Show 1 h I SARATOGA Or THE ROCKIES UD It FJ weekly Budget The Paradise el tbc iHeHntaliis EOITOR DEMOCRAT I have been wait DIoCRT ing for the grand opening of the Jdeon Hotel at this place before writing again but there has been so much delay in getting material here for the construe tion of the building that the opening will be delayed until the 20th or perhaps until un-til the 24th Pioneer Day for Utah The carpenter work under the supervision of Mr E H Hide of Butte has been rushed through with lightning speed He hasbeen on the building from sunrise sun-rise until sun set almost every day since the commencement of the work Next comes Alex Hogan the UQHTNINO LATHER Of Salt Lake and following him John Burt the plasterer who can sling more mortar himself and put more on in a day than any other man in the mountains He is also of Salt Lake Next but not last comes the plumbers represented by Mr Charles Heesch of Heesch Elerbech of Salt Lake They are doing the work by contract and of course rushing it through with a vim The carpenter work is all done inside and the painting is nearly completed Mr Thomas Swahe business manager for the Union Pacific Hotel Company is here with his hotel manager clerks and crew He has also five car loads of furniture fur-niture and hotel fixtures and is prepared to commence business in three days if he only had the water works running The ditch is dug for laying the pipe but there is some delay in getting the piping here No doubt it will be here in a day or two then it will not take more than three days to make connections with the hotel Wnen that is done everything will be ready to receive guests in good style It is intended to make the rates so low that it will be cheaper to come here than to stay at home With the fare from Salt Lake to this place and return re-turn 800 good for thirty days cheap hotel rates with a fine summer climate hunting fishing driving dancing and the pleasant society that is here now and that will be here when the hotel opens will all combine to make this the PARADISE OF THE MOUNTAESri Among the prominent pleasure seek era who are here now are Mr dad Mrs Simon and Mr and Mrs Wallace with their families servants and fine teams They reside in their own summer cottages cot-tages which they have here Burt the cattle king with his family is occupying one of Capt Hoopers cottages Capt Codman is still in his cosey retreat surrounded sur-rounded by numerous friends Notwithstanding Notwith-standing your correspondents success in bringing him out on his views regarding Statehood for Utah and ho kicked and came out with a reply more emphatic than I had given him credit for we are still the best of friends He is 1 noble old gentleman A great many other ladies and centle men are here from your city Ogden Butte and other places the hotels and boarding houses being full all the time However there will be plenty of room when the Ideon Hotel is completed Mrs E M Williams keeps an excellent hotel in this place Pleasant and genial herself she makes all of her guests at home and more than all she sets a goad table which with the bracing air and fine Climate here a person gets a ravenous raven-ous appetite Hoping that THE DEMOCRAT will be able to come up to Soda Springs and enjoy some of the pleasures of this Saratoga Sara-toga of the Rocky Mountains WILLIAMS HOTEL ARRIVALS Monday July 11fl S Hopkins and T A Glass Salt Lake City Geo Children Chil-dren Mrs Clara White A D Young and wife North Platte Neb James II Hopkins and HKnight Omaha Ni b Mrs J A Clark and daughter Council Bluffs Iowa I IL F SODA SPRIOGS July 131887 |