Show A ORE ABOU GOL CI Big Rush to the Hills From Town Yesterday I CLAIMS GALORE LOCATED PROSPECTORS FALL OVER EACH OTHER TRYIXG TO GET GROUXD Boarding Mouse OverCrovraeil einii IVtm Has a Saloon With a Lumber Yard and n TfcTrapapcr inSight in-Sight Grocery and Feed Store Coming Up Jfews of Hie New City I Still the rush to the gold fields continue I con-tinue There were at least 300 people an the grounds yesterday among them being several of Salt Lake citys leading citizens The boarding house was taxed to its utmost capacity the number num-ber Of meals served being in the neighborhood neigh-borhood of 200 which kept goOd Mrs Tomas and her two bright eyed daughters wishing that Jake Morltz wuld hurry and finish up his hotel I There were plenty of claim hunters in the crowd among tem Andy Brix en who built monuments from early morn till supper time locating at least thirty claims Brixeu was not alone in the location business for a half hundred would be millionaires scoured the hills ah S OurCl te his al day setting stakes and piling up stones until the onlooker would pray to be elected recorder of the disdict A firstclass recorder can make more money in Gold City nov than the president of a cordage trust Capt Smith paid the camp another visit yesterday and is more than ever impressed with the outlook He said last night that in his opinion < the f u < tune of Gold Hill was assured and that all that tat l iat was required now was a vigorous display of energy and pusih 1ih to make the camp a success t Eighteen lots < were sold in the town yesterday seven or eight of nhiclh were bought by prospective builders Among the latter ds H E Bassford I a wholesale and retail canwiiission man of this city nyho will erect a 40foot I i front ttiay grain and feed store Work on the hotel is eng pushed and line I structure will Ae completed this week I I I Between the hotel and Bassfords 1 lumber yard office is gal up while I along the main street a lot of tents are strung giving the town a regular mining camp appearance I i Withey of Sandy opened a saloon yesterday while Ike Diehl of the Independent In-dependent was on the ground with an offer to start a S ofer stat newspaper The snow has settled considerably during the warm weather and travel over the hills is much easier than before foreThe I j The question of placers is being agitated to some extent as many be Jieve that good placer mining exists in the neighboring gulches Speaking on j I S this matter an old miner says I I There is no need of our moneyed men going to Idaho squandering money in the recent discovered placers or run to Colorado to invest their cash in erecting mills and buying up mineral ground while there is a bonanza so I near to our own city From Big Cottonwood Cot-tonwood canyon to Little Cottonwood I there is sufficient water power to run I more than a dozen of stamping mills at I a minimum cost of operation Plenty I of timber in the canyons for mining and building purposes and I dont see why a stamping mill should not be erected when there are such extensive i bodies of free milling ore that would i I employ 500 or more men daily I |