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Show Pollution sullies Park City's air as Marsac Mill adds stack and stamps From Time to Time , by BETTINA MOENC1I DOOLEY ; Record contributing writer i 100 Years Ago .; A 65-man crew was making ; extensive changes to the Marsac : Mill, located just a stone's throw from Main Street. The 20-stamp j mill, built to process ore from the Flagstaff Mine, was adding another ' 10 stamps, 50 feet to the main i building and 40 feet to the ore house, ! and two huge stacks, one 80 feet and the other 100 feet tall. The Park Record already opposed L the noxious fumes that spewed from 1 the Marsac Mill, and was not altogether supporting the expansion. The Marsac Mill was not the only mill in the mining camp, but it was the closest to residential areas, and so drew the most criticism. The I thick yellow smoke often hung over J the town, and even farmers living as i far away as Snyderville complained I the smoke was bothering their families and livestock. The mill did more than foul the air: it also contaminated the water in Silver Creek that ran down what is i now Swede Alley. The stream once ! had an abundance of trout in its sparkling waters, but after the mill was built, the stream was renamed Poison Creek. 25 Years Ago Early August 1960: The Park Record and The Summit County Bee had recently merged ("If we hadn't, public hearing by Planning Commissioner Jack Green. The unemployment rate was three times the national average, and four times the state average. According to the director of the regional employment office, certain aspects of the Park City work force contributed contri-buted to the high unemployment. "The something for nothing work ethic seems prevalent in Park City," said the director. "The ordinary philosophy of hard work seems to be missing there." The director noted jobs were scarce during the summer in Park City. The few jobs that were available paid wages as low as $2 and $3 an hour, making unemployment benefits very tempting. In a column called "Stroller Notices,' ' it was pointed out the town had recently been deprived of the melodrama, the flea market, the Resort Summer Theatre, and George, the Dungeon Dummy. Lamented the writer, "Maybe the next 10 years as a resort town, we'll get it all together." The writer continued that the road from Salt Lake wound up the beautiful canyon, only to lead to Park City, where "arrival brings the shock of vast condominiums, complexes for the skiing set, extruding like warts in the wilderness. Park City is fast losing her natural look of beauty." there wouldn't be either one pretty soon"). Bill Mawhinney was selling Chevy Corvairs, voted Car of the Year by Motor Trend Magazine, from his Park Avenue dealership; Pop Jenks was selling homemade ice cream, including green pineapple and maple walnut, from his Main Street confectionery; and the Park Record was running advertisements for Sunny Brook that proclaimed "Enjoy the Great Bourbon of the Old West." The first reported drowning at Rockport Reservoir claimed the life of a 25-year-old Salt Lake man, and Parkites mourned the death of Park City Fire Chief William Berry. At 74, Berry was one of the two oldest native men in Park City when he passed away at the Miners Hospital. The Berry brothers owned a blacksmith shop on Main Street for many years, and it was there that the body of the first motorized fire truck was built under the supervision of Bill Berry. An article in the Park Record that week offered some sage advice to women on how to cut down on the number of traffic deaths. If the little lady would just adhere to a few points of etiquette, traffic hazards would be greatly reduced, said the Record. Those points included: "Don't get into an argument"; "Beware of dripping ice cream cones"; "Don't be a nagging wife" (it distracts the husbanddriver); and "Don't be a slowpoke'driver." 10 Years Ago The development of a major residential area on the east side of Park City was announced in the Aug. 7, 1975 issue of the Park Record. To be called Prospector Square, the area proposed a walking street around an ice skating rink; a mini-mall mini-mall with 30 small shops, including .the Pizza Inn, a Mexican restaurant, a Belgian waffle house,, and a bicycle antique shop; and an extension of the University of Utah called the Park City Institute, which would include the construction of an amphitheater. 4, Prospector Square lots had been purchased by 38 individuals, 27 of whom promised to have the area developed and landscaped within a year. As the United States was moving out of one of the worst recessionary periods in a century, Park City was plagued by a 30 percent unemployment rate. That chilling figure was brought to light at a |