Show t I Park City Gets Nice Promotion from Columnist in California Still another slant on Park City indicating widespread interest in our towns town's growth and development is mailed from the Press-Enterprise Press a aLos aLos aLos Los Angeles area newspaper It is written by Neil Morgan PARK CITY UTAH-Seven UTAH thousand feet up into the Wasatch Wasatch Wasatch Was- Was atch Mountains above Salt Lake City Park City perches as a thoroughly modern phenomenon enon a mining town that seeks rebirth as a resort English miners miners' came here from Cornwall in 1871 and found the Irish already digging ore Scandinavian carpenters joined them and Chinese merchants The population jumped to as these s scarred car red mountains yielded million in silver and gold copper zinc and lead Mormon founders in Utah welcomed welcomed welcomed wel wel- the wealth in developing developing develop develop- ing early commerce in Salt Lake City Now mining has slowed but not halted Park City has a year- year round population of about 1400 and average employment in the mines is These days there are consultants consultants con con- sl tants to advise leaders of dying mining towns to vms on how to avoid becoming ghost towns Park City has had plenty of advice and has begun to act on it A big frame building near the main street has a sign that still reads Silver King Coalition Coalition Coalition Co Co- Co- Co Mine Its It's abandoned The Union Pacific depot has petunias growing in its window boxes and its eaves have a fresh coat of gray paint But you dont don't get to Park City by train anymore you take the new freeway Poison Creek Drugstore still sUll does business along the steep main street nestling deep down the canyon and a bar called The Cozy advertises itself as the local last chance A NEW LAYER of attractions has been super-imposed super over such aging goodies United Park City Mines Co girding for the end of silver and zinc operations has been funneling profits into Park City Resort This summer Park City played host to a series of small conferences among them the Western Governors Con Con- ference Mrs Jean Gee manager manager manager man man- ager of Treasure Mountain Inn the largest and swankiest of the resorts says that facilities ac accommodate accommodate accommodate ac- ac groups of or less Such events help Park City survive during the summer when its ski lift billed as the longest gondola run in inthe the world 2 21 2 2 1 miles long carries visitors visitors visitors visit visit- ors h high gh above green aspen and birch mountainsides At the foot elevation 22 minutes after he sets out the summer v vis visitor i s I it t o 0 r steps off oU at a glass- glass walled lodge Summit t from which he can look far to the north and east to the Uinta Mountains Arne Americas America's r i c as a's only major west east-west range S Summer er in Park City is pretty tame but the natives have plans to make it jazzier The resort comes alive when the is ready for the skiers Treasure Mountain Inn Innis Innis Innis is booked a year ahead on winter winter winter win win- ter weekends UTAH'S GOV Calvin Rampton Rampton Rampton Ramp- Ramp ton has been encouraging developments devel- devel which will attract the tourist dollar a source of in income income income in- in come that for many years was neglected in much of Mormon country Park City is one that he regards as a potential showcase for Utah It already has more accommodations than any other Utah ski resort Skiers planning next winters winter's forays might well heed Gov Rampton's appraisal of Utah slopes Alta AHa is where you you go if you are a serious skier but there is little of a resort at at- at there less to do after skiing Brighton not far from Park City in the Wasatch is for you if youre you're a beginning skier or orif orif orif if you are more interested in inthe inthe inthe the opposite sex than in skiing Robert Redford star of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Sundance Sundance Sun Sun- dance Kid Kid Kid- and his wife wite op operate operate operate op- op erate the Sundance Ski Resort south of Alta Skiing here is not ranked by most Utah visitors at the top of the list but the are instilling considerable considerable considerable con con- charm in a resort which had been floundering until until un un- un til their arrival |