| The clearing on the right side of the
road (north) is where the main Boarding house is said to have
stood. Little remains of the one-story, wood-frames buildings
except for a few scattered artifacts. The clientele of the boarding
hose were mostly single men who sought employment in the gold
fields. In the late 1800's, the cost of staying in an
accommodations like this could have been as high as $11 a week with
meals priced from $0.50 to $1.00. With wages ranging between $2.00
and $4.00 a day for laborers, muckers (shovelers), timbermen, carmen and
blacksmiths, most made only enough to provide the bare essentials.
On the opposite side of the road, to the south and across the creek
are the remains of the Dalton Mill (later renamed the Sylvester-Soderberg
Mill). Built sometime before 1900, the only reminders of the mill
are the concrete foundations, a large flat pile of tan-colored tailings
and rusted equipment which can be seen through the trees. When in
operation the mill received ore from a narrow gauge railroad that
entered the top of the building about 250 feet up the slope of the
canyon. Fed by gravity, ore moved downhill where it was
mechanically crushed and pulverized along the way. At the bottom
of the plant, gold ore was concentrated and shipped to great Britain,
and later to Salt Lake City, where a smelter would create pure bars of
gold bullion. Mines using the mill included The Wedge, Bully Boy,
and Dalton.
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Photo Courtesy Utah State Historic
Society
The Dalton Mill processed tens of
thousands of tons of ore from mines like this one
Some "old timers" suggest
that the Dalton Mill may have burned down in 1914.
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