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Show I RALPH JENKINS, VETERAN BINGHAM MININQ MAN, , DIES Ralph Jenkins, 79 years of age, and for many years identified identi-fied with mining and agricultural agricultur-al development in Salt Lake county, died Sunday night at his home at Midvale. He was born at Nauvoo, 111. He came to Utah in 1863. He was one of the first miners to give his attention atten-tion to the Bingham district and engaged in prospecting preceding preced-ing the finding of commercial minerals in that . district. Besides Be-sides his mining activities, he did much in the development of ' fanning in Salt Lake valley and was responsible for the construction construc-tion of some of the first irrigation irriga-tion ditches and canals in the county. . He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Emma Hardcastle Jenkins, eight sons, five daughters, thirty-seven grandchildren and five great grand children. There are also two brothers. The sons are Ralph and Levi of Preston, Idaho, Ida-ho, Samuel T. of Bingham, Herbert Her-bert of Salt Lake, Washington B., Horace, Sir Walter and Fred-lick Fred-lick H., all of Midvale. The daughters are Mrs. Emma Coates of Hunter, Mrs. Byron Jones of, Midvale, Mrs. W. A. Spotswood of Berkeley, Calif., Mrs. W. C. Harper of Salt. Lake and Mrs. M. J. Scanlon of Tooele. Too-ele. The brothers are Lorenzo of Des Moines, Iowa, and Joseph of Hunter. Funeral services were held Wednesday .afternoon, ,at 2 o'clock at the Midvale ward chapel. cha-pel. Interment was in Midvale cemetery. |