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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 Conkling lode mining claim in Park City’s Uintah Mining District. An experienced mining engineer and surveyor, he had a civil engineering diploma from the School of Engineering at Mannheim, Germany. Mr. Jessen’s soundness of knowledge was respected by all of the mining men in Utah who knew him.
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 frame s 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,” hosted by the Park City Museum and the Friends of Ski Mountain Mining History at 5 p.m. on May 5, Buck will recount the collapse, tell why it happened and talk about the remedial activities that occurred immediately afterwards.
A Hot Time: Summer in Park City
April 26, 2021
Barbara Barton Sloane Don’t forget, s’mores on the terrace at 8,” a young staff member called as he left our room at Montage Deer Valley in Park City, Utah. This handsome cutie, (the Montage is full of them), greeted us at the front door of this spectacular property and eased us seamlessly through the check-in process and up to our beautifully appointed room with a balcony overlooking the inspiring view of the forested valley below.
Our approach to Montage Deer Valley was a long, winding drive up from Park City’s center to the very top of Guardsman Pass at 8,300 feet. Spread before us, a huge complex reminiscent of a fabled mountain lodge. Nestled into the jagged stone hills of the Wasatch Mountain Range and looking very at home in its wooded setting, it shimmered golden in the late afternoon sun. Montage or Shangri-La? During our stay, we came to realize that this property and that mythical paradise have a l
Park City Historical Society & Museum, Emmett Wright Collection
You no doubt have stopped between the front of the Park City Museum and Dolly’s Bookstore to admire the statue of Emmett Wright, with his mismatched skis one 2 feet shorter than the other. It was just another day at the office 100 years ago when “Bud” Wright fell and broke one of his handmade skis and had to ski home with the odd pair.
Wright was an early Parkite, born in 1887, just three years after the new mining town incorporated. He was in just the third graduating class of Park City High School, after which he studied for a career in the new field of electrical engineering. After completing correspondence classes, he worked for various Park City mines. Meanwhile, Park City was just the third Utah town to install telephones. The Utah Independent Telephone Company had a phone line between the mining towns of Alta, Brighton and Park City, and Wright was hired on to maintain the lines year-round.