History
The Alta Club was founded on March 3, 1883 in downtown Salt Lake City, UT as a club for non-Mormon business leaders to congregate and socialize. During the 1870s, rapid economic growth in the Utah mining industry had led to the creation of a new social elite among Utah's business men, many of whom were not Mormon. As mining and smelting leaders congregated in bars, word got out among the leaders that there was an influential group of men meeting and making business decisions. Membership grew throughout the 1870s to include industry and bank leaders, and suppliers of machinery to industry. In the early 1880s the idea to form a gentlemen's club such as those back east and in England was floated among the group.
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