The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-05-27
STOLEN MAMMOTH ORE
BASIS OF BERGEN'S MINE
Tintic Italian Fools Clever Salt LakerS With Tale
of AIlurng Riches.
Detective Spells Plans of Syndicate Formed to Locate Mine
Deep Creek by Exposing Robber

! TO the Italian find. and demanded lib
eral share in the bonanza The two
gentlemen disagreed as TO the amount
/ of Mr.. Winder's share. and that gentle
man resigned his position and gave up
/ a salary of S125 per and organized a
syndicate TO locate the mine. Mr.. Give.
Mr.. Kelly and several others were let
into the scheme and readily agreed 10
furnish the sinews of war. Joe Raleigh
was selected 10 assist in the work.
partly because of his astuteness and
partly because of his knowledge of
mining and Of the great Deep Creek
wilderness. While MeSsrs Give and
Winder followed the trail across the
desert Mr.. Raleigh was delegated to
come here and locate the Italian. An
other of the syndicate went to Payson,
the residence of the man who drove the
wagon. to keep cases on him and watch
for Bergen. Mr.. Copeland. in blissfuI
ignorance of these elaborate plans, re-
manned a his office to await the return
Of his partner that was to be Now. as
before stated. Mr.. Raleigh knows ore
when he sees il. He also knows some
thing of the history of the thefts Of rich
ore in bygOne days from Tintic mines.
and when the story was related tn him
and piece of the rich auriferOus rock
was placed in his hands, he became h
trifie suspicious. He came Immediately
to Eureka to consult Dan Cronin who,
before he became one Of the best of
Utah sheriffs, himself worked under
ground.
Bergen is Found
He showed Dan the rock. whereupon
the latter turned TO a cabinet in his
office and took therefrom a piece iden-
teal in appearance which came from
the Mammoth mine. The two officers
then proceeded to the company's Office
TO search for their man. They found
him. He proved to be Peter Bergen. a
leaser. who was in partnership with
two employees of the company. Nels
Halsen. the bOOkkeeper. and BaxtOu
Barnett. the waterma ster- The COM
pany employees furnished the money and
Bergen and another miner, employed to
help him, were doing the work The
presence of the fat streak from which
Bergen took the rich ore, which he sold
to Copeland, was kept a secret from
them. He carried it out in the pockets
of a canvas coat and in his dinner
pail. while the bulk Of the ore was piled
up awaiting shipment. This infOTma-
ton was ELECTED by the officers after
considerable sweating.
Mcintyre Gets the Money.
In the END the Italian told everything
and turned over to Sam Mcintyre. the
president of The Mammoth COMPANY
81 .220 in gold coin. To this shining pile
Mrs. Bergen added S23LS5 which had
been consigned to her keeping. Mr..
copeland was called out from Salt Lake
and identified Bergen as the man from
whom he bought the ore. Bergen had
secreted the rich pieces of ore in his
house until he employed a PaysOn ped
der fOy the name of Harper TO carry il
to the Murray sampler. Bergen has a
family Of five children dependent upon
him for support and. as he has made
restitution to the company, il is likely
that he viii escape prosecution. As It
stands now Mr.. Copeland will continue
his work Mr. Winder will rustic an
other job when he returns from his trip
across the desert, and Mr.. Raleigh and
Sheriff CrOnin viii await certain recOg-
milton of their services from Mr. Ne
Intyre, who appears to be, so far, the
only person who has prOfted by the
game.