Junk Removal & Demolition in Midvale

The town was called Bingham Junction before it was Midvale — it sat at the rail junction running out to the Bingham Canyon mines — and it incorporated under the new name in 1909. The United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company finished a smelter here in 1902 that ran lead until 1958 and was processing close to a thousand tons a day at its peak.

That history is still legible in the housing. The Avenues neighborhood was built for smelter workers and their families, much of it small early-1900s stock on tight lots, and the immigrant workforce that filled it lived in boardinghouses and subdivided homes. It's some of the oldest working-class housing in the valley, and it has been rented, added onto, and re-roofed for a century.

Two practical consequences. Houses this old and this modified rarely match their own floor plan — walls get added, porches get enclosed, basements get partially finished by somebody's uncle — so what's bearing and what isn't genuinely has to be looked at. And the smelter left contaminated ground that has been under remediation for decades; the Bingham Junction redevelopment sits on it. Anything involving soil disturbance in Midvale deserves a phone call before a shovel.