Show THE COTTONWOODS I W Mixing with the Elite at a Summer Sum-mer Resort I Bio COTTONWOOD August 13 One seldom sees anything about this camp though in some respects > one of the most attractive sections of Utah in mineral resources and asa as-a summer resort Men who have been here more than ten yeas speak of the place as though it was strnck last 1 spring and say that as yet there has been no prospecting to amount to anything done At present pres-ent there 13 a little doing and the district is coming up and gradually becoming a producer The mints here are on the same belt as those of park city The Maxfield at Argenta employs em-ploys more than twenty men and is i making its regular shipments of high grade ore and plenty of it The Cold Spring Mining company will soon tap the vein on the O K and appearances indicate they have the most valuable property in the district A few men are working on the Reed and Benson The Eclipse will soon employ i force of thirty menThe men-The Silver King has recently made a rich strike and it is onthat papers that in u short time this place will be spoken off of-f le other day about POOU I found myself in the neighborhood of Silver lake one of a chain of three in a depression of the divide which separates Alta from the Park This is a summer resort for Salt Lakers within thirty miles of the city and is the best cooling off place 1 know of For persons who like scenery here are the rocks and lakes and riverlots grass and flowers which might classify but there are so few acquainted with botanYsome very fine prospects and some very fair aspects with an atmosphere impregnated with aromatic odors a r hotel with bar attached a couple of boats for the use of visitors and plenty of trout for he catching l had heard there were about 100 visitors in the neighborhood and t though hungry felt delicate about 1 obtruding on the elite of the city I I t had an instinct that stogy boots 1 ry overalls and cowboy shirt were not i the thing The triangle bad so anded i for dinner I approached the proprietor r i rtf pro-prietor and diffidently inquired if I I lN could get something to eat He assented I then told him I would II I t it prefer to wait till the other guests had gotten through as I supposed p I I they were pretty hfgh toned He r j said Some of them were a little that way I then sampled hs wiiisliyj < I t which seemed to mae specially adapted for invalids j By this time the party in the 1 dining room made their appearance appear-ance a few old ladies a few young ladles and a few gentlemen I noticed I no-ticed one elderly lady who skipped along with the gait of fifteen and I thought her a good advertisement of the healing and invigorating properties of tile air and waters of this favored spot Horses were brought and they prepared to mount Among the gentlemen was i I one who attracted my attention f He was very narrow very slender and with legs so thin that his venturing vent-uring out on them seemed to me a marked illustration of the power ef mind over matter A bystander in I formed me the gentleman was a preacher 1 could not think him a representative of that dangerous class of divines who instead of saving soulp achieve an unenviable notoriety in making them Nature evidently intended this man to be inoffensive in that way though > 1 parsons are always more or lees offensive I of-fensive and seem to think the circumstance of sparring their way through this world insures them a t good deal the best of it in the next However I am inclined to think I there is a reality religion at least so far as they are concerned and it is not agreeable to hear the subject treated with levity t I entered the dining room One gentleman occupied it It tie I dining room did not realize my anticipations of a watering place i hotel No music no flowers no i colored waiters The old lady who r presided seemed anxious and a I good deal fluttered Some of the guests had not yet come to dinner and I believe they were the high I I toned ones The other gentleman called for water and in her haste to expedite matters she gave it to me instead I was about to suggest she take away tbe dull tools and go back and catch her wind when the j relief came on and a malign fate brought in the missing partytwo I young ladies two young gentlemen j It was not pleasant however they made the best of it and were soon i abscrbed in an interesting conveiv h sation on the subject of potatoes as an article of diet and their own in 1 dividual appetites I had had a 0 glimpse of society and wrenched r myself away and took the trail for Alta Alta is dull Fires and snow slides have done their > work and left an air of hasbeenness I was told 150 men were working in the p neighborhood A poker game between c I be-tween a Chinaman and white man however did not impress me favorably favor-ably with the place and when I left the Chinaman seemed to be out J holding it a little H |