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Show October 23, 1 Page Three TI1E EUREKA (UTAH) REPORTER 963 Tintic Mining District named after Indian chief by B. C. Pike Cache Jet., Utah In the Fall of mountains, known as Tintics Valley. a cownamed Rust found boy George 1869, some good looking ore in Ruby between the now Canyon, ghost towns of Silver City and Diamond. Showing these samples of ore to friends in Payson, resulted in Joseph Hyde, S. B. Moore, S. W. Worsley, L. J. Whitney, Marion Billingsley, E. M. Peck and William Harris going into the nearby mountains with a rough map furnished by Rust, and finding the outcrop of the first mine in Tintic, which they named the "Sunbeam." Several claims were staked out and the location papers taken to the County seat, i, being recorded there on Ne-ph- Dec. 13, 1869. The Federal mining law at that time allowed any group of owners of mining claims to organize a mining district provided the locations were ten or more miles from the County seat, therefore, the seven men petitioned the District Court, then located at Provo, for a mining district, to be ten miles square, covering their location. The Court appointed S. B. Moore as the first recorder, with office at Silver City, in 1870. A m'ning district had to be given a name, and the men respons'bel for initiating the district appropiated the name of the long cedar covered valley west of the ore bearing Thus an obscure Chief of the dead some 13 to the formation years prior of the Mining District, gave his name to one of the great mineral districts of the West, and here is how it came about. In 1856, a band of Utes under Chief Tintic climaxed horse and cattle stealing by killing two herdsmen, Henry Moren and Washington Carlson, on Februaray 21. Deputy Marsnall Johnson secured a writ of arrest for the murderers from Judge Drummond at Provo and enlisting a posse, set out for Cedar Valley to apprehend the guilty parties. The posse of ten men left Provo and camped the first night at Lehi, one of their number, Colonel Conover, continuing on to Salt Lake City to inform Brigham Young, then Superintendent of Indian Affairs, of the Indian depredations. The second day found the posse at Cedar Fort, and the following morning Tin Band was located near by. Deputy Marshal George Parish, now in charge of the posse, sent John Clark to Tintics camp. Clark spoke the Ute languge, and appears to have been a Commando type or frontiersman, going to the Chiefs tent alone. However, Clark had two pistols in his belt under his overcoat and while the Indians discussed killing him when it became Ute Indians, State Firemen's Convention in early days. Tim Sullivan, Jack Mitchell, William Douglas, From left to right: Ed Bonner, Buck Arrigona, Pat Bonner, Boss Ingersoll, Jim Webb, Jack Hurley, Frank Cook, John Donnelly, Bernard Hall, Dennis. Claude Bill Bacon, Ivan Bean and A winning championship running team in the Utah dark, he planned to make a quick break, depending on his fleetness of foot to get away. While Clark was talking to Tintic, the balance of the posse came up, and Parish got off his horse and came into the wickiup, going up to Tintic and grabbing him by the hair with one hand, while holding a pistol in the other, loudly proclaiming that Tintic was his prisoner. Tintic grabbed the pistol and in endeavoring to escape from the hair hold, the pistol went off, shooting Tintic through the hand, after which he broke loose from Parish's hold and escaped through the back of the tent. A general fight now commenced. Tintics brother, Bat- - tics test, pointed his rifle at Parish and fired, but one of the posse knocked the barrel aside and the shot missed. Another of the posse then shot Battest through the head, killing him. Another member of the posse, George Carlson, was mortally wounded, a squaw and several other Indians killed, and others wounded. John Clark, the interpreter, grabbed an Indian's gun, jumped on Tintic's horse and proceeded with the balance of the posse to get Hell out of there, laying low on their horses, with Indian bullets whistling over their them, but now the fat was in heads. going to Eureka to sell polished cattle horns and do a bit of begging on the side, used (continued on page 19) This brawl was hardly Brigham Young's idea of feeding the Indians instead of fighting the fire, and that night the Indian Band killed two boys Henry Morgan and William Carson who were herding sheep on the west side of Utah Lake, and later killed a r, boy named and driving away the cattle that the boy had been herding, headed for the mountains that lay between them and Tintics Valley. There are several passes that Tintic's band and the cattle may have taken from the west side of Utah Lake to Tintic's Valley. 50 years later Indians Hun-sake- NEW PARK MINING U COMPANY Andy Anderson operates drilling operation at 2600-foo- t level. CELEBRATING THE MINE CENTENNIAL IN THE STATE OF UTAH CHARLES A. STEEN. PRESIDENT Mammoth, Utah AND MANY YEARS OF OPERATION IN THE STATE |