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Show -7- Date: Ca. early 1900s Longitude-Latitude: 1120 04' 03" Long. 390 57' 10" Lat. Significance: The only four post headframe of its type in Tintic (one other four post, but of a different type). XX. DIVIDEND MINER'S DRY , Dividend, Utah (Utah County) Owner: Ama:x: Arizona, Tucson, Arizona Description: A two-story wood frame hip-roofed vernacular building utilized as a change room for miners at the Tintic Standard mine. Located in Dividend. Date: Ca. 1923 Longitude-Latitude: 112 0 03' 44" Long. 39 0 57' 19" Lat. Significance: The only remaining structure in the town of Dividend--a town built by Emil J. Raddatz, Utah mining entrepreneur and incorporator of the Tintic Standard Mining Company. Dividend was the site of brisk activity from about 1916 to 1947, when the mines closed. XXI. WATER LILY SHAFT, Northeast of Homansvi11e Canyon Owner: Chief Consolidated Mining Company, Eureka, Utah Description: Mine shaft site only, located northeast of Homansville Canyon in Utah County Date: Noted for an event occurring on August 26, 1921 Longitude-Latitude: 1120 03' 13" Long. 39 0 59' 04" Lat. Significance: Site of the ''World Champion Shaft Sinking" record set by the Walter Fitch Jr. Company, with Waugh Clipper Drills, on August 26, 1921. The record was as follows: 427.5 feet of vertical, three-compartment shaft in 31 days. XXII. LIME KILNS, Homansvi11e, Utah Owner: Chief Consolidated Mining Company, Eureka, Utah Description: Two lime kilns about eight feet in diameter and some thirty to forty feet deep. Located at the western end of Homansvil1e Canyon. These were dug at the edge of the mountain side so that ore cars could be used at the bottom to transport the lime. Date: 1920s Longitude-Latitude: 1120 04' 37" Long. 390 58' 40" Lat. Significance: These kilns formed a part of the Chief's lime quarry, used in its mining operations; and are the only substantial remnant of the lime portion of that operation. |
