Colonel Treweek News Today

Park City Museum researcher The site of portal of the Alliance Drain Tunnel at the mouth of Walker Webster Gulch in Empire Canyon looking uphill to the west. Park City Historical Society & Museum, Himes-Buck Digital Collection This is the third article in a series on the Conkling Mining Co. v. Silver King Coalition Mines Co. lawsuit. John A. Marshall was appointed by President Grover Cleveland as the first U.S. District Court judge for Utah when it became a state in 1896. He was a grandnephew ...

Park City Museum researcher Conkling Mining Co. v. Silver King Coalition Mines Co. sheet No. 3 map, circa 1916, showing workings above the tunnel level. This map was used as evidence in court. Park City Historical Society & Museum, Paul Baker Collection On Jan. 8, 1908, 57-year-old mining promoter Nicholas Treweek filed a lawsuit in United States Circuit Court against the Silver King Coalition Mines Company led by its president, David Keith, and general manager, Thomas Kearns. The suit alleged ...