UNICO INC. - SILVER BELL MINES HISTORY - Part I - located in American Fork Canyon, Utah County, Utah -
The Silver Bell property was discovered in 1871 by three army officers out of Fort Douglas, Salt Lake City, Utah.
They worked it mostly by leasing it out.
One of the early lessees was John Chadwick out of American Fork, Utah, who worked the mine for over twenty years.
Chadwick was able to mine and ship some ore , but not much was documented except for a reference, in an 1881 census report, that stated the Silver Bell Mine produced over 100 tons of 100 plus OPT Silver ore -
George Tyng left White Deer Lands in 1903 - to the Silver Bells -
On March 8, 1903, the Miami Cheif printed George Tyng's farewell letter to "his people" in the area of White Deer Lands. Many old timers kept copies of this letter as priceless possessions because it expressed so well the personality and character of the man who wrote it.
FAREWELL
I had intended before leaving here, to devote a couple of weeks to making farewell visits to the people of these counties, who have always treated me so kindly since May, 1886. Circumstances compel me to forego that pleasure and to take this method of expressing my appreciation and of wishing them continued prosperity.
During the seventeen years I have attended no social gatherings, made no social visits, nor amused myself in this part of Texas; but have stuck to my employer's business and have acquired no private property or interests of my own. This has not been from pride, or moroseness, or want of confidence in the country. Far to the contrary.
This people is my people; the kind I like; the kind I have been with from boyhood; with this difference, that the hard times of a few years ago weeded them out and left here a more select community than is usual in a frontier country, of as fine a people as anyone could wish to live with. I am not seeking votes and I fear I may not see you all again; so this is not "taffy," but is only a fact that a great many other people have also noticed.
This country has a bright future and I have often wanted to share in it. But it seemed right to let my employer always feel that his business here was not neglected through my using time that he was paying for, on any private business or amusement of my own.
My temper is quick and is apt to lend more energy than courtesy to my language. Where it has hurt any good man's feelings, I beg him to accept my regrets and to forgive and forget. I have (thank God!) two or three enemies, of the kind a man ought to have, with whom I should like to converse a little before going. But we all have to give up some little pleasures.
The property in my care here has always been respected, without recourse to Courts or Rangers. The good will of a good community is the finest of protection, and nowhere on Earth are just rights better respected than here.
In seventeen years no one has, in word or tone, shown me even any disrespect that a reasonable man could resent.
Though no one has expected me, a hired man, to grant favors at my employer's expense, yet favors without number have been done to me and much help voluntarily given. I have a good memory,
Last year, in circulating a petition (to organize Gray County and to select a county seat), I went around to our people's houses for the first time; it was just like visiting kinfolks.
Now, with all that experience, how could I help taking away with me the warmest kind of friendship for you folks?
I do take it and sincerely desire God's choicest blessings on you.
Good bye.
George Tyng
Pampa, Texas, March 8th 1903
Tyng left White Deer Lands for several reasons. He was disheartened by his failure to secure the county seat for Pampa. He and Russell Benedict, Foster's assistant, had differed on the method of selling land. His wife was in poor health and he felt that he should provide more financial security for his family which consisted of his wife, Elena, and their three sons, Charles, George McAlpine and Francis Carillo.
Tyng had been planning to return to his mining interests when he left White Deer Lands. On January 3, 1902, he was listed as one of the locators of a claim in American Fork Canyon, Utah, twenty miles southeast of Salt Lake City.
That summer he purchased the Kalamazoo claims near the Miller mine, an old lead-silver property. He put his youngest son, Francis, in charge of a crew at the Wyoming Tunnel there. The Tyngs called this operation the Arizona Lease.
The mine was, just below the top of Miller Hill, a 10,000-foot peak surrounded by rugged canyons and high mountains. Just above the mine, from a ridge between two snow-capped crags of the Wasatch Mountains, it was possible to see fifty miles in several directions.
A few miners lived at Dutchman Flat, two miles away down a steep trail. American Fork, the nearest town, was 18 miles to the southwest over a rough, locally owned toll road down a long abandoned railroad.
After Tyng joined Francis at the mine, the two men spent the winter in a tiny cabin above the upper tunnel, with two of its walls cut from solid rock.
The work at the mine was so expensive and discouraging that Tyng had about decided to leave when his lease expired at the end of 1904. But one day a miner, working on a car track, drove his pick into a high spot in the floor and rich lead carbonate sparkled in the light of his candle. A few days' work revealed a fortune in silver and lead. The rich, soft carbonate flowed into loading chutes and seemed to occur in limitless quantities.
On November 19, 1904, Tyng wrote to his good friend, Jesse Wynne, at Pampa:
"We had arranged for Francis to go about October 10 to Victoria and take his mother to St. Louis while I intended to pass a few weeks among friends around Pampa, as I dislike crowds and confusion of fairs.
"But about October 1, Francis broke into a large pocket of good ore from which he has been taking over $200.00 a day profit with expectation of continuing until danger of snowslides (avalanches) drives his men out of these high mountains until spring.
"Of course, that has knocked out the St. Louis plan and I have stayed to help him make his preparation for winter.
"I expect to go to New York next week to meet my wife and to get acquainted with our latest daughter-in-law, Charlie's wife. I shall be so anxious to get back to Francis that I shall be unable to go or come via Pampa. But though we may not see you until next year, we remember our friends and often talk of you all."
While in New York, Tyng obtained an extension of his lease. Back in Utah, he erected a new boardinghouse and other mine buildings. Francis,(for whom Francis Street in Pampa was named) enrolled for a term at the Colorado School of Mines to study mining methods.
Tyng paid from seventy-five cents to one dollar above the prevailing daily wage and hired the very best cooks in order to attract good miners to the isolation of Miller Hill.
Tragedy in American Fork Canyon, Utah
The winter of 1905-06 brought exceptionally heavy snowfall. Western newspapers began to carry daily reports of death and destruction caused by avalanches in high mining camps. George Tyng and his son, Francis, felt reasonably safe as they had built their camp among big pines away from known snowslide patterns. Soon after Christmas, Francis left to attend college at Stanford, while his father remained to manage the mine.
In Victoria, Texas, on January 15, 1906 Elena Tyng wrote to her husband:
"Your last letter of December 29 brought the good news that you would leave for home no later than January 10. Here it is the 15th and no telegram or letter from you. I have come to the conclusion that you are either snowbound or too sick to write. ...
"I am glad for your sake you did not come this past week, for we have had the worst spell of cold rainy weather this winter. ...
"I know it is a dreadful long and tiresome journey to take just to see me. But I have made my mind up that once I get to the mine, you will have hard work in getting rid of me. I shall not be away from you if I can have any say about it."
It was almost as if Elena had a intuitive premonition of impending tragedy when she wrote her last letter to George Tyng --- a letter he never read.
Shortly after noon on January 19, 1906, Tyng was working on papers in his office, a little lean-to some distance from the rest of the camp. Suddenly a tremendous cascade of snow swept over the building, smashing it down on top of him and burying him under fifteen feet of packed snow.
The entire crew at the mine hurried out to search for their employer. As darkness fell, they found Tyng's body, badly bruised, with a pencil still clasped between frozen fingers. A nail from a falling roof beam had penetrated his skull and killed him instantly.
Several men carried the body to a cabin. As they entered, the strong wind ripped the door from its hinges. Fearing that wolves would mutilate the corpse if they left, the tired miners stood guard all night while stinging snow blew in on them from outside.
Early the next morning the miners built a crude sleigh to carry the corpse down to American Fork. Two of the miners, who had left the lease to notify relatives, spread the news and a rescue party started up the canyon to meet the exhausted miners coming down.
Citizens of American Fork were shocked and grieved to learn of the tragedy.
Tyng was loved by his miners not only because of the extra high wages he paid but also because of his sincere interest in their families and homes. He encouraged the miners to buy homes and use their wages for the good of their families. He had raised the mortgage of more than one man in danger of losing his home.
Tyng's will was read after his sons, George McAlpine and Francis, arrived in American Fork. Everyone was surprised to learn that Tyng had requested to be buried on a little knoll on Kalamazoo Flat where he had often remarked: "What grander monument could a person wish than to be surrounded by the beautiful hills and scenery."
A private service was held on Friday, January 26, and a public service was held in the Presbyterian Church Chapel the following Sunday. George McAlpine wrote to his mother that his father's face was "calm and smiling, he looks as if he were asleep in the midst of a beautiful dream."
Tyng's body was carried back up the canyon and buried on January 30, on the shoulder of Miller Hill, close to the mines -
The grave of George Tyng on Miller Hill -
Later a white picket fence was built around the grave. George Tyng's grave - He owned the Yankee Mines and was killed in an avalanche in 1906 while doing book work in a small cabin. His wish was to be buried on Miller Hill where he had spent much of his time just sitting and admiring the views its also close to - the old Mountain Silver Bell Mines -
"The Miller Hill is surrounded by the Mary Ellen Gulch - on its southwest, the main canyon on the north and south and a low divide between Mary Ellen Gulch and Mineral Basin. Miller Hill is named after Jacob and William Miller who lived in Park City Utah. The Millers had been working the area - and in 1871 they sold their claims to the Aspinwall Steamship Company of New York. The mountain still bears their name today. The mountain was a main site of mining activity in the canyon."
Miller Hill, American Fork Canyon There are literally hundreds of mine adits and shafts in this canyon - This one according to my map was called the Sunday Tunnel.
Miller Hill, American Fork Canyon The mountains are huge massive slabs and tailings - A great view towards Alta above Mineral Basin.
Miller Hill, American Fork Canyon My gps says that we are at 9500 ft. Judging by how hard I was breathing hiking up the mountain I believe it.
Miller Hill, American Fork Canyon This is where the trail dead ends at a steep cliff. There is a great view of the backside of Alta and Snowbird Ski Resorts.
Miller Hill, American Fork Canyon Anna standing on the tailings a mine adit -
Miller Hill, American Fork Canyon - Looking down the trail at another mine adit -
There are adits to the mines everywhere up in this portion of the canyons - No wonder the valley below was called mineral basin.
Another view of the mine - Notice that it has been capped for safety - There are literally hundreds of mine adits and shafts in this canyon.
On April 2, 1989, W. Dan Proctor of Pleasant Grove, Utah, wrote to Charles Tyng of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Charles is the son of Francis and the grandson of George.
Proctor, claim owner and claim lease holder of a large portion of the American Fork Mining District, has opened and mined (1980 and 1983) the Silver Bell Mine, which is close to where George Tyng - is buried on Miller Hill - Silver Bells -
At least once a year, Proctor has made repairs to Tyng's grave. He describes the location as "a very beautiful spot with some of the best alpine scenery Utah has to offer." Proctor plans to write a book about Tyng's life because of his respect for the place and the stories he has heard about the man buried there.
(Information obtained from "George Tyng's Last Enterprise" by Laurence P. James. Journal of the West, July, 1969, and material sent to the White Deer Land Museum by Charles Tyng.)
George Tyng's father was a sea captain -
The museum has received a copy of Before the Wind: The Memoir of an American Sea Captain, 1808-1833 by Charles Tyng, Susan Fels (Editor), William La Moy (Preface). The hardcover book of 270 pages was issued by Viking Press in June, 1999. Lovett Memorial Library also has a copy of the book.
Charles Tyng (1801-1878) was 13 years old when his father sent him as a "ship's boy" on the Cordelia which traveled to China and back to Boston. The voyage appalled him and he swore never to go to sea again. However, his father shipped him out again and, by his fourth voyage, he was determined to "get out of the forecastle as soon as possible"; gain a promotion and become an officer. He was promoted to third mate at the Start of his next voyage and continued to rise until, at the age of 22, he was given command of the brig Cadet. He continued to prosper and eventually became a successful ship owner and merchant. In 1878 Tyng wrote his memoirs, a fascinating eye-witness narration.
Charles Tyng was the father of George Tyng (1842-1906), who was the manager of White Deer Lands from 1886 to 1903. George Tyng was responsible for moving the headquarters of White Deer Lands to the station which, at his suggestion, was given the name of Pampa by railroad officials. The sons of George Tyng were Charles (born c. 1870-71), George McAlpine and Francis Carrillo.
Francis Tyng, for whom Francis Street in Pampa is named, helped his father in the mining business in Utah after he left Pampa and wrote "Grandfather Sails," a transcription of the manuscript memoir written by his grandfather the sea captain.
Francis was the father of Dorothy Lorraine and Charles who with his wife Kathie was in Pampa when the Texas State Historical marker for the Pampa Post Office was dedicated on October 25, 1992.
Dorothy Lorraine Tyng married William T. McEwen and Susan McEwen Fels is their daughter. Susan Fels has done her own transcription of the sea captain's original manuscript with an introduction containing unusual biographical information on her great great grandfather and his family.
Before the Wind - has received many favorable reviews:
"A novelist's eye for detail and a storyteller's flair make this yarn a page turner." --- New York Times Book Review, W. Jeffrey Bolster.
"He told a wonderful story with clarity and touches of dry humor." - The Atlantic Monthly, Pheobe Lou Adams.
"This never-before-published time capsule of U.S. maritime history is also a remarkable reminiscence. ... This is no business memoir but an exotic travelogue through the maritime world of the 1820s." Booklist, May 1, 1999.
"Before the Wind belongs in the sea chest of any sailor--armchair or no." - C.B. Delaney.
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