Rock Monument (Ophir Mail Drop)

Mail for Ophir was left on a rock. The silver camp sat four miles up the canyon, too far for regular delivery, so letters and parcels were dropped at this stone on the valley floor and carried up the last stretch by hand. The town they were bound for had named itself, grandly, for the biblical Ophir, King Solomon's source of gold, though its fortune came from silver, tracked to the canyon in 1865 when soldiers followed rumors of Indians casting silver bullets. The 1870s boom faded fast. Ophir hangs on today as a near-empty historic town.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Bingham Canyon Mine — 16 mi
  The largest man-made excavation on Earth

More markers nearby

• Stockton (3) Markers — 5.1 mi
• William Ajax Underground Store — 8.9 mi
• Tooele's First Cemetery — 10 mi
• Lincoln Highway — 16 mi