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Alta, UT - History
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Welcome to the Alta Home page. The Alta Home page provides as much information as possible on Alta. Knowing Alta’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Alta’s Home page, you will also find Alta’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Alta has a population of 396. 83.8% of Alta’s inhabitants are Male, and 16.2 are female. 21.5% of Alta is married and 40% own their own home. The Average Home price is $1,290,455, and the average rent is $434. Household median income in Alta is $66,625, and the individual median income is $22,577. Alta’s Ethnic is the following: White(59.8%), Native(19.2%), Black(15.2%), Hispanic(5.6%), Multiple(5.3%), Asian(0.3%), Other(0.3%).
Alta has been important to the development of skiing in Utah. Alta was founded about 1865 to house miners from the Emma mine, the Flagstaff mine, and other silver mines in Little Cottonwood Canyon. Sensationally rich silver ore in the Emma mine enabled its owners to sell the mine at an inflated price to British investors in 1871.
The subsequent exhaustion of the Emma ore body led to the recall of the American ambassador to Great Britain, who was a director of the company, and to Congressional hearings in Washington DC on the transaction.An incident that occurred in the town in 1873 was adapted by Rod Serling for the episode entitled "Mr.
Garrity and the Graves" of his television series The Twilight Zone. An 1878 fire and an 1885 avalanche destroyed most of the original mining town, though some mining activity persisted into the 20th century. By the 1930s, only one resident, George Watson, remained in the town. Facing back taxes on mining claims that he owned, Watson donated much of his land in Alta to the U.S.
Forest Service, stipulating that the land be used to construct a ski area. In 1935, Norwegian skiing legend Alf Engen was hired to help develop the area, and Alta opened its first ski lift in 1938. By the end of the twentieth century, up to 7,000 people per day could be found on the Alta slopes, and traffic in the Little Cottonwood Canyon was nearing gridlock proportions.Today, Alta is a small town centered around the Alta Ski Area. During the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent government-mandated economic restrictions, Alta briefly gained national attention when it was the only ski resort included in a detailed study of disease-transmission probabilities.
The university-based study concluded that buses to the site could be made safe, traveling on ski lifts was safe, and queueing at ski lifts was safe. However, no amount of compensating factors could make indoor-dining at restaurants acceptably safe, and locker rooms could only be considered safe if occupants used "quiet voices".
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