Mike Ivers Park City mining collection

Collection

Identifier: MS 0370

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The Mike Ivers Park City mining collection (1885-1923) focuses on mining and labor in Park City, Utah, during a period in which unions worked to organize the mining industry. Included is a list of miners and their union affiliations. Also present are letters of recommendation with warnings of Industrial Workers of the World union membership, union circulars, a notice of Park City Citizens Alliance, documents regarding the 1919 strikes at the Silver King Consolidated Mining Company, and mining companies' payroll and daily journals. The collection also offers a time book from Ontario Mine Shaft #3 and extracts from a mine inspector's report. Much of the material inadvertently expresses the social situation of the times. Pay scale, length of work shifts, ethnic disparity among the workers, and living conditions are all apparent in these papers.

Dates

1885-1923

Creator

Ivers, Mike (Person)

Language of Materials

Collection materials are in English.

Conditions Governing Access

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Conditions Governing Use

The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.

Organizational History

Park City, Utah's famous ex-mining and current recreational area, started as grazing land for cattle. Ore was discovered around the 1860s starting a mining boom that lasted until around the turn of the century. Mine cave-ins, flooding, fires, the stock market, and other problems caused the mining industry in Park City to struggle and eventually halt, almost turning the city into a ghost town. Recreational activities, namely skiing, revived Park City around the 1960s.