Way We Were: A birthday to forget
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 Conkling lode mining claim in Park City’s Uintah Mining District. An experienced mining engineer and ...
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