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Despite Brigham Young's strictures against prospecting for precious metals – he feared a Gentile "Gold Rush" – the first mining camp at PARK CITY , just thirty miles east of downtown Salt Lake City along I-80 through the mountains, was established in the late 1860s. In 1872 George Hearst laid the foundations of the Hearst media empire by paying $27,000 for a claim that became the Ontario Silver Mine, worth $50 million. These days, the Park City Mountain Resort (tel 435/649-8111 or 1-800/222-7275, www.parkcitymountain.com ), and the nearby The Canyons (tel 435/649-5400 or … more »

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