Show old time prospector talks on gintic tintic tint IC james schuler who came here in 1872 tells of conditions which existed in this dis brict over forty years ago tintic gintic of today don t look very mile much like the tint tintic lc of 1872 s said did jam james s schuler of payson who is one jot of the eis cis of this section la is perhaps the oldest rest dent dene of the district not counting those who aie axe native born con cont cuing mr schuler said I 1 came west flora my native state georgia at the time of the pikes pike a excitement and alter after remain ing ethere tor for a short time worked my alway through to california the gold fields of that state attracting minors from all of tie coun couil try things did not look very good to nie we on the tile pacific coast there were too many any unemployed men flocking bere rere in t there and I 1 decided to to utah as the state had aphea u ts me s having a great future I 1 lien n I 1 passed on through to 0 call tornia when khen I 1 reached bait balt lake I 1 ie arned ruei of tl e work which was go ing ion on in ae salt lake it was wasl haid to learn anything of a definite nature of the tile value of the ore oret t which had been discovered in Ti lilic so I 1 made m nil way may here for tl e p impose ot ln investigating 2 he e were ere perhaps a dozen houses a number of one room cab ins and a bunch of tents where eu I 1 reka I 1 now stands about one hun bull dred people were mere living at silver t ity and at diamond there were mere about the latter place being b by far the most important place of the untie I 1 camps I 1 did not lose any time at eureka but went to silver city C itai and then to diamond later I 1 got acquainted with T C meader who was the chief owner and inana mana ger of the swansea mine and he of me work which I 1 accepted at that time the swansea was taking out some very good lead sll sit ner er sore lore from workings which were down but a short distance from the surface As most of the old time residents of tintic gintic know this ore was wasa hauled by team to the ne nealen aielt alet rall ralli load oad point at lehl lehi then shipped to clan francisco and taken from there to swansea annales ales for treat ment there were no smelters in the we t adapted to the treatment of the ore which in the trip around the horn and across the atlantic was loa loaded da as ballast this no doubt re du dured d transportation charges to a pot poat t where was a good mar gin of profit I 1 understand that there was good money in handling the Sw ansel ore notwithstanding the tact fact that it had to be shipped main malli thousands of miles most of the work in tl it e diamond end of the district was at shallow death ore being found in arlous places on the south end of the tile district almost at the grass roots in the eureka ead end of T tit i if when I 1 first located here in 1872 only two mines doing anything worth speaking of the eureka hill was generally conceded to be an im p mine and it was producing some very rich ore john beck beek had jut uncovered what later was found to be a continuation of fie the same ore body in hia his bullion beck mine and to the south ot of the eureka hill some work ork was mas being done on the ground which Is now embraced in the well known centennial eureka tie tt e eu ell reka hill Is about the only proper ty perhaps it is the only one in the lureba or north end of 0 tintic gintic on which the high grade ore actually cropped to the surface the major ity of the miners who were mere in tin tic tie in the early days following tl e disco deiy of the eureka hill mine did not seem to have much faith in 9 ground round which ai a i joined this proper ty aud ald but few locations were made in those days the piment system I 1 0 oj locating the ground tor for miles in every very direction following the dincov cry ery of ore did not seem to prevail in enose days I 1 owned a number of claims in tintic gintic during the early days of the district stated air mr schuler but bat my work mork was all done in the south end near spy and ruby hollows and arid at mammoth where I 1 located claims which are now a part of the holdings of the tintic gintic development co then the sioux ajax and it was on tl ti is ground that a new york compani company drove the long sioux ajax tunnell cutting cutali s the mountain toi a mile and a half without getting any thing of value it was this same bunch of capitalists who developed the sioux mine and built the sioux or farrell mill and who also con strutted ted the sioux road which was mas necessary in order to bring the ore down from the tile mountain this oie ote was delivered at the sioux milr mill 1 turned my claims in ili and took stock in the company which these new nem york people organized dorgai iced tor for the ite de of the sioux AJAX propel ty it WAS a poor piece of business for me because I 1 never made a cent on the stock untie is sure a wonderful min ing district said the old prospector on closing and tl ere seems to be no limit to its resources and bili ties I 1 have been away from here for the past twelve years and I 1 cannot cannop help but note the many changes that have taken place here in that length of time in ill the good old daye days when it seemed to be such an easy mattel mattei to get money tor for the development of mines it was as too bad that we me did not have mining ora ors who were more progressive Progress iNe jut ju t look what one of your big operators has ed during the past few years he ile has built up a mining property which is of first im in and now he is spending his money out in an en new section it if he makes a new mine the discovery will be the biggest event in tintic gintic s his i tori tory |