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
Bingham1865 – 1917$419,699,686 Park City1870 – 1917$169,814,024 Tintic1869 – 1917$180,401,804 Three Leading Mining Districts
Smelters Mingo Smelter 90th 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 Newhouse Mining 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