Bingham Bulletin | 1921-01-28 | Page 8 | Development Curtailed at Knight Properties

DEVELOPMENT CURTAILED AT KNIGHT PROPERTIES Reports from the Knight' mines of this district indicate, according to the Eureka Reporter, that the work is con-1 fined largely to taking out ore, but little attention being paid to development develop-ment work. Practically all of the work at the Dragon 'Consolidated property prop-erty is in the hands of the smelting company and the Tintlc .Milling company. com-pany. The smelter people are mining a nice tonnage, of Iron ore, handling It under a regular - leasing agreement which gives the mining company a fixed royalty. The operations of the Tintic Mining company are in the! other end of the property, where a large amount of low-grade ore is exposed. ex-posed. At the Iron Blossom the lessees are responsible for the ore which is now being placed on the market, their operations extending to all of the older workings of the mine. One important im-portant piece of development work is being handled by the company men, and that is the drift on the 220U level, which is being driven out toward to-ward the southeast for the purpose of cutting ground which is directly below be-low a big quartz vein which crops to thu surface. Officers of the Iron Blossom, consider this a very important impor-tant piece of prospecting.