before July 1, 1921, shall have the same effect as if the same had been performed within the calendar year of 1920; provided that this act shall not in any way change or modify the requirements of Misting law as to work to be done or Improvements made upon mining claims for the year 1921." o Stock sales and shipments will be found on page I. A depth of 1900 feet has now been reached in the shaft of the North Standard company and it is understood that a station will soon be cut out and other preparations made for prospecting some of the Mg breaks which, by all the rules of the mining game, should carry the ore. Manager John Manson says that the shaft has been in a most promising dolomite lime formation for some distance, the ground being unusually favorable to ore deposition, and he feels confident that the North Standard will find something of value on the 1000, which Is about equal to the 1200 level In the Untie Standard property, the North Standard being 200 feet lower on the formation. Railroad Seeking Even Heavier Toll From Mines During 'the week a hearing was commenced before the public utilities commission in the case of the Balt Lake Route, seeking a change In. Its tariff providing a revision of classification on ores. It appears that the railroad now wants to fix freight charges in accordance with the actual value of the ore instead of estimated values. The proposition will of course be opposed by some of the mining companies. It has always been difficult to under-stan- d just why a railroad should crack" the mines for extra money on the higher grade ores. It certainly dont cost any more to haul a carload of high grade' ore than it does to move the lower grade material. - Mayor Boone Calls Road Meeting for Monday and OFFERS SOLUTION OF . FARM LABOR PROBLEMS A Colorado farmer has just offered a solution of the farm labor problem. He has written to the governor of his state telling about his plan. It is simple: Let every former have two wives. One could help the other and naturally there will soon be more boys on the form. UNCLE JOE HAS SERVED LONGEST IN CONGRESS Out With Statement Sd ChStae 7 Hues servo of oat aa sasaptrod term from tho First ms- - Nicholes Working North Tintio Mining Property r Lehl-TIn-t- ic Stock-Exchang- . mt DaavSU. Ill-- , has last rounded out his wmr aa a member of U. S. Congress, establishing a new old May 7. The previous reeord nZttoJoe will be II Ver-h-a by Jastla Smith Merrill of riissmi was 9 ssoeths The 24 picture sad days. asrvadOS years. aew baby" of the Boase of Represents- -' widen out the highway, eliminate some of the sharp curves and cut down or avoid steep grades. Mayor Bourne and the members of the city council are interested and the mayor has called a meeting as stated. It is not for Eureka ' City to improve this road, which is outside the city limits, but the officers want to give the .movement their support in any way possible. The bulk of the work will naturally fall upon the business men who can no doubt count upon the assistance of Utah county and perhaps some help from the mines. The question of a first class road in the East Tlntlc section Is a vital ofie for Eureka and it is hoped that business men will not fall to attend the meeting on Monday night. The following statement has been George Nicholes, who for so many Issued to the stockholders by the di- years was manager of the mining property of North Tlntlc, rectors of the Lehi Tlntlc company: Is now devoting his attention to a of On the 30th day December, 1920, your directors met and levied group of claims which adjoin the an assessment of 1 cent per share, former ground. Mr. Nicholes was In town a few days ago and says that payable on or before January 31, he Is busy putting up buildings and 1921, on the capital stock of the corother surface work for which doing poration. he will receive credit on this years The levy of this assessment was assessment. The property Is known delayed by reason of frivolous suits as the Nlcholes-Tlntl- c and it Is said brought by George Nicholes. These to compare quite favorably with the suits so for. have been to question Lehl-Tlntground. the acts, not of the present directors, o but o the board of directors at the time George Nicholes was in con- Selma Mines Wins Title trol. So far he or the people in the To Eleven Tintie Claims name of whom the suits have been not successful. been have brought, The recent suit, to question the vallrm Mines company was ginn idity of the stock being assessable, judgment last week In the district was dismissed by the court. ciiuit at Provo in a suit to "Tour directors regret very much till, to 11 mining claims in the i!.-ti- c Mining District Costs were asthat by reason of the acts of George Nicholes the stockholders are com- sessed against the plaintiffs, George pelled to pay attorneys fees, but the G. Bywater, Arthur E. Moreton and officers have exhausted every effort Ray Van Cott. The claims are loto meet any reasonable desire Mr. cated In the North Tintie District the Tlntlc Nicholes might have. . Paymaster adjoining "Since the annual meeting when ground. the new development work was decided upon, your superintendent has Proposed New York energetically pushed the developMarket For Silver ment work; the power line has been the transformer station extended; A fixed price on silver, the addiand the compressor plant moved to the portal of the new working tun- tion to silver bullion quotations to nel No. 4; new hoisting machinery those of shares and brads on the and the has been installed; two carloads of New York shaft timbers delivered at the mine, inauguration of an educational camand all supplies of coal, explosives, paign on the silver situation were etc., laid in for the winter. The new advocted at the monthly meeting of shaft which is being sunk under con- the American Institute of Mining tract is progressing in a most econ- and Metallurgical Engineers held in, The New York, says the Financial Reomical and efficient manner. shaft is now down 220 feet and pro-es- s view. This organisation has a memis being made at the rate of bership of 10,000. Charles Woodward jWheelock, a four feet a day. Judging from the slope of the master vein, the shaft prominent consulting engineer of should cut this fissure at a depth New York, who proposed a silver from 250 to 300 feet; and while a bullion market on the New York contract has been let for 600 feet of 8 tors' Exchange, read a carto ly shaft, indications art that some com- pjcpsred paper on. the silver im.r-ke-t mercial ore Should be opened around of the world. the 250 foot level. . The directors realise that asset GOVERNMENT MAN WILL ments bear heavy on the stockholdCHECK UP INCOME BLANKS . o ers, but with the purchase of new An income tax representative wUl equipmens and high costs of materials it has taken considerable money be la Eureka during the coming for development, but as the peak of week for the purpose of investigatloMgh costs is now passed more work ing some of the reports made by can be accomplished, for less money. cal people for the year 1919. It Is stated quite a number foiled to 'The policy of your directors of report that and that there will be sou infines levied. keeping the stockholders fully formed as to development at the Those who will be forced to make mine will be continued and we hope out blanks for the year Just past, to have more encouraging news la and who are in need of information with reference to proper deductions, the near future." should Interview this man during his stay in Eureka. a Bupt. John Wieaterdghl of the tic Standard line transacted Fitch of the Chief Cedi Manager ness at Salt Laki and Cons, mine returned last evening af' ter a business trip to Balt Lake. Thursday. . :OT-- Last Monday at Nephl the old board of commissioners met and closed up their business and promptly at noon turned over the county government to their successors. The retiring members of the board are F. J. Bonner and Oscar Andrus and the new members John G. Bunnell; of Eureka, and William G. Orme, of Nephl. Mr. Orme was named as the chairman of the new board. Several of the county officers made appointments, which were confirmed by the new board. Sheriff Martin named as his deputies: P. P. Chrlstison tor Nephl,1 Angus McDonnell for Eureka, Carl G. Miller for Silver City, Joseph 8a bey for Calleo and Tom Bailey for court baliff. E. W. Redmond will act as deputy assessor for Eureka and the work at Mammoth and 8ilver City will be handled by Robert W. Nesblt. A number of applications have been submitted for the position of road commissioner for Tlntlc, among them being those of Herbert Hopes, James Morgan, James Beddlngfield. R. H. Towers and David Green halgh No appointment has yet been made. Members of the new board of county commissioners, together with the assessor and treasurer, have been asked to attend a meeting at Salt Lake during the coming week, this meeting will be attended by county officers from all parts of the state and by the governor and members of the board of equalisation. Many matters of vital Interest will be up for discussion. Another meeting of the Juab county board will be held later In the present month. . Realising the need of a much better auto rdad from Eureka to the mines of the East Tlntlc District, particularly to the Tintie Standard mine, Mayor H. H. Bourne has called a meeting of business men, mining men and others who are interusUd In this matter, the date and place Victoria Eagle of the meeting being next Monday evening at 9 oclock at the city hall. Last year the business men of EuMalang Good Record reka, with the help of some of the East Tintie mines and an approprifrom the commissioners of Mines dosed month of Decem- ation Utah county, constructed a road to section but the limited amount ber with more then 100 car- that available for the work prevented the loads, notwithstanding the completion of the road, or rather made It necessary to cheapen the nadal. holiday shutdown. Job. Now the business men of the 0 camp feel that the time hue come to In the matter of ore shipments December was the biggest month in the past year for the Eagle A Blue Lehi Tintie Officer! Bell and Victoria, and notwithstanding the loss of some time on account of the holiday shutdown, these properties sent out mn r one hundred carloads of ore. Both mines are under the control m the Bingham Mines company, an 9 eastern corporation, and work Is all handled through the one shaft that of the Eagle. There have been months In the history of the Eagle A Blue Bell when more ore has been shipped but It Is doubtful if there has ever been the same quantity of high grade ore placed on the market in a single month. The fact of the matter is that under existing conditions ore must be of excellent grade to admit of any profit, and while the Eagles output for December was large it does not mean that the mine was. able to earn a large'sum of money. Mining costs have been lowered to some extent at the Eagle A Blue Bell mine, this being the result of greater efficiency on the part of the labor employed. Miners are again plentiful and the company has been able to resume development work on a number of levels where it Is thought new ore will be found. Number 10. (S e ic Mine Chairman In Favor Of Relief o Appreciates the need of 'the mining industry and will ask for additional tariff on lead; present tariff too small. D. C.. Jan. 4. WASHINGTON, The mining industry of tho country said Representative is suffering," Rhodes of Missouri, chairman of the house committee on mines and mining, to a representative of the AmOn the reerican Mining Congress. organization of the committee and my assumption of the chairmanship I stated to the committee members after reviewing mining conditions generally that it was my hope that our committee could do something to relieve conditions. While the committee has not gone so far as to agree upon any definite line of action, its members are In sympathy with the suggestion that something should be done to relieve conditions as for as possible. There are other bills before the committee relating to mining matters which will be taken up the first of the year." Although Mr. Rhodes said the annual gold output is decreasing in a most alarming manner, and, in fact, production of all precious metals is diminishing, he reserved comment on the McFadden gold excise premium bill. Mr. Rhodes says he understands the mining situation, as he has studied It from a practical standpoint for thirty years, having lived all of his life in. a mining section, which he says is the greatest lead mine region in the world. Discussing the lead situation Mr. Rhodes said that he will ask the ways and means com- mittee during the forthcoming tariff hearings to impose a duty of lHc per pound on metallic content of lead, in order to protect the American lead Industry. He said all the lead companies are either closing down or posting notices reducing wages from 20 to 80 per cent, effective January 1st, on account of the low price of lead. He also deplored, the decline in copper prices. - Bays Work Will Be Taken Up At The Independence - Grand Central Is Again Operating Mine will work small force and handle only the higher grade ore; reopening of mine good news for people of Tintie. o On Monday of resumed after a thin week work was at the Grand Central mine shut-dow- n of some weeks. W. the local tnanager of the property, says that he now has a force of about thirty men, having cut oft as much of the overhead expense as possible. By strict economy it is hoped that mining operations can tontlnue and that it will be possible to make some small profits on the work. The companys officers have planned to devote their attention to the 900 and levels above this point, and will make no effort to mine ore from the lower levels of the There is a vast amount property. of ore on the lower levels of the Graiid Central but much of it is low grade and in some instances the values are largely 'in copper, hence the ore cannot be handled at a profit under existing conditions. Tlntlc people, particularly those In the Mammoth end of the district, are pleased to learn of the. reopening of the Grand Central. W. D. Loose says that five sets of lessees are at work In the Gold Chain mine, which is under the same management as the Grand Central. D. Lcose, Work Is Suspended At Eureka Lily Property Announcement is made by General Manager Grant Snyder of the Eureka Lily that operations have been temporarily suspended. The company during recent months, according to Mr. Snyder, has been under heavy expense to discharge indebtedness contracted several years ago in taking options on' claims which resent estate. constitute part of This month the company has paid out 97500 on these options. A sum of 95000 was paid out this week, according to Mr. Snyder, which leaves the property totally free of indebtedness with all of its claims patented. During the temporary suspension of work necessary repairs to the boiler and other machinery will be made so that when the company decides to start work it can readily be done. ' thf e Mining Suits Set For Hearing In Provo Court Among the many suits for the settlement of titles to mining ground, set for hearing in the district court at Provo, are the following: Selma Mines company vs. Chief Consolidated Mining company, Feb. 2nd; Tlntlc Paymaster Mines company vs. Tlntlc Empire Mining company, Feb. Srd; Theo. Nicholes et al Chief Consolidated Mining company, Feb. 4th; North Lily Mining company vs. Chief Consolidated Mining company, Feb. 9th; Jos. Mlchllch et al vs. Tintie Standard Mining company, Feb 9th. o EUREKA PEOPLE INTERESTED IN NEW UTAH OIL FIELD Just now there is a decided movement among the oil speculators of the country to investigate and prospect along the line of country in what is known as the San Rafael Swell in Emery county, southwest of Price, and west of Green River, where it is claimed by many oil experts who have gone over the Indications that a tremendous dome of oil bearing country is shown by the Much ' of the country formation. along the swell has beenfocated under the recent oij andas prospecting bill, and amongothers several secured locaEureka people tions, among thCm being William Douglass, Thomas McCormick, Edward Pike, Mary H. Driscoll, David Mills, George Owens, J. H. McGhan and Ed. Bonner. Mrs. McHatton and Mrs. Winnie Anderson, former Eureka residents, have also secured locations. The Standard Oil company and many smaller companies have acquired substantial holdings in the same locality, and much work will be done this summer to determine the merits of the country for oil. !bn Alex Mattson states that preparations are now being made for the resumption of mining operations at the property of the Independence company of East Tlntlc. The company sunk the main shaft to a depth of 200 feet before being forced to stop work late last year, owing to the difficulty in raising money, but it is stated that the outlook is a little more promising for this property and that sinking will be taken up race more. The Independence is looked upon with favor by local people, who are the heaviest stockholders in the company. STATE OF UTAH WILL RIVE MINING ENGINEER SAYS ALLEN STATE LEGISLATURE TO O COMMENCE WORK JAN. I0TH Reporta of the United States civil O' Next Monday Is the date set for service bureau show then will soon the opening of the state legislature be appointed a mining engineer for and already members of the two Utah, who may be either a metal branches are gathering at Salt Lake. mining engineer or of the branch enPrevious to Monday the two gaged In coal mining, according to branches, or rather the members of Carl A. Allen, state mine Inspector the party in control, will meet for for Utah. Mr. Allen Is anxious to the purpose of agreeing upon offi- have this position filled by a Utahn cers and those who are to fill the and is nrging ellgtbles to take the various appointive positions. There examination now open. The examare seven Democrats hi the state ination is given by the applicant senate but the unterrlfled are scarce as bens teeth In the lower filing papers at any time and sendbranch of the legislative body. ing them to Washington, D. C. ' - V |