Show F story of pioneer lead mine told from the flies of tho the utah writers project the first in utah has long been associated aBBo elated with colonel patrick B E connor and andrits ills lits soldiers who are responsible for the development of many mine atter alter most mining histories consider the west mountain district of 1863 the first organized f district in utah actually however i the mormon pioneers practiced mining its as early as ar 1862 1852 the Utah Writ ers project has bas already chron feted the stony of the iron mountain mission of 1852 demonstrating it i a as a the first practical mining in utah and now the project indicates that the first arst organized mining district 9 in utah was the lincoln district in the region of 0 nerville minerville Mi organized in 1861 according cording Ao ti the journal t history tarlton lewis william barton and isaac grundy brought some specimens of 0 silver lead ore to drig ham young november 12 1868 shortly afterward james rollina joined these men and under orders from Dr leham young who like war production officials tolay bolay was vaa seek 1 ing metal bior or bullets they opened the rollins mine in the Mine raville region A rough sm smelling smelting elting furnace virnace was constructed and according to james i rollins Hol llna autobiography tile tho bar of lead smelter smelted weighed CO 60 lbs ibs rol ins states further that it was wag carried to salt lake city and sold to merchants chants at per pound shipments sh were made and a mr py per used large quantities for the manufacture of wiliette lead tor for paint early attempt proved fairly and according to a statement from steven of G greenville r een ville descendant of william harton barton a was organized in 1861 known ns as the lincoln district this all a information squares with an account by S A kenner lit in ilis his utah As it Is according to tha sources the gradually ceased to lie 18 a paying proposition pos for or as was gained the ore became harder and harder this made it almost almost impossible to smelt with the equipment at hand band the increasing hardness ot of the era waa rightly divined as owing to the presence ot at increasing amounts 0 silver shyer in n tile the oro ore but the plo pioneers had bad no means ot of separating the two metals gradually the ore became becam e too loo liard hard for tile the economic molding 0 of bullets and the enterprise was abandoned in tile the early sixties |