Show UTAH THRIVES ON TINTIC MINERAL discoveries warr f fr F town cn of dividen w and Y indic stardard Star no ft 4 i i z gitl 06 MA T 41 amur M 4 t zie F 4 R beik P v 72 Wn Rao aw SU H kay 1 E A HIEF TINTIC a renegade st C goshute koshute injian indian was the bests first billionaire though he did not live to know it he and al I 1 his followers pitched their tepees 9 on the slope of 0 what is now eureka I 1 I 1 f I 1 H A gulch 55 miles south of salt lake 0 A city and claimed all the land lying ji between utah lake and the desert 1 ta to the west then and for ten A years after fintics cs death in 1859 the claim was undisputed finally 1 I white taen hien discovered mineral on f the land and a new form of title 9 came into effect H slowly the mineral showings were expanded demonstrations of 0 rich silver lead and gold mines oc burred pe periodically 1 logically lodi cally tor for sixty years bringing into existence villages towns and cities in place of tepees A and peopling the district with profi gres sive white mine owners and 7 jj workers in place of 0 the nomadic Go shutes A cowboy and a horse found the fi first mineral the aul animals mals hoots hoofs V dislodged a specimen of 0 ore and ff tile the rider ri er george rest took the U piece home to payson although it was winter vinter five of 0 rusts neigh bors went scouting and located the yi first claim the sunbeam simul jl organizing a mining dis brict on december 13 the N C claimants vere here S B Ik moore loore wil 5 liam harris joseph hyde S T worsley E M beck moroni billingsley and L T whitney other claims were staked and during the spring of 1870 1970 production started shipp shipping ing ore was expensive business T teamsters eam charged 25 per ton for hauling h to the southern pacific the nearest railroad numerous attempts at local concentration were made the first two being at diamond and 1871 more than 25 mills and furnaces were erected within the next few years but complexity of the ores scarcity of water and crudeness of equipment hampered their operation the failures were a foretaste of difficulties to bs be encountered i i one form and another in subsequent years sufficient to defeat all but the hardiest handiest har diest and most determined r of the metal seekers the winners stand out conspicuously in the history or 0 the state samuel and william traded cattle tor for a major interest in a prospect called the mammoth ammoth the mine is credited with a production of four million dollars and is even now paying dividends to their grandchildren john beek 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 rand grand central from which 2175 was taken john Q packard john P woodman william hatfield and john Al mccrystal cCrystal were among the early a arrivals rivals at the new camp whose hose ventures in unproven ground resulted in the production of great wealth and the organization of 0 important companies the cen tennial eureka formed by woodman and W W chisholm is credited with the shipment of one car of 0 ore wora and net let earnings 0 of more than nature however reserved sortie some of 0 her richest prized prize lor for later comers several of the greatest mines 0 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 heartbreaking struggle he drove his bis tunnel into a rich ore body provided with funds knight opened mine otter after mine in east tintic gintic his new fortune was devoted to enterprises which employed hundreds of men and added to the industries of 0 utah ite he built a town and smelter developed coal mines financed factories and started a great tunnel and irrigation project at tintic gintic walter fitch coming from michigan AlIc higan solved a geological problem brought a new area into production and gave the chief con oli soli dated a profit ol of nearly seven nillion million most ot of which has been reinvested in property and improvements prove ments B E J going miles east of the recognize mineral area ot of sank feet and made the tintic gintic standard one 0 of the largest silver lead shippers and biggest employers of utah more alore than 80 minerals have been identified at gintic tintic in 65 years to 1935 was realized tor for the nonferrous metals they included ounces of 0 silver tons of lead ounces of gold tons of 0 copper and tons of zinc returns tor for iron bismuth manganese antimony silica limestone 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 tases and it still moves tirelessly on repeating the cycle has worked out its near surface ore it must now depend on deposits lying 1000 to 2500 feet deep the recovery of which involves the risk of larger capital intelligent use of scientific equipment and large investments in exploration |