Show the His history toisy of M mining 0 in utah EDITOR EDITORS S NOTE th s la is the e ot of a tanies of eidt art cles on he the h story of the metal in n ng ii austry in utah after tle tl tf e d of the d s tracts of B engham aita alta and park city prospecting south along the oquirrh range and tre tle camos of dry canyon ophir camp F oyd M ana and further to the south the districts of eureka frisco and silver reef the tintic gintic district has long been one of the to st productive in utah owing to poor transports tran tion facilities development of the district was not rapid until 1878 when the lamiad came within 5 miles of the district prior to that time however considerable rich ore was gleaned from near the surface which was shipped to san fran cisco calif to reno nevada bal md and even to swansea wales activity in beaver county reached boom proportions with the discovery of the horn silver mine in 1875 and continued until 1885 during its heyday the horn silver was one oftie most productive mines of the west and the mire and its smelter supported 1 a I com munty of approximately 2000 persons one sent i in utah s mining history flat fa led to gron into maturi maturity tv w was s the old 6 iver keef reef located about 20 2 miles north of st t george accord ng to legend one prospected ci ei discovered silver f float loat which assayed to the ton he is reported to have filled up his shaft and left tle tl e country ing with to organize the district in 1874 he worked his claims for a fn an months but fail ing to find the lead to his rich assay became discouraged and moved on to other anin arin ng d strict s in rn 1875 others took up the search and bleir tt air efforts met with cons d erable success shipp ng their ores to salt like lake valley smelters dur ing thia oenid claims were filed around the silver reef and a typical mining community grew V u up like many of the high grace camps silv r reef soon languished languish eJ but there are those who cling to the ever present hope in mining it will come b ck |