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Show Old Man Tyng’s grave sits on top of lonely Miller Hill at head of American Fork Canyon Photos by Meb Anderson Abandoned Globe Mine across from Miller Hill. Legend of Old Man TRG Romantic Tale railroad to haul ore, smelters, boarding houses and cabins to support the industry since the late 1860’s when men from Johnson's armyfirst discovered valuable minerals in Miller Hill, Mary Ellen Gulch and Mineral Basin. In this secondof a threepart series, Dawn Tracytells of the legend of Old Man Tyng and a lucky strike that launched a second mining boom in the ca- nyon. By DAWN TRACY Herald Staff Writer Near the top of Miller Hill at the head of the American Fork Canyon standsa lone picket fence surrounding the grave of a mining baron people called old man Ty: Beneath Tyng’s grave are ten tunnels, four shafts and 10,000 feetof diggings from the Kalamazoo, Wyo. Tunnels, Hot Stuff, Lady Anne, Scotchman and Last Chance mines which produced over $2 million worth of silver, lead, gold and copper by 1875. Soft carbonateore at the Wyoming was so rich it flowed like sand. Muchof the ore dug and blasted out of the canyon camefrom this 10,000foot mountain miners named Miller Hill Here's the story Local legend says George Tyng was an Oriental. But historians insist he was a Masschusetts-born adventurer of Scottish ancestry who had lived in Germany, Cuba, South America and Arizona While he was in New York, Tyng leased the old Miller Hill property from the Aspinwall Company after hearing stories about the wealth that had been made 30 years before in the American Fork Canyon. ‘Tyng had spent a small fortune trying to locate a strike, with no luck says Anderson American Fork to pick up the last about Tyng Tyng’'s sons kept the mines open, but payroll, but beforeheleft MillerHill Howes asked himif he could makeone last try. Tyng said yes. Anderson says while Howes was get ting readytoput a shot or two in an ore seam, he stopped to smooth out a bump complete kitchen during —November nobody found a strike as romanticas old man Tyng had. During the Depression years, mining again picked up but that soon ended after World War II In 1952 the tram that carried ore in the mine floor with a pick. One from the Live Yankee to Deer Creek history says Howes was excavating a placeto put in a tie for a mine track was closed — and that pretty well ended mining until just a few years ago,” says Lloyd Strong, the last man ‘That bumpturned out to be one of the richest ore bodies ever found on to operate the tram Miller Hill,” says Anderson From the middle 1860's — when genore had been played out. When Tyng returned to close the tile soldiers made the first mining Forest City, with its fifteen kilns, mine, he found instead that the hill claim at the Sunbeam Lode — to the lumbermili, smelter, boarding house, held a fortune. Theorewas sosoft, two 1880's, about 40,000 tons of ore were post office, saloon and lady schooi men could pack 350 sacksof it daily hauled out of the canyon. Then, no teacher had long since been abanTyng built a two-story boarding great tonnage was mined until Tyng doned. The narrow-gaugerailroad that house and hired someofthe best cooks made his strike. From 1901 to 1920, Aspinwall had built from American in the countryto feed his crews. Men about 35,000 tonsof ore was extracted. Fork to Deer Creek had been torn up working for Tyng werepaid 75 cents to Mechanization meant even more ore since 1878. Local histories say when one dollar a day more than minersat was mined in the 1930's and '40’s but Tyng drove a buckboard up to Miller other camps and farmers were given less value was recovered. Hill, aspen trees were growing in the top dollar for supplies Forest Ranger Ralph McDonald says main road to the mine. Then in January of 1906, Tyng was during the last two summers, about 200 But by a stroke of luck, Tyng killed in a snow slide at the mine. Men pounds of ore were mined in the calaunched a second mining boom. in American Fork fought their way to nyon. American Fork resident Meb the minethrough a blizzard, found his “There's probably enough old perAnderson, Sr. says the man who made body underneath 15 feet of snow and mits to reopen 200 more claims,” he the strike for Tyng — John Howes — brought him back to town for burial adds. ‘‘There’sstill plenty of good ore told him what happened years ago “Then they read Tyng’s will.” says left too, but the easy pickins are most before Howesdied. 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