Daly West News Today

John Edward

Those looking to register can do so online or by mail using the form available from the Friends of Ski Mountain Mining History/Park City Museum.

Deer Valley Resort doesnt allow snowboarders, but it is a skiers paradise.

While in Park City, the group will lead trips to the locations like the restored Daly West headframe, the Ontario #3 shaft and hoist houses, the Spiro tunnel and the Judge tunnel/Alliance mine site. And, depending on weather, the Silver King Coalition mine.

If the history of Park City is any indication, the luck of the Irish is not evenly dispersed.

A 1967 review of Park City in Wesstern Skier magazine called the area “uncrowded, inexpensive.” Oh, how times have changed.

Park City Museum researcher Miners in a double cage at the more than 2,400-feet-deep Ontario No. 3 shaft in 1891. The cage is wide open, as opposed to modern elevators with walls and sliding doors. Park City Historical Society & Museum In Salt Lake City, there are more than 10 buildings over 300 feet high and two extending up over 400 feet. Denver has 45 structures over 300 feet tall, eight over 500 feet, five over 600 feet – and the highest is just over 700 feet tall. The tallest buildings i...

A crane lifts the Daly West Mine head frame out of a collapsed mine crater in Deer Valley. An upcoming lecture by geologist Brian Buck and Xcavation Company owner Clark Martinez will cover the head frames collapse in 2015, and its remedial preservation efforts. Photo by Clark Martinez The Daly West Mine head frame collapsed on May 13, 2015, and geologist Brian Buck is going to tell people why during a free virtual presentation. In a discussion titled “When the Daly West Shaft Collapsed,” ho...

Photo by Tom Kelly Remember the days where you skied from first lift to close? Your legs would be burning and your mind racing. Being truly blessed as locals with two world-class resorts at our ski tips, it’s a little easier these days. When I was working, I would take lunch breaks running laps on Mountaineer Express for an hour, then head back to the office. Today, I have a bit more luxury to explore the mountain. So, with a bit of flexibility, I wondered just how much mountain I could cover...

The Daly West Mine head frame stands within a fence behind the Montage Deer Valley. Geologist Brian Buck will talk about the significance of the head frame and the overall history of the Daly West Mine, including the 1902 explosion that left more than 34 miners dead, during a virtual History Speaks Lecture on Jan. 6 hosted by the Park City Museum. Park Record file photo Park City’s Daly West Mine, located near where the Montage Deer Valley now stands in Empire Canyon, was a premium example of...