| Show ahe RECORD anniversary tills this is number one of volume thirty of TUB THE which Is to say aay that today to day Is the anniversary niver sary of the birth of this paper it ts Is twenty nine years old or twenty nine 3 cars cara young as our friend elbert hubbard w would express it on Febu ath the hie first paper ever eier published in park city w hiis its issued train from an old hand band press prem by joel jai it slid pud J J bober in R building located al about ut where the senate restaurant now stands and was known know n as the park mining record since then tile paper lias has been issued every week meek unit with but few exceptions these in anses of great emergency on saturday in the early days the paper changed hands many times limes it experienced tile the many vicissitudes of early life in it a ne nc mining camp it struggled along to when lien times were hard bard prospered when nilen the camp prospered and grew generally with tile the CIL city on tile the evening of june esth tris THE as was issued the shop wis so locked up and the lorce force retired mired to 10 well earned rest vi winch inch was as however to lo be rudely disturbed the next coming tits office along with all but two other business houses house in the city was a mass of burning ruins ruing m mleh ith only the charred and twisted remains or of the pre pie ca the battered bate and chunks of molten type metal to mark tile spot u w here the office had blood only one form and a picture of the ifa cark city baseball championship team was wah front from the tire fire undaunted and 1 willi ith the hope find faith fa ath in the camp to which aich character lied the bun bui lues alness men of the city in those trying times limes the owners ot of tug THE almost before the remains or of the presses were cold had a tent lent on their site and from this canvas shelter the business bubin was wag carried on until a new anew building had bad been erected still and equipped for five weeks the paper wt till issued from the press of the salt lake herald nod and the sales on the saturday follow following ing the fire exceeded any in the history of the elie enterprise the files all back numbers of THE RECORD had gone up la tile llames flames though through tile hie courtesy of the ontario mining filming company we now have hae in our possession practically complete files lulion from juno june bilth lb issa in the first find issue of tile tie RECORD on hand it il la is interesting te to note that the bullion shipments forthe for the week from theOn ontario tarlo mine amounted to ta KI and that thai through the efforts of a committee or of business men the county commission commis bion tell ere era had made main street a county road and the grading and ballasting or of the same bad been commenced the past year has not been the most moot prosperous in the history of tim THE RE tORD nor yet the least prosperous we ve appreciate the patronage glea gheo us by the few firms chich aich d dj ad ader drible but firmly bellee believe vc me are deon deer ing of more support from the business bui ineda men generally then than we a receive cele re unit und are arc that the livelier r and better belter if the cul bunns of the seat lacal paper were more freel freely Y used out of almost a hundred flood bubl ness nes houses in ia the city only ten can bo be classed clashed as regular there ile lotion ld be more ri llo however eer thul that eternal hope vi ith us ua vie e still hae hac unbounded unbound cd faith lit ill park city alty and we me greet ou on in our ann number deter isi laution to continue as in the to do the best bel m acau e call in tile the future to gi kie e e everyone a aquara deal tt anti and is e alli isis ourselves I 1 if ve me may be pardoned nor ninny many happy returns of the tiny day in park city |
