Show cwm UTAH salty sayings from Silina City PUSH AND of natural ee sources lie undeveloped hews ENQUIRER correspondence salina saltworks salt works or salt pond all answer our purposes in speaking of abo town south of gunnison silina in early years was viewed with a far distant air and thought by in the north to be almost beyond the bounds of civilization which during the first few years of his tory vas the case but in a few years the pioneer of the southern utah and northern arizona penetrated the great and sevier vallies finding the various locations now marked by thriving towns and villages salina was one of the first and most important of all it being situated at the mouth of silina canyon the most natural and accessible pass into castle valley and north east colorado AB the name implies we are led to remark salt loin and without doubt there are pillars of it on all bides within seven miles of the town are whole mountains of purest rock salt which in the near future will prove an immense source of pro fat to aliis and neighboring territories there are beveral works here in town where ane rock salt ig boiled and reduced to a first class table and dairy salt but it has not been ft source of much profit to the people yet because of the tardy means of transportation por tation and he great quantities it requires to make a small profit now that the railroad is about to reach here there will be a good market for vat quantities of the saline it lies in large ledges similar to coal only much more extensive and is plaited blai ted out like solid rock from a quarry from one to three miles east of salina are large ledges f what is pronounced pronoun cad to be the finest onyx marble but as yet no developments are made dedmond Ked mond four miles above salina is on the sevier river and possesses much the same facilities as salina although not so fertile and favorably located both towns ara now highly elated over the prospects of having the railroad completed in the early part of july next salina is at present the terminus of the projected road and is about to grant the railroad company a free right of way and 20 acres of a depot grounds as an inducement to run directly to salina at present there is some talk of remaining at but everything every thing points to the completion of the road to salina not later than july the citizens have appointed a committee of seven business nen who have visited the people and gotten 25 subscribed toward purchasing and procuring depot grounds and the right of way A grand reception is being looked forth 10 on the day the road is completed to the salt city A pioneer brass band is to remind the people of the near approach of the cites incarnation already prices beyond reason iud if the strikes this place one is acure to get salted one more word about the salt uncle baui does not grant patent rights to thoss salt ledges sj there is no fear of them ever becoming a monopoly the salina coal company are opening up ame a me excellent mines about thirteen miles up salina canyon the veina are over seven feet aad from the surface a fine quality af coal is found but the deepen they go the more gas is found in the coal should the B 0 W comp ny coia their road through chuie they have spent nearly a million dollars in grading it will developed dev elope vast mineral regions in that vicinity some money kings haye laid off mill grounds just south of here three miles where they propose erecting works two years ago grain ranged about 45 cents per bushel and at that figure the merchants could not make it pay to cereals and give the people a mercantile commodity bat last year it was not less one cent per pound and a far better crop was raised than in previous years when prices were lower the merchants say the railroad being BO near effected the happy change and they are very anxious lor more of it the sevier river is a phe nominal one cpr irrigating purposes and where the entire is taken out it does not materially affect the supply of water a few miles below almost every acre of tillable land can be irrigated by the water from the sevier already there are various canals being constructed to furnish water for valuable lands that heretofore have laid productive nonproductive non the salina gold 4 silver mining co expect some beavy machinery to put in the mill fork of salina canyon where there are some excellent placer and mines operations Opera tiona will be begun not later than the middle ot april joining this property ia tle sevier mine which was sold for at marysvale Marys vale there are late discoveries which promise to be kimmence im mence the dalton property discovered last winter is valued at one half interest was eold for it is a gold bearing quartz ledge from which special abbas have reached per ton the ledge is eight feet in the face between the foot and hanging walls the town can boast of having grand fair grounds and a firca class race course on winch s me fast horses are beins trained considerable building is being done and gem rally ppe akini salina ranks formost in the south A dreadful scourge of grippe is passing through the country and every eliares the malady the foie goin account of salina mav seem salty to some of tb a settlements but if 80 it will do to leep SAUNA march 18 1891 |