Show VISIT TO GOLD CITY A NEWS reporter visited gold city thursday afternoon and found a few interested interra ed people on the ground and while taking in the towo town a wagon loid lod loi d of furniture lumber be belonging loDging to rogers howcroft drove up main street 12 anti and the gentlemen named immediately set to work afier their team shoveling the eight or ten inches ot of show enow from their tbell lot no 3 preparatory to building their house bobae the teamster insisted inai aled that toe the first thing to put up was waa the stove in order that a good teak steak a 1 might be cooked as he felt that b hia is appt appetite tite had increased immensely by the ride from town this was waa done anti and before the reporter jett jelt a piece apiece of ground about 0 had been cleared he was wag informed Inform eu that this was the site alte forthe for the gold city chop house which would be opened tomorrow with city l at 25 cents each the place to be open day and night JI A rod or two north of this prospective chop house to la a store about feet which has baa just been opened by mr H E 1 Bau stord who has baa quite a stock of merchandise and said aid he be had done a good business d dur ur ing the ten days day his bia place hail had been opened A few roda reds still fustier north is in the saloon ot of meagre wb fern which was opened last sunday duo day and which as an is usual in such campf camp has baa done a lively business this liquor house bouee to ia aly adly a tent so BO far but it la expected a building will be erected on the spot during the next few days south of these places is ia the home bome of mr To anere he and hla his family have resided fr fir a long time past and who has hag sold hla his farm of acres acra to the syndicate loate who are build ing the much advertised gold city the price paid for it was elated by live five men who surrounded the reporter giving the purchase figures as follone fol lowe 40 per acre per pe r acre 1800 for the me whole piece and per acre respectively asked bm t how way may lots lota had bad been sold the number given was waa as widely different and contradictory as the above figures ranging all the way from tea to eighty but me he selling price to IB definite y fixed at t per lot the size alze of 01 these lots lota ob IN main street it is ia feet lengthwise east and west went gold city to la from a quarter to half a mile west of the two workings working which are situated on the mountain side elde between little willow and little cotton wood canyon these are named the new NewState state and the gold dollar be 1 aides I these there are several smaller prospects to the north and south A tunnel to la being driven from the south to strike the tunnel above named of course there are trails through th the I 1 abow all over abe mountain side aide and leading oven to the abe very top of the loftiest loft iest peak overlooking overlook lug gold city thousands of feet high more claims were staked off yesterday by the ad vii VoL prospectors it in ia remarkable now that a little gold has been found how bow many persons claim to have known of its 18 exist ence there for years and years past moll men were telling cf f this knowledge know leage yesterday yeat eray afternoon and one who has herded over those very hille hi UP has picked up quartz quartzite gagens rooke rocks chuck shuw lull of chloride etc eta etc but neither he be nor any of the others bad taken up a claim nor even dug a prospect hole another kolasn of hopeful individuals could in their minds mind see ate a great city populous prosperous anil and wealthy with gold paved and other innumerable evidences ot of like character it was near sundown when the newspaper man left the new city anti and on his bla way down he be met another wagon load of lumber which had been obliged to stop atop as aa the team hail bail given out right lu in sight of trie the coming awn t wn 11 this made about the filth load of material for building up the city and aad one load of coal that had bad arrived so far the town townsite sito la is a pleasantly located piece of land and main street which runs north and south mouth it permanently dedicated to remain as a now surveyed will cut directly through mr son sons sonis Is log house though perhaps this humble habitation may be allowed to as aa a landmark ef cf what was onoe once a fertile and productive farou farm turned into a city of gold the roads leading to the pew city are now very muddy and consequently hard on teams desm but the best route is in the one running south from the bottom ol of the hill west went ot of the Buttler ville ward house bobae and keeping to the west of the granite meeting house bouse about a quarter of if a mile then following up tue hill southeast which is a steady rise right on to the townsite the distance by road to is a little over fifteen miles from the engle eagle gate in daft bait lake city and lies due east from dandy farmers in the vicinity are already alter after contracts to supply ane camp with such produce as they have on hand and there will be no lack jack ot of these things it thi the metal white or yellow is but forthcoming to do pay for them |