Show AMONG THE CRAGS t The Railway Work Being Done Near Park City A DOUBTING THOMAS DOUBTS SOT News Notes From Park City The Electric Light Plant The Satisfaction Given Facts and Figures TWIN SPRINGS Summit County Utah July 23Special Correspondence of TilE HEUALDJ Everything in railway circles is booming in this part of the country The average person has no conception of what is going on in a railway sense out here That which is to make of Salt Lake the greatest inland city on the continent is now being born by the great railway lines which arc soon to enter the gates of the metropolis While we are at home in our beautiful city it is a pleasure for us to pick up our daily papers and read of the great railway schemes which are hatching for the benefit of Salt Lake We read them I say with pleasure but there is invariably in-variably that amidst it all which we are slow to believe and accordingly make due allowance for considerable of this class of literature which we think will never come to pass When at home we are inclined to think that the over rustling reporters of our great and enterprising daily TIIK HERALD are sometimes led astray by the glowing tales pictured to them by railway officials We need but to leave home and come out here to the scene of action to be thoroughly convinced of what THE HERALD has been telling us for a long time past All the doubts ever held by so many roads entering our gates in the near future has been removed re-moved since my visit to this part of Summit Sum-mit county Throwing a saddle on a horse was part of my programme this morning 1 glemt and one hours ride brought me to the head of Silver Creek carton where I was surprised sur-prised to find fifteen teamsaud more than that number of men busily engaged in making mak-ing the dirt fly which will be the cause of bringing the WVUMINO SALT LAKE 4 CUIFOUVIJL into the commercial centre of tho west Salt Lake At the head of the above mentioned men-tioned cafion your correspondent was informed in-formed that within thirty days the grading would be completed to Park city This company is using so much of the Utah Eastern road bed as is practicable and will run almost in the same direction as did that little road p ssing Kimballs Park house and on to the home of the Ontario Tne main line will run north of Kimballs Park house shoot oft to the west enter I Emigration cafion and swoop down into I Salt Lake all of which when finished will be a very practicable route While the Wyoming Salt Lake California I Cali-fornia people have this squad of graders working towards Park city they also have a corps of engineers working down Silver Creek canon in exactly the opposite direction direc-tion laying out tho lines as fast as possible toward Chalk creek PARK CIT FAUiGIUrnS Charley Gitchwho has been foreman of the Crescent for so many years has covered his connection with that company and la now with the Woodside Your correspondent paid a visit to the works of the Park City Light and Heating company who run the Edison system The wires of this company extend to Empire cation where the Union concentrator is illuminated They furnish WO lights in all and are so far ahead of Salt Lake that the lights are not put out until daylight This companys interests are all under the careful care-ful management of William Grant A great many residences in the Park are lighted by this system and in order to show how cheaply the service can be furnished fur-nished Mr Grant favored the writer with the following price i list of from one to ten lamps FOURTH CT1S11 IlESinEXPE SERVICE COSTA NO CAPACITY MONTH 1 10 plamp 5123 2 16 oplamp 225 3 16 c p lamp 300 I 4 16 c p lamp 375 G 10 cplamp 425 6 16 c p lamp 475 7 16 cplamp S 85 t 10 c p lampS > 75 lamp-S I 16 c p lamp 6 85 1010 c p lamp n 6 75 You Kxow |