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Show -4- Significance: A standing wooden headframe, one of few, that aids in illustrating the process of mining. In addition, it offers, in the Tintic setting, an opportunity for documenting various types of head frames utilized. X. XI. XII. UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD DEPOT, Near Dragon Mine in Silver City [1'\OV E\) \"0 Owner: Tintic Historical Society, Eureka, Utah 84628 E"v~\C.A Description: A wood framed structure approximately seventy-one feet long and thirty-one feet wide (at the agent's bay window)--hip style roof. Date: Erected in Eureka in June-October, 1926. Longitude-Latitude: l12° 06' 16" Long. 39 0 55' 02" Lat. Significance: The only intact railroad depot remaining in the Tintic District. It was erected in 1926 by the Union Pacific Company, H. E. Schraven, builder and contractor. The structure was moved from Eureka to the Dragon Mine in 1954, and it will be moved back to Eureka in 1978. 1 r IRON BlDSSCM #3 MINE, East Tintic District (Utah County) l' OR~ ~"\..Vt-) - Go~e.1 Owner: Amaz Arizona, Inc., Tucson, Arizona Description: An approximately one-half acre area, west of Mammoth, over Mammoth Peak, in east Tintic (Utah County). The mine houses a forty foot wood A-framed ~ntana type headframe, and the remains of a stone assay office. Date: Ca. l890s Lingitude-Latitude: l12° 05' 45" Long. 39°55' 52" Lat. Significance: Remaining "A" frame wood headframe, with portion of a stone assay office lying on the important Iron Blossom Ore Run in east Tintic. GRAND CENTRAL MINE, Near Mannnoth, Utah Owner: Mammoth Mining Company, Mannnoth, Utah 84641 Description: Approximately three acre area containing the surface plant and ore dump of the Grand Central Mine. Located between Eureka and Mammoth. Date: 1897-1898 Longitude-Latitude: l12° 06' 55" Long . . 39~ 56' 13" Lat. Significance: The Grand Central has a fifty-foot steel A-frame headframe, enclosed in a steel-framed building. Such a surface plant was considered a novelty for its time. In addition, the steel headframe is the only early example of its type that remains in Tintic. |
