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Show .... PARK CITY PICKINGS. Activity at the Mines and Mills Nasby's No Enviable Position. Assessment work is being done all over the hills. Prof. Sheldon has decided not to give his first soiree until next Saturday evening- The "cow-boy," who joined Cushing'a circus here a few weeks since, has left them and gone to Salt Lake. The Daly company has an immense dump of ore alongside of their ore house that is being held in reserve for shipment ship-ment to the mill as soon as it is com pleted. A duck hunting party, composed of J. E. Galliagher, Jack Pape, J. H. Rogers and E. W. Berry, have left for a week or ten days' duck shoot at the mouth of Bear river, near Corinne. They are all fine shots and no doubt will flood the town with ducks before thev eet bacS. Although Judge Street is not our choice for postmaster, it makes but little difference differ-ence who gets the office as long as the position is honestly and creditably filled. The Judge has been a resident of this place for twelve years past, and though he is not a popular man with everybody, we believe him to be scrupulously honest and conscientious, and think he will fill the office with a due regard for the interests in-terests of all. We consider the position an unenviable one anyway. A difficulty occurred in Johnny Funk's barber shop last week, the gist of which is about as follows : A man named Northy came in and wanted to get trusted for a shave, and Johnny understanding that he was considered bad pay refused to trust him when Northy commenced to abuse him and finally knocked him down. Johnny got up and lit into his antagonist with a razor, cutting a hole through his coat and vest, but did not reach the flesh. He was immediately arrested, ar-rested, and on Monday was given a preliminary examination before Judge Cupit, who bound him over to await the action of the grand jury. The complaint com-plaint charged an assault with a deadly weapon. The Anchor works are second to none in the camp. The buildings constituting the hoisting works are not entirely finished finish-ed as yet, but the foreman, Mr. Martin, calculated that by the first of November all the buildings will have been completed, com-pleted, the: machinery put in working order and sinking in the shaft resumed and pushed with all possible speed. Their winter supply of provisions is about all in. There is enough cord wood and timbers tim-bers on the crround to run them for six or eight months, and by the first of the coming com-ing month they will be fully prepared for a long winter of uninterrupted development develop-ment of this valuable property. The hoisting works are especially calculated to resist the heavy pressure of snow that accumulates in that region during the winter, and no anxietv on tnat score is felt. Work on the Marsac mill is now confined con-fined chiefly to the inside, as the building is now completed and the large force of painters are fast completing the job of covering it with two coats of brown mineral min-eral paint. On the inside the boilers and engines are being set, and active preparations prepara-tions are being made for putting in the pans and settlers. Two engines will be used, one to run the battery, rock break-I break-I ers, etc., and one to run the pans and settlers. A diteh or flume is now being built from the mouth of the Ontario mine drain tunnel to supply the mill with water. All the mason work is completed and is a thorough finely finished job, reflecting re-flecting great credit on the contractor, Elias Morris, of Salt Lake. From present appearances the mill will probably be ready to start up by Christmas or soon after. ; For some time past it has been quite generally understood that there was a ! rivalry regarding the ownership and control con-trol of the groupj of mines lying southwest south-west of the Daly works. It now appears that the contest is between George A. Mears and the Morgan Mining Company, the latter an organization of recent date. Precisely what the merits of the issue are, we cannot at the present define, but it would appear that an interesting legal imbroglio is imminent. The latest development was the appearance i of Messrs. Varian and Kirkpatrick on our streets the other day, followed immediately immedia-tely by a seizure of the Grizzly tunnel by parties supposed to represent the Morgan Mining Company. Strong feelings have been manifested" and some terse terms used, c but beyond, a .little indiscretion nothing serious has occurred. At . the present writing Meears is in entire possesion, posse-sion, and seems to regard the presence of the parties mentioned as of no significance. signifi-cance. Of the real inside we can of course say little, but the "pomp and circumstance" cir-cumstance" indicate very interesting results. re-sults. We shall see what we shall see. Park Record. |