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Show THE PARK RECORD www-paricrecordxom Business. WED/THUR&/FRI, MAY 4-6,2005 Briefs Wells Fargo ranks high in business ethics BUSINESS EDITOR: AmaB4oom649-90l4ext 110 Take a walk on Main Street circa 1890 Park City Museum offers a class on the history of businesses in town By ANNA BLOOM Business Ethics magazine ranked Wells Fargo sixth among the country's ' 100 Best Corporate Citizens," companies that excel at serving a variety of stakeholders with excellence and integrity. The magazine recognized Wells Fargo for fts outstanding commitment to community, diversity and human rights. According to the spring issue of Business Ethics. Wells Fargo ranked higher than any other company in the category of human rights for its help in financing the construction of affordable singlefamily homes on or near Native American reservations in seven states, bringing private mortgage capital to those historically denied access. Wells Fargo has relationships with more than 150 Native American tribes and has more banking stores on reservations than any other bank in the country. In addition, Wells Fargo's Indian Country Mortgage Initiative works to help Native American customers secure home loans on Indian reservations and today Wells Fargo is one of the largest provider of onreservation loans to Native Americans. For more information on Business Ethics'\\%\ is available at httpVA/vww.business-ethics.com. Chamber/Bureau accepting July 4th parade applications Due to the popularity of the July 4th celebration and parade in Park City, all applications will be screened in order to maintain parade quality to ensure that all entrants meet parade participation requirements and the theme of the parade. All applications must be turned in by May 15, 2005. In order to keep the July 4th festivities moving along throughout the day, the city must limit the number of parade entries to 65. Applications this year, therefore, will not be accepted on a "first-come, firstserved" basis, but will be determined by how well the entry' meets: the theme of "Stars and Stripes Forever" and the decoration and description of the entry. It is imperative this year to complete the description of the entry form to be considered eligible for the parade lineup. Use the backside of the application if needed. For more information, call the Park City Chamber of Commerce/Convention & Visitors Bureau at 658-9620. Home-based business wins recognition Park City businesswoman Lisa Harlig recently earned Creative Memories' Premiere Incentive Trip to Westin Kierland Resort and Spa in Scottsdale, Ariz. Of the more than 80,000 Creative Memories Consultants in North America, only 692 earned the trip. Creative Memories was founded in 1987. As one of the fastest-growing direct sales companies in the United States, Creative Memories is at the forefront of the keepsake album-making industry. Sales in 2004 reached $435 million. For more information, visit www.creativememories.com. Of the Record staff Perhaps today's dresses and tastes have expanded, there are a few more Internet cafes, and fewer saloons and laundromats, hut Park C'iiy could learn a thing or two from its mining-day popularity. Park Cily Historical Society and Museum Education Curator Lola Beatlehrox have added a new six-week spring After-school History Camp program lo the museum's curriculum and last Friday ihc group covered the history of businesses in Park City. More than a century later, il seems. Park City's Old Town growth has come full circle. According to Beatlebrox, not only were the prices for lots on Main Street comparably expensive in the 1890s <$100-$200 per lot), but the towns population was almost exactly the same. "In its mining heyday, when there were 300 mines. Park City's population was about 7,000 and that's just about where it's at today." Bcallebrox told The Park Record. Hal Compton, the museum's research historian and co-teacher for the Afterschool History Camp, notes that a large issue in town was laundry, since nearly 1.000 miners were unmarried. It was so tedious to fetch well water to boil and wash clothing by hand, women who had money didn't want lo do it. Many Chinese laundromats opened on Main because the Chinese were nol allowed, by law, to mine, says Compton, so they took advantage of the demand for clean clothes. "A lot of Chinese probably weren't even counted in the Census." Compion explained. "A lol of them cooked on the mountain and were treated like slaves. Doing laundry was a good alternative." Most of the Chinese population, he said, lived on Swede Alley, which was referred to as China Town. Sometimes they peddled groceries from their gardens, but after the value of silver declined, most Chinese left. Compton said. Even more Chinese left after the great fire on June 19. 1889 which destroyed nearly every business in Old Town. Before the fire. Park City's rough. COURTESY PARK CtTY HISTORCAL SOCIETY AND MUSEUM Banks like Park City's Rrst National Bank built after the great fire of 1889 were essential to Park City miners who never paid in cash, but valuables like gold dust, according to Park City Historical Society and Museum Education Curator Lola Beatlebrox. tough, mining town had a little more debauchery on its Main Street with 22 saloons all told, said Beallebrox. There were a lot of single men, she says, and most were not Mormon, since Brigham Young did not approve of mining as an occupation. Until the Transcontinental and the Denver/Rio Grande (which established its station where Zoom restaurant slands now) came through, those who wanted lo'come to town had to come by stagecoach from Kansas - a huge concern for merchants trying to establish their WalMart-style mercantile stores on Main, according lo Beatlebrox. "Salt Lake and Park City were boomtowns, but the West was not won yet," she said. "Wagons brought goods into town from the East and il would take a long time for mercantile stores to collect their goods because they were very expensive." Clothing stores like "The Racket.' located across the street from where Zona Rosa restaurant stands now would list the actual number of items left in their store. "500 buttons." reads a newspaper advertisement in Beatlebrox's slideshow. The price of ladies' shoes was $1.50 a pair, and boots were $2.50 a pair, according to the ad. Due to ihe w^cd for horses to drag ore down from the mountains, many merchants opened blacksmith shops. Beatlebrox points to a photograph the Berry Brother's store on the corner of 6th and Main lhat claimed lo shoe 15 horses a day. Banks were also essential lo the mining town, she says. "'Hie bank vault was one of the first things built after the fire. People in town paid in gold dust - you didn't have cash, you had valuables. 'ITiere was a need for a safe place lo deposit il." Compton says 27 millionaires earned their fortunes from Park City's mines. But, like most mining towns, the value of ore. silver and gold depended on the market, he says, and the popularity of Park City began to decline after 1893. Park City's economy and popularity would only rise again, says Compion. once it began to capitalize on a more abundant natural resource: snow. Loin Beallebrox, flat Compfon and the Park City Historical Society and Museum plan to offer /he After-school History Camp again next spring. For more information, visit 528 Main Street or call 649-7457. This weekend, 600 Utah bank signs get a face lift Bank One changes its logo to jPMorgan Chase, plans to keep customer-service consistent While Bank One's banks will change ils logo to Chase, the company's security Of the Record staff side which deals with assets and wealth Park Cily Bank One employees call management took on JPMorgan's logo this Monday, May 9 "Day One." because sometime ago. since the name connotes il is the day Utah will become I he third a sense of reliability and experience. state to change its company logo lo Graham Mayo explained. "Chase." "Whal we found out was that marketThough the sign will change, and the ing is important. We want to be thoughtBank One blue shirt uniform will be ful about what the brand stands for on replaced, local branch managers assure our towers in lights and we wanted it to their'customers that the faces will slay be standardized," she said. the same. Since JPMorgan Chase & Co. Having JPMorgan's international merged with Bank One last year, they resources at her fingertips has given say, the new ownership has expanded its Graham Mayo the intellectual instruservices but has kept consistency a prior- ments lo advise larger companies in ity. addition to smaller business owners. "Now we can do entire integration for "It's really big news, but [Day One] is really just a re-branding," Park City JP a company that grows and wants to go Morgan Managing Director of Private public - that's something we couldn't do Client Services Susan Graham Mayo before we were JPMorgan," said told The Park Record. "Il won't-affect Graham Mayo. "We really see advice as your account number or credit card the leading tool, and we're confident in our ability to suggest [financial] solunumber." Other bank mergers go well or not so tions." Local branch managers for Bank One well and JPMorgan Chase wanls to learn COURTESY JPMORGAN CHASE from those, she said. 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