S.T.O.N.E Paranormal BULLION CANYON

Bullion Canyon is a history of mining. From the first rush in 1868 until the mines died out a hundred years later, men sought precious metals in the gorge. While the motive that drew men to live in the canyon remained the same, the character of the settlements over time changed radically, Initially wild and unrestricted, canyon settlements grew increasingly civilized as families formed.

Historically, the discovery of gold has been a notoriously difficult secret to keep. In 1868. Lieutenant Jacob Hess and Ebenezer Hanks, probably having heard of Hewitt’s discovery, rode into the Marysvale country in search of gold. They found color in Pine Creek and tried sluicing to extract the metal from creek gravels, but the concentrations were too small to be profitable. The men were earning only a dollar a day.

Extraction of the gold proved a complex and expensive affair. Ore produced by the miners had to be smelted before it could be transformed into bullion. When the Webster lode was discovered there were probably no smelters in Utah Territory. Even if there had been a smelter in Salt Lake City, it would have taken a month for a team of oxen, and two weeks for horses, to transport a wagonload of ore from the mines to Salt Lake and back.

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