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Show "While going from the Park to the Wasatch mine Saturday last, Chris. .Tocher was caught in a snow slide that carried him from the old Wasatch road lo the McHenry road, a distance of about 800 feet unhurt. Park City He ami. F. C. Priestly is working in the interests of a local electric plant in Springville, in which the majority ma-jority of stock shall be taken by local capital, and the oflicers there-, of to betaken from the citizens. This is a step in the right direction. Let there bo light. Provo Dispatch. State Engineer Maxwell says he has in his oilicc surveys which show a feasible railway line across the mountains shorter by nearly 300 miles from Denver to Salt Lake than either the Rio Grande or the Union Pacific, and with a grade nowhere exceeding 3 per cent. It is over a line which no railway has ever surveyed. Jferald. A private letter received from Pioche, Nev., yesterday, says: "This place is turned upside down over the discoveries made in Ferguson Fer-guson district, forty miles south of here. Assays made by E. L. Godbo have run nsr high as $1S,000 in gold. The lowest he has reached on any of the rock (bearing mineral) has been 70 ounces silver and $25 in gold. II era id. Pursuant to a call issued by Grand Sachem Powers and Big Medicine Man Hall, nearly all the braves (?) of the Tuscarora tribe met in front of the Knutsford on Saturday night, after which they tookthe trail. "Injun" fashion, and marched to the Federal court room where the periodical pow-wow was held. Descret News. |