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Show CZLiNTENNIAL 1 Volume 896-- 1 996 EUREKA, UTAH MARCH 22, 1996 Ninety-On- e Price $.40 -- Number 12 Centennial Feature Eureka: small town, but big on spirit Note.. The following article is taken from a publication called Rockv Mountain PA Y DIRT, and was written by Jennifer Toomer, Associated Press Writer. It mis submitted by Wayne S. Christiansen. EUREKA, Urah (AP)..For a town that has seen its heyday come and go since Utah achieved statehood 100 years ago. Eureka gave every indication Jan 3 it will be around to ccichraic the state's bicentennial. About half of the city's MXXkxld residents turned out to greet a Centennial train when it stopped at nearby Tintie Junction. an area peppered with strike-it-ric- h names like Dividend, Silver City and Mammoth, that recall its mining heritage. "This is a very big and important day for our city and our county. We'll remember it for a long lime,'' said Shari Kay, wife of Mayor David Kay. ELECTION CANDIDATES Candidates who filed for the upcoming Primary and General Elections in Juab County, prior to the March 18, 1996 filing deadline, arc as follows: CANDIDATE OFFICE FILED FOR Gordon M. Young Richard M. Brough William Boyd Ilowarth Clarence Phillipsen All lour men have filed for the one vacant seat on the Juab County Commission. David (). Leavitt Dale Barton Fowkes Teresa B. Menlove Randy A. Greenhalgh Dclanie I lalhaway Juab County Juab School Juab School Juab School Mary Lou Draper Ronald G. Bray Larry' Ezell Ron Nelson Debbie Terry Tintie Tintie Tintie I intic Tintie Bill Wnght State Representative District 67 State Representative District 67 CurtisArrington Attorney District it District 2 District 3 Juab School District 3 . Leonard II. Blackham School School School School School District District District District District 1 2 2 3 Senatorial District 28 UP&L to help school district install lights at baseball field Members of Tintie Board of Education discussed andor took action on a variety of sduxil business at their recent meeting. Emron Tripp, Tintie School District Student Counselor, recommended to the Board a cost-fre- e Guidance Comprehensive His video presentation plan. outlined a counselor's job description, the best way to use skills, work with counseling and able to best meet be parents students needs. The Board voted in favor of adopting (he plan. Larry representing Utah Power & Light Co., told the Board that Utah Power has offered to donate their time, poles, use of their equipment and materials necessary to provide luxik ups for power to the baseball field at Tintie High School. The District would be responsible for purchasing the lights. The Board gave Lrry the to install the lights. Micali Matthews, Student go-ahe- Board Member, presented approximate costs to the Board on a fence and sprinklers for a baseball field at West Desert. He said students and citizens had offered to donate their time to get the field. Micah was asked to get more estimates on the total costs to complete (lie field and report back to the Board. Board members voted to support the ground being leveled. four-foot-hi- Lights (cont. on pg. 3) "Now we know that they know we're here," said longtime resident Joe Bernini, addressing crowd and (rain the passengers that included Gov. Mike Leavitt and Sen. Bob Bennett, Eureka - or "Yuricka," as it is pronounced by the locals - was founded in 1869 and incorporated in 1892. For decades the surrounding Tintie Mining District was (he economic huh of Utah and Juab counties. Hundreds of millions of dollars worth of silver and gold were extracted from its "Big y Four mines and the boom town had nearly 4. (XX) residents in 1920. And unlike most other parts of Utah, Eureka enjoyed a religious diversity that continues to (his day. Despite its scant population, it has Mormon. Catholic and Methodist chapels. Any (church) that has a function, people of other religions attend, said City Manager Fred Garbctt. 'People really get along good here. There are convenience stores, hut no supermarket, and apart from the handful of jobs in the schools, bank, liquor store, post office, and beauty shops, Eureka residents work elsewhere. City Recorder Patricia Bigler, a miner's daughter who has lived in Eureka all her life, said most residents commute to Dugway Proving Grounds, Tooele Army Depot or to the cities in the Utah Valley. Many residents are former miners or their descendants. Olliers, like city councilman Lloyd Condcr, moved here to of life on escape the hurly-burl- y the Wasatch Front. You'rc down there in (he smog, and we're up here in the said Condcr, who left sun, American Fork 20 years ago. 'There's no crime. A few kids get into mischief, but that's it. Indeed, (lie town has no police officer and instead contracts with the Juab County sheriff for the deputy who lives in Eureka. The whistle stop recent marked the extend of Eureka's centennial celebration. "We all have to work," Gar-bc- tl said. "It's a big deal-- we just don't have any big organizations." It used to. Eureka sprang up when feder flag-wavi- rough-and-read- al troops quartered at Camp Floyd some 25 miles to the north began prospecting for gold and silver. Wmd quickly spread that there were fortunes to he made and completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869 brought a flixxl of immi- grants. 1886 Eureka's CathoBy lics., mostly in liters., had erected a church anil night school. They constructed a separate parochial school building in 1891. At first. Mormons were reluctant to join the miners, holding fast to the agriculture that had made them largely But (hey eventually joined the miners as part-tim- e workers. One latter-daSaint, Jesse Knight, became an owner of the famed Humbug Mine, which millions in mineral yielded wealth, hut gave away much of his fortune to his church and its college in Provo. 'The earth is die bird's bank, and no man has a right to take money out of that hank and use it upon himself." extravagantly Knight said. For decades, Eureka's economy survived minor fluctuations in silver values. But it would never recover from (he blow dealt by the Great Depression when silver values plummeted. Eureka's 3,908 population steadily declined, hilling 562 in 1990. The Chief Consolidated Mining Co. closed in the and nearly look Eureka with it. So today. Eureka is a growth hungry town with hopes that new mineral-extraion technologies will bring hack the day when mining was king. "It would definitely help (he community and its economy," Garbctt said. "We think it will grow.. hut it won't" be to the ste it was originally y mid-1950- s, ct Leeds couple to serve LDS mission Don and Alice Franks of Leeds, Utah have been called to serve a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Saints. They will serve in the Michigan Lansing Mission. Their farewell will he March 24, 19 at 9 a.m. in the Leeds 1st Ward. They will enter the SMTC on April 17. bit-tcr-D- -- |