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Mile-Long Tunnel for Motor Traffic in Utah

THE National Park Service, of the US Department of the Interior, announces that reports from the field are to the effect that the spectacular mile-long tunnel, which is being driven through the sandstone walls of Zion Canyon, in Utah, is nearing completion. The contractors are advancing this tunnel at the rate of 37 ft. per day. It is now about 80 per cent completed and is expected to be finished in another month. The tunnel is a part of the Zion-Mount Carmel Highway which the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads is engaged in building for the National Park Service.

August 4, 1928— Engineering and Mining Journal

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for MARCH 30, 1929 Mining Journal

Tunneling for Zion Park Scenic Highway
By T. J. WELCKER, Dooly Block, Salt Lake City. Methods used and equipment employed in this hugh tunnel project hold much of interest to
mining and civil engineers.

During the past two or three years, enterprising tourists have brought back enthusiastic accounts of the wonderfully picturesque country found in Southwestern Utah, in Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon, and Cedar Breaks; of the natural beauty of the Kaibab National Forest, and of the grandeur of the trip which terminates on the north rim of the Grand Canyon of Arizona.

The glowing sandstone statuary of the region has been pictured in all the brilliance of its remarkable coloring by auto-chrome photography, and an increasing number of tourists visit this wild, new country, every season. It is 850 miles southwest of Salt Lake City on the Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad, which one leaves at Lund, taking a branch line to Cedar City.
Much has already been done in opening automobile highways, as shown by the accompanying section of a Utah road map. At the present time, a large program of improvement is under way to shorten distances between strategic points, and to open up new vistas and regions of wilderness beauty.

With Cedar City as the base, the three parks are all easily reached by good roads, but in each case the route must be retraced via Cedar City. To shorten the distance to the Grand Canyon and to cut the necessary travel between parks to a minimum, it was decided to make a loop of the road system. By constructing a cutoff from Springdale to Mt. Carmel, approximately 26 miles in length, the distance to Bryce Canyon is reduced from 159 miles, as at present, to 88 miles, while the distance to Cedar Breaks, now 140 miles by road, will be cut down to 70. The distance to the Grand Canyon will be reduced from 142 miles by road to just over 100 miles.

This new road runs through exceedingly rugged, broken country, and includes approximately two miles of tunneling. The first tunnel, described in this article, is a little over one mile in length, and is included in the first and second sections now being built. The balance of the tunneling comes in shorter lengths, in the third section, which will not be started until the present two are completed. Besides tunneling through vertical canyon walls, and building a number of bridges, it was necessary to make very heavy fills and cuts the entire distance, with proper provisions for drainage. The United States Government Bureau of Public Roads, Mr. French, district chief, has the first three sections, which are not quite eight miles in length, while the State of Utah will build the remainder, outside the limits of the National Park.

At the government end of the road, the Nevada Contracting Co. of Fallon, Nevada, is handling the job. Mr. E. S. Berney is president and general manager at Fallon, while Stanley Bray is superintendent, and Richard Scott is in direct charge of the tunnel work. The contract price of the job is $604,000.

Work was started more than a year ago. Section No. 1 of the job consisted of building a road up the practically vertical walls of the canyon, involving a climb of 3,000 feet in approximately 8 miles. The road winds back and forth up the slope, making seven different switchbacks in its course to the base of the perpendicular cliff, where the tunnel through the cliff begins. The second section includes the tunnel proper, which is about 5,600 feet in length.

Details of Approach Work
Some idea of the magnitude of the approach road may be gained when it is known that more than 460,000 cubic yards of overhaul alone were required. For the rock drilling required on the approach work, a Sullivan 810-ft. vibration-less type compressor was employed, together with two other portables. Many immense loose boulders were encountered, which had to be drilled, also in some places solid rock had to be removed. Excavation was handled with three gasoline shovels. The sandstone disintegrates into a powdery sand, making haulage difficult. A number of different types of motor trucks were employed, those with pneumatic tires giving the best results in the sandy section.

Owing to the difficulties of haulage up the terrific grade, it was necessary to adopt some other method of getting the heavy machinery for tunneling up to the location selected for the tunnel portal. An aerial cableway one thousand feet in length was resorted to, giving a 700-ft. rise in this distance. A 40-ft. tower was erected at the top of the slope under the base of the cliff to land the machinery properly. Drills, transformers, compressors, shovels, motors, etc., were handled by this means.

Tunnel Started from Side Galleries
Conditions at the site selected for the tunnel portal made it impossible to begin drilling at this point. To overcome this difficulty, galleries were opened on the tunnel grade line, along the face of the cliff. In some cases scaffolding was erected at the top of the talus slope at the base of the cliff; in other cases working platforms were suspended (hung) from the summit of the cliff itself. The scaffolds varied in height from 80 to 90 feet. The first gallery heading or opening is shown in the illustration on page 10. When the first gallery reached the tunnel line, a heading was turned, and driven to the tunnel portal.

The headings were driven on the grade line of the tunnel, 5 x 10 feet in size, starting in each direction from the galleries (of which two were opened up at first). The completed size of the tunnel is 22 feet in width by 16 in height. As soon as the headings were sufficiently advanced, Butler shovels, operated by compressed air, were installed for mucking. When the main portal was opened up, a Bucyrus-Erie air-gas shovel was brought in and made more rapid progress in the mucking.

Prior to this time, a scraper slide had also been employed in the pilot tunnel, equipped with a Sullivan “HDA-2’ Turbinair double drum slusher hoist. Air was supplied by two Sullivan “WJ3” Angle Compound compressors, and each operated by a 125 h. p. Fairbanks-Morse electric motor. Electric power is furnished by the Dixie Power Company from their hydroelectric station at LaVerkin, on the Virgin River, twenty-five miles distant.

The portable compressors were used to supply air for the drills for a period of about two and a half months, before the transmission line was completed, and the electrical equipment started up. Later, the Sullivan “WK-314” compressor was used as a “booster,” or auxiliary supply behind the Bucyrus-Erie shovel.

Tunnel Enlargement
After the 5 x 10 pilot heading is sufficiently advanced, the tunnel is enlarged to full diameter and height by a modification of the ring drilling system, first used at the Moffat tunnel in Colorado. As shown by the illustration on page 10, several columns are set at regular intervals on the center line of the tunnel. These columns are equipped with arms on which are mounted stoping drills, such as the Sullivan “DU-48” water jet stoper, of the self-rotating type, with reverse feed cylinder, as shown in the picture. The mounting is equipped with a quadrant plate with lines radiating from a center at uniform angles. All of the holes required for one round were drilled from a single setting of the column in the same plane, as shown in the illustration. Several drills could be used at the same time from different columns in this way, and this worked progressed very rapidly.

In this work, the softness of the sandstone permitted rapid drilling progress. The Sullivan stoper in a single 8-hour shift put in as many as 45 seven-foot holes, a total of 815 feet.

For ventilation and to a certain extent for light, six galleries are being opened up throughout the length of the tunnel from the tunnel line to the edge of the cliff, the length of the galleries varying in each case according to the nature of the rock, and the contour of the cliff wall. They range from 60 to 120 feet in length and are from 800 to 1200 feet apart. They are being opened sufficiently large to permit an automobile to turn in them. The tunnel is driven on a 5 per cent grade, rising from the western or portal end to the eastern end, a distance of nearly 300 feet in height.

Muck cars are pulled from the face by means of Sullivan “HA-2” compressed air portable hoists, as the 5 per cent grade is too steep for hand pushing. The cars were brought out to the face of the cliff through the galleries, and there dumped. By proper placing of pulleys and sheaves, cars were handled readily from either direction.

It was thought at first that the rock in the tunnel would stand without timbering. Owing, however, to its softness and ease of disintegration, it was found necessary to timber a considerable portion of its length.

The view from the side galleries, out over the precipitous cliff and across the canyon, is magnificent in the extreme.

Work on the tunnel proper has been delayed by timbering and other factors, but has advanced at an average speed of about 900 feet per month in all headings.

The State of Utah has all of its portion of road, approximately 18 miles, under construction. The contractors include the Raleigh-Lang C0. and the Reynolds-Ely Co. The former is employing portable compressors, including one 310-ft. Sullivan “WK-314” vibration-less unit, and hand hammer drills for their rock excavation. The Reynolds-Ely section is mostly earth excavation.

The author is indebted to the officials of the Nevada Contracting Company and to Mr. French of the Bureau of Public Roads, for information used in this article. The photographs were taken by Cliff Bray, Salt Lake photographer.

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A. S. A. & R. Co., Begins Operations at Silver Reef in Utah

AN EXTENSIVE development and full exploration program was started last week at the Silver Reef property, 20 miles from St. George, in Washington County, Utah, by American Smelting & Refining, which recently acquired
a controlling interest in the property from the Consolidated Gold Corporation.

Ground is being cleared for the sinking of a vertical three-compartment shaft, which is expected to encounter the orebody at a point 500 to 550 ft. below the surface. As soon as actual sinking begins, a crew of 20 to 30 men will he employed, operations being in charge of C. C. Cushwa, superintendent, and J. S. Hyde, master mechanic. A.Colhath, organizer of the Silver Reef enterprise, is being retained in a consulting capacity by the smelting company.

Low-grade silver ore, containing some copper, is found in two sandstone beds, known as the Buckeye and White reefs, the outcrops of which may be traced in the general shape of two, horseshoes. These reefs, dipping from 20 to 30 degs, were worked in the ‘eighties through several inclined shafts, extending a maximum distance of 800 ft. along the dip, or approximately 400 ft. vertically below the surface.

The beds appear to have a uniform thickness, and, although the metal content is low, there is evidence that sufficient tonnage may he developed to warrant extraction operations. The object of the present development is to prospect the continuation of the Buckeye reef at depth and to open up the old workings in this reef, which are now inaccessible.

Erection of surface buildings is under way, and the transformer capacity is being increased to handle the electrical power requirements of the equipment being installed, which includes a large double-drum, Ottumwa electric hoist and a 985-cn.ft. Chicago Pneumatic compressor

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for MARCH 30, 1929 UTAH

During the first 10 weeks of this year the Utah Apex Mining Company, J. A. Norden, general manager, Bingham, Utah, made a profit of $105,000 above operating costs at the mine. This sum was considerably larger than that received during the entire fiscal year 1928. During the middle of February the tonnage changed from lead-zinc ore containing 7 to 8 per cent lead to a lead-copper ore containing 3 to 5 per cent lead and there has been a slight decrease in revenue even though the tonnage increased. As long as the present grade of ore persists and nonferrous metal prices remain as currently quoted, earnings should continue at about the rate during the first 10 weeks of the year. The 2,900-foot level is the deepest working level at the present time, but before the end of the year it is planned to be developing at a depth of 3,400 feet.
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The report for 1928 of the Park Utah Consolidated Mine. Company shows a net income of $918,377, or 44 cents a share, after depreciation, federal taxes, etc., but before depletion, as compared with $1,-569,886, or 75 cents a share, earned in 1927.
The Ontario Silver-Mining Company, 98 per cent of whose stock is owned by the Park Utah Consolidated, has contributed a net profit of $95,973, after depreciation, taxes, etc., to the company income during 1928, as compared with a net of $60,498 in 1927. Commenting on the work done in 1928, President G. W. Lambourne states that the western ore body of the Utah unit has been a source of much satisfaction. On the 1,800, or lowest level, the ore has been continuous for 720 feet and averages 28 feet in width. This deposit is estimated to contain 595,000 tons between this level and the 1,500, or drain tunnel level, much of which remains to be mined. The Ontario unit responded well to development in the newer or eastern portions and plans are being made to unwater the lower workings during the coming summer for the purpose of mining known ore bodies.
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The shaft of the North Beck Mining Company, Arch Donaldson, superintendent, Eureka, Utah, has been sunk to a depth of 1,600 feet and a crosscut has been driven 75 feet to the west at that depth. Its face is now cutting through the Gemini limestone, which is considered favorable for the discovery of ore deposits in North Beck ground.
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The Central Standard Mining Company has done about 100 feet of drifting toward the south on the 1,200-foot level of its property, under the supervision of John W. Taylor, one of the original locators of the claims. The drift is following a promising fissure in the quartzite and monzonite formation. Another blower is being installed on the 1,200 level to supplement the one that is working on the 1,000 level.
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The property of the Superior Mining Company, comprising 10 patented claims in the Park City district in Utah, has been purchased by Charles Moore, president of the Star of Utah Mining Company. This mine adjoins the property of the Star of Utah Mining Company and the consideration involved in the deal is said to be $50,000.
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The Park City Consolidated Mining Company, J. J. Beeson, general manager, 602 Scott Building, Salt Lake City, is nearing the Silver King ore horizon at a depth of 180 feet. In addition to sinking the shaft to this depth, the company has done about 700 feet of development work on the Roosevelt tunnel level since starting work last October.
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Articles of incorporation have been filed in Salt Lake City, Utah, for the Hershey Mines Corporation, which has 10 lode mining claims in the Miner’s Basin district of the La Sal Mountains. The officers and directors are Norman D. Hershey, Castleton, Utah, president; W. A. Adams, Glassport, Pennsylvania, vice-president; M. H. Kriebel, secretary, and George A. Faust, treasurer, both of Salt Lake City, and L. F. Hershey, McKeesport, Pennsylvania.
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M. J. Fisher of Park City, Utah, and Leonard Lowery of Tooele have been awarded the contract to complete the lower tunnel in the property of the Hill Top Mining Company in the West Tintic district. This tunnel is intended to tap an ore chute from which Tinsman and Morgan of Eureka shipped several carloads of ore to the smelter that carried a lead content of more than 85 per cent and some silver and iron. This was in 1908, when the price of lead was $8.08 per hundred pounds. The lower tunnel will also drain the shaft, which is partly full of water at the present time. Parley Thueson of Tooele, Utah, is president and manager of the Hill Top organization.
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Charles Moore of Yuba, California, has acquired a controlling interest in the property of the Park Galena Mining Company, located in the southeastern Park City district in Utah, and it is understood that the property will be turned over to him at the annual stockholders’ meeting to be held on April 2. Considerable development has been done and has revealed low-grade ore, including a fissure carrying from one to five feet of ore that has been opened from the surface to a depth of 500 feet. It is said that the new management will run a drain tunnel to tap the property at a depth of between 1,200 and 1,400 feet, thereby lowering the present heavy pumping expenses. The Park Galena mill is temporarily idle, but regular shipments of crude ore are being made. During the first week in March shipments totaled 505,724 pounds.
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The Beaver Crown Consolidated Mining Company, F. C. Mitchell, superintendent, shipped a carload of ore from its property at Milford, Utah, that assayed 74.9 ounces silver, 42 per cent lead, 2.08 per cent copper and $1.40 gold to the ton from samples.
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The Howell Mining Company has resumed the development of the strike made about Christmas in the Tarbaby mine in the Alta district in Utah, according to A. 0. Johnson, 1111 Kearns Building, Salt Lake City. The strike was made about 30 feet above the Tarbaby tunnel and was followed 100 feet to the southwest. A drift has been started near the raise and on the tunnel level to strike the Cardiff overthrust contact on its dip. This point should be reached in about 85 feet. The Howell Mining Company’s assessment of 1 cent a share became delinquent March 15, 1929.
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Sinking of the new shaft in the property of the Crown Point Consolidated Mining Company in the East Tintic district has been resumed and the shaft has reached a depth of 280 feet. John Roundy of Provo is directing the work. A new Ingersoll-Rand five-drill electrically operated compressor has been installed and all equipment and buildings moved from the old shaft to the new one. At this depth, the bottom of the shaft is in sugar dolomite and at a depth of 500 feet the shaft is expected to cut one of the main northeast-southwest fissures.
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Easement through the East Utah tunnel at Keetlcy, Utah, adjoining the Park-Utah mine near Park City, has been granted to Charles Moore, president and manager of the Mayflower Mines Company, which recently has acquired control of the Park Galena and the Park Bingham groups. The Mayflower Company plans to extend the East Utah tunnel into Park Galena ground, a distance of 6,000 feet, gaining a vertical depth of 1,600 feet on the Glencoe fissure. This tunnel would also afford a working entrance to the Park Bingham and the Star of Utah groups, being developed by Mr. Moore, whose headquarters are at Yuba City, California.
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The Moscow Silver Mines Company, Milford, Utah, Garret S. Wilkin, general manager, has resumed hauling of ore and after the ore bins are emptied, development of the ore struck in the winze below the 1,400 level will be begun. At a depth of 1,540 feet in the winze, 15 feet of ore is showing. The company is now engaged in drifting along a strong east-west fissure productive of more than a million dollars from grass roots to a vertical depth of 1,100 feet.
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Sinking of the main three-compartment Cullen shaft to the 1,600 level is to begin at once.
Eldon Jenkins and William Finch have leased property in the Tintic district in Utah from the Chief Consolidated Mining Company and have shipped about five carloads of manganese to the plant of the Columbia Steel Corporation at Provo. A lumber chute has been built from the bins at the portal of the tunnel to the highway 350 feet below. Here the ore is loaded and trucked to Homansville, about a half mile, and shipped by rail to the Provo plant. During the war highgrade shipments were made from this property to the Atlantic coast.
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Owing to the shortage of silicious ores, Utah smelters have lowered their rate to $2.36 per ton on ore carrying a metallic content under $10, and it is believed that this will result in the resumption of work in the Dragon, Empire Mine., Star, Spy and other old-time Tintic mines. E. R. Higginson of Silver City is examining the Dragon and William Osborn and A. T. Higler are looking over the Star and Spy mines, all owned by the Knight interests. David Greenhalgh, also of Silver City, is working out a plan for economical transportation. He has secured a six-ton electric motor and intends to rebuild it to use gasoline. Twelve-ton cars that were formerly used at the Centennial Eureka mine have been purchased and will be used with the gasoline motor in hauling ore over the old Eureka Hill Railway.
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THE MINING JOURNAL April 15 1929

UTAH

The sum of $6,848,883 has been paid in dividends from Idaho Mines during March of this year. The highest figure was that of the Utah Copper Company, $6,497,959.

The Utah Rock Asphalt Corporation is preparing to ship from its silica quarry near Sunnyside, Utah. The output will be 1,250 tons daily. Henry H. Jones is general superintendent.

Milling tests are being made of the dumps of the Ohio Copper Company, at Lark, Utah, containing 4,995,495 tons of tailings and estimated to contain 47,405,671 pounds of copper. If preliminary work of the General Engineering Company at Salt Lake City is favorable, the company may mill this material.
Mining of a developed tonnage as well as an undeveloped tonnage, known as the East ore body, may be undertaken also. The company is continuing its leaching-in-place operations and also exploration of its limestone areas.
The company’s output for the year amounted to 8,977,982 pounds of copper as compared with 4,825,587 pounds for the year preceding. Operating profit was $119,012.89 as compared with $124,784.84 for 1927, and net profits were $68,162.09 for 1928 as compared with $46,458.75 for 1927. President Charles A. Kittle’s report for 1928 showed that all but $181,300 of the company’s 7 per cent bonds had been converted. Cash items as of January 1, 1929, amounted to $415,787.97. H. A. Tobelmann is agent in charge.

The Frisco Silver Lead Mining Company intends to install a Fairbanks-Morse gasoline hoist at its property in the Frisco District in Utah, where a shaft is being sunk below the tunnel level. L. F. Block is manager. Offices are maintained in the Atlas Building, Salt Lake City.

The Park City Consolidated Mines Company has cut a fissure at a depth of 200 feet in the shaft being sunk from the tunnel and the ore was followed as far as the 800 level. At a depth of 255 feet the ore was four feet wide and across that width assayed 49.1 ounces silver, 89 cents in gold, 1.7 per cent lead and .84 per cent copper. A station is being cut near where the Park City limestone is thought to exist and drifts will be run to explore that ground. J. J. Beeson, 502 Scott Building, Salt Lake City, is general manager of the company.

A compressor is to be installed by the Bingham Standard Mines Company at Bingham, Utah, and some consideration is being given to diamond drilling the ground, to check the location of the ore bearing formations. The lower tunnel has been driven 200 feet towards an ore deposit opened in the upper workings. The directors of the company are: J. C. Allen, William Thornton, James A. Nelson, L. L. Larson, T. S. Atkins and Fred E. Turner. Mine operations are under the supervisions of E. B. Jones.

Assessment No. 25 has been levied on the stock of the North Standard Mining Company payable on or before April 22, 1929, at the rate of 1 cent a share.

The Bingham Tonic Mining Company has levied an assessment of .8 cent per share on its stock outstanding. This is assessment No. 22 and became delinquent April 8, 1929.

The United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company earned $4,097,201 in 1928 as compared with $3,031,828 in the preceding year. The net profit last year is equivalent to $6.82 a share on 351,115 common shares against $3.78 a share in 1927. The regular dividend of 87½ cents on common and preferred stock and this is payable on April 15 to stock of record April 4.

The Sheep Rock Mining and Milling Company, W. A. Wilson, manager, 819 Dooly Block, Salt Lake City, Utah, is putting in a hoist and compressor at its property in the Beaver District in Utah. Some work has been done by leasers in the Sheep Rock mine and includes shaft sinking and running levels. Work will be concentrated on the main ledge. Production to date is estimated at $100,000.

The Konold Mines Corporation has been admitted to trading on the Salt Lake Stock and Mining Exchange. Its capitalization is $875,000, consisting of 1,500,000 shares and all of the stock has been issued. There is no indebtedness and $1,188.85 cash on hand. Daniel Konold is president of the corporation. The property comprises 10 claims in the Elkhorn section of the Park City mining district, one of which is patented, and it is developed by 887 feet of shafts, 1,500 feet of tunnels and 670 feet of crosscuts.

Equipment, including a compressor, hoist, motors, headframe and water tanks, have been purchased for the property of the Standard Lily Extension Mines Company in the East Tintic District in Utah. Immediately upon its installation a shaft will be sunk. Frank Stewart is superintendent of operations.

The bunkhouse and office of the Beaver Crown Consolidated Mines Company were destroyed by fire on March 18, according to Superintendent Frank C. Mitchell, Box 172, Milford, Utah. A modern bunkhouse will be built as soon as the roads are in condition to permit hauling in lumber from Beaver. The company has just shipped a carload of high-grade lead-silver-copper-gold ore from the recent discovery in the Parker drift and it is believed that the ore will net about $75 per ton.

The American Metal Mining Company has levied assessment No. 15, payable at the rate of 4 cent a share to Walter H. Voyles, secretary and treasurer, 152 East Second South Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Date of delinquency is April 22, 1929. More than 1,700 feet of development have been done on the lower level iii the company’s property at Big Cottonwood Canyon and mineral showings encountered during the last 100 feet have been favorable for the location of a body of ore.

Announcements of dividend disbursements have been made by the following mining companies:

The Tintic Standard Mining Company paid a dividend of 80 cents a share on March 30, amounting to $345,874.50, and increasing the grand total of the Tintic Standard mine to $12,-283,812;

The Park Utah Consolidated Mining Company paid at the rate of 20 cents a share, amounting to $418,700 on April 10, and bringing the grand total to $86,905,461.55;

and the Silver King Coalition Mines Company made its payment of 25 cents a share on April 1, amounting to $805,116 and increasing the grand total to more than $23,000,000.

The New Quincy Mining Company at Park City, Utah, has increased shipments to 150 tons daily and no great hole has yet been made in the 1,238 ore body, according to Manager A. L. Hurley. This stope has been opened up for a width of between 60 and 70 feet and measures 40 feet in thickness. At the west end of the bed, two drifts are being advanced in the hanging wall and two other faces in the footwall 40 feet below. All of these drifts are from 50 to 100 feet ahead of the stope and are following full faces of ore with a bedded deposit between ranging from 50 to 60 feet wide. At the other end of the stope, ore has been drifted on for 100 feet.

The Tintic Lead Company has opened its Horn Silver mine at Frisco, Utah, to a depth of 1,100 feet and leasers are engaged in following strong leads of ore into untouched limestone on every level from this depth to the 100 level, according to Mine Manager A. E. Kipps. On the 500 level south a face of ore 10 x 12 feet has been opened and assays 44 per cent zinc, 20 per cent lead, 20 ounces silver and $2.50 in gold per ton. Ore of good grade is being mined on the 200 level.

Purchase of the Mono group of 16 acres in the Ophir-Dry Canyon district, near Stockton, Utah, gives the Ophir Mono Mines, Inc., possession of 1,600 acres in the heart of that district. Two faces of ore have been opened in the Mono limestone bed, 400 feet apart, parallel to that from which Matt Gisborn took a million dollars 50 years ago, according to Manager M. C. Godbe. Samples of the ore range in value from $1 to $120 in gold, from 90 to 8,700 ounces in silver and from 28 to 48 per cent in lead to the ton.

Operations have been resumed by the Silver Standard’ Mining Company in the Santaquin Mining District, near Payson, Utah. The shaft, down 489 feet, will be sunk to the 500 level, where drifting will be started. Perry B. Fuller is president of the Silver Standard and F. P. Higginbotham, 815 Dooly Building, Salt Lake City, is secretary-treasurer.

The Beaver Copper Company will begin production and shipment of copper ore from its property in the Beaver Lake mining district in Utah, as soon as the compressor and equipment that has been ordered can be hauled to the mine and installed, according to Manager A. J. McMullan, Milford. Settlement sheets have shown the better grade running 8.6 per cent copper with some lower grade that can now be handled profitably. The lead section of the company’s property is well equipped but it is too far from the copper ore to deliver the air (ventilation).

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THE MINING JOURNAL JUNE 30 1929

UTAH

The Lehi Tintic Mining Company, Charles Zabriskie, general manager, 1118 Newhouse Building, Salt Lake City, has suspended other work while sinking the shaft from the 750-foot level to the 1,100-foot point. Work is being rushed and crosscutting will be started at the lowest level to explore the favorable limestone beds of the ore zone showing on the 750 level. Ninety-five per cent of the Tintic Empire stock has been exchanged for Lehi Tintic stock and it is said that the drift into Tintic Empire ground is being advanced to the intersection of several promising fissures.
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Eight carloads of high-grade ore have been shipped from the 1,565 level of the Moscow Silver Mine. Company. G. S. Wilkin, manager, Milford, Utah, and the ninth lot is being prepared. One shipment from the fissure netted $2,119, after smelting and freight tariffs, a shipment from the bedded deposit assayed 21.45 ounces silver, 50.4 per cent lead, 15.8 per cent iron, which will net close to $8,000.
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The Tintic Lead Company, A. E. Kipps, manager, has installed its new compressor and transformers at Frisco, Utah, and connections are nearly made. Regular shipments are being made and during a seven-day period about June 10, totaled 10 carloads of ore.
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The Georgia Lyn Mining Company, W. R. Kone, president and general manager, 720 Continental Bank Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, has opened a strongly mineralized formation in crosscutting from the main tunnel, which has reached a length of 1,100 feet. Mineralization appeared 75 feet from the tunnel and has continued a distance of 50 feet. Samples of the ore carry from 5 to 6 ounces of silver and from 31 to 61 per cent lead to the ton. Equipment on the ground includes a compressor and gas engine.
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The Mammoth Mining Company, Samuel McIntyre, president and manager, Mammoth, Utah, is producing approximately 50 railroad carloads of ore monthly from a new deposit between the 1,100 and the 1,500 levels. The ore is 1,600 feet north of the shaft and is believed to be the extension of a deposit mined some time ago in the Plutus mine. Mining is difficult as the system of faulting makes it hard to follow the ore. The low-grade deposits in the mine and the dumps are not being worked at the present time as it is said the offers from the smelters have not been attractive enough.
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The Tintic Standard Mining Company will disburse its regular quarterly dividend of $346,024.50 on June 27, to stock of record June 17. Payment will be 20 cents a share regular and 10 cents a share special, making a total of 30 cents, which has been disbursed for a long time.
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A gas driven compressor and a hoist have been ordered for the Eureka DeLux Mining, which has organized development of its property, near Eureka, Utah. John A. Johnson will have charge of development, assisted by Imer Pett, T. P. Billings, and other members of the Bingham Mines staff. The main tunnel is to be continued with power drills and sinking may be done from this level. The Eureka DeLux officers are: J. H. Peterson, president; F. D. Cassity, vice-president, and Mr. Johnson, secretary and treasurer. These with Nephi Anderson and Henry Jackson constitute the board of directors.
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A geological examination has been made of the property of the Benmore Mining and Milling Company, controlling 45 claims in the Columbia Mining District, about 20 miles west of Eureka, Utah, and embracing what was formerly known as the Sharp Lead Mine. Initial work will be retimbering the portal and enlarging the Smith Tunnel on the Mary L. Claim, followed by the exploration of a silver-lead deposit believed to exist beneath a manganese deposit found on the April Shower No. 9 claim. Seth Pixton, president of the Columbia Trust Company, 125 South Main Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, is president of the Benmore Mining Company.
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The Silver King Extension Mines Company, organized a short time ago by Clarence and Ernest Bamberger, Box 1328, Salt Lake City, Utah, has engaged two shifts in advancing its tunnel to a length of 500 feet. The portal of the tunnel is south of Park City, near the old Beggs mill. Arrangements are being made for the installation of new machinery to speed up the work.
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Assessment No. 26 has been levied on the stock of the Three Kings Consolidated Mining Company, Cameron McKay, superintendent, Park City, Utah, to provide funds for the development of two promising fissures encountered. Payment is to be made at the rate of 2 cents a share, on or before June 24, 1929. During the past two months, development has been advanced steadily.
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The Utah Apex Mining Company, J. A. Norden, general manager, Bingham, Utah, has removed the bulkheads from the 1,250 level of the Utah Apex Mine, to determine whether or not work may be resumed in that part of the mine. These bulkheads were erected several years ago, when a fire broke out, to prevent the flames and gases from penetrating other parts of the workings, and it is believed that the fire has burned itself out.
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Directors of the Bingham Mines Company have decided to sell all the holdings and assets of the company at Eureka and Bingham, Utah, to the United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company.
Stock of the Bingham mines will be exchanged on a share-for-share basis. Bingham Mines is incorporated for 50,000 shares. Imer Pett, 404 Dooly Block, Salt Lake City, is general manager. Its main producers are the Victoria and Eagle and Blue Bell mines at Tintic, and the Dalton and Lark and other mines at Bingham. Stockholders are to meet July 27 to ratify the deal.
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The stock of the New Qunicy Mining Company, has been listed on the Salt Lake Stock and Mining Exchange. The company is shipping 100 tons from its Park City property daily. A. L. Hurley, Continental Bank Building, Salt Lake City Utah, is manager.
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The North Standard Mining Company has installed a blower and ventilation pipe at its East Tintic property to provide better air for sinking its winze now down to the 1,216-foot level. Geologic conditions similar to those found near the Big East Tintic ore bodies have quickened interest in the development of the property.
From the 800 level down to the 1,216, the company has sunk in a great brecciated zone, carrying strong mineralization and at the 1,185 level, ore assaying $3 to $4 in gold, 41 per cent lead and 24 ounces silver to the ton has been opened.
On the 1,200 level, the brecciated zone showed a width of 100 feet. Company offices are in the Walker Bank Building, Salt Lake City. B. T. Walker, field engineer of the United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company, is doing the company’s geologic work.
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The National Treasure Mining Company is driving a tunnel crosscutting the Buckhorn limestone in its Ophir Dry Canyon property, near Ophir, Utah. Gordon McMillan is superintendent. The property is equipped with a compressor and gas engine.
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The Silver Contact Mining Company expects to resume operations in its property in American Fork Canyon, 26 miles south of Salt Lake City, June 20. During the last two years a tunnel has been run about 400 feet to cut ore encountered in an incline shaft, but lost when this heading caved in. A contract has been let to finish a 75-foot raise above the tunnel as recommended by the late President J. B. Beveridge of Salt Lake City. Additional work may be done to explore an iron blowout on the surface and 300 feet from the tunnel. The directors of the organization are: S. B- Robbins, H. P. Huey, J. W. Dunyon, F. W. Newton and B. Grant Stringham.
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The stock of the Union Associated Mines Company, S. A. Parry, president and general manager, 509 Felt Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, has been listed on the Salt Lake Stock and Mining Exchange. The property comprises 64 unpatented claims in the Big Cottonwood and Erickson mining districts, equipped with boarding and bunk houses, a compressor and other mining machinery. Official reports are that the initial shipment is being made and about 40,000 tons of milling ore is in sight. Mineral values are lead, silver, gold, copper and zinc.
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The Utah Copper Company, L. S. Cates, general manager, Bingham, Utah, has declared a dividend of $4 a share, payable June 29, to stock of record June 14, 1928. This is the regular quarterly disbursement.
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The strike on the 900 level of the Bingham Metals Company, Bingham, Utah, has widened to seven feet in the face and shows every indication of developing into a large deposit, according to President W. H. Mitchell, Walker Bank Building, Salt Lake City, Utah. The ore is reported to carry 20 per cent lead, 10 ounces silver and several dollars in gold to the ton. Rich ore was previously mined on the 680-foot level, but the formation proved barren at the 900 level, giving rise to the idea that the ore on the upper levels was only pockets. One carload of ore is in the bins and another is broken ready for hoisting and shipment.

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The Park Kearns Mining Company, owning a group of three patented and six unpatented mining claims in the Park City district in Utah, has been granted permission to sell 3,000,000 shares of its stock at 10 cents a share. Funds realized from the sales will be used in equipping the ground with machinery and in carrying out mine development. George H. Short, 506 Dooly Block, Salt Lake City, is consulting engineer for the Park Kearns and will have charge of development. Work will be centered on the Copper Queen discovery pit, where previous workings have disclosed ore, assaying as high as 22 per cent copper and $3 gold to the ton.
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The Bingham Metals Company, Robert J. Goodwin, superintendent, Bingham Canyon, Utah, has opened two gold-copper fissures on the 900, or lowest level, of its property. These fissures are two and two and one-half feet wide, but drifting and stoping will not be started until the station in the vertical shaft has been cut, so that one job will not interfere with the other. A hoist, cage, and some other equipment, has been ordered to carry out the work. A drift has been extended 25 feet along a six-foot oreshoot opened on the 900 level, opened late in August, and one shipment has been made that returned $25 per ton in lead, silver and gold. Under contract, the Utah Copper Company is moving the Bingham Metals camp to the Nast shaft and is building a new road from the ore bin to the loading station.
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The spur track being built to the property of the Eureka Standard Consolidated Mining Company at Dividend, Utah, by the Denver and Rio Grande Railway, is nearly completed. The Eureka Standard is installing a hoist, compressor and some other equipment and will increase production within a few weeks. Connection has been made between the main shaft and the winze at a depth of 1,800 feet and at points about 350 feet apart and as soon as the ore bins at the collar of the shaft are ready to receive the ore, it will be taken out through the company’s workings, instead of through the adjoining Tintic Standard workings, as at the present time. J. W. Wade, 1111 Walker Bank Building, Salt Lake City, is general manager.
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The Standard Lily Extension Mines Company, Arthur Sylvester, superintendent, Eureka, Utah, has sunk the new shaft in the Tintic Coalition claim, 400 feet. It will be used jointly by the North Lily Mining and the Standard Company. A water tank, having a capacity of about 4,000 gallons, formerly used by the Eureka Hill Railway Company, is being moved to the Standard mine to hold water from the wells of the Chief Consolidated company at Homansville.
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Announcement has been received that the Utah Copper Company, L. S. Cates, general manager, Bingham Canyon, Utah, will pay its regular quarterly dividend of $4 a share on September 30, to stock of record September 18, 1929. The disbursement calls for $6,497,960 and brings the grand total of payments to $188,672,889.
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Twenty-seven tons of ore have been shipped from the Apex mine at St. George, Utah, to the International Smelter at Tooele. Another shipment is being taken out and prospects are promising. S. C. Hardy is working the ground under lease from the Utah Southern Mining Company, W. H. Hendrickson, manager, Millford, Utah.
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The Monoceo Mining Company, Gold Hill, Utah, J. W. Jensen, superintendent, has shipped its initial carload of ore to a local smelter, and received $88 per ton, after freight and treatment charges were deducted. Last fall a tunnel was started into this property and in between 150 and 160 feet from the portal entered a five-foot width of ore. The ores being mined during the progress of tunneling have carried from 15 to 80 per cent copper, from 10 to 12 ounces silver and from $5 to $8 in gold per ton. Between 400 and 600 feet of additional tunnel will be necessary to reach a point vertically below surface outcrops. P. A. Dansie is president of the company, and its offices are in the Ness Building, Salt Lake City.
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Extensive improvements are planned by the Silver King Western Mining and Milling Company, according to M. J. Dailey, general manager, 1012 Kearns Building, Salt Lake City, Utah. These include putting in pipelines, erecting camp buildings, installing a compressor and continuing an underground drift. This organization was formed by the Kearns interests, to develop property at Park City, and 50 men are in its employ at the present time.
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The Utah-Indiana Mining Company, R. J. Hollingsworth, president and superintendent, 558 East First South Street, Salt Lake City, is working a force of nine men at its property at Sandy, Utah. This is a comparatively new organization and improvements, including a boarding house, bunkhouse, machine and blacksmith shop are planned. S. F. Johnson is general manager of the company. Gas is used as power in developing the mine through a 1,000-foot tunnel.
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The directors of the Park Utah Consolidated Mines Company, George W. Lambourne, president and manager, Continental Bank Building, Salt Lake City, have decided to omit the fourth quarterly dividend of 20 cents a share, because of high operating costs and the delay in getting work started on the lowest level of the Park Utah unit. Good progress is being made in un-watering the 1,950 level of the Park Utah, and important objectives are looked for in the Bonanza Flat country. Shipments are averaging 4,500 tons weekly. During 1928, the Park Utah Consolidated was the largest silver producer in America and the largest lead producer in Utah. Its output exceeded in tonnage any other mine in the state outside of the Utah Copper, an open pit mine.
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Ore has been struck in the property of the New Bingham, Mary Mining Company, adjoining the Utah Apex property at Bingham Canyon, Utah. Six feet of ore have been drifted on for 20 feet and samples of the high-grade body assayed 12.4 ounces silver, 60 per cent lead and 2.16 per cent copper to the ton. A good-sized body of milling ore has been exposed on the 1,000-foot level. The ore is being mined for the New Bingham Mary by the Utah Apex, on a cost plus basis, and the milling ore is being put through the Utah Apex mill. George Wilson, Continental Bank Building, Salt Lake City, is manager.
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Six carloads of ore have been shipped from the 500 level of the Park Galena property at Park City, Utah, during August, and two more during the first 10 days of September. Returns are averaging around $1,000 a carload. Drifting to the west on ore is being done to reach the sedimentaries, where larger ore bodies are expected. The Mayflower Mines Corporation, a Charles Moore enterprise, has advanced its tunnel 600 feet. This adit will develop at depth the Park Galena, the Park Bingham and the Mayflower mines. K. G. Link of Keetley, Utah, is superintendent of the Park Galena.
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The North Lily Mining Company, Eureka, Utah, J. S.. Finlay, superintendent, has opened good sized bodies of ore in both raises from the 1,200-foot level. In 1,217 raise, from eight to 10 feet of ore have been cut and in the other, 150 feet distant, a bedded deposit 25 feet thick has been opened. On the 800-foot level a full face of ore has been opened, believed to be the downward continuation of the deposit stoped on the upper levels between the main ore body and the south endline.
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The AIta Tunnel and Transportation Company, Lloyd Hoskins, mine manager, is treating 40 tons of ore in its mill in 24 hours and 10 tons of concentrate, carrying $40 to $50 a ton in silver, lead and zinc, are being hauled by motor truck to the Midvale smelter. The mine run is averaging 8 per cent lead, 8 ounces silver and 7.5 per cent zinc to the ton, and the ratio of concentration four to one and recoveries around 70 per cent.
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Production of the New Quincy mine at Park City, Utah, has been advanced to 200 tons daily and net profit has increased from $50,000 in July to $90,000 in August. During September, Manager A. L. Hurley estimates that the company will make $125,000. On September 10 or 12, directors of the company were to meet to declare the second dividend of 10 cents a share, payable September 28. The outlook for the mine is good, according to Mr. Eurley. Opening up of the bedded ore deposit from the main, or 1,200 level, in a dozen places has greatly simplified operations. The ore runs about $25 to $80 a ton, net smelter returns. Ben Beveridge is mine superintendent.
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Operations are being carried on at two points in the Utah Bunker Hill Mine in the Free Coinage District, near Grantsville, Utah. Buildings are being erected over the company’s compressor plant and ore is being followed in the Johnson Lease. John V. Long, 425 Felt Building, Salt Lake City, is general manager.
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A dividend of 25 cents a share is to he paid on stock of the Silver King Coalition
Mines Company, on October 1, to stock of record September 20. This dividend of $805,116.75 increases the grand total of disbursements to $23,781,487.95. M. J. Dailey, Reams Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, is general manager.

Tbe Tintic Standard Mining Company, E. J. Raddatz, president and general manager, 1111 Walker Bank Building, Salt Lake City, has declared a regular dividend of 20 cents a share, and a special of 10 cents a share, or $845,945.50, to be paid on September 30. This disbursement increases the grand total to $12,825,921.
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Arrangements are being made for the development of the Silver Glance Mine, 12 miles from Wendover, Tooele County, Utah, located in the winter of 1927-28 by C. G. Smith. This ground has since been incorporated by a group, known as the Silver Glance Mining Company, of which L. A. Toothaker of Palisade, Colorado, is secretary-treasurer. All the development that has been done is surface trenching, and ore, assaying 24 per cent lead and 12 ounces silver per ton, has been opened.
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A Sullivan two-drill compressor and a McCormick-Deeming 30-horsepower gasoline engine have been hauled to the property of the Bingham Standard Coalition Company in the West Mountain District, 50 miles southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah. Plans have been made for a number of surface improvements, including a new building over the new machinery and a new bunkhouse to accommodate the crew near the portal of the tunnel. Within a few weeks, the management expects to continue the lower tunnel below the Mayflower workings.
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The Capitol Hill Mining Company has shipped its first carload of ore from the new strike in the Star District, six miles from Milford, Utah, according to Secretary F. C. Higginbotham. Samples of this ore assay 80 per cent lead and from 40 to 50 ounces silver to the ton.
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The Kamas Gold Mining Company, holding mineral rights to 1,200 acres in the Park City District in Utah, is making arrangements to prospect its holdings. Several years ago the shaft was sunk in the limestone and shows mineralization for about 50 feet along the north wall. A tunnel has opened a two-foot fissure filled with quartz and iron, and will be extended farther. The officers in this company, are Newton Dunyon, president;
J. B. Hoyt, vice-president, and Douglas Simpson, secretary-treasurer.
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The Park Bingham Mining Company, 210 Kearns Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, levied an assessment of 1 cent a share on its outstanding stock. This is No. 17. Stock on which the assessment has not been paid by October 1, 1929, will be advertised for sale. J. A. Foley is secretary to the company.
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Rather extensive improvements have been planned for the property of the Golden Porphyry Mines Company, including driving a new adit tunnel, electrification, compressors, machine shop, power drills, etc. Later, a mill and retort will be added to the equipment. Three men are working at the mine now. The officers of the organization include J. B. Wallace, president, 17 West First South Street, Salt Lake City, and N. Schmittroth, general manager and purchasing agent, Route 5, Sandy, Utah.
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The Uncle Bim Mining Company, Lund, Utah, is sinking a shaft in its property. Seven men are working in the mine and office. This was formerly known as the Arrowhead Mining Company. James B. Allen, Route 1, Box 74, Sugarhouse Station, Salt Lake City, is general manager.
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Flotation machinery is being installed in the milling plant of the Big Indian Copper Company, Preston G. Peterson, secretary and manager, Provo, Utah, and when in place will permit the milling of 100 tons of ore daily. No extensive remodeling will be necessary to bring the mill into operation. Although there is enough ore to keep the company busy for a number of years, the mill has not been operated due to unsatisfactory metallurgical process.

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THE MINING JOURNAL for OCTOBER 15, 1929

UTAH

Two dividends were paid from mines, in the State of Utah, during the past month, amounting to $6,843,954. These were paid by the Utah Copper Company, and the Tintic Standard Mining Company.
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It is understood that the exploration department of the American Smelting and Refining Company, A. H. Means, manager, 625 McCornick, Building, Salt Lake City, will install a 360-cubic foot compressor at the Tintic Ophir property, Ophir, Utah, and set up buildings to accommodate 10 men. A power line is being run to these mines and prospecting through two headings, has been contracted to Jack Mooso. The western mining department of the American Smelting Company is working at Park City and at Leeds, Utah, and near Bishop, California.
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The Moscow Silver Mines Company, Milford, Utah, G. S. Wilkin, general manager, has opened a streak of ore, from 16 to 18 inches wide, that assays $1 gold, 17 ounces silver and 6.5 per cent lead to the ton. This discovery was made at the 1,520 level of the shaft, which is being lowered to a depth of 1,600 feet. Leasers recently mined a carload of ore from the Glory Stope, on the 900-foot level that assayed 52 per cent lead and 22.8 ounces silver to the ton. Work has been stopped in the winze from the 1,565 level because of water. In the raise from the same level sulphide has replaced the carbonate ores.
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While raising from the main tunnel, to cut the projection of a stope, from which high-grade mill ore was being removed, the AIta Tunnel and Transportation Company, Lloyd Hoskins, mine manager, Alta, Utah, opened 18 inches of galena ore. The directors have assessed the shares 1 cent each to pay off indebtedness.
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The net profit of the United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company for the first eight months of this year were $3,046,509, after interest, depletion, depreciation and amortization, against $2,369,678 in the same period of last year. This, after the payment of preferred dividends, is equal to $3.86 a share on 640,562 shares of common stock as compared with $3.52 a share on 351,117 shares of common stock in the 1928 period. The directors have just announced that 87 1/2 cents quarterly will be paid on both the common and preferred shares on October 15, to stock of record October 7, 1929. D. D. Muir, Jr., Newhouse Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, is general manager of the western department.
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The Silver King Coalition Mines Company, M. J. Dailey, general manager, Kearns Building, Salt Lake City, is milling both the high-grade and low-grade ores, because it is more economical to wash out the silica, and ship a lead and a zinc concentrate. Many new features, including dewatering and settling tanks, new McIntosh cells and blowers, have been added to the mill within the last year. The average monthly production is 19,000 tons, about two-thirds of which comes from the Silver King area to the north, and the remainder from the Silver Hill ground, to the south. About 2,800 tons of lead concentrate and 1,200 tons of zinc concentrate are recovered and shipped each month.
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The Falk Mining Company, E. C. Berry, superintendent, Grantsville, Utah, intends to continue its tunnel 200 feet through the Ophir lime. On Monarch Hill, a shaft is to be sunk 300 feet to the Creek level, and a winze sunk 100 feet below the Monarch tunnel. Twelve men are working. L. E. Cluff, 1309 Walker Building, Salt Lake City, is president, and the operating officials include Charles W. Allsop of Salt Lake City, general manager; N. B. Crawford, construction engineer; E. C. Engelhardt, consulting engineer, and Bryce Forrester, chief geologist.
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No time will be lost in starting work at the Twentieth Century, the Big Hill, and the Empire mines, of the North Lily Knight Company, in the Tintic District in Utah. J. O. Elton, 818 Kearns Building, Salt Lake City, is manager of the enterprise. A crew is building a road to connect with the highway from Eureka, to the North Lily mine. The Big Hill Shaft, now down 600 feet, will be enlarged and retimbered, and continued to a depth of 1,500 feet. The Twentieth Century may be developed either from the above-mentioned shaft, or from the Iron King shaft.
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It is planned to build a mill at the property of the Sheep Rock Mining and Milling Company, near Beaver, Utah, according to W. A. Wilson, president, 319 Dooly Block, Salt Lake City. At the present time lessees are operating the ground under bond and lease, with five men employed.
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The Alta Michigan Mines Company is making preparations for the deep development of the properties, which it controls, according to G. H. Watson, president and manager, 25 East South Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. These mines include the Emma Silver, the Alta Merger, and the Alta Consolidated, and are inactive at the present time.
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The Benmore Mining and Milling Company, Seth Pixton, president, 125 South Main Street, Salt Lake City, intends to install new machinery in its lower workings, so that the tunnel can be driven to the downward extension of the ore bodies, from which about 4,000 tons of ore have been mined and shipped. Financial arrangements are being made now toward that end.
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To provide funds for development, the directors of the Mineral Park Mining Company have levied assessment No. 6 at the rate of 14 cent per share, payable on or before October 15, 1929. Hand power is used in developing the mine, where two men are driving a tunnel. G.
W. Alexander, 433 Eighth East Street, Salt Lake City, is president and general manager.
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The Tintic Lead Company, A. E. Kipps, general manager, 215 Regent Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, is producing between 50 and 100 tons of ore daily, at the Horn Silver Mine at Frisco, Utah. P. O. Clark is general superintendent of operations. Increased production is planned. The present crew of 75 men is to be doubled and development increased, according to General Manager Kipps. A vertical shaft has been sunk to a depth of 1,600 feet, with levels at 200-foot intervals, and a large tonnage of high-grade primary ore is in sight.
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The Sioux Mines Company, E. F. Birch, manager, Eureka, Utah, has shipped five carloads of ore from its lease, on the Iron Blossom Mine, adjoining Sioux ground. Returns from the smelter show that the ore runs 18 per cent lead, 20 ounces silver and $2.40 gold to the ton. The ore has been followed to the Sioux line, and it is understood that Mr. Birch intends to sink on the ore.
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It is understood that the Park City Amalgamated Mines Company, H. G. Snyder, president, 412 Judge Building, Salt Lake City, will do some drilling in its property in the east Park City District in Utah, although churn drilling carried on during recent months, by the International Smelting Company, has done much in determining the geology of the district. The Park City Amalgamated controls 2,500 acres in three groups.

The North Lily Mining Company, Eureka, Utah, J. S. Finlay, superintendent, has resumed sinking of the North Lily Shaft, where sinking was stopped temporarily last July, at a depth of 1,600 feet. The immediate objective is the Cambrian quartzite, about 75 feet deeper. At about 35 feet below the present depth a station will be cut and drifting started on a level to coincide with the Tintic Standard 1,300-foot level.
Later, a connection will be made between these shafts for ventilation and to insure safety conditions. The flow of water released on the 700 North Drift in July, has dropped off to 300 gallons a minute and is being diverted into an open fissure without any appreciable effect on other headings, so that pumping may be unnecessary, although the pumping equipment has been installed.
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An assessment of 1 cent a share has been levied on the stock of the North Standard Mining Company, payable to John Dorius, secretary, 412 Walker Building, Salt Lake City, Utah. Date of delinquency is October 16, 1929.

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THE MINING JOURNAL OCTOBER 15 1929

FALK MINING CO. IS WORKING AT GRANTSVILLE, UTAH

The property of the Falk Mining Company consists of 24 claims, in the Grantsville Mining District, Tooele County, Utah. This district, sometimes known as the ‘Free Coinage’, has had but one heavy producer, the old “Third Term” Mine, which was closed by litigation in the early ‘90s, after it had produced about a million dollars. No work of any consequence followed until the Falk Company started development about a year and a half ago. This work consisted principally of driving a 900-foot tunnel.

The geology of the section, according to N. B. Crawford of Eureka, Utah, engineer for the company, is best described as being a cross section of the famous East Tintic District, known locally as the “Ophir” formation. Two major fissures cross the property, one being an extension of the Third Term fissure. The larger of these is mineralized directly from the intrusion. Good values have been obtained at many places along the fissure, and on the contacts, but the major feature is the strong croppings of gossan showing copper values.

The company is driving a tunnel through a complex faulted area. Ground water has been encountered and as soon as the soluble formation is reached, bodies of replacement ore should be encountered as the tunnel level is now below the effect of the leaching from surface waters.

Since the Falk Mining Company started working in this district, several other companies have been organized and are now working nearby and adjacent ground.

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THE MINING JOURNAL for OCTOBER 30, 1929

TINTIC STANDARD CONTROLS FIVE PROJECTS IN TINTIC DIST.

The new standard-gauge railroad spur from Dividend, to the Eureka Standard, has been completed, permitting ore from the main shaft to be dumped directly into railroad cars. Two lower levels have been connected with the shaft, a new Wellman Seaver-Morgan electrical hoist, and a 2,500-cubic foot Ingersoll-Rand compressor, installed. Underground operations have been suspended temporarily to permit the installation of an 85-foot headframe and within 60 days the Tintic Standard Mining Company expects to have its youngest mine in production.

Tintic Standard is carrying on five projects in widely separated areas in the Tintic district, near Eureka, Utah. Of these, the Tintic Standard mine has been the principal producer and, according to J. W. Wade, assistant general manager, the revenue during the first nine months of 1929 more than equaled dividend requirements during that period.

The Iron Blossom and the Colorado are old mines which have produced a large tonnage and give promise of yielding heavily from virgin areas. An average of a carload of ore is being produced daily from the former and development will be expedited when connection is completed between its 2,180, or lowest, level, and the 1,914 level of the Colorado.

The Iron King is still a prospect. Two headings are being run in development— one to explore the Cambrian quartzite, richly mineralized in the Eureka Standard, and the other in the Ophir limestone, productive in the Eureka Lily, the North Lily and the Tintic Standard.