Tintic, Mountain View Mining Co.
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This page was last updated on November 6, 2025.
(The focus of this page is the surface workings of the mines of the Mountain View Mining company, as visible in photographs, as well as a general description of the mines, with minimal coverage of the geology and financial returns. Also to establish a timeline using sources not previously readily available.)
Mountain View Mining and Milling Company (1898-1908)
March 30, 1898
The articles of incorporation for the Mountain View Mining and Milling company were filed on March 30, 1898. President was Timothy D. Sullivan. The company property encompassed the Mountain View, William J. Bryan, and Contact lodes, all of which were owned by Sullivan. The claims adjoined the Humbug. The shaft was down to 85 feet. (Deseret News, March 28, 1898)
(T. D. Sulllivan was manager of both the Mountain View and Yankee Consolidated companies. -- Salt Lake Herald, December 26, 1898)
November 16, 1899
The Mountain View company was installing a new hoist, to be ready in January. (Salt Lake Herald, November 16, 1899)
August 21, 1900
Jesse Knight paid $1,300 to the Mountain View company for surface rights for use by his Humbug property for its "structures, dumps, pipelines, etc., now on the ground placed there by Mr. Knight." And to allow Mr. Knight "the purpose of dumping material and erecting additional structures as may be necessary in the operation of Mr. Knight's mining property." (Salt Lake Tribune, August 21, 1900)
June 15, 1901
Mrs T. D. Sullivan, as T. D. Sullivan's widow, sold an option to "Dr. Franklin and his associates" to purchase 80,000 shares of the Mountain View company in return for a payment of $40,000 ($5,000 immediately, balance later in equal payments). Franklin and his associates already held 70,000 shares. (Salt Lake Herald, June 15, 1901) (Another payment was made in early August 1901, in the amount of $15,000.)
(This gave Franklin and his associates ownership of all 150,000 shares on the company.)
March 30, 1902
Dr. Franklin owned the Mountain View, the Humbug, and the Yankee Consolidated companies, and intended to "unite the group" and work the group from the existing tunnel on the Yankee Consolidated property. (Salt Lake Herald, March 30, 1902)
February 6, 1903
Mrs. T. D. Sullivan, sold the Mountain View, Contact and William J. Bryan mining claims to the Mountain View Mining and Milling company, for $1.00. (Eureka Reporter, February 6, 1903)
December 22, 1905
John DuBois and associates, who also own the Yankee Consolidated company, owned all stock of the Mountain View Mining company, excepting that held by Mrs. T. D. Sullivan, John Hannifin and James P. Driscoll. (Eureka Reporter, December 22, 1905)
August 30, 1906
John E. DuBois owned 139,503 shares of the 150,000 outstanding shares of the Mountain View company. A dividend had been declared, based on income coming from a lease held by the Yankee Consolidated company. The Yankee company was extracting ore from Mountain View property and taking it out by way of the Yankee Consolidated workings. (Salt Lake Herald, August 30, 1906)
December 21, 1906
The Mountain View company deeded the Emma claim to the adjoining Beck Tunnel Consolidated Mining company. (Salt Lake Herald, December 21, 1906)
February 21, 1908
"Yankee Consolidated officers yesterday confirmed the action of the directors of that company in taking over the Mountain View Mining and Milling company and the Lake View claim, both properties having been owned by John E. Du Bois, president of the Yankee. The acquisitions are paid for by increasing the capital stock of the Yankee Consolidated company from 500,000 shares to 1,000,000 shares. The ground acquired gives the Yankee just about twice the holdings on the strike of its main vein that it had before, thus virtually doubling its resources." (Salt Lake Herald, February 21, 1908)
(John DuBois, owned the majority of the stock in both companies, and was also president of the Yankee Consolidated company.)
(The purchase was first proposed in late November 1907. -- Salt Lake Tribune, November 15, 1907)
"The Mountain View company also turns $6000 in cash into the Yankee Consolidated Company’s treasury, which contained at the time of the consummation of the deal about $26,000." (Engineering and Mining Journal, Vol. 85, page 333)
February 29, 1908
"Yankee Consolidated -- The directors of this company have purchased the property of the Mountain View Mining Company. The capital stock of the Yankee company has been increased from 500,000 to 1,000,000 shares, the Mountain View shareholders accepting 350,000 shares of this new stock in payment for their holdings." (Engineering and Mining Journal, February 29, 1908)
(The Mountain View Mining and Milling company, as part of the Yankee Consolidated Mining company, was controlled by the International Smelting company after 1925, but due to large numbers of outstanding minority shares, company stock continued to be listed on the Salt Lake Stock Exchange.)
(Although controlled by Anaconda's International Smelting company, as late as 1927 the Mountain View continued to be operated as a separate company, with assessments and delinquency notices for stockholders. Such assessments and delinquency notices were the method used to reduce the number of minority stockholders.)
(The Mountain View mine continued in limited production, being operated by leasers who paid a royalty to International Smelting for the ore they extracted and shipped to a smelter. There were regular reports of ore being shipped in 1940 and 1941, then again in 1957 and 1958.)
(During June 1958, the still active Yankee Consolidated and Mountain View mining companies each shipped 60 tons during the month. -- Eureka Reporter, July 4, 1958)
(In a move to clean up its holdings in the Tintic district, in March 1963, Anaconda, through its International Smelting company subsidiary, "de-listed" the stock of the Big Hill, Mountain View, and Swansea Consolidated companies from the Salt Lake Stock Exchange. The reason for this was that Anaconda had purchased the last of the outstanding minority shares of the three companies.)
North Lily Mining Company Merger (1976-1981)
August 21, 1976
Although the property of the Mountain View Mining and Milling company was completely absorbed into the North Lily company in 1925 by ownership of the mining claims, the company itself continued because of the outstanding shares of stock that still existed. In August 1976, Anaconda proposed to merge all of its owned and controlled companies in the Tintic district, into a single company known as the North Lily Mining company, taking its name from the existing company. (Deseret News, August 21, 1976)
November 19, 1976
The stockholders of 16 of the 17 companies controlled by Anaconda voted to approve the merger into the North Lily Mining company. The holdout was the 16 percent of stockholders of the Dragon Consolidated Mining company who voted against the merger. (Deseret News, November 19, 1976)
May 18, 1980
Although the merger took place in 1976, a series of law suits were filed contesting the exchange values of the individual stocks of the 14 companies in the North Lily merger. On May 18, 1980, a legal notice was posted advising stockholders of the 14 companies, excluding the Dragon Consolidated company and the surviving North Lily company, to surrender their stock certificates to have them exchanged for the approved value in North Lily Mining company stock. (Salt Lake Tribune, May 18, 1980)
The 14 companies were (alphabetically):
Big Hill Mining Company;
East Tintic Coalition Mining Company;
Empire Mines Company;
Eureka Bullion Mining Company;
Eureka Swansea Extension Mining Company;
Mountain View Mining Company;
The New Southern Eureka Mining Company;
North Godiva Consolidated Milling Company;
Swansea Consolidated Mining Company;
Tintic Central Mining Company;
Tintic Drain Tunnel Company;
Twentieth Century Mining Company;
Victor Consolidated Mining Company;
Yankee Consolidated Mining Company
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