Show GOSHEN AND EUREKA The Farmers Rejoicing Over Good Crops The 3Iines at Eureka GOSHEN Utah Aug 5Correspondence I to TiE HERALD Having made up our mind to visit Goshen and Eureka we take the Union Pacific and enjoy a pleasant ride on one of the new cars t Santaquin after which the stage conveys us seven miles to our first stopping place Goshen looks somewhat dry and has not as far as we can see made much improvement in tho last three or four years The people here are very sociable and hospitable and are generous to a lault Mr Paul Gourley one of the towns oldest old-est and most respected citizens passed away very suddenly while at dinner on Sunday July 27th He leaves a wife and several married children to mourn his loss He died as he had lived peacefully and quietly an enemy to none but a friend to all Mr James Jenkins with his two wives i went to Provo yesterday to appear before the commissioner and answer to the charge of unlawful cohabitation and adultery Goshen has two goodsized stores which seem to do a firstclass business The coop is under management of Bishop William Price and the other store is ably managed by Mr Will Ercanbrock This is a community of farmers and all seem to be well pleased with the yield of their farms The voice of the reaper and mower is heard from early morn until dark in the land Miss Rachel Edwards one of Salt Lakes most efficient teachers has been spending a few days in Goshen with relatives and friends I The people are greatly in need of a suitable I suit-able meetinghouse the house they used in the past for worship was also used for school purposes and since the new school law went into effect the building has been turned over to the trustees of the district This leaves the people with but the Relic society bouse in which to hold all public meetings The people take great interest in the education of their children they having furnished the B Y academy of Provo with thirteen pupils last year A ride to Eureka fifteen miles distant from Goshen over a rough dusty road on a hot July day is not very desirable but we went through tho ordeal on purpose to see the farfamed mining district On our arrival somewhat1 disappointec at Eureka we were somewhatdisappointed with appearances having never visited a miningtown before Houses here are about as thick as mushrooms in a prolific bed and about as systematically arranged Looking Look-ing over the town from the hill one hal of the houses appear newly built Carpenters builders and plasterers are seen at every turn The I O O F hal now being erected will be a credit to the town The Bullion Beck Mining company are erecting new hoistiug works and putting put-ting in new boilers etc They now arc turning out from SO t 100 and 106 tons of ore per day but they expect to do very much better than that when they get their new works finished The Eureka Hill mine Blue Rock and I others are all working at full blast The water pipes are being laid all over the central cen-tral part of Eureka and the people are elated ela-ted The fresh spring water will be a great blessing in promoting health a well a for use in case of fire They have a very neat and commodious school house on the hill in the eastern part of town Mr Beck is just finishing a neat cottage of six or eight rooms All tho houses are frame and are so close together leaving very small yards which makes of Euraka a very smal untidy town in most parts After our days visit we were glad when the buggy came to convey us back to the valley While pleased to see so many improve ments and the prosperity and wealth of our Tintis district we were glad that our lot was cast in a more beautiful a more pleasant pleas-ant place W E iI |