Saw lots of great papers in the last few days that I would like to explore in more detail. For me the best was Brian Buck of the Friends of Ski Mountain Mining History on ‘Raising the Daly-West Headframe’. The best link would be on their webpage parkcityhistory.org/mining/daly-west-headframe/.
But their were many others. Brian Leech’s ‘Closing the Canyon: Kennecott Copper and disappearing city of Bingham Canyon’ presented a similar scenario to the open pit controversy in Butte in the 1950s. Larry Radford ‘Milling on the Comstock’ showed some great videos of actual stamp mills running and I will have more links for that later. There were a number on smelting, especially in Utah and one by Michael Nelson won best paper.
I did some more touring around old Park City to the museum, old St Mary’s Church and Glenwood Cemetery. The museum is small but really good. Their little model silver mine with shafts, stopes and drifts is the best I have seen anywhere. Old St Marys’ s, which the Irish built for Fr (later Bishop) Lawrence Scanlon in 1881 is the oldest Catholic Church in Utah. When the roof was destroyed and the town was depressed in the 1950s, the bishop was going to shut it down until local magnate Jim Ivers ponied up for a new roof. Jim’s father had made his money on the Silver King at the turn of the century. Glenwood was a bit of a disappointment. It is not well maintained relative to everything else in town.
Old St Mary’s
