[Rockhounds] Snake Creek Canyon

[Dan Hanks]

According to the Utah GS database I looked at, a mine by the name of
the Green Monster is found at 40° 34.28'N, 111° 34.70'W.

>From one source, a biographical novel written by a son of my
g-grandpa, we read, (He indicates he is quoting from an old newspaper
article (uncited)) "He walked over into what is now the Park City
mining district and chipped a few chunks of rock off an outcropping.
The stuff showed high value in silver and lead, and Eph Hanks
organized a company. The claim was called 'The Green Monster'"  This
newspaper article also makes the claim that "Eph Hanks was the father
of Park City. The success of the Green Monster was noised abroad and
location followed location in rapid order."

>From another source, a biographical account from a grandson of Eph
Hanks, (who worked in a mine on Mt. Nebo until he lost his hands and
eyesight in an explosion), we read "Hanks discovered the old Pinion
mine, which is now known as the Alliance, in Park City. James Lindsay
helped dig and sack the pockets of silver and lead, which, if not the
first, were among the first metals marketed from Park City district."

I have seen an "Alliance" mine on some maps, it's also in the Utah GS
database, so may need to research the history of that one as well.

An article in the Salt Lake Mining Review, 15 Aug, 1924, p.15 gives a
short sketch of the development of mining in Park City, by Paul H.
Hunt which originally appeared in the Park Record newspaper. A reader,
W. I. Snyder, (VP of the Tintic Standard Company) responded to that
article, writing in correction, "The first discovery of mineral in the
Park City district was the Green Monster, a little bunch of copper
standing up on top of the hill, which afterwards formed a part of the
Pinyon, and later the Crescent, and now the Silver King Coalition.
That little bunch of copper ore is there still, and can be seen. That
discovery was made by Ephraim Hanks and Louis Simmons, and was located
under the law of '66 with fourteen locators . . ."

Reading through the rest of the article it indicates the Pinyon mine
came to cover the Green Monster.

The Green Monster listed in the Utah GS database is definitely not at
the top of the hill, so perhaps is a different mine.

Tying this all together will probably take some more research. Fun stuff.

FWIW,

-- Dan

On 7/13/07, JL Kelly <jlkelly1066 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Dan,
>
> I am familiar with most of the mines in the mountains around Snake Creek
> Canyon. At this point I don't have information about the Green Monster
> Mine. That is not to say that it does not exist. I will check some old
> records to see what I can find. Very possible that it may have been
> changed to a different name.
>
> Kelly
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