History of Mining in Utah

By Jordan DeWitt

The Beginnings of Commercial Mining

Colonel Patrick E. Conner

Transcontinental Railroad

Big Cottonwood Park City Tintic West Mountain District

Early Mining Areas

Bingham 1865 – 1917 $419,699,686

Park City 1870 – 1917 $169,814,024

Tintic 1869 – 1917 $180,401,804

Three Leading Mining Districts

Smelters

Mingo Smelter90th S. State St.Sandy, Utah

Midvale Area

Old Jordan Mine Bingham Smelter

Ontario Silver King Daly-West Daly-Judge Silver King Consolidated

Park City District

Samuel NewhouseMining Entrepreneur

Labor

Good and Bad

Downturn Great Depression

Upswing World War II

Lime kilns found near many Utah towns.

Utah Lime and Stone Company -One of the oldest company’s in Utah

-Prepared and sacked hydrated lime

Used in the sugar industry

Limestone

Architecture

Fort Douglas State Capital

Rio Tinto- Kennecott

Copper