the Silver King mine
Along the Paiute 01 and almost to the junction to Joe Lott trail.
This old gold mine is in the Gold Mountain Mining District which is part of the Tushar Range on the Fishlake National Forest. Some peaks rise to over 12,000 feet. These mountains are highly mineralized and people have been searching for gold and silver in their gulches and canyons from at least the 1860's. Some believe that Spanish Conquistadors were here in the 1600's and 1700's looking for precious metals. This mine is named the Silver King and was claimed by Brigham Daniel Darger of Spanish Fork, Utah in 1894. Ore extracted from the 1,000 foot long adit (i.e., mine tunnel) above the cabin was hauled by mule and wagon to the 5 arrastras on nearby Deer Creek. An arrastra is a Spanish device where large drag stones chained to a center pole were pulled around and around by mules. Here miners would reduce the ore to a fine sand-like material that was shipped to a mill in Tooele County, west of Salt Lake City, for processing.
What date were Brigham and Pansy married? Where? Please answer these prior to logging the cache.
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