Show PAItK CITY Notes and PoInts firom the Famous Camp And Further Along the line It is some time since last I gave anything of importance to the pub lie from Park City through the columns of THE HERALD When my last letter appeared from this important mining camp it was during dur-ing one of those months in the year when all nature is grand indeed and when the day and night was neither too warm nor cold when a person could walk around without sweltering with the heat and at the same time notice the cold A few weeks have made a vast difference and the weather has changed frcm the pleasant to the cold and disagreeable dis-agreeable The hills are all covered with a deep snow and npthing on them is visible I Between the town of Park City and Rebellion Hill the snow is about four feet in depth and there is no more travel to and from the Crescent companys mines than is absolutely necessary It is with difficulty that this company get their ore down the hill at all and they at times miss their regular shipments but whenever they do I miss a shipment it is through nothing else but the blocked roads The merchants in the Park are all complaining of business being dull but at the same time there seems to be a good deal of money in circulation One thing is certain and that is that there are too many business houses in the camp There is not enough business to justify them all and there are sure to be a few failures before long as is the case with Salt Lake The low freight rate has attacked the Park to some extent as it has in other towns but there are not the people here to buy the goods and I am afraid some of the dealers will feel rather sick before they get through the season In conversation with some of the leading men of the Park I gleaned the information from two that they would move to some other city one a leading dealer in general merchandise mer-chandise is thinking very seriously of moving his goods to Salt Lake and start out anew either to win or lose He seems to have an idea that if he conies out loser he will not be much out and if he wins he will be that much in Another wants to sell and move back to St Louis from whence he came But to sum it all up I think the best that can be said is that a brighter day is in store for Park City for it is now the most prosperous camp in the Territory and that a few months will see this mineral producing region more lively than it has bean for some time Leaving Park City about an hours ride brings us to a little town that sails under the name of Wanship There is nothing of importance here more than a few prosperous farmers They have a flour mill running that makes its buoy hum heard by all and this and two or three very good stores comprise Wanship There are a few very j Hoe buildings two schools one ai free school where the children are taught to read write and sing over which a lady teacher rules and but for the mill and the store run by Mr E E Young and one by Mr j William Reynolds which latter gentleman gen-tleman is postmaster Wanship would be comparatively nothing Coming on nearer to Ogden the next place we stopped at was Coal vile This town is well known for its coalproducing proclivities But the good people there at present very much excited over the change that has been made with the Utah Eastern They seem to think that it will be a blow for them and all there are in a quandary what to do It would not be surprising to the majority if the Union Pacific i I company were to tear up the little track lately purchased pur-chased by them and abandon it altogether This would do away with all the coal from Coalville and as the Union Pacific have coal beds in other localities it is not kt all unlikely that there will be a stir one way or another in regard to the coal question If the coal market is taken from Coalville it will indeed paralyze the town but we all hope that such a thing is not even to bethought be-thought of Fare on the Union Pacific and Utah Eastern is now the same so there is no choice in prices for tbe traveler more than to take the U P which road makes much better time than the former LANCELOT |