Settled in: Silver was discovered in the area in the 1860s by Swedish miners
Origin of Name: Named after a mining company called Boston & Terrace Mining Company, formed in the 1880s to reopen mines previously abandoned by the Swedes
Known for: An abandoned mining camp in Box Elder’s isolated and desolate West Desert, it once produced mineral ore of nearly every kind; copper, iron, gold and silver were mined there in the desert ranges prospectors called the Newfoundlands; after a year of hard labor, Swedish miners trusted their ore to an agent, who left for parts unknown, absconding with a reported $100,000; with nothing to show for their efforts and no money for further supplies, the miners never returned; in 1880 the Box Elder Mining District was formed and once more prospectors began searching the Newfoundlands for treasure, and several silver lodes were discovered; the Boston & Terrace Mining Company and others were formed in the Central Pacific town of Terrace and the area mined for about a decade; when a new strike was found in a new camp called Dunnstein in 1903, many minors relocated there and Boston Terrace was soon deserted
Location: Southwest of Lucin Cutoff’s Newfoundlands rail stop, accessible only on poorly maintained dirt roads
No population figures for this rural southern Box Elder County, Utah ghost town & mining community
Source: “Some Dreams Die: Utah’s Ghost Towns and Lost Treasures,” by George A. Thompson