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Show 54 Mammoth incorporated as a city in 1910. A battle raged between the .. incorporators, who signed a petition for the action merging Mammoth and Robinson as a city, and the mining companies. The question was over "real a....t OY'.s property taxpayers," since many of the sign~ owned their home, but not the land. Issues were resolved as the Attorney General ruled in favor of the taxpayers. Thus, Mammoth City became an entity, with James Hutchinson, Mayor; Isaac E. Diehl, recorder; N. J.Hansen, treasurer; Councilmen, Albert W. Larsen, Dr. Steele Baily, D. A. Depue, P. N. Anderson, and Peter M. Gillispie; Alfred M. Moyle, justice of the peace; D. A. Depue, Marshall; and 145 N. A. Robertson, attorney. Although the initial problem with the mining companies was resolved, continued struggles persisted over "taxing" issues until 1929. Jesse Knight's Tintic Smelter generated a boom period which especially affected the Silver City and Mammoth areas. Reportedly, in 1910 there existed 350 houses, 354 families, and a propulation of 2,823 in Mammoth. Building accelerated--one manuscript described the situation as follows: . . . there were often as many as three families living in one house. The over-flow lived in tents. Buildings sprang up over night. An order for a house given in the morning was ready for occupancy the next evening. This rapid construction was accomplished by the carpenter laying the floor and nailing together the four sides on the ground and raising them into position. If the roof was not finished in time it was completed after the family moved in.146 After the smelter ceased operations, conditions /\ c~ged, illustrated by the observation that in 1911-1912 Mammoth's population had declined to 1,700. The second decade of the Twentieth Century was also one characterized by periods of "ups" and "downs," exhibited both in the economic sector and social scene. Such a pattern again placed Tintic in a situation endemic to the rest of the United States. War and labor shortages affected Tintic as it did other portions of the country. |
