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Show rv SATURDAY DECEMBER 21 i THE1 DESERET 1929 NEWS SALT LAKE CITY dWovered more than (0 wrote a communication which was business transaction with him take neers are carrying on tha work of of their fathers at the present time years ago On account of this un- published In Salt lake Clly In 1930 on many of the characteristic banking boaineaa which continued Like many of Utah's Industrial stonl tn Halt Lake and many who were were Canadiansusual builders formation, many and which claimed himself the an entertainment. until They under hia name and direction they in Two old Comstoekers. who be- active in early-da- y distinction of discovering t.ircr hla death at an advanced age a became associated in the develop- have been told of its discovery. development One classic and probably came well known in Utah mining, are still active. ment of the Silver King property the sandstone. tew years ago. of the now IL was discovery. were P. mythical story He wrote that be iannan and the (ate The Fitch family of Eureka have employed Ha was a potent factor In the at Park City many years ago, Is that an aasayer, who WA driven to cut stone for the Mormon" C. C. Goode in. manager ard editor bten prominent in the development development of aome of tha state's one of the state's leading silver-lea- d out he after of Nevada, Pioche, near a continuous of Utah, St. after and the Sait lake Trib- of the Tintic district for many George, at producers, respectively temple largest mining organuaUona of that section in 1874 and discovered une for many years, of approximately,. 9 had reported that a fragment valiant cham- years and are still operating numwith lika courage and optimism produ ounces 837 ran old an grindstone in of In the mining industry and erous mine there. the sandstone pions backed many a one that tailed to years. copper stains Uncle Jesse Knight was one silver to the ton traced the grind1875. in prominent March, figures fnlfill its promise. early mining. The Walker brothers of Salt Lake stone te Leeds. Utah. The name were pioneers of mining tn MonHis business Interests were man- of Utah's great builders as well as and Judge Goodwin worked on a Vir- tana He concealed a sample in a hayof the history subsequent and Utah and through their ifold but mining unquestionably one of Us most picturesque figures stack and later sent it with a fruit ginia City newspaper with Mark come- down with have not vast business operations cona men. for Twain He were otber both when many years was always closest to his heart possessed young peddler to Pioche. where it was He to give industry support. tinue of of the many pio Former associates say lie had a true pioneer spirit and, as he of- this interesting tale.7' mining in run 'found to and high assayed More authentic stories Indicate! silver. roll' ten said of himself, he would rathprivate and personal 'pension Two residents of Pioche and er develop a useful enterprise than that silver was first found in the op iof old prop.-ctor- s Mineral Workings, Cities, Skyscrapers Stand as made Silver in Reef sandstone by the make It. out of His money that man, and their dependants and Ferruf xhnwea Them wherche W business cstlers times important practically a IJoT John, Kempbt'ln 1869, who, aTter lh aatnpl. Monuments- -' of those of the state; metal mining, considerable work, filled up 'hta,ot were made to wait while Ur. j After several of Inactivity, and years left the country. than coal to beet the mining, livestock, sugar, gave consideration He returned In 1874 and did the district is now under develop- - if small affairs brought to him by manufacturing, agriculture, bank- aome ment by the American Smelting A work, but became discouragnever one of these derelicts of mining ing and otber activities, have any money to speak of," he ed and left. Actual development Refining company. Early opera-tlon- s adversitv. were put to an end by the once said. X have a little credit was Initiated by W. T. Barbee In trough the history of Utah mining with its great OF NEW YORK It was long accepted as a fixed and before early operations copper content of the ores, but Jjf mining man can use now and then but 1 have 1875 record of approximately 2,000,000.000, its divi- -, condition that if a UcCornick with new district ceased the metallurgy it la expected produced of always made It a rule to keep my could convince Ur. The Newest and Best Policy. ounces of silver, according that operhtiona can be resumed on SI record of over 350,000.000, and its present day lead- - hia own ability and Integrity he capital working at something or to government reports, while local a profitable basis. Oldest Company in America, the need not prove much about hb other." By Much about be the written ersliip in the mining world, is the human side of the glamorous proposition could Mr. Knight was born In Illinois. estimates place it at 20,000,000 in order to obtain nec- ounces. activities of John 1L McCbrysial carly-da- y Ills father d.ed in Nebraska, activities which brought to light many great men and essary financial back ('HAS. F. BARRETT, Manager for Utah and Idaho who operated in the Tmtic disSilver Discovered. overland to Utah in 1847. Otic Enterprise. builders. 801-81- 0 j S. Ferris contributed great- trict from early boyhood until hla Walker Bank Bldg. Salt Lake City. John when Mr. two was owes Knight a years Lake Salt mighty City The striving, the sorrows, the failures, success and happiness debt to Samuel Xewhouse for his old. Mis boyhood brought a full ly to the development of the Sil- death several years ago. A splendid ver his a. man Reef a shore also and and of miner, district, the work It lays splendid and hardships of humanity is written through the pages of mining in Utah. substantial achievement within the pioneer days, experiences claim to being the discoverer. He wit and good nature made even a and for what he did to arouse civ- of That Industry today , nd a great that a naturprobably developed toward start and ic it enterprise portlon of the state's industrial im- eral of The states ally . enterprising leading mining metropoiltanism. portance make a fitting monument ramps and accumulated spirit. a large He came to Utah tn 1898 a young to those pioneers who made a U1L a youth. .fee engaged man. afthotfgh he had already at- in Whaa "fudePsa and those who failed only fortune. freighting from Utah to, the His Sincerity. tained marked success in mining mines in the aense of material things, of Montana. He was prombut wrought out great knowledge, He was extremely Intolerant of and other activities In Colorado inent end devout In the work of anything that savored of affecta- He had an ideal personality and his Church. upon which success of others was tion. , On one occasion, after he had for --the place and the time built. He his and developed equipped heard an expert witness give an spirit and became a leading figure al- properties well and took from Many interesting volumes could he filled with the glamor of early involved and highly technical de- most immediately. He never sought them large profits which , he of a certain scription formation, political or reinvested In mines or day mining in thia state, but the he that it reminded kits and hi. comnbutmnu ta the city promptly other purpose o This article Is to pofnt of .remarked enterprises. "Muttonized beef. were d e to his sincere belief in. out aidelighta on some of the Enjoyed Risk. He is said to have 'wed in and deep affection for th place . He keenly enjoyed a hazard. It who found success in delvHe gave Salt Lake ita first sky- is said that once when he was en ing into the bowels of the earth. silence for a long period of time The writer is Indebted to Mining the pistu of a miner, delivered to scrapers. the New house and Boston gaged In a deal another well -Colonels home in the owner's build Inga. -- and ialcr.liic Newiioy-- c known- - Operator-for-ih- e snd tetatforgy a - publication- - of .the transfer the American Institute of Mining absence. Then he got a hammer hotel, and by bis accomplishments of a mining property, the other to correct Incon- inspired many others to give thv man well known for hia sporting & Metallurgical Engineers for and proceeded He tendencies, structures. much of the material contained sistencies tn the work. Ho began clly noteworthy thinking to achock with the miner's pick, which he donated the mte of the Chamber man well known herein. for his Church was Salt and the Colonel E. A. Wall was an ac- noted said: incorrectly held, and of Commerce building Mr. Knight, activities, were-)23.0- 00 tive and Interesting figure in west- by the time he had completed his' Lake stock exchange. apart on this deal. tile statue was a He had not been here tong be- I'll cut the cards with you to ern mining from i860 until hla corrections, fore hia generosity became widely make it $50,000 or nothing. death at Salt Lake in 1920. He total wreck. never hesitated to fight for hia The late W. S. UcCornick. for known and demands came from You're on; get your cards, Mr. convictions or for any cause or is- many years a dominant financial all aides. There was a veritable Knight said like a flash, and the sue he believed to be figure of the state. Is held In open eeason upon him at one other party got the shock. rjghttoThia is not the place for allusion The late Robert C. GemmilL bis warm remembrance by the mining time. Some of the outstanding figures former general manager of the long and vigorous controversy in fraternity. He was born on a Caare those of Utah' Utah the siith to nadian history went mining Califorfarm and connection Copper company, and a man IU' Copper other than to record that the prin- nia as a youth in 18S8. He lived who constituted the "old Park City of exceptional poise and Intense bunch. cipals on both sides then com- there until he was attracted to practicability, once confessed that manded and still command the vada by the fame of the famous They Included Thomas Kearns, for several years he struggled R. C. Chambers. W(ib a fantasuc Impulse that rehighest regard of the local mining Comstock Lode" In tha early six- David Keith. ties and engaged successfully in James Ivers. At Emery, John quired all of his inherited community. to control. Colonel Wall first cams to Utah mining, lumbering and other ac- Judge, E. P. and W. M. Ferry. Sr., In 1888. He was a pioneer of sev tivities Mention was made of another until 1871 when he came Exra Thompson. J. R. Murdock D. C. McLaughlin, J. J. Daly, Rich- mining man with whom Mr. Gem-mi- ll was associated In his younger ard Mackintosh and many others. for their da vs. They are esteemed bene vole nee . I never think of.him without pubtia-ae- rv liis nose," he' said ard for their contributions to the recalling state's material benefit in many There was something the matter with the nose and there was nothways other than mining. the matter with him. He and Gains from their mining opera- ing I always got along well, but tions were lareelv invested tn oth- whenever came near me. I had er activities of the state. Many of an almost heuncontrollable impulse the citys finest business and resi- to hit him on the nose. I often dential structures bear names of wonder what would have happenmembers of the Park City group. ed if X had done it. as he weighed ;wbo In a majority of Instance, be- 75 pounds more than I did. g Sandstone. gan at Park City as roor young men. The old Silver Reef In SouthKeith and Ki ern Utah waa one of the most There are many close persons) unique- - mining sections of the affiliations between them, of etate. oaring to the fact that111 sll- a sandstone to at which th most notabl was that between the late Senator Thomas novelty and waa more so when It to Salt Lake and establlahed the Kearns and the late David Keith. Pioneer Leaders In Mining Aided Growth of State ria h er jjf X ! WOVEN THE MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO. u X ' - te e self-relia- nt personal-glorificat- t I ion . rs Slim MfllDOTMl dDE lee-th- WILBERT MINING COMPANY, Limited if Operating in the DOME MINING DISTRICT Butte County, Idaho. Silver-bearin- ver-bar- tn ' ? 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