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Show old timers agree that the street was named for a man, but who he was and why his name remained re-mained attached to Bingham's one major thoroughfare, other than Main street, is beyond the recollection of a list of those with ability to "remember back when". BINGHAM'S STREETS NAMED IN 1860'S, SURVEY REVEALS NAMES OF MANY OLD TIMERS REMAIN TO REMIND OF EARLIER DAYS Naming of a city's streets is 'only occasionally a systematic business. In the case of Bingham Canyon, which mushroomed haphazardly hap-hazardly along the bottom and on the hillsides of a seven-mile long canyon, it is easily Understandable Under-standable that the alleys, avenues and side gulches were casually named, habit and whimsical notions no-tions more often than not determining deter-mining designations. Before big business took over mining in Bingham Canyon and mude it an industry of scientific detail, there were mines in every canyon, gulch, mountain and summit. Some of the first to arrive ar-rive and secure a living in independent inde-pendent mining ventures were the discharged soldiers of General Gener-al Patrick E. Connor, who arrived arriv-ed in Salt Lake City to establish Fort Douglas in October,. 1862. Historians generally credit Connor Con-nor and his men as playing a prominent role in the mining history of Utah. Tullidge in his "History of Salt Lake City" states that George B. Ogilvie, logging in Bingham Canyon, Can-yon, "found a piece of ore which he sent to Connor, who had it assayed. This resulted in location notices of the old Jordan mine, recorded September 17, 1863, and listing among the shareholders a number of officers of the army, General Connor included, and Mr. Ogilvie as discoverer." According to John Hocking, who has lived in Bingham Canyon Can-yon over 60 years, Dixon and Freeman avenues were named for two of these early soldier-adventurers soldier-adventurers turned prospector. Dixon, known familiarly as "Pony", had several likely prospects, pros-pects, including Dixon mine located lo-cated behind No. 2 Fire hall and another mine in the gulch behind be-hind Utah Copper company hospital. hos-pital. Many of the early Bingham miners were Civil war veterans who "did a good deal of their mining in front of a bar", Mr. Hocking reminisces. Selection of the name "Mark-ham "Mark-ham gulch" is subject of an interesting in-teresting story recalled by Mrs. Thomas Mayne as it was told to her years ago by Grandma Heas-ton, Heas-ton, wife of Daniel W. Heaston. The gulch was source of much fine timber in the days when the Canyon was being exploited by lumber men. One day two crews, sent to Markham gulch, stopped to agree on a method of keeping their logs separate. "How can we tell them apart?" one man asked. "We'll mark them," came the answer. "And after that", Mrs. Mayne concluded, "the gulch was known as Markham." This version is credited by William Wil-liam Robbins of Markham, a local resident for over sixty years. The variance in spelling should not be a cause for doubt. To show how letters are altered over a period of time, take Bingham's "Hegland avenue", named for S. J. Haglund and his wife, Caroline, Caro-line, many years' residents here and owners of large amounts of property. The Swedish couple had a dairy and a home in the vicinity of what is the William Cook residence today. Mrs. Haglund Hag-lund was 12 years her husband's senior and took an active part in the management of his business busi-ness and property. There are a number of people living in Bingham Bing-ham at the present time who remember re-member seeing the couple erect together, entirely unaided, homes on Main street, some of which are occupied today. Mrs. Haglund Hag-lund frequently was seen Shingling Shing-ling roofs or holding boards which her husband nailed in place. The Haglunds financed establishment estab-lishment of a Bingham laundry. They died over 30 years ago, leaving leav-ing their property to a nephew, the late Victor Eckman of Salt Lake City. Wall street is said to have been named for Enos Wall, original prospector and owner of what was to become the nucleus for the Utah Copper company mine. Heaston Heights reminds of one of the oldest of Bingham families, already mentioned once. According to Mrs. A. D. Clarke of Seattle, the former Mona Heaston, Daniel W. Heaston and his wife, Sarah, came to Bingham Bing-ham from Fort Herriman. Their son, Daniel, was born in Bingham Bing-ham Canyon on June 17, 1868, the first white boy born in Bingham. Bing-ham. Another son, Adrien L Heaston, and Fred Bemis had a small mining claim located on the hill and later built four houses hous-es on what was "Heaston and Bemis Heights". Bemis sold his interest and the place became "Heaston Heights". Twin brothers, Henry and Dave Wolfe, Pennsylvania Dutchmen, came to Bingham 45 years ago, to build "Wolfe Yard" in lower Bingham. Evidently the first named street in Bingham Canyon was Carr Fork, which a number of people insist should be properly known as "Carr's Fork". Several |
