Show BUSINESS BLASTS 0 Colonel Hopkins and His Big Elans for Garfield I Colonel 3f grrAy Saye Has Got the KOHJ I The JreBiapnsv tJbe fcutro1 Basel Sajs Nkfc Things Abput ZIon Jt is quite remarkable tbat Interest bathing resorts on the Great Salt Lake which baa slumbered for ton years should break out in so many places all at once Last year there was not a single enterprise enter-prise on foot that promised any results within u dozen years But events shape themselves very swiftly when the time la ripe for their delivery and there are four very important entorprlpes on foot either one of which will work a great change at the old lake The Saltair company has 8 locomotive headed to the lake and the iron and ties are on tho ground This company has the plans for a combination hotel end pavilion that when completed will offer accommodations equal to tho best to be bad in the east at watering places The Crescent Beach company has been working with the West Side llpld Transit company and give assurances for the extension ex-tension of that road to the lake and of the erection of a hotel pier and bath rooms at their beach which Is several miles this side of Garfield But the enthusiasm In watering resort property on tho Great Salt Lako did not reach its height until the arrival of L C Hopkins In this city When it became known that ho had gained control of the 100 acres on which Charlos Wilkes had squatted right in the heart of the Union Pacific tract and within a stones throw of the pier It at once stirred up the speculative crowd and there has been a lively demand for ground anywhere in the vicinity of Garfield Colonel Hopkins has won the good graces pf i President Clark of the Union Pacific and hojs working In cordial sympathy with the railroad people Hopkins plans are of tho broadest and most liberal character and contemplate not only Q hotel but a zoological garden and other attractions He has completed his company and his dl rectO contains the names of some of the most prominent business men in the city L O Hopkins president farley Williams Will-iams vicepresident W S McCorniok treasurer These with O J Salisbury W H Rowe G S Holmes and Charles S Wilko are the directors The lumber for the office went out yesterday yes-terday and the plat and prospectus will bo ready by Monday Fifty lots have already been spoken for and there is every indication Indica-tion that there will be a great rush when the plat is opened as this is the choice site for cottages at Garfield Prominent people from Denver San Francisco and other cities have written Colonel Hopkins to reserve them lots and it is altogether likely that by the time next season opens up Garfield will have a fullHedged community com-munity of cottages a fine hotel and a zoological zoo-logical garden TO THE LAKE IN TEN MINUTES Wendell Benson when east went from Philadelphia to Atlantic city In the Reading Read-ing flyer which makes the run of ninety miles in seventy minutes including three stops and crossing a canal in that time This is the fastest Benson ever rode After telling of this train he predicted that it wouldnt bo many years until a train will make the run from this city to Saltair In ten minutes and that Garfield trains will be scheduled down to fifteen minutes This all looks very near for with the competition com-petition of the Saltair road and a road to Deep Creek there will be lively competition for the lake trade and this always leads to smashing schedules DOING A BIG BUSINESS Simon Bamberger who spent Sunday and Monday in Park City cald that the Utah Central was doing a very fat business busi-ness the trade being so large that they Vera forced to run trams day and night The road he said Is being managed man-aged as well as it can JIB with the short equipment of cars and engines Those who are intererested In the road should atatfd by Mackintosh as he is malting I ing a good fight for the company and with two or three new engines and fifty cars the road can be made a perfect success i and would help to increase the revenues I of the company The roadbed is In very i good shape considering the limited means at command I COL MUKIUT5 CLAIMS Colonel Murray ban returned and now claims that be lies arranged for the neces ary mon y to put the Deep Creek railroad through and that work will begin at once Colonel Murray said last evening that ho and the men who are Interested with him in the building of tho Deep Creel road would leave tonight at 5 oclock by privkte conveyances for a tour of tho Deep Creek country They will visit every mining camp between Stockton and the Eagle distrIct dis-trict and may oven go further into Nevada There Is but one thing yet to be done to insure the building of tho road said tho colonel last evening that Is to assure these gentlemen that there Is no doubt as to tho tonnage This can easily be done and they propose to see the country for themselves This is what 1 most ardently desire TUEO BDTROS VIEWS Theodore Sutro the president of the Sutro tunnel was In the city yesterday with biB accomplished young wife who IB superb musician Mr Sutro did not try to conceal his enthusiasm and was Treo to say that Salt Lako city was the finest city he had ever seen This coming front a man who Is an extensive traveler counts a greatdenl Why he said there is i no other city that can be compared to it Tho groat mountains form a panorama of naturo tbat is simply sublime What other city can witness the gun letting back of a range of mountains to tho west and reflecting reflect-ing purple tints on another range to the east Why itls more than beautiful it is sublime And the mysterious Great Salt lako is a wonder by itself I could sit I on the water and have the uso of my arms outside of the brine And then you have hot springe and no end of attractions I would like to spend my summers here if I can arrange it Mr Sutro Is the president of the Sutro Tunnel company which was begun In ISM and completed in 1883 It was built to drain the Comstock mines The main tunnel tun-nel is foijr miles long and for 1000 feet is 16 feet wide and 12 feet high To average dimensions of the tunnel are S feet wido and 7 feet high A lateral or branch passing under tne Comstock lodes Is 2j miles long The tunnel cost 5000OOU It was Air Sutro whp reorganized the companyand incorporated incorpo-rated it at the Comstock Tunnel company Mr SUtro visited the Ontario and was very much Impressed with the leaching process of treating ores and also Ulougut well of the cyanide process The cost of reducing the ores at tho Comstock by the old stamp mills is so great that it does not pay to work 14 ore |