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Show '-From the Archives If our citizens would stop . anywhere in the middle of Main Street and look up and down its entire length, they would fail to discover a dozen feet where grading and mending is not badly needed. . Visitors are invited to . come and examine our mines, but when they see our Main Street, they naturally suppose sup-pose we have nothing worth looking at, or we would not permit such a standing leaning lean-ing rough, uneven disgrace to exist. Let us try and have it graded and put in condition as soon as possoble, and certainly cer-tainly before the snow flies. - scene, one almost shivers' as he gazes upon the Irish Village buried in snow. In the other, a group of sheep are idly dozing away the time. With sufficient study and practice, Mr. Leslie should succeed well in his profession. profes-sion. Imagine flying at a rapid rate on the Utah Eastern. Seventy teams and 200 men are engaged in grading the. Major Wilkes promises to have the work to Park City completed by Aug. 1 . On the . ; 15th of the same month the rolling stock is expected to be in operation. While we differ very much from Eseulapi in his opinion of this road we nevertheless give him an opportunity op-portunity to express himself and believe that he will in due time consider his remarks as premature. 100 Years Ag.?m From the Park Record June 19, 1880 , PARK FLOAT Merchants and others contemplating con-templating building should erect substantial brick or rock structures. The time was , when people built only for ' the present; but now they can and will build for the future. Messrs. Young and Miles, and Kiesel aud Rogers have set a good example for our citizens. Their solid rock stores will add greatly to the credit of Park City. " Geo. C. Leslie has shown us two of his sketches in water colors which are very neatly executed and deserve mention as showing the latent la-tent talent of the artist. In one entitled, "Rustic Village, Firth of Ireland' a winter California for any great length of time. We like it down there. I feel much better bet-ter than I did in Park City; my wife enjoys better health, and the children like it here yet , during my long residence down this way I have never made any friends. In Park City they are my kind of people; peo-ple; These people down here are not my kind of people. Good fine people all right yet I feel as though I were in a foreign land. The news of the frightful . tragedy in the coal mines at Standardville, Utah, the past week, was received with deep sorrow and regret. Twenty precious lives were lost, and more than that many homes - cast into the deepest gloom because of the untimely deaths of husbands and sons. How uncertain is life. SO Years Ago ... ,.: From the Park Record Febi 14, 1930 DAD'S COLUMN, by "Dad" J ' Alhambra, California One of the papers tells of an absent minded professor down this way who after his customary motor rides on Sundays, always looks in the Monday morning newspapers to see if he was in ' an accident. A letter was received the past week from a Park City friend who has made his home down this way for ' several years past, but still does not yet feel "at home". He said in part: "After a man has lived in Park City for twenty years or more, he just can't be contented in |
