Frisco, Utah stereograph collection, 1881

Frisco was a mining camp located in Beaver County, Utah that was active between 1879 to 1929. It was the terminus of the Utah Southern Railroad extension from Milford, Utah. It was located in the San Francisco Mining District, which was organized on August 12, 1871, and primarily produced silver and lead. The mines near Frisco also produced copper, gold, zinc, arsenic, and antimony. The population of Frisco peaked in the mid-1880s at around 800 people; however, its growth quickly slowed due to the price of water, charcoal, and inconsistent ore quality. In 1882, the Horn Silver Mining Company ceased its smelting operations; several years later, on February 13, 1885, the Horn Silver Mine caved in. In 1884, the Frisco Mining and Smelting Company also stopped its smelting, instead shipping the products of its mines to Salt Lake City (Notarianni, 1982). As a result of these changes, the population of Frisco declined steadily in the early twentieth century. By 1930, Frisco was mostly uninhabited, and it is considered one of Utah's ghost towns. Notarianni, P. F. (1982). The Frisco Charcoal Kilns. Utah Historical Quarterly, 50(1), 40–46.