| Show PARK CITY pm KINGS I I A Big Grist of News from the Famous Camp WHAT TIE MINES ARE DOING Social and Other Entertainments at the Prosperous anI porous and Progressive City of Summit County E P Ferry is expected home daily Friday Ezra Thompson was visitor to Salt Lake 1 l Nichols was up this week on Crescent Cres-cent business Police Justice and City Recorder Hayt is expected home in a few days Mrs Amelia Folsom Young and Mrs Lizzie Fenton Young and daughter were in the Park Friday The city council meets next Wednesday evening Theie has been no meeting for a month and a large amount city business has accumulated L L Withey president of the Crescent Mining company accompanied by J M Barnett and W D Strauss war in town this week from Grand Rapids Mich The school meeting held in the public school building Wednesday evening had a small attendance The financial report of the trustees was presented and accepted This was the only business transacted A party by the name of Spencer was brought in from Strawberry valley this week with his right leg broken twice below the knee The injury was received by having hav-ing a horse which he was riding fall on him himWord Word was received in the Park Friday from Provo that John Drake was not expected ex-pected t live His friends in the Park were inclined to belevo that the report was exaggerated and hope for his early recovery re-covery From the Crescent concentrator 464400 pounds were shipped 409200 of Crescent concentrates and 55200 pounds of Gltsch Campbell lease The Orescfutconcentrator also received a lot pf Richardsons Crescent lease ore The Congregational choir is preparing to give something fine in tho musical line about the 20th of August Mts Mary FAllen F-Allen is conducting the preparation of the Alen conductng preparaton concert which is enough 10 say that no pains will be spared to make it firstclass in every respect The test by the Russel process of the car lot of Aspen ore received last week was avery a-very satisfactory one I is probable that the process will be used to reduce the ore Another lot is hero from a place called Daisy this week in Washington which will be tested H O Young has succeedodin getting all his ties down the Provo river and is now having them taken out of the boom near Hailstones ranch About one hundred thousand ties were brought down the river all of which will be used in the construction construc-tion of the Utah Central road from Park City to Heber and up tho Provo river I The shipments of ore this week were as largo as usual amounting in all t 1431820 pounds Mackintoshs sampler shipped shipped 947420 pounds in the following lots Ontario 615740 pounds Daly 93600 pounds Mayflower concentrator 142230 pounds Union concentrator Anchor concentrator con-centrator 205850 pounds Not ono mcetinghas been held in Park City to arouse voters for the coming election elec-tion There has been no excitement no enthusiasm displayed and if the people areas are-as quiet on election day as the county nominees nomi-nees and county committee havebeen no great vote will be polled Tho count will show a Liberal victory An election for recorder of Snake Creek Mining district was held this week and Henry Shields was elected recorder Tho bylaws were amended by increasing the recording fees from 150 to 2 and the fee for making certified copies of records to 150 and also fixing the time of the annual meeting on the second Saturday of July in each year An accident happened at Wanship Friday Fri-day in which an eightyearold son of John Allen lost his right arm and had his right leg broken The boy was playing near tho Union Pacific track and in some manner fell in front of an approaching train The boy had a narrow escape from death and can consider himself fortunate to get oft as well as he did Dr Le Camp attended the boy Judge Henry Shields had his old law office of-fice torn down this week and commenced grading preparatory to the erection of a twostory building An old land mark has disappeared with the log cabin law oflice it being one of the finest buildings in Park City The new building will bo 18x40 feet The upper story will bo occupied by a printing officDthe plantof which is how on the road The lower floor will bo occupied by Judge Shiclas Many have thought the newspaper scheme mentioned some time ago in Thc HERALD had fallen through They wore mistaken it has not even been sleeping but growing daily unlilnow has nonesuch none-such a size that it will be able to exist all entirely new plant ha been purchased and will soon arrive in the Park The proprietor proprie-tor an experienced newspaper man has said farewell to his old home and expects to prrive in the Park in about a week where nothing but tho brightests prospects await him himThe upward tendency in lead and silver i exciting a better feeling among prospectors pros-pectors and ttlineowhere Preparations are being made to open up some of the idle properties of the Park ono of tho most iui most important of which Jb the Morgan i This lies opposite the Daly and jt is thought carries tho same vein Some of tho owners of this group were recently bought by Salt Lake parties and matters arranged so that it could be opened up I has been in litigation fora number of years The county court held interesting meetings meet-ings during tho past two weeks listening t objections to the valuation of property The Union Pacific railroad was tho greatest kicker asking for a reduction of o3000 per I mile on the valuation of their main line The court allowed n reduction of 0 a mile on thirtyseven miles 0 road but increased the valuation of 150347 acres of land 25 conts per acre Tim only objectors from Park City woro M 3 Asphlom and Shields Brothers They petitioned for a reduction on the valuation merchandise Thelatter to allowed a reduction of 1000 The board meets again August 1 to hoar objections objec-tions to increased valuations made by them Tho necessity f6r a big hotel in the mountains near Park City is becoming greater every year Brighton lake if f the proper place for a hotel having all the natural attractions to make it a grand resort re-sort Tho hotel there at present can hardly be called such having accommodation I only limited mm br Nearly fifty applications appli-cations aday are ralused at this place and It is safe to say that a hotel foratho accent 1 i 1nt I 1 1 n J > f modation of 400 guests could ha filled all summer Tho ICimball Park house is turning people away every day not having enough room Another ytar will see grdat Improvements iu Brightons resort and a place that will bo a resort in all that the word implies The gas producer recently put in at tho Marsac mill has been working aweek now and thus far bus proved a success Some little difficulty has been experienced with the Weber coal which was remedied by mixing it with Castle Gate coal The gasworks gas-works just as well as wood in the Stude fcldl furnace and is much cheaper Only seven tons of coal are used daily now against sixteen cords of wood formerly The saving in the cost of fuel and labor amounts to about forty dollars per day a no small item Superintendent Wilson believes be-lieves that tho gas will be 1 great success both in the roasting and drying of ores Enough gas can be generated with tho producer pro-ducer now in use to handle the ore from twenty more stamps The town has been crowded this week with visitors The Utah Central road has been carrying about 150 passengers in and out of Salt Lake every day for thepast two weeks Many come to the Park as they say to got a chance to breathe Though warm during the day the nights are cool and delightful No complaints are heard here about the heat Among those who came up from Salt Lake this week are the following registered at tho Park City Hotel Ho-tel H J Grant and wife J Kingsbary H Shelmerdlne F A Stubbins C Clark Oark W H Bentz Miss Nellie Beldon A Glass J F Price H Swartz Stuart Stephenson R W Browne D H Letton John Smyth Mrs E J Johnston and children F F Raymond F S Watkiils D H Smith C I E Wttntland Miss Floss Sharp Mrs Geo null Prof Andre David Leche Chas Humphrey F W Sturnson H T Nelson Mrs Cohen Mrs C Kalur N G Whodon J M Rutherford S Bear A L Rivers Miss L E Glbos Mrs R D Osborne Miss M A Mason Miss Clara Ellerbeck L C Marvick R N Baskin Mrs W Brooks Mrs F H Dyer and others During tho month of July the Union Pacific shipments romPark City amounted to 4770986 pounds The greater portion of this amount consisted of ore but in were ten cars of building rockand live cars of wool The receipts reached a total of 7060723 pounds an increase of 1697515 pounds over the corresponding month of last year The increase shipments over July of last year amounted to 114757 pounds The increase in receipts and shipments is very heavy considering that that the Ttah Qentrat road has also done a good business The polIce court business this week amounted to only 20n fines coming from four plain drunks C A S |
