Show The History of g at Park CitY p 7 1 c 42 s 4 Emma Hill Hili at Alta Discoveries of ore here In 1869 caused prospectors pros pee I tors tots to push eastward and this resulted in I i the speeding the develop develop- m t of Park Par City r c Editors Editor's Note This ThIa U la lh the fourth of a series of or article r the tho M hi tory of Park Paik City OtT pioneer Utah community The Tho The first discovery of silver bear ing rock In lii tho the Wasatch range was made by General G Connor In person iIi in the summer of 1864 at the head V I S of o Little Cottonwood canyon The Ther r first ore discovered was galena but soon afterward carbonate of lead was w was s found During the next four years mining S in J Utah languished somewhat be be- because because cause of the lach lac of transportation facilities facUlties However with the reali realization in 1868 that the Union Pacific was va to be completed the following year and that rail communication communicationS communication'S S 'S would be provided between Salt S. S Lake City and Ogden by 1870 de de- development development of Utah's resources went forward f with added Impetus The advent of railroad transportation was the third epoch och In the history of Utah mining The early work had proved be beyond yond a doubt that Utah possessed valuable mineral minerai deposits depO and with realization that the railroads would bo be completed practical work toward development of the tho various districts was begun in earnest In 1868 With Wilh Its good climate facUlties facilities for transportation and a food sup supply ply Illy assured by the comparatively large larg agricultural population and the the- hope for adequate reward the influx of prospectors and mining men from Nevada California Idaho Montana and Colorado soon started and their attention was directed chiefly to the Wasatch mountains This was tho the beginning of the Cle flow of outside capital into Utah capital that was needed to develop the states state's resources and create In Industry and employment p 1 In the fall tall of ot locations in Little Cottonwood canyon were so numerous that practically the entire area was soon taken up From Little Lit Lit- Littie i tie tle Cottonwood the activity spread into Dig Big Cottonwood the Mountain Lake district to the southeast and American Fork to the south They i I also pushed eastward over the dl di divide vide and down into the narrow narrow gulches to Parleys Parley's Park I At Parleys Parley's Park the prospectors crossed the trail of the early Mor- Mor Mormon Mormon J mon Pioneers who more than a score Of years ago has made their first trek across the valley They I found evidences of early occupation occupation occupation tion as Samuel Snyder the first settler of the locality had erected a sawmill s far down the park in 1853 Further south they found livestock that th t on ground granted In 55 1853 to Snyder H H. 0 G. Kimball and J J. M. M Grant Park City was not thought of then but Rector nector Steen one of the first prospectors described condi condl conditions conditions In iu 1869 as follows Parleys Park was a very pretty valley with several ranches scattered over it and and several springs In let the valley vall Thanks to the rural community provisions Were comparatively cheap Steen I says Flour was 4 U 4 to 5 8 per pounds I bacon 0 to 40 cents beef bee 25 5 cents green coffee corree 30 to 40 cents per pound sugar 10 pounds po to the dollar potatoes 50 cents per bu bushel shel butter 30 30 cents per pound I But mining equipment brought bet ter prices a pick 5 5 shovel With such conditions prospectors set up their brush shanties and and proceeded ded to prospect t From these shacks rose a fine community com corn and an Industry that has endured to this day The fifth article in this series will appear In these columns soon |