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Show Passing the baton Maddy Novak is coming ho over her dad's post wi' Eyes to the sky HawkWatch International plans a plethora of activities for January. Page B-5 America' top bullriders will compete com-pete n The Canyons Original Coon Bullriders stampede. Watch some of the country's best riders strut their stuff on Thursday, Jan. 1 at 1:30 p.m. For more information call The Canyons at 615-3321. aS hi 23 C may-witMl Wfrtrce for jyjpw mtJAV Hi2m L0 14 . Club. Page B-2 with snow JbyWNIV iChico.CA ,0 Serving Summit County since 1880 The PsafifcRe PARK CITY, UTAH www.newschoice.com - I i i i . . kiiCOUHT HI OO j, W JJ ULMDLL Ontario Mine is just waiting for next silver boom by Jay Hamburger OF THE RECORD STAFF From mining town to ultra-slick ski resort. It's the life story of many a place in the West, including such now-famous towns as Telluride, Colo., and, yes. Park City. Park City's mining history, though, is still alive and well and, in fact, celebrated celebrat-ed throughout the year during events such as Miner's Day Park City's own version of Labor Day which features drilling and mucking contests. The Park City Silver Mine Adventure, just up the road from downtown Park City, also celebrates the town's mining history with exhibits and a tour of a real-life mine. What most don't realize is that Park City's silver-mining days could be revived at any time, almost at a moment's notice. Yes, United Park City Mines, which is the current version of several historic Park City mining companies, but is now mainly known for its real-estate ventures, is still a full-fledged mining company. "We can open the mine, theoretically, theoretical-ly, at any time," says UPCM vice president presi-dent Rory Murphy. For its mining operations that could possibly occur sometime in the future UPCM employs a mine superintendent, an expert in the electrical aspects of mining, a safety supervisor, a hoist operator oper-ator and tunnel-maintenance workers, all of whom work full time making sure the company's mining operations are kept up while the mine is inactive. Murphy said UPCM employs 15 persons per-sons who are considered "legitimate miners," and about another 80 who could work in the mine. But for the company to implement a full-scale mining min-ing operation, between 300 and 400 workers would be needed. "There would obviously be a staffing and gear-up time," Murphy said. The miles of mining tunnels beneath Park City, some of which are over 2,000 feet deep, have already yielded Fort Knox-sounding amounts of precious metals. Although Murphy cant name an exact figure, he estimates that hundreds hun-dreds of millions of dollars worth of metals have been brought out of the mine over the past century. While silver has been the most-mined most-mined metal in Park City, lead, zinc and srnall amounts of gold have also been brought out of Park City mines. Much, according to Murphy, whose background back-ground is in natural-resource sciences, still remains in the earth beneath Park City. "There are massive ore deposits down below," he said. But for UPCM to begin mining the resources that Murphy refers to, he said Please see Mining, A-2 Ski Utah snow report As of Tuesday, Dec. 30 Ski Utah hotline, (801)521-8102, reported: Alta - 52" base, 8 of 8 lifts open. Beaver Mtn. - 30" base. Brianhead -43" base, 5 of 6 lifts open. Brighton - 41" base, all lifts open. The Canyons - 27" base, 6 of 9 lifts open. Deer Valley - 28" base, 13 of 14 lifts open. Elk Meadows - 24" base, 4 of 5 lifts open. PCMR - 38" base, 14 lifts open. Powder Mtn. -42" base, all lifts open. Nordic Valley - 20" base, all lifts open. Powder Mtn - 46" base, all lifts open. Snowbird - 44" base, all lifts open. Solitude - 40" base, all lifts open. Sundance -27" base, all lifts open. Among the nordic resorts: Solitude is open with 15 kilometersof groomed track. Sundance has an 8-kilometer track. Park City enters into new era of paid parking m ff ) $ I- "' I ft mI - i ' ; J- I t' f" til ' - I 111 -I. Tracy Jones of Rolja, Mo., doesn't quite know where to deposit money into Park City's new Pay and Display parking park-ing meters. The meters, placed throughout Main Street, Swede Alley and several levels of the China Bridge parking structure, will be operational on Friday. Parking will cost $1 per hour on Main Street and 50 cents per hour on the first and second level of the China Bridge parking structure and on Swede Alley. The meters do not accept bills. RC. will never An election and $2 million in open-space purchases were also big news during the past 12 months by Jay Hamburger OF THE RECORD STAFF The five most-important news stories in Park City during 1997 reflect the diversity diver-sity of issues that Park City faced, as well as the issues that it will most certainly face Summit County's good, bad and not-so-pretty for 1997 Year in review continues with news stories by Kirsta H. Bleyle OF THE RECORD STAFF As a continuation of The Park Record's "Year in Review" that began last Saturday, Dec. 27, the following is a glimpse of the five most talked about news stories in Summit County during 1997. 5: Dog slayer gets his day Local animal lovers were up in arms in August when a Wyoming man beat his border collie, Chelsea, to death with a claw hammer and then disposed of the body in a dumpster at the construction site where he worked. Card's actions rankled many residents in the community, who turned out in force for the man's sentencing on Oct. 21. Faced with possible jail time, Joseph Card pleaded guilty in October to a Class Tree recycling offered Park City is offering complimentary Christmas tree recycling from now until Jan. 19 behind the Radisson Hotel on Holiday Ranch Loop Road. Because area waste disposal dis-posal companies will not pick up Christmas trees, the Department of Public Works is encouraging residents to drop off their trees at the designated lot, where they will be mulched and used for city projects throughout through-out the year. Christmas tree recycling is available from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m. daily, including Sundays and holidays. Be sure to carefully follow on-site signage in order to drop off trees in the appropriate area. For more information, please call 645-5120. be the same after Flagslaff, paiWng debates in 1998 and beyond. From the 1997 municipal election, which may indeed change the electoral process in Park City in the future, to a drawn-out, but healthy, debate about developments, city residents witnessed a pivotal year as Park City heads toward the future. The top five C misdemeanor charge for animal cruelty. Card was sentenced to 40 hours of community com-munity service in an animal control shelter, shel-ter, one year of good-behavior probation, is required to complete "intensive mental health counseling," and was fined $500. Maintaining his innocence against the animal cruelty charges. Card told the court that he "didn't beat the dog, I crushed its skull." According to Park City prosecuting attorney Terry Christiansen, while he initially ini-tially believed the city should "throw (Card) in jail, and throw away the key," he would prefer to have the defendant fined and required to spend time performing community service in an animal shelter, or similar agency. 4: Basin building design berated by residents After designing a building last summer that some residents thought resembled a space ship, Summit County Services Please see Mormon Trek, A-2 3 Catch the library bug The Summit County Library, located at 2734 W. Rasmussen Rd., Park City (north frontage road east of Jeremy Ranch), is in need of volunteers for a variety of activities, activi-ties, including reshelving books and participating par-ticipating in the children's reading program. pro-gram. The library holds its children's story-time story-time and activity each Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. Library hours are: Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 12:30 to 7 p.m.; Wednesday and Friday, 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. For more information, call 658-BOOK (2665). E-mail: libraryparkcity.net SCOn SNE1PARK RECORD news stories in Park City in 1997 follow: 5. The continued greening of Park City: The acquisition of open space was one of the Park City Council's and mayor's primary goals of the year, a goal that the city pursued vigorously during 1997. The purchase of the Gillmor property 600 acres of open space surrounding Round Valley near S.R. 248 and Highway 40 closed in January. With just a touch of hot air Chip Bryant from West Virginia the holiday celebration at Park Snow Report Totals Deer Valley The Canyons Park City Mountain Resort Agendas A-6 Business A-19 Classifieds B-1 2 Columns A-1 4 Crossword B-8 Editorial A-1 5 Profile A-1 7 Letters to the Editor A-1 5 Main Street businesses are bracing for effects of Pay and Display meters by Jay Hamburger OF THE RECORD STAFF Well, they're up. installed and. starting at 1 1 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 2. they'll be operational. opera-tional. Yes, the city's Pay and Display parking meters will make their functional debut oil Main Street, Swede Alley and the first and second levels of the China Bridge parking structure in just two short days. For good or ill no one can predict the effects of the meters the lace of downtown down-town Park City could be forever changed. The hope by the Park City Council, mayor and Transportation Department is that the new face of Park City will be one of fewer vehicles in downtown Park City, more people riding the city's buses and more people peo-ple walking the sidewalks of Main Street, rather than scouring the area in their vehicles vehi-cles for parking spots. Indeed, the face of downtown Park City could be forever changed and many Main Street businesses are bracing for the unknown. "I definitely think it will hurt business." said Doug Hoilinger. co-owner of Park City Pendleton in the Main Street mall. "A lot (of people) have said they will refuse to come up here." Hoilinger said by implementing a paid-parking paid-parking system in downtown Park City, the city is targeting local residents who frequent Main Street. He estimates that between 30 and 40 percent of his store's business conies from Park City residents. "We've spent thousands of dollars to get locals to come up here and now we kick them out," he said. Hoilinger also said the pai k-and-ride system sys-tem that runs between Main Street and a free parking lot at the Miner's Hospital is not practical for many Main Street employ-Please employ-Please see Employees, A-2 A much smaller purchase occurred toward the end of 1997 as the city bought the Walts property in Old Town. Although not open space in its classic sense, in purchasing the Watts properly, the City Council preserved a historic part of Old Town. Approximately $2 million was spent by Park City for the Ciillmor and Watts properties. Please see Mayor Olch, A-2 SCOTT SNEPARK RECORD creates balloon art for kids during City Mountain Resort. ; - ,.,,ngjjSMdAAJAAMJLJULgf I BASE 27.0O NEW OO' BASE 28. OO NEWTn BASE Ift.fln HIW Tri Legals B-1 4 Movies B-8 Horoscope B-7 Professional Services B-6 Restaurant Guide B-4 Sports B-1 TV Listings B-11 Calendar B-6 COPY |