Town History

The Silver King Coalition Building, which had come to be Park City's unofficial symbol, went up in flames. The 80-foot high building was the terminus for the Silver King aerial tramway whose 39 steel towers supported a double cable and 75 buckets to carry ore down the mountain and coal (and sometimes miners) back up. The system revolutionized mining, cutting the cost of transporting ore from $1.50 to 22 cents a ton. Today the Town Lifts base terminal stands on the site of the Coalition Building and its standards parallel the old tramway.