The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-04-26
EAST TINTIC.
Something About the Mines, and
More About the EdmundS
Law.
SILVER CITY, EAST TINTIC,
JUAB COUNTY, UTAH,
April 10Th, 1882.

East Tintic mining district-the
present ebiding place of your CORES
pondent lis just now very quiet.
A few of the best mines are being
worked the majority, however. are
idle, waiting the advent of the rail-
road. The road bed, or grade, is
completed, with the exception of q
few culverts to the Mammoth Mill,
southwest of this place about eight
miles. I am informed that the
track will be laid tO..Boulder Spring,
on the divide between Rush and
Tintic Valleys, about the 10th of the
ensuing month.
THE MINES.
The principal mines in this dis
trict produce milling ore OF a high
grade; but there is great number
of mining properties here which
show large bodies of low grade lead
ore. These ores can only be worked
by the smelling process. Hereto
fore, this class Of mines has not
been worked to any great extent,
owing to the small amount of silver
(from twenty to thirty ounces per
tom contained in the ore, and the
great expense attendant on the
transportation, by wagon, to points
where a market for such ores could
be obtained. This difficulty will be
overcome when the railroad is COM
pleted. The ''Old timers" in camp
are on the 9ui CjUe, and predict a
lively time when the iron horse
makes its debut in the district;
some of the more enthusiastic kind
assert that Tintic, with improved
facilities for sending its ores to
competitive market, will in the near
future be the "boss" camp Ofthe ter
ritory. Certainly there are some
exceedingly large veins Of ore here,
and several fairly developed mines,
and others in course Of develop
ment, which promise equally well.
Should the camp meet with no
back-set, it will in a very short
time, rank second to none as bull
lion producing district.
THE IRON MINES.
In this vicinity there exist large
bodies or deposits of iron ore. From
these deposits has come in the past
the greater part of the iron ore used
by the smelters in fluxing their sill
yer ore. These mines are princi-
pally owned by the Utah Iron Com
pany and are situated on the eastern
side of the ridge between Goshen
valley and this place. The majority
are so situated. The "Dragon" and
it's extensions, claimed by the own
ers to be capable of supplying the |
entire demand, IS situated on the |
western slope of the ridge and about
half miles from Silver.
These iron mines are, in my esti- |
nation, destined to bear a promi-
1ent part among the wealth-produc-
ing properties of the district.
THE PAN-CHRIsTIANIC CRUSADE.
The all-absorbing topic in this sec
lion is the Edmunds bill; its posi-
Oilities, the consequent election
and its probable in flu |
ence on the material interests of the |
territory. Some, whom 1 have
heard express an opinion, think the
dill uncalled for and absurd, the
a tool and cloak for |
and that poiyg3my is
out a bugbear; fat offices and a
chance to manipulate the taxes the
real object. Others again, and these
are largely in the majority, laud the
unjust proceeding to the skies,
md at the same time do not
5ry to disguise the fact that
hey believe the special legisla-
ion to be unfair and a great injuS-
ice. These almost invariably in.
end seeking place under the new
'egime. One man, on hearing such |
opinions expressed, remarked: Il
Know several of them kind Of Nav
sricks' who have got credit off their |
grocer on the strength Of the Office
hey hope to fill. One man, to his |
;ountTy's dishOnOr, an Irishman,
Who had a few moments previously |
been declaiming with bitter elo
luence against England's injustice |
% Ireland and Ireland's sons, APP |
to the echo the news that |
President Arthur had signed the |
bill, and shouted his hope |
hat the MOrmOnS would soon be |
'ooted out of Utah. Such is the !
general sentiment among that class
Who read the gospel according to
he ring organ, Aunty Tribune.
THE MUTTERING STORM.
If reports, from a ring source, can
)e relied upon, there is trouble
)reWiDg in the ringite camp; in fact,
fair-pulling has already occurred.
The trouble is between rival claim
.nts for the latest offices. How ex-
remedy "utter" the spectacle will
,e-the ring scrambling for the
hief seat in the synagogue, the
most lucrative office. How the fur
will fly when the hoWlers for moral
ty in Utah come to a tussle for the
lump ribs of Utah's carcass. Me-
links I see 'em, cheek by joWl,
ands in each others wool; claws in
heir fellows eyes, and worst Of all,
haracters in their comrade ring
5e's mouth, whilst poor Utah lies
elpless and bleeding among the
eet of the piratical crew. Pande-
1oninm will be, in that time, es-
aemed a place of quietude; the bat