Show UTAH THRIVES ON TINTIC MINERAL discoveries I 1 town wn of Dvid dividend end and 0 San standard dard no 2 shaft r rii ilk aP aa a A ali fl i rt n vy by 1 E DIEHL HIEF TINTIC a renegade CHIEF C goshute koshute indian was the bests first billionaire though he did not live to know it he and his followers pitched their tepees on the slope of 0 what Is now eureka gulch 65 55 miles south of salt lake city and claimed all the land lying between utah lake and the desert to the west then and tor for ten years after fintics cs death in isug 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 1 rich silver lead and gold mines occurred periodically tor for sixty years bringing into existence villages towns and cities in place of tepees and peopling the district with progressive gres sive white mine owners and workers in place ot of the nomadic I 1 Co shutes A cowboy and a horse found the art first meral mineral the animals hoots hoofs dislodged a specimen of ore and the rider george rust took the piece alece h home 1 e to payson although J it t was as winter 1 om I anter five 0 of rusts neighbors r went e a t a scouting and located the 11 first r t claim the sunbeam simultaneously organizing a mining district on december 13 1869 the claimants were S B moore wll wil ilam harris joseph hyde S T worsley E M beck moroni bill dingsley and L T whitney other claims were staked and during the a spring pring of 0 1870 production started shipping ore was expensive business teamsters charged 23 95 2 per ton tor for hauling to the southern pacific the nearest railroad numerous attempts at local concentration were made the first two being at diamond and Ho mansville in 1871 more than 25 mills and furnaces were erected within the next tew few years but complexity of the ores scarcity 0 ot water a and crudeness of 0 equip equipment ent hampered their operation the failures were a foretaste of difficulties to be encountered it i one form ani and another in subsequent years sufficient to defeat all but the hardiest handiest har diest and most determined of the metal seekers the winners stand out conspicuously in the history of the state samuel and william mcintyre traded cattle tor for a major interest in a prospect called the mammoth the mine Is credited with a production ot of tour four million dollars and Is even now paying dividends to their grandchildren john beck after losing one fortune acquired by perser vering labor on the bul lion beck made another lost it and died a poor man col E C loose by sinking a foot shaft and spending opened the grand central from which was taken john Q packard john F woodman william hatfield and john mccrystal were among the early arrivals at the new camp whose ventures in unproven ground resulted in the production of great wealth and the organization ot of important companies the cen tennial eureka formed by woodman and W W chisholm Is credited with the shipment of 0 one car of ore and net earnings of more than nature however reserved some ot of her richest prize tor for later comers several of 0 the creates gr eates mines of 0 tintic gintic were developed in t the he nineties and as late as 1915 jesse knight elderly and in straitened circumstances persisted in developing a location known as the Illum humbug bug after a heartbreaking struggle he drove his tunnel into a rich ore body provided with funds knight opened mine after mine la in east tintic gintic his new fortune was devoted to enterprises which employed hundreds of men and added to the industries of utah lie built a town and smelter developed coal mines financed fac factories factora torl and started a great tunnel and irrigation project at walter fitch c coming 0 in I 1 n g from michigan solved a geological problem brought brough t a new area into production and gave the chief con soll soli dated a profit of 0 nearly seven million most moat of 0 which has been reinvested in property and improvements prove ments E J going miles east ot of the reco kizee mineral area of sank teet feet and made the standard one ot of the largest silver lead shippers and biggest employers of 0 utah more than 80 minerals have been identified at in 65 years to 1935 was realized for or the nonferrous non metals they included ounces ot of silver tons ot of lead 22 ounces ol of gold old tons ot of copper and tons of liae returns for or iron his bismuth 11 i ti im manganese antimony silica etc bring the grand total value to about this money on its travels has fed and clothed miners and smelter men erected homes and skyscrapers endowed libraries hospitals and churches financed farming and manufacturing industries supported trade paid taxes and it still MO moves tirelessly on repeating the cycle gintic tintic has worked out its near 3 surface ore it must now depend on deposits lying 1000 to 2500 teet feet deep the recovery of which involves the risk of larger capital intelligent use of scientific equipment and large investments in exploration |