a power line from Burrville to Koosharem. Later the GarKane Power Association would buy out the Peoples Light and Power Company, and in 1945 it would install a new line that extended power south to Greenwich, Angle, and Antimony.
Depression-era Mining The most steady producer of the mines around Marysvale was the Deer Trail Mining Company, which had incorporated in December 1913. The company owned the Green-eyed Monster, Cliff, Monster Apex, Deer Trail Apex, Manilla, Mills, and Ferguson claims. The ore that came from these mines still contained enough gold and silver to support several families. These families and those on nearby ranches were dependent on Marysvale for many of their temporal, religious, and social needs. In the early spring of 1922 a group of women who belonged to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had petitioned church authorities in Monroe for a Sunday School for the Deer Trail Mine people. Consequently, Sunday School Superintendent Heber Swindle of the South Sevier Stake (of which Piute County was then a part), organized a Sunday School in the little town. Because the mining superintendent would not allow the group to hold church meetings in the schoolhouse, they met in various homes on Sunday evenings. This allowed men who worked all-day shifts on Sundays to attend as well. They began with opening exercises in one house, singing hymns to the accompaniment of a violin, since there was no organ or piano in the community. The congregation then separated into classes in three different homes: one for the younger children, another for older youth, and a third class for By 1935 work on the Deer Trail mines began to pick up, helping to pull Marysvale out of the Depression. The area had thirty patented claims and forty-eight unpatented ones. The mines had a year-round availability of needed water and the Telluride Power Company furnished power to the plant. Three large bunkhouses with individual rooms supplied housing for the miners along with some twenty houses ranging in size from two to six rooms. Six companies had leased rights to the ore, employing about thirty men total. That year the Deer Trail Mining Company shipped ninety-five carloads of ore.
