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HANGING ONTO HISTORY Saving the past: Billy 8aum. ngot. IS In Ine orocess 01 re slo rln ~ mgs in U'lree OUlleI· Eureka. HarOld Mill . far n~nl. IS left Idle south of U. S. Highway 6 near Goshen . Plenty of '1acand. .: Walls of an old bUilding in Mammoth are stili st~nding . Bill Morris. bero,,::. t.al~s aoout whether aoandooed ouliClings will be tom <lown. TINTIC Conllnued from DI thing In it.~ says Manis. a Cormer mmer who has spent his i'I years Ihing in Eureka. Knil!ht even fi red workers ..... ho conLlnuea to fr~ue nL those kinds of establishments. He shut down his mines on Sunday and encouraged hIS workers to a ttend churen. Uy 19 15. the ore dWlOdted and the mmes cio.~ed . AJI the mmes tenmnated overaLlons 0;-' 19-10 and the CIty was abandoned. Finding your way All Tintic Mining District gh08t towns are accessible from Us. Highway 6 near Eureka. 45 mile!! souiliwesl of Provo. A paved road running southeast just shy of Eureka's city limits winds about five miles. arriving in Dividend. This road keeps going and eventually leads back to Higbway 6. Slightly inside Eureka. just past the high school , lies another road runnmg southeast. Taking this road up the hill will bring you to KnightsvilJe. The fOWldation of the school is visible when driving back toward Eureka. Mammoth and Silver City are marked by signs on Highway 6, just south of Eureka.. Silver City is faIrly barTen. Wlth little notification that you have arrived. The old mill's foundation am be seen once you take the Silver City exit. Diamond is past Silver City off of Highway 6. A cemetery is all that is left. in that ghost-town. Coleen McNulty. president of the TIntic Historical Society, says anyone exploring the ghost towns needs to be vel")' caUl,Jous. "TIley have t.o be so carefuJ because 50me of the mme holes have no structures .U'OUlld them anymore.' McNulty says. Sagebrush can grow. she says. masking open m UU! ahafts. The Tintic Historical Society olfers tours of the ghost towns varying in oost and length. McNulty says t.he district uses a bus that can hold up to 20 people for the toura, which are scheduled only for lar;rer groups during good road conditions. For more information. call McNulty aL 8O l-43J..6842. Structures, no people ~ o one is len to watch the two water tanks. fou nda· tions and old mining structures of Dhidend ..... ea r away. Dh; dend was first called Standa rd. but later chan~ed names due to the dividends that the mine paId out. It wa s a company town owned bv the Tintic Standard :\l inint! District. T....d J ohnson. 71. or Tuscon. Ariz .. spent t he ,\ 'ears b(>lw~n 1936 and 1914 livin g \0 this communn.v that hflUSed about :roo lamilies. ~ lt was a nice place to grow up.- J ohnson says. ~l1\(~re were mce people there.·Johnson remember3 the elementary school. company iitore and all-purpose a musement hall. The hall had a dance floor. a theater and presented ;} mo\,e every W~ n esday nigh t. a dime a s how. Church se"" ces were held there e\'('ry Sunday. Johnson says the lown had a haseball team named aner Tintic Standa rd th at W8S one of the beSt in its lea ~e at the time. By 1946. aller Johnson graduated rrom hll!h school and moved to Sa lt Lake City. Di\;dend's houst!!! wfl re put up tor sale because the mine was to be s hut down. By the ~nd of the decade. t he mi ne closed and the town was gone. Center of hi story All ghost town roads lead bat'k to Eu reKa. the Cltv that tights to hold its ow n. even a lier the mIDin!! nalS :;topped. Two handymen are tl'),ng to resu rr{'ct four 0 1 the old buildillgs alon~ l\lain St reet. but thcy art! work· tnt! a lone on lOelr re!$pecuve prOJc<:ts. which pu ts hmlts ..m their ttme :md mone\-'. Vi rginia's Cure. located at 2 17 W. Main .::il., was a pop. ular hang-out tor high school s tudents dunng ~'loms' adolescent. years. - In its day, this waa quite the place," Moni.s says. Lloyd Conder of Eureka haa put two years' worth of labor into the building. hoping to bring it back to its origi nal desi~ and purpose. Standing among the rubble and remains of the fanner cafe. Conder know8 it will lake severai years to finish the job. t)n the other end of the former busineas district of Eureka. Billy Sa um is striving to crea te an art center that WIll e ncoura~e people to visit the area. That's a wei~hty task when many people remaming in Eureka spend most of their time away from the ciw. Residents travel to Tooele. Provo. even Salt Lake City 'to work. But. they have no plans to leave for good, It's the atmosphere. Morris says. They want clean air and low cnme. They don 't like the traffic and congestion of the Va lley. ~You couldn't get me to move down there for nothlng.~ ~'Ionis saYs. Saum. - a carpenter from Provo, says his years of restoration of the old White Owl SaJoon. telephone building Clnd barber shop will hopefully give people rea. ~o n enou~h to s tav. ~ow. people JUSt drive down Main Street like it's a qUick bypass OUt of town, 1'hey just go by. they dnve through,- Saum says. Since Baum stan.ed turning the old businesses into art 5tudiOS a nd workshops. townsfolk have stopped in daily, howev.. r. talking his ear off and forcing him to work into the nt ~ht hours to finish his job. 1'hey really like what I do with the bui ldings because they were just about to be tom down." says Baum. who ....all live and patnt landscapes In Eureka full lime once he finishes renovating his apartment above tbe stud iO. ·· It brine'S the town back a little bit more." Ti m Hannifin. a Eureka councilman . praIses Sa wn's ellen s. "An~1.hm~ that will help bring bus messes back to t()wn.- H:l nmlin says. "I think the future of the town looks better than It did 20 years ago.' With t he ('Ilerts or local workers. Sawn mav never Ill.'f-'ti to hr\ne ;).n aid sign resung in his barber shop 9S a rem tndcr to passers·by: ~ tJ tah's Histone '\hn i n ~ Center, :"\Ot Ju:;t a Hille 11\ the Ground," Ifistorlcal lII/l,rmatl.on {'or tlte ston' u:as taken from · f(/lth . Ho pe and Prosperity: The Tinlic i\1inifiR District, ~ I,,· Ph ilip F. Noloriannl and ~Th e Historlcal Guide to (;'tah Chost Towns. - by Stephen L. Carr.