Mining

Mining the 900ft level at the Daly Mine. Photo by J.A. Crockwell, ca.1891. (Image: 2001-13-22, PCHS Photograph Collection)

Miners pose in the cage at the Ontario Shaft #3. Photo by J.A. Crockwell, ca.1891. (Image: 2001-13-19 , PCHS Photograph Collection)

Train on the Crescent Tramway, built to carry ore and supplies to and from the Crescent Mine. Photo by J.A. Crockwell, ca.1891. (Image: 2001-13-16, PCHS Photograph Collection)

Miners at the Mayflower Mine. Photo by J.A. Crockwell, ca.1891. (Image: 2001-13-7, PCHS Photograph Collection)

Loggers at the Mayflower Mine. Photo by J.A. Crockwell, ca.1891. (Image: 2001-13-1, PCHS Photograph Collection)

View of the Judge Mine complex in Empire Canyon, ca.1930s (Image: 2000-17-154, Kendall Webb Collection)

Silver King Coalition Mine complex including headframe, shaft house, mill, and boarding house, ca.1930s. (Image: 2000-8-1, Bob Sawyer Collection)

The Silver King Consolidated Mine ("King Con"), probably ca.1910s-1920s. (Image: 1999-17-250, Fraser Buck Collection)

Timbers short up a drift in an unknown mine (Image: 1999-4-110, Park City Mountain Resort Collection)

The Daly West Mine in Deer Valley, ca.1910s. (Image: 1999-4-61, Park City Mountain Resort Collection)

Men pose in front of the cages at an unknown mine (likely either the Ontario or Daly), ca.1890s. (Image: 1999-4-55, Park City Mountain Resort Collection)

Daly Mine hoisting machine and operator, ca.1890s. (Image: 1999-4-36, Park City Mountain Resort Collection)

Ontario Mine buildings, ca.1890s. (Image: 1999-4-11, Park City Mountain Resort Collection)

Men work constructing a settling tank at the Silver King Mine (Image: 1990-31-14, Bea Kummer Collection)

Looking down on the Silver King Consolidated Mine ("King Con"), ca.1920s. (Image: 1990-31-51, Bea Kummer Collection)

The great Ontario Mine that put Park City on the map, ca.1890s. (Image: 1990-5-18, Leon Stanley Collection)

The Spiro Tunnel complex of the Silver King Consolidated Mine Company, ca.1920s. (Image: 1990-31-2, Bea Kummer Collection)

Silver King mine buildings with the hoist room and headframe pictured. (Image: 1990-5-17, Leon Stanley Collection)

The Keetley Tunnel (Ontario Drain Tunnel #2) area of the Ontario Mine, ca.1930s. (Image: 1990-5-5, Leon Stanley Collection)

A mine safety and rescue team poses with their equipment, including masks and breathing apparatuses, ca.1915-1925 (Image: 1984-23-12, Bea Kummer Collection)

Two ore wagons each with a driver and a team of 4 horses facing right, in front of loading bin. Log building at left. Team of horses at right are white. On back of original reads: "Old Quincy Mine, Park City, Utah .. Mrs. Glenn Peterson."(Image: 1984-97-8, Glenn Peterson Collection)

The engine room at the Anchor Mine, ca.1890s (Image: digi-6-36, Diane W. and Richard D. Arner Collection)

Miners work underground at the Anchor Mine, ca.1880s (Image: digi-6-27, Diane W. and Richard D. Arner Collection)

Ore bins at the Silver King Consolidated Mine ("King Con"), no date. (Image: digi-2-4023, Himes-Buck Digital Collection).

Silver King Coalition Mine, ca.1915 (Image: digi-2-4048, Himes-Buck Digital Collection)

Miner operates a pneumatic drill in the Mayflower Mine, ca.1940s-1950s. (Image: 2006-5-19, Beryl Ott and Tura Springer Collection)

George "Shorty" Sorensen (second from right) poses with fellow miners in a tunnel, ca.1936 (Image: 2009-36-166, Ella Sorensen Collection)