The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-04
SCRAPS OF TINTIC HISTORY.
Account of Some of the Early Loca-
tions Near Silver City.


The Silver City Star. in its historical
review of the early happenings in Tin
tic district, says:
| In our article of this week we pro-
/ pose to continue the record of the ia
nous locations made in 1871. or the sec
! Ond wear of the districts history.
The Mad Antony claim was located
April 10, 1871, by Antony Either, Com
modore Hall and others, all OF the par
ties being from the east. This location
is worthy of mention at this time, only
for the reason of the great stir created
by the prominence of the locators ana
the lavish promises made by them as
to the great extent of the development
proposed. Like many other attempts
to create a boom on wind" this one
failed and the identity of the Mad An
tony of which so much was expected
and promised. is now totally lost.
The Mammoth tunnel site vas 10
Gated April 90. 1871, by Noah Armstrong
and E. S. Atkins. Armstrong is well
remembered in Tintic as the purchaser
of the original Mammoth lode locations
and who patented them, the claims
now forming 1000 feet of the Sreat
Ajax property The Mammoth tunnel
site was for many years locally called
the North Hill tunnel. 1t is now
known as the SiouX-AjaX tunnel, being
owned by a recent Incorporation, OF
which George H. Robinson is the NOV
ing spirit The great SiouXAjax tun-
mel. designed to pierce the mountain
east of the Mammoth and Ajax mines
and to tap the workings of tho Sioux
and Utah mines, is now in over 2.O0O
feet and is being driven ahead as rap
idly as labor and machinery can ac-
complish it's advance. The company
operating the tunnel has acquired the
IL 81 10 inf
ground and has one of the biggest and
most promising propositions in Tintlc.
The Lillian was located June q, 1911,
by John Wilson and the Blackett bro
theirs This ground is principally
remarka bic from the fact that it cut
great figure in the first celebrated min
ing litigation over Tinuc property
This was the great fight between the
Mayfiower and Golden Treasure, the
details of which are well known to all
of Tintic's old-timers, as we'll as to all
mining men and attorneys who keep
cases on mining lawsuits An old
joke on a mining expert is recalled
in connection with the testimony in
this welI-known case. This expert,
while on the stand one day, testified
that there was a streak of ore down the
face of a drift; that he had seen the
ore and examined it. The next day he
again took the stand at his own re-
quest and corrected himself by saying
that the "streak of ore" was only can
die smoke. This case of expert tesu-
mony'' has done much to shake the
faith of TIntic people in that fraternity.
The Lillian was afterward absorbed
and patented by the Golden Treasure
Mining company and now forms part
of the property of that company.
The Dragon Spur was located July
H. 1871, by Huntington Bros. 1t was
and is a great producer of iron fiuxing
ore and is now a portion Of the great
Dragon Iron mine, owned by the Tin !
tic Iron company.
The Showers was located August 3,
1871. by Charles Poynter and others. |
This property lies over in the Diamcnl |
end of the district and joins the famous
Joe Bowers mine. The Showers has |
been worked largely by leasers and !
has produced large quantities of high
grade silver-lead ores. 1t is now pat /
ented ground and belongs to the Show
ers Consolidated Gold and Silver Min /
ing company, which is controlled by |
Walker Bros. of Salt Lake.