Conkling Mining News Today

Park City Museum researcher A view of Walker Webster Gulch, near where the claims overlapped. You can see that the terrain does not have a consistent slope, making judgments of horizontal distance more difficult. Park City Historical Society & Museum, Himes-Buck Digital Collection Note: This is the sixth article in a series on the Conkling Mining Co. v. Silver King Coalition Mines Co. lawsuit. In November 1889, United States Deputy Surveyor Adolf Jessen spent his 39th birthday surveying the Con...

Park City Museum researcher This section of a 1932 Wasatch Range mine claims map showing the Park City Mining District illustrates how complex claims actually were and how easily they overlap. Park City Historical Society & Museum, Jack Gallivan Collection This is the fifth article in a series on the Conkling Mining Co. v. Silver King Coalition Mines Co. lawsuit. As we learned last time, Trewek believed a patent on the Conkling claim was thought a full claim of 1,500 feet in length. Regarding s...

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 Historical Society & Museum, Himes-Buck Digital Collection This is the second article on the Conkling Mining Co. v. Silver King Coalition Mines Co. lawsuit. Colonel Nicholas Treweek filed a lawsuit against the Silver King Coalition Mining company in January 1908. The suit alleged that the Silver King had taken more than 10,000 tons of ore worth $400,000 from the Conkling-Arthur lode mining claims in the Park City District owned by Treweek and his son-in-law J. Leonard Burch. In its ...

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 ...