Show biography of leading mining men NUMBER TWO BY WILL C HIGGINS 1 1 N newton U aton A dunyon of salt lake is not a detective and he has never had a position on the staff of the pinkertons Pink ertons still he has the makin making of a first class detective for all of his life or ever since the grey matter under his hat began to consider affairs consecutively he has been following up clues and reasoning from cause to effect Hs H s researches however have not been along the line of human action criminal or otherwise but have been directed to the recovery or of ore bodies which have been lost strayed or stolen mr dunyon is a native born utahn and is proud of the fact for he is firm in the belief that the mining districts of the state are the equal if not the peer of any to be found in any locality in the west and he is as strong an advocate of this opinion as he is successful in tracing the courses of veins or in rediscovering discovering re lost ore bodies it was while engaged in mining in the incomparable district of tintic gintic that the mining world discovered that dunyon was a wizard fame come to him while in the employ of the centennial eureka company not in chunks and wagon loads so as to crush his aspiring aspirin genius but little by little as snowflakes fall so that it was by degrees that h s acquaintances discovered that he was possessed of certain faculties that have since given him prominence as a most successful mining operator and mine manager graduating from the mining department of the university of utah mr dunyon who derived a mining strain in his blood from his ancestry attached himself to the cen tennial eureka much in the same way that a fly forms a lasting partnership with a sheet of flypaper that is in good healthy condition and ready for business for he was there to stay and stay he did going in at the bottom and working his way up until he was superintendent of this magnificent producer beginning when the mine was being worked by assessments and not quitting until the company had paid out the splendid sum of in dividends until the property had passed into the hands of the united states min ng company for a cash consideration of dunyon was still quite a lad when he entered the service of the centennial eureka but this was a fault that time alone could correct and rectify and yet he was not daunted for observation had shown him that many other men ion long since famous could at one time have been convicted of the same crime therefore he waited modestly and bided his time at the same time he was a close student and unknown even to his employers he began to keep cases on vagrant veins and to determine the direction taken by ore bearing solutions when the great mineral bodies of the mine were formed it was then that he began to develop his sleuthing propensities and he was always in hot pursuit when an ore body began hopping and skipping around in a manner defying all orthodox notions of the way a body of mineral should behave at first he kept the books of the company and performed the mine surveying thus keeping tab on the property in all of its dips spurs and angles later on he did the assaying and knew to the fraction of a cent the value of ores in each AW Z newton A dunyon breast and upraise later still he was installed as foreman it was while hold holding n down this position that mr dunyan really thrust himself into fame for it was at that time that the cen tennial tenni aln eureka ore body without due notice and without even a thirty day warning stole away one night and could not be found in the morning the company was in a funk and the stockholders ersi were like rachel mourning for her children for they were not from all over the country experts came and thousands were expended in the endeavor to rediscover discover re the lost ore body it was duly advertised for in all of the papers and a liberal reward was offered for its discovery and return without being harmed or frightened result nothing doing and dividend payments had been discontinued while the stock market was weak in spots and easily put out of countenance it was at this time that mr dunyon stepped into the breach or more strictly speaking into the drift and for he had a theory of his own regarding absconding ore bodies which he desired to demon strate to the company As a last resort he was placed in full charge of the mine a credit of was placed at his disposal and he was told to go to it mr dunyon had a hard job ahead of him but his was not a bluff then it was that he brought into play his beliefs regarding the direction and flow of solutions when nature formed the ore bodies of tintic gintic district and following up the clues and tracing their course he worked on and on always in an opposite erection from that taken by unsuccessful experts until one day he fell onto the unsuspecting ore body lassoed it hog tied it and turned it over to the company without a blemish or a spavin since then the company has had a special night watchman in the mine and the ore has never again attempted to escape although it has been picked at and lambasted lam basted with giant powder r as far down as the 2000 foot level upon the recovery of the centennial Eu ore body mr dunyon came into the full measure of his fame and it still hangs gracefully over his head like a halo over the head of a saint or prophet since then he has been in the employ of mining companies big and little he has found other ore bodies which have been lost and he is now the mine manager for a number of big concerns and acts as expert for those who are fortunate in securing his services |