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
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