Title |
Mercur, Utah p.31 |
Collection |
Classified Photograph Collection |
File Name |
39222001447981 |
Photo Number |
18281 |
Publisher |
Utah State History |
Date |
1934 |
Subject |
Mining towns; Gold mining; Ghost towns |
Spatial Coverage |
Mercur; Tooele County; Utah |
Description |
Mercur in 1934 duirng a period of revival. The town was abandoned from 1917 to 1933. In 1934 the Combined Metals Reduction Company with W. F. Snyder and Bothwell and Sons operated a cyanide chemcial process that extracted gold from the old mines. |
Rights Management |
Digital Image © 2012 Utah State Historical Society. All Rights Reserved. |
Holding Institution |
Utah State History |
Relation |
Classified Photograph Collection, 979.2 Utah Cities |
Source Format |
Print Photograph |
Source Size |
8 x 10 |
Source Donors |
Anderson, Grant |
Type |
Image |
Format |
image/jpeg |
Scanned By |
Karl Nicholson and Earl Hindley, USHS |
ARK |
ark:/87278/s6c82m8g |
Setname |
dha_cp |
ID |
453149 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6c82m8g |