| Show Pleasure Outing Held Sunday June 20 At Saltair Resort n 7 Qs 1 yc r f xa aa 4 y E NEW SALTAIR SALT AIR Views of Saltair As It Now Appears The recreation feature of the summer summer summer sum sum- mer meeting of the state newspaper editors was an excursion and outing outing outing out out- ing at Saltair on the afternoon of Sundar Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- day dar June 20 The delegates to the convention visited one of the states state's important mines Sunday morning and then went to the lake in time for a plunge in the brine A special musical program was played by Jack Davis and his famous Saltair orchestra The guests of the resort assembled in an informal dinner din ner gathering at the water front in inthe inthe inthe the new pavilion Saltair was chosen this year as the pleasure rendezvous of the editors because because because be be- cause of the interest attaching to the new reconstruction of the resort The editors from various parts of the intermountain intermountain intermountain in- in region had expressed a wish to see the new pavilion and Sunda Sunday was chosen as the opportune day The new Saltair is said to be larger largI larg larg- I er than the old pavilion destroyed last I year by fire It is rebuilt on the old Response to Welcome Will Welcome Will R. R Holmes president Utah State Press association Choral Selection Tooele Male Chorus two thirty-two male voices led by Joseph Stevens Address Address Hon George H. H Dern governor of Utah Choral horal Selection Selection Tooele Tooele Male lale Chorus Thumb Nail Editorials John Editorials John E. E Jones Western Vestern Newspaper Union Karl S. S Karlton Beaver County News Ne Auld Lang Syne Assemblage Syne Assemblage led by Mr Redding In the Big Orchard Nine o'clock Sunday morning again found the editorial party at the rendezvous rendezvous rendezvous ren ren- in front of the office of the Transcript Refreshed from sleep and breakfast in the homes of the citizens of Tooele had prepared them for another strenuous day of entertainment full pf of information and education After a run of six miles up the valley over a road which gradually gradually gradually grad grad- became almost a dugway the caravan headed down a steep road toward a large orchard on the floor of the valley This orchard proved to be the thc famous r. Bauer apple orchard an orchard of about one hundred sixty acres and said to be the largest in Utah This orchard is located near the portal of the great Honerine mine one of the oldest mines in Utah It is claimed that the mine was discovered by the soldiers of Prices Price's army and was first owned by General Connor and his ates For years the mine was worked through shafts and much valuable mineral extracted but finally water which could not be controlled at that time caused suspension of operations After many years ears owners of many adjoining adjoining adjoining ad ad- joining claims got together and lanthe ran lan the tunnel through which the mine is isnow isnow isnow now drained and worked In draining the mine a great body of water was encountered and to save this water to the company a water filing was made and a considerable body of land was purchased and water was assigned assigned as as- signed to the land for irrigation In InthIS Inthis Inthis this way and in this way only could the water become the property of the mining company To hold it it was necessary to make beneficial use of I it and to do this the orchard was es es- es The party was shown over the orchard of Charles Charle L. L Crockwell manager of the thc Bullion Coalition company company company com com- pany and manager of the orchard and farm lands of the company It is said that this is the only commercial rw 5 i i ih ii i h J r 5 yr 1 V Vr S A Ayr J rf j 1 r jr r nw w rry t rr w. w i y 4 4 Jr v. v rl rr 1 J j h piers which remained intact and on the same general architectural lines It is however modernized in many details The colored stucco gives a garnish aspect to the great Moorish pavilion and the lighting is said to bemore be bemore more moe gorgeous The dance floor space is the same as formerly but the pavilion pavilion pavilion pa pa- l I is larger to accommodate a amore more extensive promenade and deeper orchard in the world belonging to a mining company Mill and Mine From the orchard the party was guided to the mill of the Combined Metals i Reduction company the officers of the company received the party The story of this company and its mill will be found on page 2 of this supplement At the mill those who desired to enter and make the trip into the great Honerine mine now as we understand it under lease to the Combined Metals Reduction company were provided provid d with suitable clothing caps and carbide lamps loaded into horse-drawn horse nine mine cars and started into the mine The party part was in charge of Mine Superintendent W. W A. A Young and there were fort forty inthe inthe in inthe the party half of whom were ladies For two miles and a half alf the party penetrated the mountain and the way was made pleasant by the thc novelty of the scene pointed jokes remarks and singing As the party passed into the bowels of the great mountain their cars pars drawn hv by patient plodding horses the tunnels ls and andst and st pes-ech pes o yes echoed ed edwith with the songs of the happy free care-free party and it must be recorded that there were many good voices in that party and the songs song's sung were those which have been beon favorites with the people for generations At last the party arty arrived at the farthermost farthermost farthermost farther farther- most en end of the workings in virgin ground 1200 feet below the surface and at the collar of a shaft which reached feet further into the earth Back in a stood a hoisting hoisting hoisting hoist hoist- ing engine and an air compressor and the hoist was bring bringing ng up great buckets buckets buckets buck buck- ets of rich lead and silver ore from the shaft For the past three months this rich ore has been coming out of the shaft and und as soon as the pres present nt deposit is exhausted another just like it and as rich is read ready for mining After viewing and handling this rich ore the return journey was commenced commenced commenced com com- and finally after an absence of three hours the party journeyed back into the brilliant blinding sun sun- light Another Dinner It was a dirty disheveled party that sat down to another of those great repasts which was a marked feature of this meeting Abundant and delicious were the viands placed before the famished party Oh Bo Boy how they did stow it away Even the daintiest flapper in the party made a consumption record E. E P. P Evans din- din party booths surrounding the vast ellipse The temperature was ideal for an invigorating plunge One thousand bath houses all newly painted constitute constitute constitute tute what is declared to be the finest bathing department of any resort in inthe inthe inthe the world The floors of the private bath rooms and the aisles are all cemented cemented ce ce- ce- ce and the approach to the water ing room steward for the company was in charge of the gastronomic contest contest contest con con- test and saw to it that the most ravenous ravenous ravenous enous member of the party was filled to capacity From the mine and mill inspection of the Combined Metals Reduction company the party was as headed back to Tooele where after a short stop for gathering up baggage and personal person person- al belongings the journey to Saltair was taken up At Saltair I At Saltair the New Saltair another and final banquet provided b by the joint Relief Societies of Tooele was spread in the new picnic bowery of the pavilion All declared they were not hungry nor had they any right to tobe tobe tobe be but when seated at table and confronted confronted confronted con con- fronted with home fried chicken and andall andall andall all the other good things which go with that delectable delicacy hunger came and there were not many scraps left for the sea gulls And thus ended another perfect day the last of the meeting and the scribes got into their cars too full for utterance and went their several ways and we hope finally arrived safe and sound at their widely scattered scattered scattered scat scat- homes We Ve Learned Something The Tooele meeting opened another I chapter of the greatness of Utah smelting and mining industry to most of the editors They know as never before the hazards of the industry both physically and financially They feel that the mines are paying sufficient sufficient sufficient suf suf- tax they feel that the United States should pay a fair price for the metal in its cent silver dollar in instead instead instead in- in stead of making a profit out of the miner and the mill owner Yes the editors learned much during this visit to Tooele much of which you will read about in this supplement and much that you will not read about Much can be learned that cannot be conveyed in words cannot be described described described de de- scribed it is that something which makes all men kin is canopied in The towel and suit sui stock is all brand new v. The guests were delighted with the music under the direction of Jack Jac Davis It was made up of twelve master musicians most of them re recruited recruited recruited re- re from pleasure places of Miami Florida Mr Davis and and several o ohis of his men are late of the famous Paul Pau Whiteman organization |
