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Show THE EUREKA (UTAH) REPORTER Page Ten Minutes of the organization of Tintic Mining District Kdi tor's note: Tlip following is a transscript of the organization of the Tintic Alining Dis- trict on December 13, 1869, taken front the office of the Juab County Recorder, Xephi, Utah. It was under the following rules that mining became established in the area. We the undersigned hereby organize the Territory lying within the following described boundaries. Commencing at a point six miles northwest from the South end of the Discovery Claim known as the Sunbeam, thence East ten miles, thence South fifteen miles, thence West ten miles, thence north fifteen miles to point of beginning. To be known as Tintic Mining District and to be governed by the following laws here after specified. Section 1st. Each mining claim shall not exceed two hundred feet run ning measure with the prive-leg- e to follow it to any depth, together with all dips, angles, spurs and variations, with sufficient surface for conviently working the same. Section 2nd No person shall be entitled to locate more than one claim on the same Lode unless it be the discoverer, who shall be entitled to an additional claim of feet, not more than feet shall be taken by any association or company of persons on any one two-hundr- ed three-thousa- nd lode. Section 3rd Stephen B. Moore is hereby duly elected recorder of said district, who shall hold office for one year from date of election and thereafter a recorder shall be elected annually, which time a general miners meeting will be called for electing officers and attending to any other business necessary to be done in said district. Section 4 th It shall be the duty of the recorder to record all mining claims located in said district which shall be a guarantee of ownership to the party to whom it is recorded provided the necessary requirements herein provided are complied with. Fees for recording shall be two dollars per claim or name. It shall be the duty of the recorder to keep a neat record of all business entrusted to him, pertaining to said district. Secfon 5th All claims shall be recorded writhin thirty from date of location and shall hold good from date of record up to the first day of April, Eighteen Hundred and Seventy, from said date any person holding claims shall be required to work or cause to be worked Twelve days every three months. Section 6th The recorder can appoint one or more deputees who shall hold office under him at his pleasure and all business transacted by them pertaining to Octnlxrr 23, 19fi3 the duties of a recorder in said district shall be held legal. Section 7th No person not being a citizen of the United States or declared his Intention so to become connot preempt or locate claims in this district. Section 8th Any person or persons locating any springs or water privileges for mining purposes in said mining district shall hold good for thirty days from date of location when it shall be recorded on the records of the district. It shall hold good from the date of record up to the first day of April, Eighteen Hundred and Seventy, after which time the person or persons locating said water privileges shall be required to be in possession or put improvements on the same to the amount of twenty five dollars quarterly for one year. Section 9th Any person or persons locating any springs or water privileges shall be entitled to one hundred and sixty acres of land that said springs or water privileges is on. Section 10th Any person or persons making any location governed by the laws of this district shall be required to hand in immediately a copy or duplicate of the notice of such locaation to the recorder who shall be required to keep the same as a memorandum of said location being made until recorded or subject to relocation by other parties. Section 11th Any person or persons failing to comply with the requirements herein specified, his or their claims are forfieted and subject to be reclaimed. Section 12th These laws can be amended vote at a regby a ular annual meeting of miners held in said district. Due notice shall be published of such meeting or election held in said district. Due notice shall be published of such meeting or election by the recorder in one or more public places in said district. two-thir- ds Section 13th A special meeting of miners can be called by the president upon a written petition being signed by seven or more miners for transacting any business not conflicting with the of this district. by-la- Section 14th Any person locating claims on a lode shall be entitled to one hundred feet of ground on each and either side of the lode claimed together with all the mineral contained therein. Section 15! h Any person or company after doing the necessary labor on claims in order to hold them according to the law's of this A view down Main Street in Eureka City taken about 1920. Note is made of unpaved Main Street and other Fitch family prominent in development of Eureka Fitch. Sr., an experienced nvne operator from Michigan, came to Eureka in 1906 and secured control of the Little Chief mine. Mr. Fitch and some of his associates from Michigan reorganized the Walter mine under its present name, The Chief Consolidated Mining Company, and through the years have expanded its holdings from 20 acres to more than 16 square miles. The mine was the mainstay of Eureka for a number of years. At one time moreat than the 600 men were employed mine. It was a blow to the For more than 50 years, the Fitch family furnished employment to hundreds of men and paid thousands of dollars in taxes to Juab Co. Mr. Fitchs son, Cec'l Jr., and two of his daughters, and their families, Mrs. Harold (Adelaide) Spencer, and Mrs. (Ann) Quigley, still reside in Eureka. Mrs. Maude Hilsdale, a daughter of Walter Fitch, holdings. town when the nvne closed in June of 1957. The mine had produced 50.000,000 dollars of strategic metals during two world wars and the Korean conflict. The reason given by one of the company officals at n was the time of the the high cost of underground pumping, the low prices of metals and the high cost of shut-dow- labor. Mr. Fitch's leasng system was one of the first to give the employees a chance to share in the profits in the nvne and many of the successful leasers shared in the profits in a big way. Mr. Fitch will long be remembered for his generosity to anyone in need, and for his backing worthwhile civic projects. He preferred to keep in the background and did not seek publicity of any kind for his acts, many charitable which were known only to those in need of assistance. After his death, his sons. Cecil Fitch, Sr., was elected President and General Manager of the mine, and carred on his father's policies in mining and his interest in the town and its people. He and his father will always be remembered as knd-ly- . courteous gentlemen, and for keeping Eureka from becoming a ghost town. Cecil Fitch, Sr., retired in the spring of 1956, at which time his son, Cecil Fitch. Jr., was elected President and General Manager of the Fitch early-da- y conditions. Sr., lives here during the summer months and spends the winter months in California. The Chief Consolidated mine is engaged in new ventures in the East Tintic area. Some of the better values encountered in the East Tintic area is on ground controlled by Chief Consolidated Min'ng Company. district shall make a report of the same with satisfactory evidence to the recorder who shall be required to give a receipt to the person or company making such a report of labor being done and shall place the same upon the records of this district and the recorders fees for making such entry and giving receipt shall be fifty cents. Joseph Hyde, Pres. W. J. Harris Moroni Billingsley E. M. Peck Lewes R. Perry S. W. Worsley Sterlin Colton S. B. Moore r. M. Wintz S. J. Whitney Rollin Roberts |
