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Show PARK CITY NEWS. The Building Boom Continues, and the Cry , Is For More Houses. Park City, July 81.-Special correspondence corre-spondence The building boom still continues. Every carpenter in town is hard at work, and notwithstanding the many houses that have been built this summer, there is not one empty. There never has been such a demand here for tenement houses as there is at the present time. Park City is getting to be quite a noted summer resort. Every train that arrives of late brings new arrivals, who are seeking the cool, refreshing climate that can only be found here. News arrived last evening that John M. Drake, an old l'arkito and oae of the leasers who struck the rich body of ore in the Woodstock mine, was lying at the point of death in Provo city, suffering suf-fering from paralysis of the brain. Cornelius Cor-nelius McLaughlin, one of his old-time partners, left this morning for Provo to attend the patient. Mr. Drake has many warm friends in the Park and it Is to be hoped he will fully recover from his illness. Deputy Sheriff Burt was in Park City yesterday en route to Brighton's lakes. Mrs. Burt accompanied him. Mr. li. E. Smith, Miss Anna K. Smith and Miss Martha C. Smith, of Clinton, Ohio, are in Park City. They will sojourn so-journ here for about two weeks. C. E. Wantlaud came up from Salt Lake yesterday on business. Mrs. E. J. Johnston and her two children are spending a few days iu Fark City. Miss Flossie Sharp of Salt Lake is registered re-gistered at the Park City hotel. C. H. Graham of Philadelphia, Pa., is looking over our town. F. K. Patterson, late of Grand Rapids, Michigan, is sight-seeing in our booming boom-ing camp. Hotel arrivals T. F. Raymond, Mrs. K. J. Johnson and two children, F. S Watkins, Ludly Smith, C. E. Wantland, Miss Floss Sharp, Mrs. Geo. Hall, Prof Amino. Salt Lake; K. E. Smith, Anna K. Smith, Martha E. Smith, Clinton, Ohio; G. Rossenthrall, New York; J. Arouson, Austin, Texas; Chas. Hill, Leadville: C. II. Graham, Philadelphia, Pa.; E. R. Holden, Denver; James Brodie, New York; F. G. Wheeler, Omaha; J. Sluter, Colorado; W. E. Hull, Ogdeu. Ore shipments today: Ontario, 170,-800 170,-800 pounds; Crescent, 84,800 pounds. Total, 214,600 pounds. |