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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 of America’s fourth Chief Justice John Marshall and a great-grandson of a founding father of the U...

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 April answer to Mr. Treweek’s complaint, the company admitted to virtually everything of importanc...

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...