Show r-r r I St 1 I yM a r M a ra raj rab 1 b j Y r y a w wye K y ye d r w k l A sew A b I Editors Editor's Note This Is another another another an- an other in a series of See Utah articles designed to better acquaint acquaint ac ac- quaint with their home state The articles have been prepared by the Utah Tourist and Publicity Council Autumn is an ideal time of the year to visit Utah's fabulous eerie ghost towns Its It's true not many believe In ghosts but if there are such things they're sure to haunt the many little towns In the Beehive State that somewhere in the past boomed busted and went their way A visit to one or more of Utah's ghost towns was suggested this week by D D. James Cannon direr direct tor of the Utah Tourist and Council The suggestion was made as part of the current See Utah campaign Magic 1 Ring Almost every area of Utah has its ghost towns but none was born so spontaneously lived so uproar and died so completely as the notorious mining towns that sprang up up In the Great Basin in inthe inthe inthe the and Their names have a kind of magic ring to them as if they were destined from the start to be ghosts Frisco and Silver Sliver Leaf Mercur I anti and Ophir Clifton Gold Hill and Knightsville Some of these towns like Mammoth Mammoth Mammoth Mam Mam- moth and Gold Hill fill can only be termed semi ghost towns since a afew afew afew few persons still till live there But for the most part the populations In the cemeteries far outnumber I the permanent residents and the peace and quiet that reigns today Is a afar far cry from the boisterous I laughter that once rose from the corner saloons j I jAll All of the ghost towns in the I Great Basin do not have Illustrious ous pasts for example was founded by Mormon industrial industrial- Industrial 1 I 1st Jesse Knight and is remembered j today as being the only mining camp in Utah without a I saloon J Old Iron Town too near Cedar I City was founded by Mormons I who smelted the West's first iron I ore there back in 1852 The inal masonry coke ovens built by the he pioneers are still standing Widest In Utah One of the most colorful ghost towns towns towns-a a reminder of Utah's all sll- ver mining boom boom Is la Just west of Milford on State Highway 21 21 Frisco was the home of ot the Horn Silver SilverMine SilverMine SilverMine Mine at one time the richest In Utah The town boomed In the For a while It was the home of the boomers miners boomers miners gamblers gunmen and dance hall girls who thrived on mining camp money But a sheriff named Pearson first name unknown was elected to clean up the town Sheriff J Pearson earson had nerves of at steel was fast tast on the draw and was knows known to have killed as many as six men In one ono night Despite the reputation of at Its sheriff sheri Frisco became the wildest mining camp in n Uta Utah with 21 saloons and almost nightly kill ings lags In la 1855 a mine In cave-In spell ed Frisco's Frisco doom Miners left and the town tumbled to ruin Today a few old buildings weed I i t over grown foundations and char I coal kilns mark the site Millions 1 In Gold I Another r rich silver strike was wag C located at Silver Sliver Reef north of St. St George near the little town of Leeds Today only desert animals animals an an- I i and tourists tramp through the towns town's deserted streets In InI I I Its zenith Silver Reef produced great amounts of silver r as much muchas as nine m mIKon lIon ounces in 30 years Now only a ghost remains The ruined foundations of churches salons houses gambling dens I schools and dance halls gape In emptiness toward the sky Anold An Anold Anold old ramshackle bank building I choked with brush and weeds still stands Each Utah ghost town has its c story ark ack in the In IP gold god d bullon was taken in four foyr y rs from deposits near I Gold HI Hill in n n western Utah AIt Alta Alts now as a ski kl resort near Eat at Lake Luke City was once a ming mining min in ing to tom to-m m town the home of the rich Erma Mine which in its y R I- I 1 n b v short life produced 35 million dollars dollars dol dol- lars mars in ores The town of ot Iosepa pronounced ed Say Yo-Say-Pa In ln Isolated Skull Valley west of Salt Lake City was once orce thO th home of a colony of Hawaiian Mormons who came canle to Utah in 1 1803 13 t l eft f ft In 1915 1913 when a Mormon temple was built in their homeland Mercur also west of Salt Lake once a thriving city of was twice destroyed by fire at the turn of the century |