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East Tintic Consolidated Mining Company

(The focus of this page is the surface workings of the East Tintic Consolidated mine, as visible in photographs, as well as a general description of the mine, with minimal coverage of the geology and financial returns. Also to establish a timeline using sources not previously readily available.)

(Throughout the period of time shown below, there is no reference to any other claim within the property of East Tintic Consolidated Mining company other than the Crown Point, ever being developed with shaft or drifts, or of any production. The company apparently existed solely as a strategic position to hold the mining claims for future development if adjoining properties were found to have the need to follow ore veins. There were some reports that the adjoining Eureka Standard company had extracted some ore from the the East Tintic Consolidated ground under lease, down at the 1400-foot level.)

(In May 1917, the Eureka Reporter wrote that East Tintic Consolidated property had been located by John Bestelmeyer, as part of his extensive prospecting in the East Tintic area, and that he had sold it to Jesse Knight. -- Eureka Reporter, May 4, 1917)

Other Crown Point Companies

The name "Crown Point Mining company" was a common name in numerous western mining districts, as was the name "Crown Point" for a mining claim. Any researcher is cautioned to ensure that the company being presented in any source is the company that was the predecessor to the later and larger Tintic Standard company controlled by the Knight interests in the Tintic Mining District in central Utah.

Crown Point to East Tintic Consolidated (1907)

June 5, 1907
"The Crown Point Mining and Milling company has filed amended articles of incorporation changing the name of the company to East Tintic Consolidated Mining company." (Salt Lake Herald, June 5, 1907)

June 5, 1907
"The Crown Point Extension Consolidated Mining company, organized by Jesse Knight, has changed its name to the East Tintic Consolidated Mining company." (Deseret News, June 5, 1907)

(Read more about the Crown Point Mining and Milling company)

June 7, 1907
The East Tintic Consolidated Mining company filed its articles of incorporation. Officers were: Jesse Knight, president; J. C. Jensen, vice president; W. Lester Mangum, secretary-treasurer, with Jacob Evans and J. William knight as additional directors. The company owned 28 mining claims located to the northeast of the Beck Tunnel mine and the Colorado mine. The company was previously known as the Crown Point Extension but the name was changed. (Eureka Reporter, June 7, 1907)

(By September 1907, the Crown Point shaft was down to 125 feet. By November 1907, the shaft was down to 250 feet. -- Eureka Reporter, September 20, 1907; November 15, 1907)

March 6, 1908
The Crown Point had been inactive because it was getting its air for its drills from the nearby Colorado mine. When the Colorado mine was closed "for a few months," it also forced the Crown Point to close also. (Eureka Reporter, March 6, 1908)

(Development work on the Crown Point mine stopped in mid 1908 and did not resume until early 1910. This was a period of disagreement between the company directors and the larger stockholders in Eureka, "when some of the larger shareholders got tired of paying assessments and closed the property down." -- Eureka Reporter, October 1, 1915)

December 18, 1908
The Knight companies included the following: the Colorado; the Crown Point; the Iron Blossom; the Opex Consolidated mines company; the Black Jack Consolidated; the Beck Tunnel; the East Tintic Consolidated; and the Plutus. (Eureka Reporter, December 18, 1908)

June 1910
There were rumors that the Knight interests had sold most of their stock in the "Crown Point" mining company two years before, and were "perfectly willing to relinquish the management." But the rumors were just rumors, and at the annual stockholder meeting, the following directors were elected: Jesse Knight; J. William Knight; John Roundy; W. Lester Mangum; Joe Wirthlin. (Eureka Reporter, June 3, 1910; June 10, 1910) (John Roundy was the superintendent of all the Knight properties)

August 5, 1910
John Roundy reported that he was locating a new shaft on the Crown Point mine. (Eureka Reporter , August 5, 1910)

October 21, 1910
The Crown Point hoist, purchased from the Yankee company, had been installed and was in operation. The new shaft, located 1,300 feet east of the Colorado No. 2 shaft, and had been sunk to 70 feet, was 1,000 feet from the old shaft which had been sunk jointly by the Crown Point company and the Colorado company. (Eureka Reporter, August 26, 1910; October 14, 1910; October 21, 1910)

November 15, 1912
The shaft of the Crown Point mine was down to 600 feet, and a drift from that level was into mineralized ground. (Eureka Reporter, November 15, 1912)

April 3, 1914
John Roundy reported that "The Crown Point has been idle for several months but there is a splendid probability of it being kept on the active list." "Arrangements have been made whereby air for the operation of the machine drills and the small hoisting plant can be secured from the big compressor at the Colorado mine. The main shaft at the Crown Point is down to a depth of 550 feet, and from the 550 level a winze has also been sunk a distance of 100 feet. Nearly 5,000 feet for drifting and sinking and other development work has been done on the property." (Eureka Reporter, April 3, 1914)

August 14, 1914
Work at the Crown Point was closed and development work stopped. The money from a recent assessment had been used up, with the directors being hesitant to issue another assessment due to the war in Europe. The mine was still closed by October 1915. (Eureka Reporter, August 14, 1914; October 1, 1915)

April 14, 1916
Work had resumed in sinking the shaft at the Crown Point, with orders to "put the main working shaft down at least two hundred feet before doing any other work." "The management intends to continue sinking operations until the shaft, which is now down nearly 625 feet, reaches the 750 level when crosscutting will be taken up." (Eureka Reporter, April 14, 1916; May 19, 1916)

September 7, 1917
At the Crown Point, by October 1916, the shaft was down to 800 feet. John Roundy reported in September 1917 that "The drift on this level will soon be into the Big Eastern vein, which in the Crown Point has already been cut on three or four levels." (Eureka Reporter, October 20, 1916; September 7, 1917)

(In later years, the "Crown Point" shaft was known as the "Roundy Shaft," named for John Roundy, who held majority ownership for most of the inactive mine's life, until his death in 1945.)

Control by Chief Consolidated (1922)

January 16, 1922
"The Knight interests recently disposed of their control in East Tintic Consolidated Mining company to the Chief Consolidated, which appears to be gathering up the most valuable of the Tintic mining properties." (Provo Daily herald, January 16, 1922)

February 3, 1922
"During the past year the Chief Consolidated has acquired substantial interests in East Tintic. Among the properties acquired are the East Tintic Consolidated from the Knight Interests, the Eureka Lily from the Snyder interests and through purchase of treasury stock in the Apex Standard, control or options for the control of the Apex Standard, Tintic Zenith and Tintic Union." (Eureka Reporter, February 3, 1922)

February 13, 1922
"During the past year there has also been acquired control of the shares of the Apex Standard Mining company. In addition, control also has been purchased of the shares of the Eureka Lily Mining company and the East Tintic Consolidated Mining company. No work is at present being done on the last named two properties." (Deseret News, February 13, 1922)

(What was known as the Crown Point mine was located on East Tintic Consolidated ground.)

March 14, 1924
"The [Eureka Bullion Mining] company also owns control of the Eureka Mines company, Plutus Mining company, East Tintic Consolidated Mining company, Eureka Lily Mining company and Eureka Bullion Mining company. The last three properties nearly surround and are in close proximity to the Iron King Mining company's recent and very important development of ore." (Eureka Reporter, March 14, 1924)

November 26, 1925
The Chief Consolidated Mining company owned 29 separately organized companies, which the company owned 100 percent and without any restrictions, also known as "fee simple." The exceptions were following companies, which the Chief Consolidated company controlled by large majority ownership of shares: East Tintic Consolidated Mining company; Eureka Lily Mining company; Eureka Mines company; Eureka Bullion Mining company; Apex Standard company; and the Plutus Mining company. (Salt Lake Tribune, November 26, 1925)

June 27, 1929
John Roundy and Joseph Wirthlin were still managers of the Crown Point, and development work was still on-going, but without any big strikes. Various veins had been cut and followed but without good results. (Eureka Reporter, June 27, 1929)

August 20, 1931
From the Eureka Reporter, August 20, 1931.

Joseph Wirthlin, who was out from Salt Lake during the past week, stated that it will be necessary to temporarily suspend operations at the Crown Point property in the eastern end of the district where prospecting has been in continuous progress for the past sixteen years, in fact there has been but one break in the development program which dates hack twenty-one years.

Mr. Wirthlin says that the officers of the company would like very much to keep things going and continue the work now outlined but the constant assessment of the shares has worked a hardship on many holders of stock and for that reason it has been decided that this is a good time to give everyone a brief breathing spell. The ground is exceptionally well located; the underground showing is by no means discouraging and within a few months, or at least early in the coming year, it may be possible to resume operations.

During the time that the Crown Point people have been busy with the development of their East Tintic mineral tract they have performed about 13,000 feet of work, sinking their shaft to a depth of 1000 feet and the remainder of the work being drifting and raising. At no time have they employed a large crew of men and during much of the lime only one shift has been used. In recent years McCrae Roundy has been the local man in charge of the operations. John Roundy of Provo and Joseph Wirthlin of Salt Lake are among the largest shareholders and they have had the management of the company's affairs.

(Throughout this period, since 1910, Joseph Wirthlin had been president of the company, and John Roundy vice president and manager.)

March 18, 1931
It was reported that the Tintic Standard Mining company, and the Eureka Standard Mining company which it controlled, during 1930, both had separate leases on portions of the East Tintic Consolidated mine. The Tintic Standard company had completed 3,052 feet of drifting, 233 feet of raises, and nine feet of sinking on its part of the lease of the East Tintic Consolidated property. The Eureka Standard company had completed 151 feet of drifting on its lease of the East Tintic Consolidated property. (Salt Lake Tribune, March 18, 1931)

Control by Eureka Standard (1931)

(The Eureka Standard was controlled by the Tintic Standard by this time.)

October 7, 1931
Eureka Standard Mining company purchased from the Chief Consolidated Mining company that company's 50 percent control of the stock of the East Tintic Consolidated Mining compan on October 7, 1931. (Eureka Reporter, November 12, 1931; March 24, 1932)

November 8, 1931
From the Salt Lake Tribune, November 8, 1931.

Purchase of stock control of the East Tintic Consolidated Mining company, Chief Consolidated subsidiary, was announced Saturday by officials of the Eureka Standard Mining company.

Terms of the deal were not made public, but it was announced that payment for the stock will not be finished until early in 1932 and that no change will be made in the East Tintic Consolidated board of directors until that time.

The land owned by East Tintic Consolidated, 288 acres of mineralized ground in the Tintic district, is adjoining the Iron King and the Eureka Standard, both subsidiaries to the Tintic Standard Mining company.

Most of the land has been under lease to Eureka Standard for some time, so that the change of stock control will make little difference in the development of the properties.

On the north end of the property a prospect drift has been run out from the 1000-foot level of the Tintic Standard No. 1 shaft and in the southern end of the holdings some exploration work has been done from the 1350-foot level of the Eureka Standard.

 

Merged Into Eureka Lily (1937)

November 18, 1937
Four subsidiaries of the Tintic Standard Mining company, including the Eureka Lily Mining company, East Tintic Consolidated Mining company, the Provo Mining company, and the Iron King Consolidated Mining company were consolidated into a new corporation to be known as the Eureka Lily Consolidated Mining company. The articles of incorporation had been filed before January 1938. (Eureka Reporter, November 18, 1937)

December 31, 1937
Eureka Lily Consolidated Mining Co. was the December 31, 1937 consolidation of four controlled companies: Eureka Lily Mining company; East Tintic Consolidated Mining company; Iron King Consolidated Mining company; and Provo Mining company. (Utah Secretary of State's office)

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