In April 1894, Captain Joseph Raphael De Lamar bought most of the important mines in the area and renamed the Ferguson camp as Delamar.

[3] In the same year, a newspaper called the Delamar Lode began publication and a post office was opened.

The town provided a hospital, an opera house, churches, a school, several businesses and saloons.

Supplies and materials traveled even further, by mule team over mountainous terrain from the railroad head at Milford, Utah, which was 150 miles from Delamar.

[4] The gold in the Delamar mines was embedded in quartzite, which created a fine dust when crushed.