Show fintics 4 cs wonderful record j dates 3 back fifty years the following paragraphs a a j regard y ing the district have been hsi tak bif en from an article in sundays bwy 7 her sai aid w on the thirteenth 07 of i december just halt ff a w century w ago a the first mining fc location ky in the gintic tintic fe 7 district was vy made i and queer as it may seem that property Is one of the shippers from the district ff today the wy district savi Sy vi also boasts W of many 2 things unique 0 in mining zif history during the entire half century it has S always TW shipped heavily today it has more shipping sw 71 mines than any other ff min V ing camp iffa in 1 the world and there has never 2 been i a mine found in waw the dis brict that fuwa was ff wa not followed r yi by ay sev ay eral other mines around it wyit the sf first loe aaion w wa taff s made y on december 9 13 1869 and it was the sunbeam vilf claim r w from which six car loads of 9 ore were taken last ag week fe and cwi which wat after vhf being opened isy up fifty years ago is still shipping at the friy rate of six ff cars a week one wis of the locators of this property was the ITS late stephen ff P 7 moore who r was faw lat er isy the first recorder in the district taff the aa second location yf was the 0 black dragon iw sy just north of 0 the sunbeam this was located on january 3 1870 and the third was the mammoth tw on wey february jy 26 1870 2 which Is still one of esnow the heaviest producers ff aksa of the dis brict aw today two days later the fam ous eureka hill property was staked u out 1 in which w there 79 are now 7 over thirty miles of underground work ings in less than afy twenty assy acres of ground the rich v ores of fi fifty years ago were shipped to san francisco reno 71 nevada iwa baltimore w md and even jav to swansea ay wales since then the district has grown and expanded and although time and again the miners have declared the camp worked out it has always come back with immense mines and great riches at present the eastern side of the district has been opened up with one of the greatest mines of the present day the gintic tintic stan dard probably the first white men to look over the great district where the city of eureka now stands nere two franciscan friars escalante and dominguez who passed through what has since become one of the most famous camps in the west in iffa 1876 77 a during the ff exciting times zay of the rebellion 07 looking for a direct ff route ia to the pacific 1 later fre mont aff the pathfinder passed near the present site of eureka along the az old spanish trail in 1844 4 shortly gazsy after a the aff coming of the pioneers in 1847 the gintic tintic district 7 was used as a avs cattle range at that time the cowboys had many a brush with old chief gintic tintic vy aa and his tribe it was in 1867 that yafa chief gintic tintic and 3 his followers were sent to the reser fursiw and prospecting 23 started in the region afe |