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Show -2- Significance: Also a cemetery, and usually exempted, the Fitch burial area represents a most unique factor in U. S. mining history; namely, the fact that an entrepreneurial family not only lived in the locale of their mine but also are buried there. In fact, in 1975 a member died in New York, and the remains were flown to Utah for internment at the family cemetery. IV. TINTIC SMELTER SITE, Silver City, Utah Owner: Anaconda Company, 1849 West North Temple, Salt Lake City, UT 84116 Description: Approximately five acre site containing slag and tailings dumps, as well as remnants of the concrete foundations of the Tintic Smelter and Tintic Mill. Located southwest of Eureka, off U. S. Highway 50 and 6. Date: The Tintic Smelter, builtin 1908, dismanted in 1915, and replaced that year by the Tintic Mill. UTM Reference: 12/402620/4418960 Significance: This site aids in the documentation of the history of smelters and mills in Tintic. The Tintic Smelter, built by Jesse Knight, was constructed to combat high smelting· rates of the 1908 period; and it resulted in lower rates by Salt Lake Valley smelters. The Knight-Dern Mill (Tintic Mill) was built as a joint venture by Jesse Knight and George Dern (Utah Governor, 1925-1933, and Secretary of War under Franklin D. Roosevelt). The mill utilized the Holt-Dern method of roasting ore in processing and received ores from throughout the western states. V. SILVER CITY CEMETERY, Silver City, Utah Owner: No recorded "surface" . ownership . Description: Some one acre located south of Eureka about one-half mile east of U.S. Highway 50 and 6. Date: Its beginnings date to the l870s. UTM Reference: 12/403130/4417300 Significance: This cemetery, again a usual exception to listing, is of importance as the only remaining evidence of Silver City, at one time (1870-l880s) the Tintic Mining District's center. Grave . sites help to document the history of the peoples and clutures of the town. VI. DIAMOND CEMETERY, Diamond, Utah Owner: Probably the Weir Company, P.O. Box 2152, Alameda, CA 94501 Description: Quarter acre property west of the Diamond town site, and same four and one-half miles south of Eureka. |
