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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. ....
Park City Historical Society & Museum, Himes-Buck Digital Collection This is the second article on the Conkling Mining Co. v. Silver King Coalition Mines Co. lawsuit. Colonel Nicholas Treweek filed a lawsuit against the Silver King Coalition Mining company in January 1908. The suit alleged that the Silver King had taken more than 10,000 tons of ore worth $400,000 from the Conkling-Arthur lode mining claims in the Park City District owned by Treweek and his son-in-law J. Leonard Burch. In its April answer to Mr. Treweek’s complaint, the company admitted to virtually everything of importance charged in the United States District Court filing. “The defendant admits,” the answer recites, “that beneath the surface of the Conkling and Arthur claims is a lode or vein of rock in place, bearing silver, lead and other minerals, which on its course or strike extends through the length of said claims; but alleges that no part of the top or apex of said lode or vein i ....