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Frisco is a
Frisco developed as the post office and commercial center for the San Francisco Mining District, and was the terminus of the 
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ghost town
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in Beaver County, Utah
Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is one of the Four Corners states, sharing a border with Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. It also borders Wyoming to the northea ...
, United States. It was an active mining camp from 1879 to 1929.
At its peak in 1885, Frisco was a thriving town of 6,000 people.
History
Frisco developed as the post office and commercial center for the San Francisco Mining District, and was the terminus of the Utah Southern Railroad
Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is one of the Four Corners states, sharing a border with Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. It also borders Wyoming to the northea ...
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. The Horn Silver Mine was discovered in 1875, and had produced $20,267,078 worth of ore by 1885. By 1885, over $60,000,000 worth of zinc, copper, lead, silver, and gold had been transported from Frisco from the many mines in the area.
With 23 saloons, Frisco was known as the wildest town in the Great Basin
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. Murder was common, and drinking water had to be freighted in.
Frisco's fortunes changed suddenly on February 13, 1885, when the Horn Silver Mine caved in completely. It was an unconventional mine, an open pit deep braced with timbers, and could have collapsed at any time.
In 1905 a Mormon
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ward was organized, but in 1911, with the closing of many of the mines, so many church members had left that the ward was discontinued.
After many years of desertion, another company made an attempt to mine here in 2002.
Geography
Frisco is located at . Its elevation is .Demographics
The peak population was nearly 6,000.See also
*Silver mining in the United States
Silver mining in the United States began on a major scale with the discovery of the Comstock Lode in Nevada in 1858. The industry suffered greatly from the demonetization of silver in 1873 by the Coinage Act of 1873, known pejoratively as the "C ...
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Photos by James Hammond
* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20150731002353/http://friscoutah.com/ Frisco Utah {{authority control Ghost towns in Utah Mining communities in Utah Populated places established in 1879 Ghost towns in Beaver County, Utah