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Show THE EXCURSION TO TTNTIC. From One Point of View it 1Yas a Success; From Another a Dismal Failure. From the railway company's standpoint the cxeursiou to Tintic yesterday was a, grand success, but it is certain that from the point of view of the excursionist it was a-drcary a-drcary and dismal failure. The train service, was so dismally lacking in w hat it should have been that the hungry pleasure seekers were almost driven to cannibalism. The train left the Union depot at 9-.M o'clock, only a few minutes behind scheduled time, w ith 275 people on board, all eager for a day of pleasure. They hatl all been promised prom-ised a visit to the sugar works at Lehi. but that promise was forgotten. Not a sight of the saccharine crystaiization w as seen. The announcement of the excursion had promised its patrons that they w ould be at. Eureka by 12 o'clock. Nobody took a lunch aud how they all regretted it. The train did not arrive at Eureka until 3 o'clock. Just w hy three-quarters of an hour w as lost ia running up to Silver City before the train proceeded to Eureka no one could find out, unless it was to make more ravenous the already al-ready famished crowd, for the train did not stop there long enough to allow any one to go up into the town. The recepticn at Eureka w as hearty enough. but there was not enough grub in the camp to satisfy the hungry crowd, and it was 4:3l o'clock before all had succeeded in getting an apology for a meal. The little camp, however, did its best, and everyone enjoyed his or her stay there. Many of the mines were visited, but even in the matter of sight seeing the occasion was spoiled ' by mismanagement. The train was announced an-nounced to leave at 5:3(1 p.m. About that hour the cars began to till up, but it was 7 o'clock before the train finally pulled out of Eureka. The run to the city was without , Incident. Shortly after leaving Eureka the tickets t were collected. Each ticket hail a coupon, ' on which was the name of the holder. The-, tickets were shook up in a hat and draw a out. The twentieth ticket was the lucky one, and drew- a prize of a valuable mining claim. W. C. Higgins of the Stori- Eirhnn-, i Jmrtia? was the holder of this ticket. TbW claim is located just north of the Golden Lagle group. . |