Show UTAH THRIVES ON TINTIC MINERAL discoveries town of I 1 IT n c 11 ra ap A ev 14 kw W 3 I 1 by I 1 E DIEHL HIEF TINTIC a renegade CHIEF C goshute koshute indian was the west s first billionaire though he did not live to know it he and his follo followers werl pitched their tepees on the slope ot of what Is now eureka i gulch 55 miles south of 0 salt lake city and claimed all the land lying between utah lake and the desert to the west then and for ten years after tintic s death in 1859 the claim was undisputed finally white men discovered mineral on I 1 the land and a new form of title came into effect slowly the mineral showings were expanded demonstrations of 0 rich silver lead and gold mines oc burred periodically tor for sixty years bringing into existence villages towns and cities in place of tepees and peopling the district with pro gresslee gress gres lve sive white mine owners and workers in place ol 01 the nomadic Go shutes A cowboy and a horse found the first mineral the animals hoots hoofs dislodged a specimen ot of ore and the rider george rust took the piece home to payson although it was winter five ot of rust rusts s neigh bors went scouting and located the first claim the sunbeam simul organizing a mining dis brict on december 13 1869 the claimants were S B moore wll wil ilam harris joseph hyde S T wor ley E M beck moroni bill dingsley and L T whitney other claims were staked and during the spring of 1870 prodoc lion tion started shipping ore vas ft as expensive business teamsters charged 25 per ton for hauling to the southern pacific the dearest railroad numerous attempts at local concentration wele made the first two being at diamond and Ho mansville in 1871 more than 25 mills and furnaces were erected within the next few years but corn com of the ores scarcity of wa ter and crudeness of equipment hampered their on the ta fa lures were a foretaste ot of difficulties to be encountered ii one form and another in suase quent years sufficient to defeat all but the hardiest and most deter mined of the metal seekers the winners stand out conspicuously in the history ot of the state samuel and william mcintyre traded cattle for a major interest intel inte est iest in a prospect called the mammoth the mine Is credited with a pro of tour four million dollars and is even now paying dividends to their grandchildren john beck after losing one fortune acquired by perser vering mg labor on the bul lion llon beck made another lost it and died a poor man col E C loose by sinking a 00 toot shaft and spending opened the grand central from which 2 was taken john Q packard john F wood man william and john mccrystal were among the early arrivals at the new camp whose ventures in un ground re suited in the production of great wealth and the organization of important companies the cen tennial eureka formed by wood man and W W chisholm Is credited with the shipment of one car of ore wor h and net earnings of more than 15 nature however reserved some of her richest prizes prize for later comers several of the greatest mines of tintic gintic were developed in the nineties and as late as 1915 jesse knight elderly and in straitened circumstances persisted in developing a location known as the humbug after a heartbreak ing struggle he drove his tunnel into a rich ore body provided with funds knight opened mine after mine in east his ills new fortune was devoted to enterprises which employed hundreds of men and add d to the industries of utah he ile built a town and smelt er developed coal mines financed factories and started a great tun nel and irrigation project at walter fitch coming from michigan solved a geological lem brought a new area into pro and gave the chief con soli dated a profit ot of nearly seven million most ol 01 which has been reinvested in property and im prove ments A E J going miles east of the mineral area ot of i sani 00 feet and made the standard one ot of the largest silver silve lead shippers and biggest h employers of utah 1 I more than SO 80 minerals have been identified at in 65 years i to 1935 v vas as realized ij for the nonferrous metals they A included ounces of 0 vi silver tons of lead 2 il U ounces of gold tons ot of copper and 15 tons of zinc re a turns tor for iron bismuth manganese f antimony silica limestone etc IS 7 bring the grand total value to 9 about fi this money on its travels has fed and clothed miners and A smelter smelt ermen men erected homes and ft skyscrapers endowed libraries hospitals and churches financed f farming and manufacturing indus y tries supported trade paid taxes n and it still moves tirelessly on repe t ng alie cycle gintic has worked out its near ft surface ore it must now depend 1 on deposits lying 1000 to 2500 feet A deep the recovery ot of which in J bolves the risk of larger capital ij intelligent use ot of scientific equip if ment and large investments in ex 0 |