Show et 11 passing lassing olance rt bt gintic district in juab county was organized in the year 1869 soon after on the day dav of december the sunbeam lode was located being the first discovery of mineral to be made in that locality and this discovery resulted in the establishment of the mining camp of silver city now a nourishing little town that has seen many ups and downs and which at times has been virtually abandoned being the victim of the oft changing circumstances cum stances which rule the destinies of nearly every mining ca camp i nip in th this is intermountain region in the early history of utah this section which is now looked upon as being one of the r richest i c h e s t mineralized portions of the west was the home of a band of utes and tintic gintic was their chief tintic gintic was a chief of more than usual prominence and he be was a power for good or for evil in the land however lie passed on to the happy hunting ground in 3 1860 but liis his fame remained behind him and has bas been perpetuated petua ted by the giving of his name to the dis brict organized organised 7 sed d anine years later and now tintic gintic as a great 1 mining minin 9 camp is is known the world over although but comparatively few know that the district was named in honor of a ute chief but this was thirty years ago ago and the barren waste that was then the stomping ground round of the original owners of this country is now teeming with life and activity producing mines are pouring im in perishable peri wealth in into to the channels of trade and commerce where erstwhile sage brush and barren rocks gave but sorry orry welcome to the chance traveler whose dreary path lell le d through gli these almost forsaken wilds where once was solitude unbroken but for the howlings of the coyote and the war hool of a savage avage tribe there is now to be heard the whistle of the locomotive and of numerous mills hoists and reduction works the thundering of the blast aw awaken ikei 9 echoing answers bath day and night the desert has changed its garb its former appearance has given away to the refining touch of civilization and the mountain sides are now graced raced by thrifty camps and towns which boast of all ahe modern improvements in the way of fine buildings railroads water works telegraph and telephone service and municipal government this is the tintic gintic of today with its mining camps of eureka mammoth silver city and the people of utah take pride in pointing to the splendid growth made by S N T 3 0 1 J ma 76 A n VIEW OF EUREKA MINING DISTRICT the he district and the record its inin mines es have made a as s prolific producers of the precious ni e t A few inon months after the discovery and location of the sunbeam lode the mammoth m mine i n e was found this was on february 20 26 1870 and two days later 1 a t e r the eureka in eureka gulch was adorned with a location monument moni these three claims were the pioneer properties of the now famous fam ous tintic gintic district all three have been prolific di dividend idena payers the first named produced fortunes from the grass grass roots but of late years has his not figured in extensive ore shipments the mammoth Mai ninoth for thirty years has proven to be one of the wonders of einings history CONTINUED ON PAGE PACE EIGHT A PASSING GLANCE AT TINTIC CONTINUED FROM PAGE F FIVE IVE and is still looked upon as one of the great mines of the district while the eureka now known as the E ureka eureka hill has been a steady producer and has made more than one fortune for its fortunate owners but it is needless to claim that these thes three ethree mines were the only producers in district and nd especially so when it is stated that ther the mineralized zone covers a stretch of country six miles in length north and south and two and a half miles in width in fact scores score of mines the names of which have now almost been forgotten excepting by the earliest settler made splendid records as paying propositions and these were scattered all the way from diamond on the south to eureka on the north but with the exception of the sunbeam the eureka hill and the mammoth these early producers have given way for new f favorites av orites and now the leading mines of the district are enumerated as the swansea the south swansea the grand central the ajax the bullion beek beck the centennial eureka the godiva the gemini keystone the may inlay day the humbug t and uncle sam while there are many prospective dividend payers such as the eagle blue bell the joe bowers the four aces the picnic elmer rey key silver park emerald alaska lower mammoth star consolidated soli dated buckeye boss tweed la reine beine homestake Home stake tesora bonanza showers consolidated sioux consolidated and a score or more of promising prospects in the development of which work is now being actively pushed the largest 1 camp in the district is eureka which is is now one of the most progressive and prosperous mining towns in this western country it is here that the greatest number of producing and paying mines are located the formation is lime and the ore occurs in immense chambers or zones zones and extensive workings show that the ore bodies go to tile the deep it is on this zone and grouped losely closely IL together that the leadin leading ff mines of that section are found and these are the eureka hill the bullion beck champion the cen tennial eureka cind and the gemini keystone in the near vicinity are the humbug and uncle sam the godiva the may day all producing mines and it is estimated that this portion of the district has outputted out putted or more since its first discovery the eureka hill and gemini keystone are close corp corporations rations so that it is ia not publicly known as to the amount of their dividend disbursements but these properties have paid heavily for many years the bullion beek beck has paid in divi dividends denIs to date the centennial eureka and other properties named have helped to swell the grand total to say nothing of the earnings of small propositions concerning which no records have been ke kept p t ten years ago eureka was a dirty strangling town and lacking in in almost every desired facility and essential today it has communication with the outside world by means of two railroads the rio grande west ern and the oregon short line while it has electricity for light and power telea telegraph raph water works and the place has grown in in size size and importance until now it boasts boa s ts of nearly every metropolitan advantage advant alle y and is a little city instead of an isolated mining camp mammoth also has kept apace with the times and while not as large as eureka enjoys about the same facilities the two railroads also entering here with a common depot at robinson the mines of mammoth have produced something over approximately and they have paid dividends as follows ajax grand central NOV 50 and the mammoth silver city a mile or more south of mammoth has recorded substantial growth during durin the past few years and the activity in this 1 s section for the period named has been so great that more new hoisting plants have gone up in that section than all the rest of the district can boast 0 of f the swansea and the south swansea are the only dividend payers in this locality at present although alt bough in the early lays days numerous properties in porphyry belt made grand records as wealth wealtha producers the swansea mine U under n d e r i ilg ts reorganization n lias has paid in dividends to its stockholders while the south swansea a comparatively new discovery is credited with a disbursement of and both mines are in excellent physical condition at the present time the camp Is the terminus for the tintic gintic branches of the railroads already named and it also boasts of telephone and telegraph communication with salt SaIt lake and has a water works system of its own diamond in the extreme southern end of the district is still in a measure isolated at aj one time it was the banner camp of the dis brict and at that time was surrounded by k numerous paying mines mines which paid heavily at the 11 grass roots but which became lean when the sulphide zone was reached th the main endeavor in c bining mining operations there at al the present time being to pierce through the iron pyrites into the rich con fi dently believed to exist below as illustrated lv al W 44 4 4 DOUBLE CIRCLE ON TINTIC BRANCH R G W R RY Y EUREKA HILL MILL AT EUREKA in ill the development of the chic from a worked out surface mine of ma years ago has proven a bonanza below tb t iron capping As an all allaround arcand around district prolific in its d posits of gold silver lead and copper tint tin stands today as the equal if not the peer any camp in this intermountain district th T wealth of its mines prove this and so does t fact that numerous big bi mining deals ha 5 1 been cheref there of late years and it this that has made this section a verita lodestone to investors and capitalists seek seekim paying mines and profitable investments and yet while tintic gintic is a wonderful ful A brict triot today the fact remains remain that its miner mine deposits have barely been touched and it believed that the future will reveal more b mines there than the past has yet recorded the mining review is under dobli obligation crathon mr 6 G W henitz cengr age general pass passenger ag of the rio grande western railway the cuts with which ahil 11 this article is in dished |