‘Solon Spiro’ lecture Historians Mark Danninger and Sandy Brumley will present a free lecture titled “Solon Spiro From Immigrant Store Clerk to Mining Magnate” at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 15, at the Park City.
Solon Spiro is best known in Park City for his development of the Silver King Consolidated Mine in Thaynes Canyon. But for his first 20 years in Utah, he was known as the manager and secretary of the M.S. Ascheim Mercantile Co., a clothing store in town. Despite working in Park City, he could afford to live in Salt Lake City, which at that time had much cleaner air and was a more respectable town.
Park City Museum researcher
The site of portal of the Alliance Drain Tunnel at the mouth of Walker Webster Gulch in Empire Canyon looking uphill to the west.
Park City Historical Society & Museum, Himes-Buck Digital Collection
This is the third article in a series on the Conkling Mining Co. v. Silver King Coalition Mines Co. lawsuit.
John A. Marshall was appointed by President Grover Cleveland as the first U.S. District Court judge for Utah when it became a state in 1896. He was a grandnephew of America’s fourth Chief Justice John Marshall and a great-grandson of a founding father of the United States, Robert Morris. Morris was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution and, along with Alexander Hamilton, founded the country’s financial system.