Show E I 1 Rail datz has faith in north F 0 mining man who made tintic is confident that will also find larg large e ore bodies in north tintic property 0 in the saturday issue ol 01 the deb eret news there is a lengthy story regarding the life and works of 0 b L J the manager ot of the tin tic standard mine at thia this place th the article is from the pen ot of ben ban hite who is writing weekly articles of some of the more prominent of 0 utah people the entire story on mr is interesting enough to demand publication in our columns but lack of space holds us down to few paragraphs mr air hite says that mr at the age of sixty five rich hearty and vigorous is fairly content with the one great achievement the making of one of the greatest lead silver mines in the west et there is still another ambition tugging at qt his heart strings which will un follow the same dogged determination that marked the his tory of the standard unless sooner verified by complete justini cation ot of his fixed convictions he will pursue this intense argin thought until his hand falls palsied to the desk and his brain refuses refuse longer to function he proposes to prove that the north beck will be a great mine thus extending the al ready formidable distances of the mining district and demon it beyond all cavil or carp ae as one of the greatest mining dis tracts ta of the world in speaking of the tintic gintic stand ard mr is quoted as sa ing my friends laughed in my face and pronounced me crazy when I 1 bonded the property in 1907 tor for 75 they had produced over in west tintic gintic but everyone scouted the idea that there could be ore in east tintic gintic I 1 fell in love with the aroun I 1 the very first day I 1 saw it and I 1 se cured an option on it that very day the formation seemed to me to be identical with that of the west end of the district and I 1 tell you I 1 was absolutely sure from the beginning that ore was there I 1 had no more than got started than the panic of 1907 hit us and I 1 can tell you it was some storm to weather I 1 bad had to meet payments on my option as well as secure money tor for mine operations I 1 sold some stock here and some to a few friends I 1 had bad in milwaukee these last are still with me but many of my asso dates clates here gave up and quit I 1 stay ed with my job over in stockton and put every cent I 1 could rake or scrape into the standard after seven years of hard discouraging work we took out our first car of ore decem december ber 1913 which netted us 1 up to 1916 we levied 19 assessment assess men q and that was the last in that beir we ran into the ore I 1 had always been looking for and knew was there I 1 say knew it because I 1 had always had that firm conviction that amounted to a certainty it was a vast body of high grade silver lead ore and we are still mining in it I 1 don t know how much we have got it breaks out in all directions and gets better as we go since that original strike the mine has prodie ed and has only stai stait t ed from 2 cents the stock reach ed a high point of 7 and something I 1 think in 1920 now then I 1 have accomplished ol I 1 what I 1 had set my heart upon 1 I have demonstrated a great mine and added untold possibilities to the gintic tintic district I 1 have much the same feeling tor for the north beck beek as I 1 had tor for the standard and I 1 hope before I 1 pass out to prove that there is another great mine |