Tintic Smelter Site

The Tintic Smelter Site, located off U.S. Route 6 near Eureka, Utah, United States, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.[1]

Tintic Smelter Site
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Nearest city	Eureka, Utah
Coordinates	39°55′01″N 112°08′22″W
Area	5 acres (2.0 ha)
Built	1908
MPS	Tintic Mining District MRA
NRHP reference No.	79003472[1]
Added to NRHP	March 14, 1979

It is one of few legacies of historic Silver City, a mining boom town in the 1870s.[2]

The site is described as being an "approximately five acre site containing slag and tailings dumps, as well as remnants of the concrete foundations of the Tintic Smelter and Tintic Mill." The Tintic Smelter was "built in 1908, dismantled in 1915, and replaced that year by the Tintic Mill.

It was described as significant for aiding "in the documentation of the history of smelters and mills in Tintic Mining District. 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."[3]

The Sunbeam Mine and the Silver City Cemetery, both also associated with Silver City, were also listed on the National Register on the same day.[1]

See also

• Tintic Standard Reduction Mill, in Genola, Utah County, also known as "Tintic Mill"

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
2. "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Tintic Smelter Site". National Park Service. Retrieved June 14, 2019.
3. Philip. F. Notarianni (October 1977). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Historic Resources of the Tintic Mining District". National Park Service. Retrieved June 12, 2019. (Linked text is extract from full document here. Tintic Smelter Site covered at page 2 in appendix: Individual Sites in the Tintic Multi Resource District. With accompanying photo of smelter site from 1977.