| Title |
Power plant and Golden Gate Mill, Mercur |
| Photo Number |
p0206gn_n42_034 |
| Description |
Scan of a glass plate negative showing the Golden Gate Mill buildings above the town of Mercur, Tooele County, Utah |
| Date |
1910; 1911; 1912; 1913; 1914; 1915; 1916; 1917; 1918; 1919; 1920 |
| Textual Date |
circa 1915 |
| Keywords |
Rocky Mountain Power; Mine; Plant; Tailings; Mills |
| Subject |
Mercur (Utah)--Photographs; Mines and mineral resources--Utah--Mercur--Photographs |
| Spatial Coverage |
Mercur (Utah); Tooele County (Utah) |
| Latitude |
40.320833 |
| Longitude |
-112.212222 |
| Additional Information |
"During 1897-98, the Golden Gate Mill was built with an original daily capacity of 500 tons, one of the largest production mills in the United States. The longest single electrical transmission line in the country carried power to the mill from a plant in Provo Canyon. "In 1899 DeLaMar's Mercur Mines Company and Dern's Mercur Gold Mining and Milling Company merged to form the Consolidated Mercur Mines Company. At this time all the ore from the combined mines was treated at the Golden Gate Mill; and, after its opening, the mill at Manning ceased treating Mercur ores and was used mostly for processing tailings. ... in 1913, the mines were shut down, operations at the Golden Gate Mill ceased, and the once thriving town of Mercur was abandoned."--from website: http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/m/MERCUR.html |
| Collection Number and Name |
P0206 Rocky Mountain Power Company Photograph Collection |
| Collection Name |
Rocky Mountain Power Company |
| Rights |
 |
| Type |
Image |
| Finding Aid |
https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv479461 |
| Digitization Specifications |
Digital image produced on Epson Expression 10000 XL scanner, RGB, at 2000 dpi. Archival file is uncompressed TIFF. |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6nc6rtb |
| Setname |
uum_map |
| ID |
984554 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6nc6rtb |
