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Show EUREKA (Juab County) also kno~~ as Ruby Hollow In 1E.70 a couple of local settlers while gatherin g fire v.'O od up on t! the hillside, found rich, shiny ore right on the surface. Whether the y realized the ""orth of the lode and uttered, "Eureka we have found i til, or whether Capt. E. B. 'lIard, ""ho bo ught out the claim, came forth ...Ii th tile exclamation is not kno",m. Ward naI:led the rich hole the Eureka P.ill mine and town forming be 1 0"" in the gulch also took the name. The first permanent building s were erected in 1871 on Eure ka Hi ll by Wats on Nesbitt, mine superintendant. H~ built a small stome fort to p rotect his i n terests against claim jumpers f rom Pioche l\~ evada. He hired a number of p rofessional gunslingers, als c he cut do vm several hUndred ya rds of cedar trees so he could see ..,hen peo ple 'vere coming . John Beck from Holland reasoned t hat the rich ores up o~ t he motl."1tain "'ould ha ve to exeten:i d ownward oelol'! the gulch, so he sta rted digging a t the botto::!! of the canyon . Pe ople called him the Crazy Dutc hman til he struck it rich 200 f eet below t he surf a ce. fr.EK~xXX Thi s ",as the Bul lion Be c k mine one of the richest producers of the range.. Eureka grew up everywhere and any where. The main street follo",ed the l:mil bottom of the canyon, but side streets wandered around vii thlbut seeming purp o se Houses were "'hipped together with absolutly no regard to streets or direct.tions or where privies and pigsties were located mines and mills ,,'ere intermiJ!!Eled "'i th d'\\·elhngs . Water "laS an l i .r.w 3j :'1 ate p roblem, D::-inking water had to be hauled to to\m in large barrels and s old until an aqueduct "I8.S run from a mountain spring to the center of tovm. In 187), Catholic missionary Rev. Lawrence Scanlon, ar r i ve d t o hold services. For seve ral ye ars he traveltB:i from the Tintic mines to the Deep Creek mines and do\m t o Silver Reef. His pa ris h vias the larg e st in the nation, c ove rin g: 2000 square I!d. les. Public school s ",ere e stabli shed in 1881 . Typ hoid and Small pox we r e ps!:)manent |
