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Show Revive Memories Of Knightville Kp Kp Kp c?y dy cy Saloons Missing In Tintic Town By J. R. PAULSON A mining town without so much as a single saloon in the days before be-fore the eighteenth amendment was queer enough, but a mining camp in which 85 percent of the inhabitants attended church every Sunday that IS news. Just such a town was Knight- delights was to aid students to work their way through school particularly the B. Y. U by giving giv-ing them work in the mines in the vacation months. Many prominent promin-ent business and professional men throughout Utah and in fact all through the nation, were given a boost in education by his kindness. kind-ness. All Cooperate A number of prominent Provo and state people will be in attendance attend-ance at the reunion as former residents. resi-dents. -J. B. Snyder, city commissioner, commis-sioner, was at one time a timber-man timber-man in the Knight mines; Joseph McKnight, Salt Lake attorney, once did the same type of work there; Harvey Ross, president of the Gunnison Sugar factory, was a shift boss, and Charles White, Pay-son, Pay-son, county commissioner, worked in the mines there at one time. To put in the excellent system of schools and churches in the town, Mr. Knight asked that each man on his payroll give a day's pay and he completed the buildings with his own money. Gay parties were the rule once or twice each week, but on account of the dearth of saloons and the peaceful nature ville, once a wide-awake place near Eureka, where money flowed from the rich silver lodes that dotted the hills, no wa ghost camp with staring star-ing windows, sagging lumber and the unearthly stillness that marks every deserted town. The town was built by the genius of "Uncle" Jesse Knight, the late Provo financier fin-ancier and philanthropist, whose rise from poverty to riches rivals the best of success stories, j Will Hold Kcujilon Interest in the old mining town where once nearly a hundred families fami-lies and where 400 men worked in each of the two shifts, is revived this week because of the Knightville Knight-ville reunion, at which all the former for-mer citizens 'of the camp will gather to renew acquaintance at Geneva resort. Tales of early Knightville in which the kindness- of the camp, the usual list of snooting snoot-ing scrapes and undertakers' reports re-ports of men who had "died with their boots on," are missing from the annals of Knightville. For the camp still retains the distinction of being one of the "most moral mining camps in history." es, charity and genius of "Uncle Jesse" largely figure, will be retold re-told by the 150-odd former citizens citi-zens and their families who will be in attendance at the gathering. , John Harrison, custodian of the city and county building, is chairman chair-man of the reunion committee. Humbug Mine Many of the stories will doubtless doubt-less center about the discovery of the "Humbug," the famous mine which paved the way toward the Knight fortune, and in the history of which something of the supernatural super-natural is intertwined. According to the story of John Roundy, Provo, former foreman of the Knight mines, "Uncle Jesse" was guided to the rich lode by a voice Buys Supposed "Lemon" Another tale concerns the purchase pur-chase of the old "Uncle Sam" mine by Mr. Knight. The mine was sold to him by John McCrystal for $20,000, and after the sale was made McCrystal is said to have remarked: re-marked: "That's the time I've sold Jesse a lemon; if he makes anything any-thing out of that he'll have to sow it in alfalfa." Strangely enough, however, the mine turned out to be one of the richest producers in the district, and was later sold for many times the original purchase price. The first $100,000 worth of ore taken from the "Humbug" cost $5,000 to take out enough to make the owners own-ers of present-day mines turn green. One of "Uncle Jesse's" greatest |
