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Show NOTHING 15UTLA PLATA Ogden Enthusiestio Over the Sew Eo&3 to tlie Camp-The La Plata Mining Min-ing Co. Organised. BIDS ASKED TOR A HEW JAIL. It Will Cost UO.ODO-A City Hospital to Cost $12.003 -A Fatty ofEx- cunuoaisu hom Colorado. Special ('un'ai'ontitiu' !( lhi 'hm- . OiDEN, Aug. 21). The act of the Weber couuty court iu appropriating $.'.')00 for the rie road to La I'lata ivas received yesterday at the camp by enthusiastic en-thusiastic cheers from the Ogden num. The La I'lata Mining company has been orijatii.iid willi a capital stock of $1,-(KtO.OdO. $1,-(KtO.OdO. Loiiuii I'll tics compose the company. About forty locations have now been recorded. Others have tool been recorded as yet. Another An-other town has beon laid out in Copper gulch. This will make three townsi'.es in the mining regioua. The La l'iata mine hun twelve men at work. I'eople are Roiag and coining every day. . Miners from the i'a-1, west, north and south have visited the camp. Some j;ive good reports, others desire to wait J awhile to bcd what will develop, i'eople i'eo-ple coming to La I'lata in anticipation j of licking up silver dollars from every j rock will be mistaken. , It is only a j prospector's camp, not a month old, and but little development work has been done. The claim owners are at work doing what they can and hopo to make a good mining camp. At present laborers are not wanted. Il is a good piai e for prospectors or export miuers who wish to inves'.igato and prospect or secure claims for development in the future. The rush af many paople to the camp is uncalled for. La I'lala is all right. The mineral is there and mmi of it will soon be shipped, but it is not a working camp where men can find jobs as in I'ark City or Eureka. Josaph I'liillips died yesterday of heart di.-ease. His remains were taken east today and will be buried in Greenwood Green-wood cemetery, l.rooklya. N. Y. He came to l.tah six years ago and was one of the linn of i'liillips lros it Co. He was a single man aged 81 years. ---- The 1 mirth Ward Choral society w ill five their entertaiumont in behalf of N'ephi Anderson this evening. "The City ilireotory" company will at the opera house and other social amusements amuse-ments wilh the lake and Hot springs losurls will till up t lie measure of pleasure plea-sure for the people of the Junction City. -- ' -- -h The Mayor and committee on public buildings have advertised for bids to erect the $'i(l,0(!ll jail, also for plans for improvements to'the tire department to cost J-ltiisi and plans for s city hospital to cost SM'.'.iidO. These will constitute some of the public works of Ogdeti that will be begun in a short time. -f- -f- A Union Tacific special car came in vestenlav bearing Government Director Hyde. He stopped awhile in Ogden aiid went north over the Utah and Northern -(- C. L. Wurtelle, general superintendent, superintend-ent, went east yesterday evening over thtj L'nion l'acilic. Anna Fielding, whoso parents reside in West Virginia, is in destitute circumstances circum-stances in Ogdeu. She was married in Middlcport, ).. last September and was deserted by her husband in three weeks after marriage. She wout to Missouri and stopped with relatives for a month. Taking the advice of friends she came west. Two mouths ago she gave birth to a child. She could work no longer aod lost her speech aud sight temporarily from overwork. Sho is now desirous of going to her fattier. J. Y. M.ckles, in Jackson county. V. Va. Another small blaze in a store called out the fire department last evening. The cher.iical did good work and in a short timo succeeded in extinguishing the blaze. -i- About 100 excursionists arrived this morning from Colorado. They secured carriages and took in the sights including in-cluding La I'lata which was visited by a majority of them. William Van Fatten a 17 year-old son of Alonzu Van Patten died yesterday afteruoou of typhoid fever. Funeral services were held at the Baptist church this afternoon. |