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If you are driving up Beaver Creek Road through the Thushar Range in Utah, you will pass a small Forest Service site called Silver King Mountain Mine. Before passing it up as a lame historical site in middle of nowhere, check it out, it is really quite cool! The site is of an old mine started in the 1800s by Brigham Daniel Darger, a Mormon originally from Spanish Fork, Utah. Brig set up a claim in the Gold Mountain Mining District of the Tsars, in what is now part of Fishlake National Forest, with his wife, Pansy Permelia Brown. The current historical site has a short, half-mile interpretive trail which includes the Darger’s original home, the mine site and an earlier cabin in which Brig may have lived when he first staked his claim. If you visit in June it the hill next to the Darger’s trash site will be blooming with monkshood. It is worth the small amount of time to visit if you are interested in Utah, western or mining history. |
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