| Show nearly cars of shipped in 1922 0 tintic gintic district makes a wonderful record for the year just drawing to a close but output falls short of 1921 0 in most of the mining district of 0 the west the years 1921 and 1922 will go down in history as lean periods due to the general business depression but because of the tact fact that tintic s mines are primarily silver sliver producers there was no slow ing up of production in this district our mines closed 1921 with a total of carloads of ore to their credit and figures which have just been compiled show that the present year so near its close will compare quite favorably with the previous one A total of thirty five mines were in the list of shippers for the year 1922 and the amount of ore which these properties have produced up to this date Is about carloads or approximately tons without a doubt the salvation of the silver mining districts such as tintic gintic has been the pittman act without this stabilizing measure tor for silver that metal would have been selling throughout the year at somewhere near the present foreign price and that means that some of the ore which our properties have been mining would not have paid ita its way on account of the high mining costs which now exist the repurchase of silver by the government it at 1 per ounce has given silver mines a measure of prosperity which they could not otherwise have enjoyed unfortunately the time Is fast approaching when the metal must be sold at a lower figure ind and it remains to be seen how well continued on page 5 nearly cars car ore shipped in 1922 continued from page 1 our mines can weather through the chief consolidated mine leads the list of shippers for the year 1922 with nearly 2400 carloads over forty carloads tor for every week in the year aud and the tintic gintic standard is a rather close second other heavy shippers are the eagle blue bell victoria grand central lion blos som and colorado the shipments from the tintic gintic properties for the year are as tol fol lows chief cons 2382 standard 2108 iron blossom colorado 47 eagle blue bell victoria grand central dragon swansea centennial eureka 13 i gemini 89 mammoth 79 bullion beck deck BJ tintie drain tunnel 43 ampire mines 38 alaska at sunbeam IS 19 american star 18 iron king 13 eureka hill 12 sioux 10 showers 6 eureka mines 5 yankee 6 5 star cons 3 joe bowers 3 gold chain 2 tintic gintic mill slag 2 lady aspenwall 2 may day 2 little may 2 silver park I 1 tintic mill dust 1 republic 1 uncle sam 1 julia lane 1 eureka metallurgical Metallurgic alCo co I 1 geo castleton assay cleanup I 1 total carloads caro Eads chief lime rock carloads |
