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Show M1LWAT AND MM. The Proposed Dtmt Short Lino to i Salt Lake. the osTAitio mill miur down. 1 Sntaof flnrl t lllnsliam. At Hill Spring. I li in rom Various I'olntJ. ' Tlio building of the Denm Bhort Line railway It njaln Icing Lrounlit to ulllo attention, auel the tuftgettton mails that It would make plondlil east en J connection wltli lbe 8U Lake anel l'cl(lt inasmuch thu contribution contribu-tion wculd tlior tn tho distance of railway rail-way trartl betirn Denmr and tlio cotit from 30i to 400 mil". Utr.tsln I!. 1'. Iletthoud, ol Ooldeu, Colorado, who, with Ooreraor Ollplu. I baa been auadrocoto of tin. Short llnu I route forniaoyjri-art,litJit luue-el a f paniplilel Rltlng Infjrmatlon regard- M Ing the route and oolt of the road to I tbli city. I Tho jironoied routo li from ttonver I writ through Clear Creek canyon, Itrclng the range above tho i:nilrn by a tunnel tome OOUO feet In length Into and through Middle park, by Gore I lit or Grand Hirer oauyon to head of Hear river, thenco toutliwntrrly e!o n While to Green rlror, thenco weat iii Uintah indDucliitne forks and Blraw I erry valley to oTcilaml pass In the Vaeatoei,thence by Daniel's creek and l'rovo river lo 1'rovo, and thin north " tn Halt Lake City, and If drtlrcd to Ujdon. Tho dlilanco between Dcnv or ) and Halt Lake on thla line U 493 .mica. lly (hi) route, which li far pre'craMo to either of tho othir line now In I ration at to grades and curvatures, u ( Hiving In ellstnuce la tllected over the Union l'acino of lot mllo; over tli Denver A Jtlo Grande auu Denver its HloGrando Western of 70 miles, and over the Midland of 11 miles. Captain Jlarthoud liaa made it careful care-ful rtconiioOanee of the whole route, imil alter careful eatlniatea declares lliit the road can be built lu the moit lulistaullal manner ready tor tmllln at u total coat of 1,002,105, era total coat lirmlleof $23,31)1.111. Thla ettluiate I r Idea for the roidway to be thoroughly thor-oughly balltiled and rollod, no open culvurtacr bridges, all brldget lobe nialoof elono, Ironortttel, no wooden Iteatlo bridge', and guard ralla on all lienvy curvet nud bridges. It ulso provides pro-vides for the best (alieru of ralla, I twitches, frcg, lull ptttta and chairs, acruw.tiolia InileaJ cf siilket on all curvet and cuace-rodt: ralla to be steel. aerunty-OTu lmunda to tho yard on main lino and alxty-flro pounds on the aldo tracks. will hb our or v. owe. The cloilug down ol the Ojtarlo tit repairs will re lucolho working force of tho compauy'a men about 1'ua for tho thirty Uiya that will elapaa while the lurnace'aru being rebuilt, Tills niraut Rjay.ofT for that time of h maoritr or men employed at the mine, m well at thoaowho Lave been enuged at the mill. Ihlaaugmenutloii oltheforco of unemployed men at l'ark City will have quite an ellect on the camp for tbe next month or more, but Unexpected Unex-pected that when tho mill la ready to rcsumo oporallona that the number of men engaged will be Increaied. lMltK "IUOOHU" riCKIIJUS. Thoraaihlntry for the l'ark City asmpllng mill la exixrtej to arrive nny da). Tho building la nrnrly coiuplettd, and the ftjuudalioiii will bv ruady for tho maonlnery when It arrlvra. Jerry Tllchardion It perfecting ar-, ar-, raugemeula to move hla concentrating mill from Thayne'a canyon to Wood-tide, Wood-tide, Willi tlio view of working tho old Crescent dumu. lie It anxloua to gel to work, but can do nothing until thn tnow geta otTao that a proper alia may be picked out. llu anticipates proi-ptrouaaummer'a proi-ptrouaaummer'a work, being positive that tho old dump will pan out rich. No. laldeot tho Ontario mill wia hung up Wtdm-Mlay morning aud tho work ol rebuilding the furuaoo It now going forward. When that It completed com-pleted and utuer parts of tho mill repaired re-paired tuo whole will be doted down nud connection! made with thu gaa generator, af.er which gat will beuted for drying and roasting orca. When the gut connections are made No. 1 tide will beaturtod up and No. 11 put through a ciUrsei of repair, aud when the mill la aaln In full awing It will be In moit eicellont condition aud will undoubtedly do thorough work. 'l'hs Ontario tunnol li In bid ground ngalnand progress) la very alow. Tho ground beln,f cut It llmo and pjrphyry mixed and la eiultu aofl and very hard tjhold, eipeclilly with tbe large vol- u, ume ol water that Is now coming from W thufsre. It wai thought fir a whllu VT that all toft and bad ground had been ' lelt hihlud aud that luturo progress V ll Id be smooth tailing, lutt driving of tin l'lorerice tunnel It certainly Uilng accomplished under many dim- .l.lllra. Tho Creacent tramway engine wai taken from Its winter quarters Thurs-il Thurs-il uy and It now being thoroughly nv.rlliuloj. The old tcalea have been til.fli out and will be thoroughly 'leaned and repaired and a new floor I Uctd. Tho tramway lias bten cliured if inow to thu mine, but thn weather lias beeu so bad aud to mil oh new tnow hat fallen that more ahovellug vrll i have to be done, there being over a fcutof frith mow aiievernl points on tburoaj, rheoomiauy It uuxlout to get Iti work and the jirweut atormy w'a'her la a great liicouvonlenco. While many of tho minus of l'ark City are rosumlug operatlont and n number ol : men being put to work, atll huieoortlwould,adiiioiilahallinlnera 1" t,1t,,u,r c,,lu,'" l0 'ep awny from tlio rirk, for there are huudreda of Idle mtn hero waltlug tot tmtiloymenl. Tho time may ihortlynoniowhen (here Will be a demand for more men than . are now here, but at the priteut time 1 the up ly la decidedly lu exoua of tho requirements. ihu urgotlatlona th.t have bcon so long pending betut-on theCreiceutaud Alllanco mlnlug cotnpunlci, whereby thu formir will bo tllowu.l i0 extend tbulatter'atunnil Into Crtaiaut terrl. lory, have radically been closed, the pn era havjn? bten signed by 1'jesl. iliiilU H. Wltheyatid forwarded for llm algnaturea of the otlloort residing In Utah. Tho i-ootroot calls for the rtilumentand withdrawal of alltulti lit law now ponding Utwieu tbe two coui auks, aud pruvldca that the A1II. ance poople shall place their tunnel lu thorough roialraerrgarile machinery, air piping and timbering. Aa toon as the contrtct wot ilgned by Mr. Wlthey and forwarded, new air piping was at nuce ordered nud will toon 1 here. George Norman, the old foreman for the company, arrived In tlui l'ark riiursday morning and will lake charge of the repairs, which will reiiulre about nlnily dayt to lomplelo. Wben the tunnel It pronounced In Ilrtl-elax tbape tlio Creaoent w II take chtrge, ut Ino strong fircoandcout tlnue the tunnel until It reaches n li,. undetneath that company'! big Incline ahalt. lllHOItAi! "HOM.MIN" HITS-. Chtriei Milliner waa out from tho city ruetday looking after lilt concentrating concen-trating mill. Ho Informed ua thai that plant would be Hatted upaaln In about two wr ekr. The I'ln in operating pvrt of the Moutituma ground havo Hboiit Hurt) tone of flribolaw galena ure on Hie dump which they will consign to the valley euiellera about the 1 Otis lust. Messrs. McUuItu A Grebe, lessees and operator of the Kilkenny, one of tho ro ertlia owned by the iuriireu Mining ojinpanles, are pushlug Ue. velopmeit work on that pruerly and Iholr prosjiecta are quite encouraging. J. 1', Johnson, lessee of the old lit-waukee lit-waukee mine, oontlnuea wolk on that properly aud Is being haudeomely re-muniraled re-muniraled for bis labor. Hetentln a carload of extra high-grade oru to the ConkllDg Hampllng Wurka Ihu flnt ol thewtek. The Lead mill, After receiving a few repairs, waa atarted up with n full tonu Weduiaday morning, mil It dota the people of tho campgoolto hear lit ililmo whlitle once more. A 000-ton lot of ore from the Highland High-land mluo la blng treatid first. In driving the tunnel to tap tho ahaltonthe leona mine, the owners Invu encouutirod a very promising body of low-grade ore. tjnveral ftet will have tn be driven yet before the ahaftlt tapped, lu the bottom of which they have a flue chuto of hlgu-gMdu carbouateniid galena ore. Meiirf. Gregettou & Uwenaaro do-lug do-lug Heady woik on tho Lucky Itoy mine, and though ahlptmnta from that property are not at friquontaa from some of the other producnaof tho camp, they count when they nru made, lor tho product) of the Lucky Hoy are very high-grade. The operators sent a twenty tun lot to the riotieertampler this week. I). W.Teucbeuorlt nnoof tho luck-lett luck-lett prospectors In thu camp. J. alt full he located the tiUlhwtat extension of the Monti inula, on which ground he found good galena ore on thutuiface, which hat ttiadlly Improved lu quantity and quality with vachday'a work he hat expended oil It. I.eu than a week nzo ho made another location lo-cation lu Maikham gulch, calling It the "North Intension to the Monte-rums," Monte-rums," and he bat already found on this new claim a twonly-lnch body (if ore which will auay Sj per cent lend and IS ounii's In silver to the ton. Deiuty UnltedHtatoaMarthBlA.il Ilemlt lufoi.ni ua that an eighteen- Inchbolyof flrst-clacigalina ure was rncouuttred In the hlgbteen Klghty-Nino Klghty-Nino lode tbli wsik, and also that he and his lurlheri, iltssrs, Klopcnstlne and Girland, have a thawing of four or live firt of carbonate ore on the tamu roi erly, which waa brought to light this week. 30TKS. The Ontario mill shipped latt week M bira of bullion containing 1S,S.iO.S3 Hue ounces of silver. Ulah't proluct of precloui motilt In leu;, accnrllng t) the mint reort. reaclio' $009,170 In gold and flu.tm,. 810 tllnr. Thla waa a gain of 2UJ cuncea of gold over 1691, and a falling oil lu silver equal to 0i8,(J9J oil licet. The Dtly Wot initio at l'ark City la developing Into a great property. There are now 300 tout of amelllng ore and 7b1) tons of milling oro on the dump, the result of tho work of the past few monttii. The ownera of the properly have not et Incorporated, but are arranging to do to. Jamia Ilurga report) a rich tlrlkoon tho north tlopo of tho Henry Mountains, Moun-tains, inn section where there have been no prevlout discoveries. Ho states that n well 'eflned velnof cold bearing quarlx hat been uncovered. It It 7 inches wide, and It cald to be re markably rich. lVcalello(Ida.) TWAurie: Mr. A. li. JCempIaud, cashier of tho Idaho Na tlonal bank, hat accepted tho position of chief ucoountaut for tho new copper plant company at Hilt Lake, aud will Itavo lor that city In a few da) a to at-tiime at-tiime the dutlit of hla new alt. Mr. Jenklmon will aucceed him at cashier of the Idaho National. Wm. Maloney reporla that John Moorehouse, who It working the Utah No. 2 and the Vulcan inlnea at l'lih Hprlngs, nudoa good strike of ore on tho Vulcan u few da) a ago. and the work Is being developed to see what the find amounts to. On the Ulnh No. lithothaft It down ninety feet, and drills are being run In anticipation of atrlklng tho ere. Laramie Jloomerang; MaJ Glafeoko hat rucilved a consignment of 800 poundeot Boepfrora hit toap mluo at Newcastle. Tho toap In Its natural state look! much like putty, It oJnrlest and Usles like polish Tho application ot water Inoreasea It In quantity ten fold. The It dge from which the tarn-tiles tarn-tiles were taken la half a mile In length and from ten to twenty feet In thickness, A duii atoh from IUwIInt tayi that onHsturdaya Mr. Lawrence who It largely Interested In tho four mllo placertjust south of the Wyomlug line, lu Colorado, left for Dixon to bi-ln oollve optrallons. He will mu water nut of tho Willow inok ditch. Tho Itock Hprlngi company havo their ditch, which they are taking out of Four Mllo creek, nearly completed, audonnof tholluothlKiya who has n claim In a gulch mar Timber lake, which It fe 1 tiy a tptlng, cleared uu over $:0!) In a ten darn run. A gen. tleuiun Juil lu Irani the mlnca Bayt that n parly of Aaieu nilners;are surveying a new ditch from the lower forllllcalloii with the Intention of working timo newly discovered ( lacer ground In that locality which It reported to bo very rich. A large numler of minora are going In uvery day, and loottlng whtrover a proipict Is obtained, SALT LAKK OLEAIIIKU lIOUSIl. Today'! clearing home exchanget amounted to (111,739; tame day lalt )tari.'8t),130. Increase $3'tlO03. TOlHY'd QUOTATIONS. Now Vetk Slhor, 61J lead, S3.00. Londou Silver, 83 7-101. OHU AND IIUI.I.IO.V. Wellt, Kargo.V (J), received toJavs MIoro bulllou, S2).720. ' T. It. Jonea .t Co. recalved to lay: llulllou, $7100; orea f 10,300. Totul $17,400. j McCornlck .t. Co., rtoilvol lodiy. Silver and lead ores, $1.1 UJD, Hanauer bullion, HU50. Total, J.'U'nl. At-iayer Hojgoi had lu for toatlng today one ljt of Horn illver ore, ! torr,and one oilier control. Anayer Currln had In today fir Iwllng ouo lot of Anchor ore, 100 tons. W. G. M. Hleward had In luilay fot assay ono lot cf Inllln li-ok ure, |