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Show October 2"), THE EUREKA (UTAH) REPORTER 1963 Tintic Mining District (continued from page 3) the pass north of Packard Peak, and probably this was the pass they headed for, with visions of fat living for the balance of the winter in the seclusion of their Valley with the cattle for food. In the meantime, Colonel Conover had secured authority from Brigham Young to raise a company of militia to persue the Indians and recover the stock. Stopping at Palmyra, he endeavered to find Tintic's band with the Indians under Chief Peteetneet, who were friendly. Failing in this, a company of about 75 men was organized and left Palmyra, camping the first night at the north end of West Mountain, where they spent an extremely cold night, with only saddle blankets for bedding. In the morning, several of the men returned home with frozen feet; the balance riding forward over the Lake on the ice to the dugout where the Hun-sakherdsman had been killed. Here the Company divided into squads of ten to locate the trail of the Indians, which was soon found, plus a stray steer the Indians had left behind, that was brought in and barbecued for dinner. The Company had no difficulty following the trail of the Indians and the herd of cattle through the canyon, and emerging from the mountains viewed the valley for, as they believed, the first time by white men. As discoverers, they named it Tintic Valley. in their belief that they were the first white men to see the Valley, they may have been correct. It had no streams to beckon the beaver trappers, or to point the way for travelers. On the West was the Great American Desert, even today an unpopulated barrier. On the East, convenient small streams and the Sevier River made a route that called for no further exploration. Father Escalante, in 1776, and Jim Bridger at an unknown later date, had viewed the East Tintic Mountains, but had passed them by without comment. Tintic Valley impressed these er Page Nineteen dark green trees standing so thickly against a background of snow. The Indians had taken a southeasterly direction, and the pursuing militia encountered deep snow and extra cold. Some of the stolen stock had failed to survive the Indian drive and were passed standing in the snow frozen stiff. What a picture this Indian Band, poor driving these beasts through the snowy mountain pass and down into the cedar covered valley, must have made. But there was no Remington to paint it. The militia moved on, covering in one day what the Indians did in three, and on the third day, passing an unusually heavy body of cedars, they found themselves on the edge of a great desert. Here the stolen cattle had been left by the Indians, who had scattered in all directions into the surrounding sand hills. The Company now drove the recovered cattle six miles to the Sevier River, and camped for the night. The following days, marching up the Sevier River and driving the cattle before them, brought them to Nephi. As they approached the town they were taken for Ind'ans, and caused considerable alarm, but as the chronicler says; It was a time of general rejoicing with the Nephites when they found the supposed Lamanites were their friends. Now with the Militia and the cattle safe at Nephi, and Tin-tiband scattered among the sand hills, and Tintic Valley discovered and named, what about Chief Tintic, shot through the hand, back in the tent in Cedar Valley ? On March 5, 1856, the Deseret News reported: Tintic, head chief of the disaffected band, and w'ho was wounded in the skirmish near the South Fort in Cedar Valley, is reported dead. So for another Remington painting, picture Chief Tintic slumped over the neck of his horse, dying from an infected wound, with his band around him urging the stolen cattle on through the deep snow of what had been his valley, without the knowledge that his Mormon Militiamen, already name would some day be familiar with mountains and "Mining Magic." valleys wrell covered with ceA man is judged by the dar and pine, as being the a woman most thickly wooded they had company he keeps ever seen, and it must have by the company she has just Ernest L. Henes been a beautiful sight with the left. cs View from foothills shows the Chief Consolidated Mining Company mill which dominated the land sea pa around Eureka for several years. The mill has since been dismantled. John (). Packard was a well known name in early mining Hill, history. The Eureka which was really the first strike in Eureka, and which he held for several years, and later located the Blue Rock mine, which he later sold. It proved to be a far greater "strike and a much richer one than the Eureka Hill. His earnings were such that he donated a school building in Eureka and a library building in Salt Lake City. Timothy D. Sullivan, or Big Tim as he was called came to Eureka in the early days and located a number of mining claims, including the Little Chief, the Eureka Townsite in the establishment of the Eureka Democrat in 1895. He died in Eureka in 1899. The family lived here for several years following his death and Mrs. Sullivan and son, John T. make their home in Salt Lake. Paying compliments is one wray to insure quick popularity. CONGRATULATIONS TO THE INDUSTRY CELEBRATING ITS FIRST CENTENNIAL in UTAH EUREKA, UTAH lieu df mine and surface facilities of the Rurgan Shaft owned and operated liy the Rear Creek Mining Company in the East Tintic Mining District. This operation Is located east and north of the familiar Tintic Standard operation. and was instrumental |
