Show sra esa f UTAH THRIVES ON TINTIC MINERAL discoveries town of dividend and k indic standard no 2 sha L X ar W arl TW jd ak Z t ae el W 1 it 4 M V a by 1 E DIEHL I 1 HIEF TINTIC a renegade rene X C v go koshute goshute lujian indian was the E first billionaire though Y he did not live to know it he and f his followers pitched their tepees ta on the slope ot of what la is now erieka P gulch 55 miles south ot of salt lake A city and ami claimed all the land lying f between utah lake and the desert to the A west aest est then and tor for ten t years a after fl er fintics cs death in 1859 th the claim 1 u wa was 1 illi undisputed disputed finally H white men d discovered ls covered mineral on f the land and a new torm form ot of title came into effect y slowly the mineral showings g were expanded demonstrations ot v rich silver lead and gold mines oc burred periodically for or sixty years ia bringing into existence villages ft towns and cities in place of 0 tepees 4 and peopling the district with pro iro J gres sive white mine owners and a workers in place ot of the nomadic Go shutes ji A cowboy and a horse found the fj first mineral the animals V dislodged a specimen ot of ore aud and tile the rider george georga rust took the M piece home to payson Alth although cugh y it was winter five ot of rusts neigh 4 bors went scouting and located the fl first claim the sunbeam Sun bellm elmul 1 organizing a mining dier dist diet r brict on december 13 1869 the claimants were S 13 moore wllliam william N ila harris ris joseph hyde S T worsley E M beck moroni bill dingsley and L T whitney other claims were staked and during the spring of 0 1870 production started shipping ore was expensive business teamsters charged 25 per ton for hauling to the southern pacific the nearest railroad numerous attempts at local concentration were made the first two being at diamond and mansville homansville Ho in 1871 more alore than 25 mills and furnaces were here erected within the next few years but complexity of the ores scarcity of water and crude crudeness nebs of equipment hampered their operation the failures were a foretaste of difficulties to be encountered ll it one form and another in subsequent years sufficient sudi clent to defeat all but the hardiest handiest har diest and most determined of the metal seekers the winners stand out conspicuously in the history of 0 the state samuel and william mcintyre traded cattle tor for a major la inte terest resl in a prospect called the mammoth the mine Is credited with a production of tour four million dollars and Is even now paying dividends to their grandchildren john beck after losing one fortune acquirer acquired by vering labor on the bul bill lion beck made another lost it and died a poor man col E C loose by sinking a foot shaft and spending opened the grand Cent central ial from which was taken john Q packard john F woodman william Il atfield and john mccrystal AIL Crystal among the early arrivals at the new camp whose ventures eu tures in unproven ground resulted in tile the production ot of cicat wealth and hie lie ingani of companies the cen eureka d by woodman and W VW Is credited with ith the shipment ot of one car ot of ore corli and net earnings ot of moro more than matuie however reserved some of 0 her richest prize tor for later comers co iners several ot of the greatest mines of 0 gintic tintic were developed in the nineties and as late as 1915 jesse knight elderly and in straitened circumstances persisted in developing a location known as the humbug after a heartbreaking struggle he drove his tunnel into a rich ore body provided with alth funds knight opened mine after mine in last east ills his new fortune was devoted to enterprises which aich employed hundreds of men and added to the industries of utah ile he built a town and smelter developed coal mines financed factories and started a great tunnel and irrigation project at walter fitch coming f from rom Alic michigan higan solved a geological problem brought a new area into production and gave tile the chief con soll soli dated a profit of nearly seven million most ot of which has been T reinvested lu in property and improvements prove ments E J going miles east of 0 the recognizer mineral area of 0 tintic sank feet beet anil and mide made the standard Stan daid one of the largest silver lead shippers and biggest employers of 0 utah more than SO minerals have keen been identified at la in ga ears eara to 1935 was realized lor for the nonferrous metals they included ounces of 0 sliver silver tons of 0 lead ounces of gold tons of copper and tons ot of zinc returns tor for iron bismuth manganese antimony silica limestone etc bring the grand total value to about this money on oil its travels has fed and clothed miners and smelter men erected homes and skyscrapers endowed libraries hospitals and churches financed farming and manufacturing industries supported trade paid taxes and it faill moves tirelessly on repeating the cycle tintic has worked out its near surface ore it must now depend on deposits lying 1000 to 2500 feet beet deep the recovery ot of which involves I 1 the risk ot of larger cap capital ita intelligent use ot of scientific equip beut and large investments in exploration fc yr aamir |