The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-11-02

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fle took a 1E,ss6 G. That
gan r ssive name for oul little |
| rip Of last Sunday. Iisc ci culated
round to Park tiQ Ogden |
| 'cho, CHalv g re ia md vari-
s oc5f. intent i'm
.ortaace il ei-t;---- pt-ipi ely Of our
| 5raVelS;- and s:r'jy.; at the Park
| bout o'clook y II. No,snot at the
lily but al t, eralroaG station, where
| snyder OmnbDs awaited us. Don't |
you know Snyder? Not Snyder of |
whom Rip Van Wrinkle, said, "Call |
Snyder, he know me- but the Sny-
der who was once lord of the broad |
domain on which Park City now
stands. He ought to be a quasi
millionaire if he is not, for lots of |
lands, if not lots of money, tumbled |
into his hands. Sometimes, per-
haps on account of his prosperity, |
he gets on the high ropes of magma
ton and becomes judge in Israel;
at others he subsidies and drives an
omnibus. That is what he is doing |
now. He keeps a livery stable, too,
and we can recommend his horses
as easy, patient beasts of burden.
His omnibus, as far as we could see
it, is an open box wagon. It may
hayeb been sleigh. We cannot speak
with certainty as to that for the !
wheels or runners, whatever they
were, were out of sight in the mud.
We piled into it and sat in each
others laps. There were ladies in
it. They had laps and so did
we. At last we arrived at Simon's
Hotel. Monsieur Simon keeps le
grand hotel ct restaurant de To- UiLle.
He keeps it well. We mounted
some of Snyder animals and headed
for the top of the mountain. "Firstl
it blew and then it sneW and thenit
friz." That is a quotation, but
it was a reality. But when
we reached the summit it
sneW no more, but it blew
great guns. Mr.. Kennedy, the sup
erintendent of the Farley Park
Mine, was with us. He got within
an inch Of our ear and halloed:
"Here is our shaft" The sound
went round to our other ear and we
took it in. But before we went down
we took look around. Away down
below US was Provo Valley, and we
wished we were there. Away
around and above were bald noun
tains Of snOw-clad peaks, and we
were glad we were not there.
So on the average we were
satisfied to be where we were.
We got into bucket and went
down the shaft $50 feet. Some
joker must have twisted the rope,
for we were Whirled around till we
became so dizzy that we nearly
clicked the bucket" we were in.
At $50 feet down we came to
the spot where they had struck the
vein Of nine feet-the real, genuine,
6onG-tids Ontario vein, on which
every mine in Parley's Park and
within ten miles pretends to be.
But here there is no mistake. The ,
shaft is within few feet of the
Ontario line, and the Ontario people
admit the discovery. Although it
is reached at $50 feet, that IS only
equal tc a descent of fifty on L
the plane Of the Ontario, at
which depth that mine showed only
the same moderate grade of ore that II
is now shown in Farley Park. Con-
Mr.. Kennedy proposes to
sink 400 feet further before he drifts.
The lower he goes down the higher
are his expectations, and we hope
they will be realized. The hosting
works and the buildings of the GEM
pany are economical but good, and
above all Mr.. Kennedy is q careful
and intelligent superintendent.
Then we descended the hill. 1t
was not a pleasant descent, for one
OF our horses descended too much.
but picked himself up again without
danger to the rider. After that.
ike Paddy, we worked oul passage,
leading the horses till we came to
the Ontario where Mr.. Kerviu, the
superintendent, received US with ex-
ceeGlng pOliteness. 1t was Just sup !
per time. We were invited. We &!
accepted, and our thanks are due
not only to Nh. KerVin but to HoI
Sing To, his chef de cuisine. If
there We're nothing in the Ontario
we would take some stock in it if
they would give us our board. At :
ter supper we were conducted to
the depths below where we
travelled through the sixth and
seventh levels, till at the end of
them we ran our heads against solid
walls Of silver. We think they said
that SS,O20,OOO or thereabouts have
been taken out, but that is nethino
to what must be left. The furtheT
down they go the richer is the ore
and 1or years to come we
predict that the Ontario will g
pc the boss mine not only s
OF Otan, but OF the country. b
we assembled and took a little more =
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