Show ALTA HIGH ON THE MOUNTAIN TOP A 1 NEWS item that will call up interesting ter te memories in the minds of old timers Is the brief paragraph announcing that the post office at alta la in this county has been ordered discontinued time was aas when this little town loomed large in the dally doings of the state and of the west it was a lively prosperous place it had its share chare of calamity too such as winter snow slides an and its men of heroic mold whose deeds of bravery and endurance will not soon be forgotten those tho never visited the town toun even as a sightseeing sight seeing trip missed something that was worth while it gave its name to a popular club and to more than one city business block i closing of the post office does not mean that alta aka has ceased to be it Is still there albeit somewhat reduced probably irom from its onetime one time proud state iti it has its continuing friends con confident fide t rien men who are hold bold to believe that theres chere still metal lit in them hem hills hill of course there Is and their faith may be j rear rewarded ded the isome some time abundantly abundant ly principal difference perhaps between conditions today arid and those prevailing when the camp was on the boom Is that nowadays it costs more to get the values out elt t lie workings are deeper and more expensive though by no DO means exhausted that Is the co common rate fate of 0 lots ot of camps sprinkled through the mountains mountain s and gulches of the great west most 0 f them live in the rich glories of 0 the past but some of 0 them come bark back deseret news |