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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 that the Silver King had taken more than 10,000 tons of ore worth $400,000 from ground owned by Trew...
Park City Museum researcher John Daly’s heath declined in 1917 and he moved with his wife to Los Angeles, where he lived at 310 South Gramercy Place until his death in October 1927. Park City Historical Society & Museum, Himes-Buck Digital Collection Many of Park City’s famous mine owners shared several similarities: a lack of extensive formal education, their consuming ambition, the rural poverty of their childhoods, and their diligent self-education. All of them acquired mentors along the way who were attracted to their eager willingness to learn. John J. Daly is exemplar of this model....
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 lead and silver mining operations during its heyday in the mid- to late-1890s, says geologist Brian...