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Show TIIE EUREKA (UTAH) REPORTER Pagi Twelve October 23, 19f3 notes centennial (continued from page 11) of gold and silver in the Mammoth Mine, and developments by Kennecott Copper Corp., on the Tintic Unit. Gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc ores mined in the Tintic District from 1869 to 1961 amounted to $432,065,221. Some of the names closely associated with the early mining in Tintic were: Beck, Shea, Blanchard, Tintic. Silver City derived name from precious meta! Freight rates soon made it City was named for ie metal which gave greatest value to the ore mined there. After the news of the Sunbeam find leaked out, Joseph Silver Hyde. S. B. Moore, S. W. Woreley, L. J. Whitney, Moroni Billingsley, the men who filed on the Sunbeam on Dec. hey-de- 13, 1869, were quick to realize the need of organization, so took the lead in creating the Tintic Mining District. Silver City was better situated for a townsite than any of the other mining towns in surrounding areas. It was in the center of the early mining area, with Diamond on the south and Mammoth on the north, it outgrew both of the other towns for several years. Producing mines increased so that by 1890 to 1899, mines in the news were the Alaska, Rabbit Foot, Swansea, Sunbeam, Treasure Hill, Tesora, Black Dragon, Showers, South Swansea, all working and selling stock. Once again the mining bugaboo in Tintic was encountered, and water found, in nearly all of them. One by one they were forced to cease operations. In 1896 and early 1900's Jesse Knight of Provo had found the Humbug Mine on the Utah Valley side of the Tintic Moun-ta:and had acquired the Uncle Sam Mine on the Eureka side, and the Iron Blossom, Star. Dragon and Black Jack on the south side of the mountain. In 1907 he built the Utah Ore Sampling Company Plant at Silver City, which was later moved to Murray. He later built the Tintic Smelter, also near Silver. There was great activity in Silver during this period. Houses were built to accomodate the employees, and the population boomed to over 15C0 with many others living in Mammoth and Eureka. On July 24, 1908, Silver City and all Tintic celebrated Smelter Day. According to one writer, It was the most lavish celebration ever held in Tintic District." Special excursion trains were run to the District, and a gala celebration was caried on throughout the day. n, unprofitable for Mr. Knight to smelt his own ore, and the smelter was closed and later torn down. Names remembered y were Moore, in the Riter. Wheeler, Sutherland, Blanchard, Bates, Higgensen, Potts, Greene. Keplinger, Hickman, Baker, Wilkensen, Fuller, Allen, Bale, Haws and many others. As with other boom towns, Silver Citys population soon dwindled from 1500 people, where two hotels, several stores, a church, a post office and many sa'oons, and a large dance pavillion, made up a pleasant little place to live, with buildings and home dismantled and torn down, soon it became another ghost town, with practically nothing left, but the remains of the smelter to show that it was once a going mining town. Incident noted at the Grand Central Mine Grand Central Mine in Mammoth was another one of the mines in Tintic that made money for its owners. As early as 1910, it paid over $1,800,000 dividends. The mine produced gold, silver, copper and lead. Owners and directors were L. HoTbrock, Reed Smoot, C. E. Loose, William Hatfield, in George Q. Cannon, J. R. Twelves and Pat Donnelly, who was interested in the mine, and a letter written to Mr. Donnelly by the officers of the company, which was given The Reporter, by his daughter, Ella Donnelly, of Salt Lake City, proved to be very interesting, and shows the difference in the wage scale then and now. The letter written December 23, 1898, and reads as follows: Dear Mr. Donnelly: According to a resolution of our board of directors passed Dec. 6th, 1898, I enclose you the Companys check for S1000 and ask you to receive the same as a Christ- - CONGRATULATIONS to UTAH MINING INDUSTRY CENTENNIAL 1863 to 1963 Silver Clul Eureka, Utah Best-lemey- er, Brown, Chrisholm, Crisman, Croxall, Deprezin, Dern, Donnelly, Driscoll Fitch, Franklin, Hatfield, Knight, Loose, McIntyre, McCune, Packard Raddatz, Riter, Sullivan, Tetrault, Wilson, Woodman, Owens, Clark and many Mc-Chryst- al, others. mond and rotary drilling has been accomplished from the surface on both Chief Consoli- East Tintic District yields good samples Creek Mining Co., a domestic affiliate of Kenne-co- tt Copper Corporation, first entered the Tintic Distr'ct in 1955. Their first project was on the Jenny Lind property in North Tintic. They later moved their drilling rigs to the East Tintic area in 1956. The Tintic Unit was formed and participating companies with the Bear Creek are the Chief Consolidated Mining Co. and the Tintic Standard Mining Company. Sinking of the Burgin shaft was begun in Dec. 1956, and completed in June of 1957. The shaft was sunk 1100 feet to the water table and two miles of underground drifting were completed by Centennial Development Company, Eureka Bear mine contractors and engineers. A drilling company completed 25,000 feet of diamond drilling. The ores found on the foot wall of East Tintic thrust fault amounted tons of lead-silver-zi- nc dated and Tintic Standard ground. The work in the East Tintic area has brought renewed interest and life to mining in the area and from the "find" in E. Tintic, could well be one of the leading mining areas in the was begun in June 1963, and the work is expected to be completed in two years. Contract for sinking was awarded to Centennial Development Co. The new shaft wall be the main production shaft and for dewatering the ore body and a'so to provide adequate ventilation. Work on the Apex No. 2 shaft was completed to the 1,000 foot level and 1,450 feet of drifting was rehabilitated to connect with the Burgin mine and will be used as an exhaust air shaft. west. As yet Tintic hasn't found a bononza like the Park City area, but with the new discoveries in the metal market in Tintic, we could possibly have a bonanza of a different type. "I rather think most Americans are conservatives, and that they oppose the shenani- gans of the intellectual dreamers. John Maverick Underground drilling has done on Chief Consolidated ground and much of the surface drilling has been on the Tintic Standard ground. Considerable additional dia- - I am not a Virginian, but an American. Patrick Henry been The best way out of a diffi culty is through it. ember When to 50,000,000 and gold ore. Fifty tons of mine development ore a day is being shipped to the smelters. All the ore shipped is being taken from above the water table in the Burgin No. 1 shaft. A new shaft about 1200 feet from the Burgin exploration is being sunk and will be known as Burgin No. 2 and will be sunk 1500 feet to get below the water table and below the ore. Work on the new shaft mas present. This is given to you to erpress the Companys appreciation of your untiring and worthy efficient services for the last three years in their behalf. And I further take pleasure in notifying you at the same meeting it was unanimously voted that your salary commencing January 1, 1899 be $150 per month (big money in that day). Hoping this small recognition of your past worth to us will be received in the same kind spirit that our directors gave it. "It was signed by John R. Twelves Sec. & Treas. Grand Central Mng. Company. It would appear that Mr. knew considerably Donnelly more about the mines in Tintic District than almost any other mining man in the District. He was crippled with arthritis at an early age, and confined to a wheel chair for years, but acted as consultant for many of the mining men who were not as familiar as he with the mining situation in Tintic. YOU KNOW the solidcomfort that may be had from a . well knit' i h . SWEATER COAT? put one of YOU can outdoor ours on wear; and any it never musses, wrinkles n6r tears. AVe are showing all the new novelties for Men, Boys; Women and Children. V Better buy one before they , are all gone. . ' , . ... r ... i . - -f Prices from 75c tip to $10.00. r ; F. SHRIYER W. NOW KNOWN AS ? . It muer ESTABLISHED Now Located at 16 , A IN EUREKA W. Center, Provo, Utah |
