This group was sent by the president of the LDS church at the time, Brigham Young, for purposes of colonizing the area.

The following year, the city was surveyed as a plot one square mile surrounded by several acres of land designated into eight lots.

However, the farmers and LDS members who subsisted through agriculture did not receive much of a profit, if any, and began to resent the merchants for their success.

Young instructed members to “Cease paying exorbitant prices demanded by disinterested persons...and hundreds of thousands of dollars may be saved annually by the saints".

The Liddiard Brothers, the sons of Samuel Giddiard, continued their father's cement business, contributing to many of the structures on Center Street.

The Provo Foundry and Machine company produced heat and plumbing still apparent in the town.

The successful commercial mining of precious metals and minerals transformed Utah's economy from basically an agrarian base to a more industrialized state.

The large silver producer allowed Knight to develop other mines in the East Tintic area.

Knightsville grew around the workings and became touted as the only saloon-free, prostitute-free, privately owned mining camp in the U.S. His strict adherence to doctrines of the LDS church made the town one inhabited primarily by Mormons.