Spring Canyon Standardville Silver Dollars

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Spring Canyon Standardville Silver Dollars

Lost Treasure UT • Carbon County County
Description
1920s Spring Canyon coal-camp legend of a child dropping an entire cigar box of newly minted silver dollars down an uncapped two-inch pipe near Standardville — the coins remain at the bottom of an unidentified cut-off pipe.
Historical Notes
Standardville was a model mining town founded in 1912 along Spring Canyon west of Helper; company offices and a billiard hall stood near rows of protruding utility pipes. When a miner's daughter dumped his silver dollars into one pipe, the family could not determine which of several cut pipes held the stash. Chuck Zehnder's Carbon County ghost-town research preserves the tale; bulldozing in the 1970s left only a few pipe stubs in the canyon.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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