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Show -6- Date: l890s Longitude-Latitude: 112 0 05' 49" Long. 390 56' 52" Lat. Significance: Part of Jesse Knight's Tintic entrepreneurial activity, the Yankee Consolidated helped to bolster Tintic productivity in the late l890s when Tintic led the state in 1899. XVII. KNIGHTSVILLE SCHOOL FOUNDATION, Knightsville (one mile east of Eureka in Juab County) Owner: Anaconda Company, 1849 West North Temple, Salt Lake City, UT 84116 Description: Approximately forty-foot square concrete foundation of the Knightsville shcool. Date: 1909 Longitude-Latitude: 1120 04' 50" Long. 390 57' 12" Lat. Significance: The Knightsville School foundation is the only remnant of Knightsville, founded in 1896-1897, reportedly the only privately owned, saloon-free, prostitude-free mining town in the United States (because of its founder Jesse Knight, an ardent MOrmon). The school was built in 1909, contracted by one Martin E. Andersen of Logan, Utah, and the foundation was made of gravel and rock from the Mayday Mine dump (on the hill west of the town). XVIII. BIG HILL SHAFT HEADFRAME, East Tintic (Utah County) I\XZ.,,-, \)0\.0.'}'" Owner: Anaconda company, 1849 West North Temple, Salt Lake City, UT 84116 Description: Two post wood A-frame headframe , about forty-five feet in height. Located some two and one-half miles east of Eureka near Big Hill. Date: Ca. early 1900s. Longitude-Latitude: 1120 04' 37" Long. 39° 57' 14" Lat. Significance: One of the rare remaining early headframes of the Tintic District. XIX. r EUREKA LILLY HEADFRAME, Southwest of Dividend, East Tintic, (Utah County) Owner: Kennecott Copper Corporation, Kennecott Building, Salt Lake City, UT 84111 Description: A wood four-post type headframe with one sheave instead of two. The structure stands about twenty-five feet high and is located some three miles east of Eureka on the old road to Dividend. G,Ot-lE 1 |
